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Originally posted by Bingo+Nov 3 2004, 08:50 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Bingo @ Nov 3 2004, 08:50 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Pileon@Nov 3 2004, 02:23 PM
So you're buying into those underlying assumptions and assuming that they are bad things. Americans are proud that they are "ignorant", "self absorbed" and focussed on "style". They could care less about the rest of the world as they are only looking after their "own interests". These are not bad things to Americans. It's the way they have built their society. Don't feel bad for them, as they will be the first to tell you they are the "greatest country in the world".
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I wonder if our American readers will be surprised to hear they are ...
are proud that they are "ignorant", "self absorbed" and focussed on "style".
That is just plain silly. 51% of a huge nation voted strongly for a party that some on this site don't like. That doesn't make this massive group of people any less intelligent than the other 48% that voted Kerry.
To think so makes one as ignorant as one reports Americans to be. [/b][/quote]
I heard a lot of American's saying pretty much that about the majority of their country today in my office (mostly transplanted from northern states). It is not just Canadians who think this way!
I also woke up to my (native virginian) neighbours honking horns and high fiving each other. But these are people with first names (no joke) Ann Tyler, Billie Joe, Cary Rose, and Mary Joe who couldn't be more happy that the good christian got re-elected.