@markx15,
Europeans are groovy. Anyone who can make food and music so exquisitly combine that it is an artform, they are great souls in my book.
Why is it, that people need to be right and prove that one place on the earth is better than the next?
Here in North America we celebrate the "filth" {so-to-speak} by making sure they get the most money...example, strippers get higher paid than leaders of our religious communities, hollywood bad boys and girls make more than those stars that are good role models...
We think that God is good and Money is bad, and yet Money makes the difference in our society to whether our societies are wealthy and healthy, and able to maintain law and justice...so l would hardly feel superior to any other society on the planet.
This is why the God's lesson, "We are all one" is so significant. Whatever you think, you are no greater or no lessor than anyone else, we all have the ability to become.
{"buggery by force" ------you've got to laugh, geesh, what a perspective! }