Cobalt8 wrote:One last thing, the reason Americans strongly strongly resent other countries or their people telling us how to vote is the simple fact that we are aware that in most cases only Americans know the truth. My guess is that is why the Founding Fathers placed it in the Constitution.
I can not imagine watching the news and having to guess what is true. If the government controls the media how do you ever have fair elections? More precisely are you being told lies to further the governments needs over your needs?
Dear goddess - are you people really drunk with your power and insularity, or - as I hope it is - was that an attempt to say that only Americans know the truth ABOUT AMERICA?
One is so stupendously ridiculous that it is sort of funny (as long as no other Americans believe it) - the other is, in some senses a no brainer - and in others also ridiculous.
You see, people outside our countries may well have very valid views about our country - they will not, generally, know the detail and flavour as inhabitants do, but nor, if they have researched well and have an informed opinion, are they blinded by the emotional attachments of inhabitants, and may also have a far more balanced view given their ability not to be consumed by the Weltenschaung of that country.
This is just the beginning of why I believe that people from other countries may well know a lot of the "truth" about our countries. There are many more reasons which I do not have time to go into now.
It is, indeed, annoying when people speak with ignorance - but we often react with blind defensiveness to perfectly reasonable comments - sometimes the more true they are, the more we react.
Neither you nor I should DARE to say that people from another country cannot know the truth about ours - both our countries having been involved recently in the invasion of another sovereign country, and the slaughter of many of its inhabitants, based on thinking we knew the truth about that country.
