Chai Tea wrote:CalamityJane wrote:Thank you, happycat, that's exactly what I meant.
Still boils down to another cheap shot at americans and preceived superiority of people born elsewhere.
Making blanket statements about people because of their country is about as black and white as you can get.
It really makes me wonder why anyone bothers to move to America, I mean, we're all so black and white, sexually repressed, ignorant, obese and in all other ways inferior it's a wonder any of us manage to make it through the entire day.
I'm sure if OJ had lived in another more civilised land, all this would have been handled in an entirely different way, and everyone would have been satisfied with the results.
If you don't want people thinking you're superior to everyone that didn't have the good sense to be born elsewhere cj, stop making drive-by comments about how much better it is somewhere else. I've had the severe disadvantage of not having lived in a better country, but I have had the poor second place of having lived all over this repressed land.
When I moved to a new region, I had the grace to not tell the people I was now living with how much better it was in another area a thousand miles away. To put it in a vulgar american way, you don't **** where you eat. If I insisted on calling to their attention on a regular basis how superior another way of life was, I wouldn't have blamed them one bit if they had asked me why I bothered to lower myself to live with them.
Frankly Chai Tea, I don't know where you get off that I am expressing
my superiority towards Americans either in my previous post or in general for that matter. I certainly cannot control what people read into
my post, however, I am not responsible for your insecurities, Chai.
Growing up resp. coming from a different country means that I have
a comparison of the American way of life and the European joy de vivre - something you lack completely. To fault someone for having made
different cultural experiences, is actually quite ignorant on your part,
yet I fully accept your position, but so glad that I am not sharing it.
If you're really that insecure Chai Tea, just don't read my post, will you?