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  • @Lemonz1989 That makes sense. Afghanistan was a mission that, in principle, had a clear and justifiable purpose. Not so with Iraq. It took us Americans a little longer to oppose it, but now you will find no one that is glad we went there. Fortunately, Europeans are much more responsive to political events, so when Bush was kicked out of office, you guys saw that without him the US can be the decent ally it's always been, and our approval ratings in Europe skyrocketed back to their equilibrium :)

  • @Lemonz1989 That's absolutely true. I think that, sometimes, you are better allies than we deserve. Historically, the US has been a great ally to Western Europe, you'll have to admit, but under the last couple of administrations we haven't been that great with you guys. And yes, you definitely eased up the burden that our own wars imposed upon us. Rest assured that all Americans are thankful (and many of us feel partially guilty) for the sacrifices you've made in the name of our friendship.

  • And finally, I just wanted to say to all Europeans: I (we) don't hate you guys. I love Europe. I speak German and Spanish because I love Germany and Spain. But you accuse Americans of arrogance, yet it's clear you guys love to think you're the best at everything. You're not. Neither are we. We do a lot of things better than you and you do a lot of things better than us. We should unify, not divide, ourselves against the threat coming from the East. Can't we all live like the brothers we are?

  • @Lemonz1989 I'm not trying to justify the wars, which I see as a reckless act of stupidity from Bush, but rest assured that Europe didn't economically "save" the US from going bankrupt with the wars. The US assumed most of its costs, and in fact contributes more to NATO than all other nations combined.

    Also, I absolutely agree with you with the majority of us Americans not knowing how to use the term "socialist." I blame it on morons like Sarah Palin.

  • Europe has created modern world !! Im proud to be THE European ! Usa is new England , Canada is new France ...

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  • I sometimes hate Europe (for being socialists and their pacifist talking while they rely on our military) but still I gotta admit overall as a continent I can't think of no better civilization in history

  • @ImemyselfandI

    Oh come on.

    Of cause we are socialist. The human species is a social species. It is in our genes to help the less fortunate than ourselves. I'd say communism is the real threat since that was the system that forced an entire superpower on it's knees.

    Socialism however is just an acknowledgement of basic human rights.

    And before you call me a lefty I have to say I'm liberal which means I'm actually on the right hand of the spectrum.

  • What Europeans acknowledge by now... Indians and Chinese have already done it and forgotten 5000 years ago..... so don't compete in that sense but in general European civilizations one of the best in the world!!!! cheers from India

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  • Génial la musique, comment elle s'appelle ?

  • I think we all need a common goal to unify us. If some alien planet attacked us we would all bond together as humans and forget the petty differences, so why can't we do it now?

  • @bravdos

    I feel closer to a Moroccan than to a Czech (common language). Closer to a US citizen than to a German (relaxed mentality). Closer to a Swiss than a Belgian (the Swiss are my people, at least part of it). Closer to an Austrian than to a Danish (I can understand Austrian German). Why should I feel like I am a "EU citizen" if I didn't even have the choice to say yes or no to EU? This whole construct is bullshit.

  • 50 of the Top 100 largest Companies are European, Europe has the largest Exports both Merchandise and Services in the World, it is the largest Investor in the World and has very Wealthy Creditor Nations like Germany, has the World's best Infrastructure, etc.

  • The Anti-American Feelings stems from the fact of the USA breaking International Laws, Starting Wars ,Killing Millions of People, Overthrowing Governments and Bullying Weaker Countries while knowing it's place against stronger Countries. Human Rights Violations, a huge Rich/Poor Gap and Policies which favor the richest 3% along with having 40% of the World's Correctional Population(Prison, Probation, Jail,Parole,etc), the Death Penalty, Not working with other countries-Kyoto, etc, etc...

  • europe lost its leading postition to america because of ww1 and ww2

    all caused by ourselves, because we dont get along with each other

    ww3 will happen in europe its a matter of time

  • I wonder why black people from America are trying now to usurp the heritage of Europe by claiming that they somehow (through Egypty) had a foothold in ancient Europe from whence came all of our cultural and scientific achievements!

    Those people are so annoying and such parasites. Get your own history and your own culture. Leave what you don't understand to those who know better and stop leeching off of us.

  • What America and China acknowledge by now...we the Europeans already forgot...

  • @NUNOQUADROS to true

  • Everything that Europe "creates" is just simply a copy or addition to something created by America. Look at the latest major Bio-Medical advances: Artificial Heart, Stell Research, Cure for cancer, etc... ALL AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC HEALTH COMPANIES!

  • americans create burgers, tacos and obama

  • Tacos - Mexicans

    Burgers - Germans

    The Home computer, the internet, and youtube are all American, so you con stop using them now please.

  • electricity was the basic invention/discovery, tesla came from croatia, "so you con stop using them now please". and never drive a car/train again. but this logic is ridiculous, isnt it. "Don't judge a book by it's cover!"

  • Err... Electricity - Benjamin Franklin

    and the first REAL car was created by AMERICAN Henry Ford.

    And how exactly did I make any judgements about you?

  • ehm ,its not about me. franklin vs gilbert, leibnitz et al. ford invented the assembling line and can be seen as the father of worldwide mass-distribution, the method which brings us back to burgers and tacos.

  • Believe what you will, but for as long as America is leading the worlds technological charge, you are wrong.

  • that americans create burgers, tacos and obama?

  • Is that all you can say?

    Watch our "fat asses" whoop your Euro-trash piece of shit countries in the Olympics and then say that.

  • calm down, dude. ya know, each time you become bully, me gains a point. so, it's 1:0 now. :) never heard of tube-club, right? -- indeed russian shot-putterettes are enormous. does mummy look alike?

  • And Need I mention that McDonalds stores in Europe average more money per year than McDonalds store in America... Your Welcome.

  • when this is true, the reason could be the different fast-food-culture in europe, thus McDs market share is higher than in the US.

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  • Here is a gift for you:

    watch?v=h3GkRHYvnaE (My personal favorite)

    Some others:

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    There are many more...

  • thats bad dude, bullying raises the score once again. propagandhi and dogmas avoid thinking. ever heard of gulags? communism just works as a concept ;) "who disbelieves in communism at the age of 23 has no heart, who still believes at the age of 50 has no brain"...

  • Explain to me how I was bullying?

    If you want to judge my country based on a Vietnam movie, I thought that I should show you real footage.

  • how do i judge you country? never been there. concentration camps were a phenomena of different regions in the world at the dawning 20th century. we will see, what will happen during our lifetime...

  • Concentration camps?

    I was born in Moscow, and have live in London, Newcastle, and Sydney in Australia, but no country even compares to the U.S.

    So I have lived in Europe and I know the bigotry and biases that is put into the heads of the European people. If you live here, you will be pleasantly surprised.

    Almost all of my family still lives in Russia. If you follow pop music or buisness in Russia/Europe you would have heard of my family, but I don't want to take shit so I won't say.

  • in my opinion you cant say, europe in general is like this and russia/us/australia is like that. of course each country has a distinct attitude/moral, which is based on past events. even a city some 50miles away has a different 'spirit' as i experienced. we have to distinguish religious, folklore and modern massmedia mainstream, plus social status and each entity's to get an idea of behavior.

    what make the US so special in your opinion/experience?

  • ... each entity's mindset...

  • Finally we have stopped throwing insultas at each other . :D

    No, I just feel that the quality of life is better. I mean, we left Russia when I was very young, right after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. We moved to AMerica right away, and I learned English and picked up an American accent. The big thing for me was when living in Europe/Australia after I lived in America, there was SO much Anti-American sentiment. I used to get teased in school and what not... Doesn't happen in America.

  • ;)

    the anti-american sentiment may lie in its role as a superpower, spreading its culture over the world. but as mentioned in my pm, we are family and it should be legal to criticize a relative. the event on 911 showed the compassion/affiliation to uncle sam, our big brother... hehe -- but the war on terror that followed enraged even big parts of the american citizens understandably.

  • Understood.

    But getting the "I laughed at 9/11, and I hope it happens again" messages aren't very fun... I knew a few people who perished that day. Some were fathers, mothers, sons, daughters... all ethnicities, and their families lives will never be the same, and these things rarely happen to America, our reaction was well, harsh... but the last time we got attacked we joined WW2, and people loved us then, yet they hate our reaction now?

  • @oTERPSo

    I understand that you like USA if you moved from Russia, ofcourse. But The Western and Central Europe is so much more developed than USA. I'm not saying that becouse I'm european, but becouse of the statistics. Look at the facts:

    - INCOME PER CAPITA is higher in most of the european countrys , I mean, Norwegian people has 3 times higher incomes, they come in America and they can buy 3 times more things than USA people do

    -Poverty precentage: France-9,8% USA-19,5%

    - EU EDUCATION FTW.

  • @slopri That's not true. Household incomes are higher in the US than in any other European country, as are average wages (look them up on the OECD page). Per-capita PPP GDP is higher only in Norway than in the US, but the US is far above the EU average. And Norway is above the US only by $5,000. As for education, 18 out of the 20 world's best universities are in the US. Sorry to put an end to your misconceptions.

  • @AlvinHDavernport

    Well, however you put it... Why I love Europe and why I wouldn't ever want to live in usa...

    -By quality of life Index in the top 25 cities, there are 22 European and none american... The highest is Honolulu in 30th place and San francisco on 31st.

    -If you want a proper education in USA, you need to attend a private school, which is still lower quality than many European public schools

    -40% of americans live in poverty at least 1 year of their lifetime, free health care etc.

  • @slopri -The cities study is bullshit. I've seen their methodology. It's meaningless. It takes into account things that make smaller, tighter European cities inherently "better" because of their dense layout. It's not an unbiased study.

    -The UN, on the other hand, ranks fourth on quality of life. The only European country that ranks higher is Norway.

    -8 out of the top 10 universities in the world, 17 out of the top 20, and 55 out of the top 100 are in the US. More than half of them are public.

  • @AlvinHDavernport I meant to say that the UN ranked the US fourth on their human development index.

  • @slopri (second post--read first) Not to mention that the US has the world's highest salaries and household incomes. So, in other words, as much as you try to get around it, the US is richer, has a higher quality of life, and much better education than Europe. I don't care about public schools. In the US workers are still much more productive than in Europe and our scientific impact factor per capita is far higher, which means that our education yields better results, even if tests don't say so.

  • @AlvinHDavernport

    That's a huge lie. Average european worker is as, or more productive than american worker. Quality of life index (which includes: health, family life, community life, material well being, political stability an security, climate and geography, job security, political freedom, gender equality) is by FAR higher in Europe. Poverty rate in america is almost the same as the poverty rate in Kazahstan (!!!).

    As far as sience goes, EU wins much more Nobel prizes every year so... lol

  • @slopri Not a single thing you say is right. Where do you get your data from? The American worker is the world's third most productive, after that from Luxembourg and Norway, tied with the Netherlands. You can look it up on the Conference Board or ask me for links. Those four countries represent less than 5% of Europe's population, so Europe as a whole is far, far below America as a whole. (to be continued)

  • @slopri Second, no quality of life index says that Europe is above America. America is fourth, I repeat, FOURTH on the UN Human Developed Index. Only Norway, i.e., less than 1% of Europe, is above. And America's poverty rate is below ten percent. And our poverty line is higher than yours since both our average and median incomes are about 30% higher than yours. You WISH America were as poor as Kazakhstan. Unfortunately, that would make you poorer than Kazakhs, since you are poorer than us.

  • @AlvinHDavernport MY bad, I meant America's poverty rate is below 15%, not 10%. But still, it is incredibly stupid to compare the percentage of people below poverty line in Kazakhstan and the US. The poverty line in the US is so high compared to Kazakhstan's that if all people in that country living below the US poverty line were considered to be "poor", then their poverty rate would be about 80%. Two absolutely incomparable cases. I'm appalled at the lack of intelligence of this man.

  • @slopri Third, our of the 829 Nobel prizes that have ever been handed out, America has won 326. That's more than one per one million people. Even if Europe won all the rest (which it hasn't, since Japan, Israel, India, Canada, and Australia have also won a lot), it would be about 500, less than one per one million people. So no, America has actually been much more successful being awarded Nobel prizes than you guys have, even though the Nobel committee has occasionally shown bias against the US.

  • @slopri And fourth, yeah, black people kill each other a lot. But among white Americans, murder rates are barely above Europe's, and considering guns are technically illegal in most of your countries, I'd say you couldn't handle yourselves if you had the right to bear arms. Sorry to break it to you, man, but you are the dumbest person I've ever debated with.

  • @AlvinHDavernport

    Simply, becouse I proved you're wrong. You can't give a proper answer so you insult. How "american" of you lol.

    Say whatever you want. Life's better in Eu.

  • @slopri You proved me wrong? Whatever lets you sleep at night man... if you ran out of arguments and the only thing left for you is to complain because I'm insulting you... OK, I understand. I didn't expect you to be able to admit that I just proved you wrong on every single thing, from the Nobel prize thing to the productivity thing to the public universities thing to the wages thing. I feel kind of sorry for you. You must be heartbroken right now seeing as I just burst your little bubble.

  • @AlvinHDavernport

    And after all, quality of life index is the only thing that really shows how good you can live in your country.

    Oh, and btw, homicide rate in USA is 9 times higher than in Europe. Stop shoting so much ;)

  • The best place of Chemistry, Harvard.

    The toughest place of Mathes, MIT.

  • you guys got shit one Europeen universities! Stop spending all you money on weapons and maybe you will match us in the future. dont come with the we have been on the moon crap because that was imported science.

  • --- PEOPLE who build an atom BOMB and Nuclear reactor ... WERE people from EUROPE ... SO EUROPE is NO.1 in science .... USA number one in screwing people for BIG PROFITS ... IT will not last forever .fuck usa.

  • dude sorry but EU is not leading there are many other countries with much more culture and science than EU has ever invented!!! Look at China, Iran(Persian), etc.

    greetz

    EOA

  • this is nice but I am not sure it is supported at all,just a mixture of slides and no rationale given

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