Youd think with double digit unemployment, crashing economies and the fact that thier culture is rapidly deteriorating into nothingness that they would spend time worrying about shit that matters. But as I have said before time and time again, European pride was always built on being the best in the world, being number 1. Being the big winner. Ever since they passed into irrelevance all they can do is point thier fingers and make nasty commentary at the countries that really do matter in todays global market.

http://www.ridingsun.com/posts/1130465382.shtml

y'know, not that i agree or disagree, but i was just wonderin'.....

it said those pictures were in several european magazines, and i would assume art-zines or the sort, nuttin' too terribly mainstream, but i got to thinkin'.......do we (america) ever do artsy-fartsy pics that mock, or harass, other nations?

"In his series titled "Propaganda", Eolo Perfido, a French-born photographer based in Rome, takes a look at the essence of contemporary America."

The essence of contemporary America is popcorn, the KKK, a hooker, the electric chair, and preaching...with a laptop?

What a crock of bullshit.

you forgot the one with the shopping cart! apparently, no one else shops....anywhere!

bah, those are all just images of Texas.

Its pretty obviouys the problem. The problem isnt the USA its Europe. Europe has always had a rigid class divided society. They call Americans arrogant because we speak our minds and we have freedom. We see a guy who thinks he is better than us because he was born to a prominant family and we tell him to gobble a dick. This to them is arrogance, to us its classless freedom. They hate our freedom.

Furthermore, the hatred from Europeans to the Americans specifically western Europeans, comes not from our policies or actions, for its true that when we go out of our way to appease them they still hate us. It is reality that we must unravel, what is it? Hmmm well for 1000s of years Europe was number 1. Thier pride and dignity was built up on being the dominant people. The superior cultures, the best and most powerful. It was so prideful that they went out and killed Indians, enslaves blacks and took control of parts of Asia. Ever since WW2 when Europe fell into irrelevance and the USA took over as the big kid on the block, they have resented us. Not because they hate our actions, afterall we saved thier sorry asses from the Germans AND the Russians. They are quite simply envious of our power and control and the fact that we are better than they are. Economically, Militarily, Scientifically, we are the top of the line. We control the world as it is if any one country was able to.

Europe falling into nothingness pretty much is what made them so angry toward us. Afterall BEFORE WW2 to them we were a bunch of hick farmers, after WW2 we were thier masters. It is then that they are jealous. We dont spend much time thinking about them, and to use a sports metaphore much the way a big champion football team wouldnt think about some old losers it beat a few seasons before. We think about the big up and comming teams like China that will mess with us. Europe being the fallen prideful ex champs from a few seasons back spends every waking moment thinking of those who bested them. The USA. And it drives them insane to see what they consider the farmers with big mouths who dont know thier places calling the shots, controlling the world the wya they think that they should be. This makes them resentful, hateful, and jealous.

Case closed.

Its possible but not likely. Americans generally dont think about Europe or Europeans. Why would we? They are largely irrelevant. We tend to think about things that do matter to us, politically we think about China, or Japan or Korea. Not a place filled with decadent socialists who pose no threat and give us no benefits.

w3rd....

but let me ask you.......although i don't agree with some foreigner mockin' us (although a lot do), what do you think of the americans doin' this sort of stuff?

Doing what stuff? We have our qwerks, every country does. Ours tend to be rustic looking in nature to others. The Europeans got qwerks too, thiers though are so bad that they pretty much have ruined all thier own economies and gave birth to homegrown muslim fanatics who bomb and murder thier people. European arrogance is the worst in the world. See never forget that to them anyone outside of Western Europe is basically low class trash. The USA especially. But thats fine... because they can keep thier lame ass sensibilities and continue to kill themselves slowly. We still control shit and we dont give a rats ass about what they got to say and never really have. And that too is one thing that pisses them off, that thier opinions mean dick over here.

no, i mean americans who mock america.....i mean, we do it all the time, isn't that in a way advocating other nations to do it? other nations seem to have so much more pride in who they are and where they come from.....that's not to say that they don't have individuals who belittle their country, but what other country makes fun of itself more than america does? they say were perhaps the most unpatriotic country, and justifiably so......

so what you have is a nation with people who belittle, abuse, and advocate the ruin of their own country......so who do we have to blame when someone else does it?

i'm not sayin' it's right......i don't like seein' some bloody foreigner mock us either, but who can blame him? we do it to ourselves.......so why can't he? besides, in the end, he's mockin' us with the best thing us americans understand.....he's doin' this solely for publicity, for money....and for us to acknowledge his work, we're just makin' fun of ourselves in the process....

Overall I would say thats bullshit. We are a pretty nationalistic nation. Justifyably so, we kick ass.

The difference is we can look at ourselves and see some of our problems. We dont sit around and pretend we are saints and are superior to everyone else. We dont need to. We run the show.

And the majority of self hating from Americans comes mostly from leftist extreamists. Unfortunatly they have the loudest voices. Your average American loves his country and believes in his country but is weary of beaurocratic bullshit that happens. (the way it does everywhere)

Your average nutty leftist sees only the negative shit and invents new negative shit to hate the USA. Why? SO they can seem MORALLY superior to those that love it. Its no coincidence that those are the same loonies that love Europe and love to jump in on a good old USA bashing when limp wristed tea drinkers are doing it to us. Largely though those nut cases eventually grow up and see that they were acting like dumbshits.

For the few that DONT they typically become Ethnic studies or Womens studies professors at college campuses so they can anger and confuse more idealist college freshman and continue thier line of bullshit.

I don't do it all the time. I don't really know many people that do, particularly here in the South. People are almost fanatically patriotic down here. The only people I've come in contact with that are unpatriotic or belittle the US are hippies, goth kids, and assholes.

Same here up in New England. Youd think that since we have an over abundance of overly educated dickheads that it would be bad, but everyone flies thier flags, everyone love america. The only people that dont are typically the shithead Yale students and other dumbfucks, mostly liberals.

w3rd....

i guess i fall under a leftist-nationalist then.....i'm not patriotic, but i don't really wanna live anywhere else......except maybe Japan, but that's just because i love sushi.....

and although i advocate true anarchy (not that I'M PUNK! OI! OI! OI! version of anarchy), but true anarchy, which is best represented as a utopia society, which i know is impossible, unless we set off a bunch a nukes or some shit, i'll stick with american politics compared to any other nation.....yeah, i hate Bush, but hey, at least i can say so......

It would be impossible even if we did set off nukes. You can't have a perfect society populated by imperfect people.

And are you aware of what "anarchy" means?

I know what anarchy means. It means Id be taking Wicked Lady as my concubine and making Six my eunich garden boy since I have more guns than both of you. HA!

oh, well i make fun of america....but i make fun of everyone.....i hate everything equally.....more importantly, in the end, i just don't give a fuck.....

but i guess where i come from and where i been, i met a lot of anti-americans....especially in college.......

a buddy of mine is tryin' to convince me to leave america.....i won't, i don't want to.......i may not really love america, but i don't necessarily hate it......but i definately don't like any other place more so.....well, antartica perhaps.....

Your buddy needs a good old ass kicking. I am sure he would have loved the breadlines in the USSR better. Maybe you should ask him why so many people from China and Mexico and other countries are trying to get here at the risk of death?