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Originally Posted by aegyptos  Why do two people in Europe care so much what happens with internal matters in the US? Americans spend no time worrying about how Europeans handle these things. What is the reason for this difference? |
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Originally Posted by aegyptos Yes, but why do you care? Why is what happens on this topic in a foreign country of importance to you? |
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Originally Posted by aegyptos Emotional ties? I have no idea what that means. Can you be a little more specific?
Why do I ask?
I notice this interest on the part of Europeans on a whole range of American topics that have no possible bearing on their lives. Its actually a negative critique. It seems very strange to me that Europeans would care about a minor American domestic subject that can have no possible effect on their existence. I sometimes suspect that this is a device by which Europeans attempt to validate the social choices they have made without reference to any evidence pro or con. |
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Originally Posted by aegyptos Very curious. American rarely show this level of interest in the internal politics and attitudes of Denmark, say.
As far as the subject is concerned I doubt is abstinence teaching has any real effect but I doubt that the alternatives that the left prefers have any real effect as well. |
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Originally Posted by aegyptos I have little interest in European social issues or solutions except when they are intruded into my sphere by outsiders who are selling them as panaceas to problems they think exist in the United States. Some examples are gun control, race relations, tax policy, socialized medicine, Kyoto and so on. The level of ignorance of the American social and political scene displayed by the people selling these (always leftwing) nostrums is astonishing. You can easily see why it would come to my notice. I would no more offer advice to Europeans on questions inherent in their societies than I would tell Nissan engineers how to build a car. I object when they do so coming, as they are, from a position of colossal ignorance. |
What I think is hilarious is the fact that you've had nothing whatsoever to say on the actual subject of this thread, which is very much worth discussing.
Instead, all you can do is bitch about Europeans having something to say on American social issues, while
we run around the world
"spreading democracy."
I be perfectly frank, I'm
much more comfortable with Europeans who know so much about American politics and are this curious about American social issues than I am with Americans who know
so little about
anything outside the United States, much less the politics and social issues of other nations, who simultaneously applaud the United States for throwing our military around in other people's back yards and "spreading democracy."
Oh, and for the record, while I think it's about time for the general American public realize that abstinence education sucks great big fat moose ****, I think it's going to be turned into a feather in the caps of social conservatives who then say, "SEE?! 25% OF OUR YOUNG GIRLS HAVE STDs!
WE AREN'T TEACHING ENOUGH ABSTINENCE!"
My proposal: Shoot anyone who squeezes political discourse into bite-sized chunks smaller than 5 minutes.
The sound-bite: Narcotic of politicians, or poison of the masses? Next, on
Donahue!