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Is America arrogant?

Is America arrogant?

  • No, not at all

    Votes: 9 10.1%
  • May be a little

    Votes: 13 14.6%
  • Yes, it is

    Votes: 41 46.1%
  • Oh, very arrogant

    Votes: 20 22.5%
  • I can't decide

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other

    Votes: 6 6.7%

  • Total voters
    89
I say this with all due respect, but the concept of the USA 'civilising' Europe is an interesting (some might say provocative) one. Similar in many respects to the likelihood of an immature and unruly 15 year old 'civilising' his suave and erudite grandfather. :mrgreen:

And while upon the subject of 'painting the world red' with conflict, I am given the impression that the US has more than rivalled any European state over the past 200 years or so.

History of U.S. Military Interventions since 1890

So, I suspect if there were any civilising effected across the Atlantic, the most probable direction was from East to West. Leaving aside conflict, visit any art gallery, theatre, concert hall, ballet stage, or opera house, to see whence came the major works of art, literature, and music which comprise a significant part of what might be regarded as civilisation. And while you are at it, have a look at which societies provide the greatest social justice, I am not entirely sure you will be gazing West. :)

Arrogance is often defined as having an overbearing and unrealistic sense of self-worth and self-importance, so on the personal level, you might just have answered the OP. :lol:

Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Franco, Tito. Not only great works of art but such wonderful human beings as well that europe has produced. Pasted Euro conflicts from the 19th century to present as follows. You could keep artists busy for centuries to help take the edge off of all the suffering on that continent. The fall of communism 1989 has shown glimmers of hope for Europe, no thanks to the US. We have clearly established here that the US involvement in WW2 wasn't that special, maybe on par with the Polish resistance, and post WW2: the Marshall Plan, defence against Stalin/Soviet Union wasn't needed, after all our cultured and civilized Euro's didn't need any help after all correct? How could they possibly need any help from America?

Social Justice: You mean in pre 1989 Poland, Romania, Armenia, Azergaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, East Germany. These are examples of social justice?







[edit] 19th century

· 1803–1815 Napoleonic Wars
· 1804-1813 First Serbian Uprising
· 1815-1817 Second Serbian Uprising
· 1817-1864 Russian conquest of the Caucasus
· 1821-1832 Greek War of Independence
· 1821 Wallachian uprising of 1821
· 1823 French invasion of Spain
· 1826-1828 Russo-Persian War
· 1828-1829 Russo-Turkish War
· 1828-1834 Liberal Wars
· 1830 Ten Days Campaign (following the Belgian Revolt)
· 1830-1831 November Uprising
· 1831-1832 Great Bosnian uprising
· 1833-1839 First Carlist War
· 1833-1839 Albanian Revolts of 1833–1839
· 1843-1844 Albanian Revolt of 1843–1844
· 1846 Galician slaughter
· 1846-1849 Second Carlist War
· 1847 Albanian Revolt of 1847
· 1847 Sonderbund War
· 1848-1849 Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence
· 1848-1851 First Schleswig War
· 1848–1866 Wars of Italian Independence
· 1848–1849 First Italian Independence War
· 1859 Second Italian War of Independence
· 1866 Third Italian War of Independence
· 1854 Epirus Revolt of 1854
· 1854–1856 Crimean War
· 1858 Mahtra War
· 1863-1864 January Uprising
· 1864 Second Schleswig War
· 1864 January Uprising
· 1866 Austro-Prussian War
· 1866-1869 Cretan Revolt
· 1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War
· 1872-1876 Third Carlist War
· 1873-1874 Cantonal Revolution
· 1877–1878 Russo–Turkish War
· 1878 Epirus Revolt of 1878
· 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War
· 1893–1896 Cod War of 1893
· 1897 Greco–Turkish War
[edit] 1900-1945

· 1910 Albanian Revolt of 1910
· 1911-1912 Italo-Turkish War
· 1912–1913 Balkan Wars
o 1912-1913 First Balkan War
o 1913 Second Balkan War
· 1914 Peasant Revolt in Albania
· 1914–1918 World War I
· 1916 Easter Rising
· 1917–1921 Russian Civil War
· 1918 Finnish Civil War
  • 1918 Polish-Czech war for Teschen Silesia
· 1918–1919 Polish-Ukrainian War
· 1918–1919 Greater Poland Uprising
· 1918–1920 Estonian Liberation War
· 1918-1920 Latvian War of Independence
· 1919 Hungarian–Romanian War of 1919
· 1919-1922 Greco-Turkish War
· 1919-1923 Turkish War of Independence
· 1919–1920 Czechoslovakia-Hungary War
· 1919–1921 Silesian Uprisings
· 1919–1921 Polish-Soviet War
· 1919–1921 Anglo-Irish War
· 1920 Polish-Lithuanian War
· 1921 Uprising in West Hungary
· 1922–1923 Irish Civil War
· 1934 Asturian miners' strike of 1934
· 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War
· 1939 Slovak-Hungarian War
· 1939 Occupation of Zakarpattia Oblast by Hungary
· 1939–1945 World War II
o 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland
o 1939-1940 Winter War
o 1940-1941Greco-Italian War
o 1941-1945 Soviet-German war
o 1941-1944 Continuation War
o 1944 Slovak National Uprising
[edit] 1945-1989
· 1945-1949 Greek Civil War
· 1953 Uprising in East Germany
· 1956 Uprising in Poznań
· 1956 Hungarian Revolution
· 1959-2011 Basque Conflict
· 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
· 1968-1998 The Troubles
· 1970-1984 Unrest in Italy
· 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus
· 1978 Turkey–Kurdistan Workers' Party conflict
· 1988-1994 Nagorno-Karabakh War
[edit] 1989-2000
· 1989 Romanian Revolution
· 1991 Ten-Day War
· 1991-1992 South Ossetian War of Independence
· 1991-1993 Georgian Civil War
· 1991-1995 Croatian War of Independence
· 1992 War of Transnistria
· 1992 Ossetian-Ingush conflict
· 1992-1993 First War in Abkhazia
· 1992-1995 Bosnian War
· 1994-1996 First Chechen War
· 1998-1999 Kosovo War
· 1998-present Republican Dissidents Conflict
 
Is your point that Europeans are morally inferior to Americans... or possibly less civilized?
 
no,thank you great people for looking after all of us for all the world can see.

god bless you all

and thank you

mikeey

mikeey
 
Is your point that Europeans are morally inferior to Americans... or possibly less civilized?

No, my point is that all countries look to their self interests. Doesn't make them arrogant. Assumption is that the OP was talking about US foreign policy that may be perceived by some as US arrogance. Maybe the OP was talking about the perception by people in other countries about US tourists or visitors etc. that seem to be arrogant.
 
No, my point is that all countries look to their self interests. Doesn't make them arrogant. Assumption is that the OP was talking about US foreign policy that may be perceived by some as US arrogance. Maybe the OP was talking about the perception by people in other countries about US tourists or visitors etc. that seem to be arrogant.

Such as Europeans not being able to look out for its self interests perhaps?
 
You want arrogant? Bicyclists. The ones who dress in the clown costumes and act like they're morally superior because they're not polluting the air.
 
You want arrogant? Bicyclists. The ones who dress in the clown costumes and act like they're morally superior because they're not polluting the air.

What about BMW drivers? They "act like they're morally superior" because...they're driving a BMW.
 
I do not think Americans in general are arrogant at all about being American. I do not think they are also proud in general about being American either. The most American think nowadays is fearing China. What I think is wrong with Americans in general is women (or sometimes men) my age see a show like Jersey Shore and don't realize they shouldn't act like that. They actually emulate it. They think acting trashy is cool. What I think is wrong with America is at my job I make over double the money a temp makes, yet they have the brand new iPhone (which is awesome don't get me wrong). How about you move out your moms house and not worry about having a phone that cost $1200 a year to own asshole? That is what is wrong with America. What's wrong with America is people who quit actually looking for a job because they set unrealistic expectations, so they think "Hey I can join the army or I could get my wife pregnant, thus being afforded food stamps, wic, section 8 and welfare from the government."

These are what is wrong with Americans. You got your assholes and your dumbasses. I would rather be the asshole that thinks my country is great, knows my country is great, and won't let another person tell me otherwise but you got all these dumbasses keeping it from it's full potential.
 
The question itself would seem arrogant to many. "Is America arrogant?" I heard a guy speaking to a waitress the other day who said something like "Well, here in America...." She was from Guatemala! He would never have thought that she had already considered herself "American" long before she immigrated (legally) here. The question appears to be asking if The United States of America is arrogant. And, judging by the answers, I'm not the only one who read it that way. How did we get to be "Proud to be an American", and yet only mean it in the context of the USA? A lot of other citizens from other countries consider themselves "American".

That being said - I'm still proud to be an American. And, I'm proud to be a US citizen.
 
The question itself would seem arrogant to many. "Is America arrogant?" I heard a guy speaking to a waitress the other day who said something like "Well, here in America...." She was from Guatemala! He would never have thought that she had already considered herself "American" long before she immigrated (legally) here. The question appears to be asking if The United States of America is arrogant. And, judging by the answers, I'm not the only one who read it that way. How did we get to be "Proud to be an American", and yet only mean it in the context of the USA? A lot of other citizens from other countries consider themselves "American".

That being said - I'm still proud to be an American. And, I'm proud to be a US citizen.

I think I see where you're going with this. Since we have North, Central, and South America anyone from these regions could be described as American.

But if you go abroad folks from the USA are referred to as Americans or Yanks. I think that's because saying "United Statesan" is too cumbersome and "are a you a citizen of the United States of America" takes too long to say. Overall, it's easier to just call us American and folks from Guatemala "Guatemalan."
 
There are no words in the English language that can be assembled together into a sentence as to describe just how arrogant the United States is.
Imperialism. Materialism. None more satisfied by waving it's dong in the face of the world, blissfully unaware of just how bad the world thinks it's dong smells.

If America woulda been 1/100th as arrogant as you fantasize it to be, America woulda at least attempted to conquer the world.

Instead, America repeatedly saves the world without taking over the the number of territories it could have.
 
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