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Are we an arrogant country?

Are we an Arrogant country?


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Yes, America is, IMO, very arrogant.

I'm frankly surprised our "high and mighty" aka "holier than thou" attitude as a nation hasn't found us knee-deep in invasions by other countries who would just love to shut us up and knock us down a peg or two.

-k

Uh, that is precisely what 9/11 was about. Payback for our blind support of Israel, our indifference concerning the Palestinians, and our sexual exploits with Saudi Arabia (i.e. The Saudi Royal Family)(which by the way is where the majority of the hijackers hailed from...1+1=2
 
Uh, that is precisely what 9/11 was about. Payback for our blind support of Israel, our indifference concerning the Palestinians, and our sexual exploits with Saudi Arabia (i.e. The Saudi Royal Family)(which by the way is where the majority of the hijackers hailed from...1+1=2

I agree, I just consider that 1 instance. I was thinking more along the lines of a constantly flow of invasions, not a random one here and there. :lol:

-k
 
I agree, I just consider that 1 instance. I was thinking more along the lines of a constantly flow of invasions, not a random one here and there. :lol:

-k

Give it time. The barbarians are at the gate. :) Remember, the rest of the world is weak. They've depended upon American Military Might to keep the global peace and have instead invested their money in social programs. However, at the same time, many nations are finding it difficult to create children. So they are importing large numbers of immigrants. In Europe, they are importing them from Muslim countries. In the United States, we are importing them from Latin Countries.

Considering that Europe and the United States have so embraced Multiculturalism that we no longer have a culture, strong cultural influences are moving in and reshaping our societies. Europe and America will simply change. There will be no great war. We will be defeated peacefully, just as the Northern European Heathens were peacefully converted to Catholicism, so too will we be converted to Socialism and Islam. The question I am curious to see answered, is how the Communists and Islamists will deal with each other.

With the capitalists out of the way, there will be no meaningful production of wealth. There will be a war of ideology. The Atheistic Communists and the ultra-Theistic Islamists cannot co-exist. Who will strike first?
 
Of course I cannot; it is pure speculation on my part based on the REALITIES of how his Liberal policies will bankrupt this nation and expose us to possible threats from our enemies.
This made me spit my soda out! :lol:
 
Should we also apologize for Liberating Europe? How about apologize for Liberating Asia? Better yet, let's apologize for being the world's police because the UN has become a feckless waste of time and the Europeans have had their heads so deeply imbedded in the ass of thugs like Saddam that they cannot extricate their heads from it.

While we Americans are at it, let's also apologize for the Liberation of Kuwait; after all, if we had just left that mess alone, the world would be a much better place, 9-11 would never have occurred and we wouldn't be trying to promote Democracy in Afghanistan and Iraq; they could still be despotic regimes that treat their neighbors and citizens like crap.

I think we also need to apologize to the Indonesian people whom we desperately tried to help after the Tsunami.

Maybe we should also apologize for the Imperialist Europeans for creating the mess we have in the Middle East because we didn't get involved soon enough to prevent their attempts to subjugate the world to their imperialistic ambitions seeing that they are too HUMBLE to do it for themselves.

I just love a good bash America thread don't you?
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Here is where it gets deep. Are we still talking about the liberation of Europe? Were you in the D Day invasion? That was a long time ago. You can't live on an old glory that long. It seems to me that Russia had something to do with that liberation as well. There were a few other countries as well involved in that. We have caused our fair share of world chaos now as well.

Did we not invade a sovereign nation in Iraq? We have manipulated South American economies. We have assassinated world leaders. We are just the gemstones in the global picture. We are an arrogant nation of the first order and need to step down for the glories of the 1940's.
 
This entire thread is troll-bait; seriously, how can a country be arrogant? The very idea is absurd.

If you truly desire some form of answer to this question, however, I suggest simply reading some of the more partisan responses in this thread that literally reek of arrogance. :2wave:
 
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This entire thread is troll-bait; seriously, how can a country be arrogant? The very idea is absurd.

If you truly desire some form of answer to this question, however, I suggest simply reading some of the more partisan responses in this thread. :2wave:

I agree it is a bait thread, however the question surrounding the use of the word "country" can be easily reconciled in ones mind to mean "the collective attitude we have shown the world through our foreign policy."
 
I don't see it that way, foreign policy is one aspect of a country's "persona".
 
I don't see it that way, foreign policy is one aspect of a country's "persona".

I'm not willing to guess that what's the question meant. If that's the question being asked, it should read that way.

Otherwise, the OP could simply respond to posts he doesn't like by stating that "wasn't the question they asked". Which is why I believe this is a bait thread.
 
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I don't see it that way, foreign policy is one aspect of a country's "persona".

It's the most powerful projection we have as a nation internationally. We elect those that craft the policy, they are our representatives. It's through that policy that our nation officially interacts with the world. Our tourist impact means little in the face of our economic, political, and military activities as they apply to rest of the world.
 
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This entire thread is troll-bait; seriously, how can a country be arrogant? The very idea is absurd.

If you truly desire some form of answer to this question, however, I suggest simply reading some of the more partisan responses in this thread that literally reek of arrogance. :2wave:

It is bait true. But there is a response that does not need to be an assault on one side or the other.

The country itself cannot be anything. The population of the Us is arogant beyond belief.
 
It is bait true. But there is a response that does not need to be an assault on one side or the other.

The country itself cannot be anything. The population of the Us is arogant beyond belief.
I made a similar point, but I don't think the population overall is arrogant, although many among us can be at times.
 
I made a similar point, but I don't think the population overall is arrogant, although many among us can be at times.

well, is it not human to compare yourself to another? a great deal of people look only on the outside, or cannot size themselves up correctly. who are we to look at ourself and decide if we are better or worse than another? second question: why do we try to?
 
I agree it is a bait thread, however the question surrounding the use of the word "country" can be easily reconciled in ones mind to mean "the collective attitude we have shown the world through our foreign policy."

I don't know that it is a bait thread. It is a valid question as to how we as a nation and then as a people are perceived by the rest of the world.

My impression from travels is that most of the world thinks we are arrogant to the max. They don't like the way we look down at everyone and give the idea that we are somehow better.
 
well, is it not human to compare yourself to another? a great deal of people look only on the outside, or cannot size themselves up correctly. who are we to look at ourself and decide if we are better or worse than another? second question: why do we try to?
It's definitely human nature to compare and contrast, it's when the ego becomes a little too big where arrogance enters into the picture. There are things we as a country are superior at compared to the world and things that need work, but this is for us to individually figure out, and only individuals can be arrogant. We do have some arrogant leadership and have so for years, but, that's for a different thread.
 
It's definitely human nature to compare and contrast, it's when the ego becomes a little too big where arrogance enters into the picture. There are things we as a country are superior at compared to the world and things that need work, but this is for us to individually figure out, and only individuals can be arrogant. We do have some arrogant leadership and have so for years, but, that's for a different thread.

i think the question originally meant the general thought of country...
 
i think the question originally meant the general thought of country...
That's the problem, the statement assumes that we know how the general populace feels more than the general populace itself. Obama doesn't seem to be able to differentiate the patriots from the nationalists, and it was extremely arrogant of him to assume the duty of apologizing on the behalf of this nation for things many of us feel we haven't done wrong.
 
That's the problem, the statement assumes that we know how the general populace feels more than the general populace itself. Obama doesn't seem to be able to differentiate the patriots from the nationalists, and it was extremely arrogant of him to assume the duty of apologizing on the behalf of this nation for things many of us feel we haven't done wrong.

so whats the difference between nationalists and patriots?

so an arrogant country has an arrogant president. haha. i guess it kinda fits.
but perhaps he was just trying to make peace with whomever he was apoligizing to.
"i imagine at one time leadership meant having muscle, but in this day in age it means getting along with others." -i dont know who said it. =/
 
so whats the difference between nationalists and patriots?
The simplest definition is that a patriot loves their country for what it stands for, genuinly loves it's people, but is willing to accept that it has faults. A nationalist blindly follows a government, not necessarily loves the country, but has the attitude that their government cannot do anything wrong and/or does things better than anyone else simply because it is their government, which is based in misplaced pride and arrogance.

so an arrogant country has an arrogant president. haha. i guess it kinda fits.
It is a funny fit from an ironic standpoint.
but perhaps he was just trying to make peace with whomever he was apoligizing to.
Perhaps, but it wasn't a good move to make, especially considering he is still in his first term, not even out of the "honeymoon" period that presidents typically enjoy in their first hundred days.
"i imagine at one time leadership meant having muscle, but in this day in age it means getting along with others." -i dont know who said it. =/
I don't remember it either, but it is not accurate in my opinion. All leaders have to be strong in some form or another, it's how your strength is applied and who against that makes all the difference in the world, I see Obama as a wimp when it comes to representing us, and to me he uses his power against some of those that he is supposed to be leading.
 
Okay, So we are an arrogant country..... Who gives a ****.

This thread is so tired I wish people would stop posting in it so I don't have to see it in my subscriptions anymore.
 
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