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On September 12 2009 19:46 intrigue wrote:
pretty likely this is also how even americans in the blue region of the map see this country too, maybe with illinois (chicago, i just don't want to be a red!) and michigan tossed in there! really though, yeah a lot of the things northerners say about the rest of the US is in jest, but a lot of it also isn't.
The blue barely creeps into the 1% of NE Illinois that contains chicago.
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Korea (South)11586 Posts
On September 12 2009 23:23 freelander wrote:
If I made a backpack traveling in the USA like whole summer or something, which places I should visit?
Asking USA citizens here
Las Vegas, New York City, Miami, Washington DC, Las Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia.
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On September 12 2009 19:29 Musoeun wrote:+ Show Spoiler +I know this is TL. I know you all are more intelligent than this. However, it doesn't help anything when I do end up arguing with non-Americans who do think of America like this.
It has nothing to do with intelligence. This is precisely what the US is like.
You've basically drawn voting patterns for the last three elections, so I would venture that more like-minded people are in the centre states, and different like-minded people are on the fringes.
The rest of the world sees those voting pictures, too.
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On September 12 2009 20:15 niteReloaded wrote:
See, the very problem is that you think it's the same to not know shit about america, and not know shit about the world.
Who cares about America.
Can you name 3 regions that make at least some sense, just like in the pic in the op, of Germany? Italy? Japan?
Yeah um America is hugely important though, just like other super nations. Also, alot of culture; music, movies etc comes from the USA. So why are you talking like that?
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On September 12 2009 21:29 Kwark wrote:If you ain't in the pink I don't wanna know.
lol ya the British empire was fucking big
I read Tai-Pan recently. I think that period in history is interesting and I would like to read more stuff about the british empire
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United States24747 Posts
On September 12 2009 23:55 CaucasianAsian wrote:Show nested quote +On September 12 2009 23:23 freelander wrote:
If I made a backpack traveling in the USA like whole summer or something, which places I should visit?
Asking USA citizens here Las Vegas, New York City, Miami, Washington DC, Las Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia.
Good luck backpacking several of those things in one summer lol
USA is very big!
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On September 12 2009 19:29 Musoeun wrote:He wouldn't let me talk and his questions always kept coming back to, "Why do you not think Obama is the second coming of (insert deity/prophet/genius/Enlightened One here)," and then not letting me answer.
Funny. I am a non-American and I consider Obama (just like the US presidents before him) to be the coming of the next Roman emperor. There are differences of opinion about Obama even outside the US.
Personally, I am not one to generalise about Americans, since I have encountered Americans of various intelligence and wisdom. However, there are certain beliefs in the US that even force me (as well as other Europeans) to raise an eyebrow. For example, a lot of Americans believe that "nationalised health care = socialism". Yet, there are many countries in Europe that have nationalised health care (if not all of them), including a lot of countries that never experienced socialism, and I would hardly be able to call them socialist states.
Having said that, the US is hardly the only place with weird or bizzare beliefs. In South Korea, many people believe that having an electric fan turned on overnight in a closed room will kill you, even though medical experts have proven this belief to be false.
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WTF
I live in Georgia and I know very few Gun Loving Hicks.
I actually know a lot of intelligent and respectable people.
Fuck this map, even if its a fucking joke.
EVERYONE WITH FUCKING STEREOTYPES
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Trinidad/Tobago1177 Posts
On September 12 2009 19:46 intrigue wrote:
pretty likely this is also how even americans in the blue region of the map see this country too,
so true
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I live in the blue region and IMO this is pretty true.
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On September 12 2009 21:16 Flicky wrote:I like how Africa isn't even on that map.
Truth be told, I think less than 0.0001% of the population outside of Africa gives a shit what happens inside Africa. One of the most devastating genocides in the history of mankind happened back in the mid 1990's and almost nobody even knows of it. :/
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On September 13 2009 01:49 dhe95 wrote:
I live in the blue region and IMO this is pretty true.
IMO you're retarded.
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The OP map is not accurate it all..if it was then everyone else in the world would be screwed. Most Americans are moderate and that BLUE / RED ideological polarizing map was propaganda for 2000/2004 elections. In reality the whole map would be "purple", with some patches of red in the deep south and some even smaller patches of blue near San Francisco and the New England States.
Even most Americans are deeply misinformed about this because that blue/red map was such a strong theme ( but a deceptive one ) during recent presidential elections. The extremists on either end of the political spectrum realized it would help their respective campaigns to polarize the country as much as possible.
Consider a voter who is a moderate republican, but not adamantly conservative. Now consider a voter who is a neo conservative / religious / gun-touting individual. The idea was that both would vote for a strongly conservative candidate, but only the moderate conservative would vote for a moderately conservative candidate, while the neoconservative would be upset by the moderate values of the moderate candidate (neo cons don't have any sense of pluralism because of the religious doctrine they uphold). Then there would be party division and possibly more than 1 conservative candidate. That's what happened in 2000 when Nader detracted enough votes from Al Gore to loose the democrats the election, and so ensued the reign of Bush.
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On September 12 2009 21:16 Flicky wrote:
I like how Africa isn't even on that map.
because americans are politically correct
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yea w.e we're still the best lolol suck it
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On September 13 2009 01:27 gumbum8 wrote:
WTF
I live in Georgia and I know very few Gun Loving Hicks.
I actually know a lot of intelligent and respectable people.
Fuck this map, even if its a fucking joke.
EVERYONE WITH FUCKING STEREOTYPES
Do you live in/around Atlanta? From what I've seen it's the exception to the stereotype in Georgia. :p
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On September 13 2009 01:27 gumbum8 wrote:
WTF
I live in Georgia and I know very few Gun Loving Hicks.
I actually know a lot of intelligent and respectable people.
Fuck this map, even if its a fucking joke.
EVERYONE WITH FUCKING STEREOTYPES
Same thing with Texas.
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On September 12 2009 19:40 disco wrote:
haha this is kinda true..
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