...personally, even if your rant didn't mean for anything of the sort...I dunno...I do feel a bit offended...but I know I have nothing to be offended about because I knew that the people you have run into that keep harrassing you about being American were out there. I knew that everything America does is scrutinized, criticized, and basically laughed at world-large.
...but I dunno...it just hit me hard yet again...just how ignorant people can be.
It's not only America that's ignorant. Sure, we like to keep to our business and our president has a nack for being either a dumbass or just plain clueless, but that doesn't mean that all the other countries are exception to such things!
Yes, America is a democracy, but that does not mean that every person in the US has a voice. A lot of people go unheard, their shouted words falling onto deaf ears. There are a lot of people who would just rather keep our country closed to outsiders--just like during the WWI/WWII era. But there also a lot of people who want to keep our borders open, to let people come in as they wish, because--hey! America was made from immigrants new blood is what America thrives from, that's how its stayed standing as long as it has even though it should have very well collapsed in on itself numerous of times.
...I dunno. I think what burns me the most about hearing how people are labeling you is the fact that by calling you "an American", people are using a nationality as an insult and as a way to call you ignorant and unaware of the world around you.
This is simply not true and completely shameful of them to do. I really never approved of making anyone feel stupid or ignorant or anything of the sort--if a person doesn't know something, you educate them. You don't laugh at their shortcomings, rubbing it in their face that they're from a country that is popularly called a collective idiot. It just shows how ignorant you really are when you do it.
...and you know, it's reactions like those that almost makes me happy I can't travel the world right now. I have to put up with my fellow Americans being idiots, insulting me in my native tongue--I don't want to deal with idiots around the globe, insulting me in languages I can't speak yet behind my back.
...*siiiiighs* No, didn't mean to rant but...gah. *joins you in the headdesking* PEOPLE CAN'T HELP WHERE THEY'RE BORN AND RAISED, IDIOTS OF THE WORLD WHO JUDGE OTHERS BY THIS SINGULAR FACT!
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...but I dunno...it just hit me hard yet again...just how ignorant people can be.
It's not only America that's ignorant. Sure, we like to keep to our business and our president has a nack for being either a dumbass or just plain clueless, but that doesn't mean that all the other countries are exception to such things!
Yes, America is a democracy, but that does not mean that every person in the US has a voice. A lot of people go unheard, their shouted words falling onto deaf ears. There are a lot of people who would just rather keep our country closed to outsiders--just like during the WWI/WWII era. But there also a lot of people who want to keep our borders open, to let people come in as they wish, because--hey! America was made from immigrants new blood is what America thrives from, that's how its stayed standing as long as it has even though it should have very well collapsed in on itself numerous of times.
...I dunno. I think what burns me the most about hearing how people are labeling you is the fact that by calling you "an American", people are using a nationality as an insult and as a way to call you ignorant and unaware of the world around you.
This is simply not true and completely shameful of them to do. I really never approved of making anyone feel stupid or ignorant or anything of the sort--if a person doesn't know something, you educate them. You don't laugh at their shortcomings, rubbing it in their face that they're from a country that is popularly called a collective idiot. It just shows how ignorant you really are when you do it.
...and you know, it's reactions like those that almost makes me happy I can't travel the world right now. I have to put up with my fellow Americans being idiots, insulting me in my native tongue--I don't want to deal with idiots around the globe, insulting me in languages I can't speak yet behind my back.
...*siiiiighs* No, didn't mean to rant but...gah. *joins you in the headdesking* PEOPLE CAN'T HELP WHERE THEY'RE BORN AND RAISED, IDIOTS OF THE WORLD WHO JUDGE OTHERS BY THIS SINGULAR FACT!
...I'm done. *headdesks again*