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Originally Posted by burgundia
I am afraid that all that sharing wasn't very altruistic in nature. there were always interests behind. Besides The USA dictates other countries what they can or cannot do, like for example who can sell weapons to what country ( of course THE US can sell whomever they want to). It's like first destroy Iraq, then help rebuild it making profit, establish businesses there, take over whatever you can. use depleted uranium bullets and then send medicine ( I am being a bit sarcastic here, I know). When it comes to technology, scientists from all over the world have worked on various inventions. Just check how many foreigners among them. And if part of the technology comes from ETs then it belongs to everybody.
You have always been told that you live in the best place on earth ( and for many people it could be true), but in schools ,in social studies for example, they teach only about the US ( no surprise that so many Americans do not know which countries USA borders on..). When The Olympic games are broadcast you only know what medal or which place American sportsmen come in....even if an American is 5th or 6th this is what they tell you, not even who won. When you watch TV there, you think that THE WORLD is THE USA only...
When it comes to stupid things..what do you have in mind? because when you think about the wars and conflicts started by USA, then we may say that Hitler and Stalin did stupid things too....
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I do agree with a lot of that, we should stop playing the game of telling people what to do! Bush was very good at telling people what to do around the world. Being a bully country will definitely get us nowhere.
I disagree with some of what you say about our schools though. I grew up in Minnesota, which at the time was 4th in the nation as far as quality of education. I never paid attention and still learned a lot.
We did study about other countries and geography was one of my favorite subjects.
As far as Olympic games, don't most people try and watch their own countrymen, and hope they do well?
I think you're generalizing us too much, I think we're a lot more worldly than you give us credit for.