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Hmm, I thought it was a charity based here... who gave Timeless the right to dictate?

I usually argued for Britain in those cases. I got a lot of weird looks in American history. I knew a lot of facts the teacher did not even know. rofl

No no, we do still hold the numerical upper hand.
Though, with the lack of literate British applications, I'm not sure for how long this state of affairs will remain.

Being an American, and growing up in America, I have been able to see both good and bad things about the country.

Sure, I thing that it's great that we can allow so many immigrants to come into the United States, but all of the racial and steroetypical comments that come with them made by Americans are really unnessesary.

Many Americans do fail to look at other cultures and see how amazing there are, or how much they have changed. Just as America no longer has cowboys running around, Japan no longer has ninjas, Germans are not all Nazis, etc.

Having taken history in America since I started schooling, the history of the United Stated was taught in depth more than half of the time. By the time I was in high school, I was really sick of learning about the Civil War and America's point of view on WWII. Whenever anything was taught about another culture, it was always a brief summary of some minor thing that happened two hundred years ago. And of course, the Vietnam War is mentioned very little, being the only war that America has lost.

Lemmie

In schools also, there is an entire subject called 'American History'. Which only accounts for about three hundred years, which isn't much of a history.

Yes. Too much time is spent gloriflying America and not enough on other countries. Many people in America are taught young that only America is great and the best. God forbid you like another culture at the same time just as much. There have been so many cases that I have gotton crap from people for listening to foriegn pop music, or even rooting for another country during the Olympics.

I like living in the U.S.A. There are people I've met here that I wouldn't give up for the world and there are oppurtunies I've had because I'm American, but I do see the flaws in this country (example: BUSH scream ) and some of it's people. I thought we had a big wake-up call when the World Trade Center was destroyed, but only four years later, people have seem to have forgotten about it (I didn't see a single flag last 11 September).

Ah, I think I've ranted enough... sweatdrop

Oh god, Bush is a disgrace to the nation.

Did you know that if you Google the word "failure" the #1 result is a page about Bush...It's funny yet a disgrace at the same time.

One thing that does annoy me is when people make threads saying, "come here and say what state you live in!" I feel like banging their heads against the wall while shouting that there are other countries in the world, and rather a lot of them.

I'm not stereotyping, and I'm quite sure that's only a small majority of Americans, but it irritates me all the same.

So that means, in general, that britons don't teach enough about Britain, and americans teach too much about America?

Personally, i think theres something wrong with being at either end of the spectrum rather than comfortably in the middle.

Yeah. It's the newest country. the youngest. it's just like when people are five years old and they think they're the center of the universe. Then later on they mature (hopefully).

The United States is a child.


How poetic. rolleyes