Kilopascal writes: >You don't understand how most Americans think. When you feel that you are >better than everone else. When you feel that you are the best in the world >at everything. When you feel your shit doesn't stink. Need I go further? >Then you don't change your ways to those of others. You make others do it >your way. > >The US is nothing more than a spoiled, rotten, arrogant child. Instead of >the attacks on 2001-09-11 humbling this nation it made the US even more >arrogant and full of itself.
I'm starting to think some of you guys don't have a clue about the concept of individual freedom versus nationalism. The above is just as much stereotypical hogwash as what Wizard writes. I am an American, and I know plenty of them, and not ONE of them considers themselves any better or worse than any other people in the world. What we consider ourselves is sovereign individuals who, as long as we do not harm others, should be left alone, by our own government, let alone foreigners. And being "left alone" does not mean having others (whether Americans or foreigners) forcing us to use some particular ruler. Now, if some of you would help educate Americans as to why metric is better, then you will find some converts. But just climbing to the top of the mountain and screaming "Metric is better and if you don't use it you are an idiotic, arrogant American" is counter-productive. An example of how little some of you understand Americans: I've been laughing at some of your responses to the "metric martyr" situation in England. You have so little idea of what drives Americans that you cheer this. In fact, if we ever have a serious effort to force metrication in this country, you can bet your last dollar that this guy will be paraded all over the country as an example of what will happen if such laws go into effect. It will DESTROY any chance of having forced metrication in the USA (and thank God for that!). >The only way for the US to be put in its place and become a team player and >not the neighbourhood bully is for someone bigger and stronger to come along >and put the bully in its place. Yea, and the only way THAT will ever happen is if some of your respective countries actually give their citizens enough freedom from over-regulation and brain-dead central planning that they can become as economically as America is. I'd be delighted to see it happen, but I'm not holding my breath. Jim Elwell
