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Portrait on an America hater

December 15 , 2005

There are two main types of America haters. One is the guy in the Third World country that hates our foreign policy. He's the one I won't be talking about.

I want to talk about the other type. I wanted to talk about the white guy in the First World country who comes from the Upper-Middle class, has a degree or better yet, a Graduate degree in something economically unviable like Art. I want to talk about the self-loathing idiot who hates America because he's jealous of the success of others.

I want to talk about the guy who's so overwhelmed with guilt that he projects it onto America. Sure, we're not angels, but as I've said before, put any country in the world except Switzerland and Costa Rica in our position and they'd sure make us look like angels.

I want to talk about the one who scoffs at the idea of the American Dream and dismisses every case he's presented with of it, including mine.

I want to talk about the moron who will never shutup about the bad parts of this country. Sure, we have racists, sexists, homophobes, and everything else. So does every First World nation. I guarantee you that there are more fascists in Europe than in America. In Europe, they even occasionally win elections. They don't here.

I want to add to this. I shouldn't just be mentioning First World nations when talking about racism, sexism, and homophobia. Let's get down and dirty and rattle off some facts. A common saying in the Philippines - "the only good Chinaman is a dead Chinaman." A common saying in Thailand - "if you see a snake and an Indian, kill the Indian first." Ask a Saudi Arabian how he feels about Africans. Go have a homosexual relationship in India or Turkey and see what happens to you. Go to China and yell as loudly as you can that you hate the Chinese government and see what happens to you. Go up to a Tutsi and tell them that Hutus rule.

If you're a woman, keep in mind that it wasn't that long ago that widows got burned in India. I heard they still do, except it's illegal so it only happens in secluded places. In China, they often kill their female babies. In a lot of Muslim countries, women have to cover up their faces. In Brazil, you can beat up and even torture your wife if she cheated on you. You can still beat your wife in Spain. And in Iran. And in Saudi Arabia. And in Vietnam. And in most countries in the world. So is America sexist? Sure, but let's get real and put things in perspective here. Women are better off in America than over 90% of nations in the world, and I'm being conservative here.

I could go on for days, but I won't. I think you get the point. People hate each other. It's a worldwide thing, not something confined to the American borders.

I love America, always have, always will. I know we have faults and will neither obsess with them nor sweep them under the rug. I'll do what I can to fix things, but I also have my own life to live. I'm not going to spend my free time bashing a nation that for the most part at least tries to do the right thing.

America haters just bash, but have no solutions of their own. As they bash our past, they conveniently forget the genocides that happened last century in Europe. Some even happened in my lifetime. And for the record, it was Europe that gave us the idea of slavery in the first place. I'm so tired of Europeans trying to weasel out of their past while never shutting up about ours. Their past sins are recent, and much worse than ours.

Now, the first kind of America hater, the one in the Third World country may or may not have a legimitate beef with us. The guilty white American or European liberal from the upper-middle class does not. You hate us because you are a spoiled brat with too much time on your hands.

If you are middle-class or higher in the First World, you are privileged. You have a better life than over 95% of the rest of the world.

I'm privileged. I'm well-off, and I know it. I grew up by refineries, worked hard, invested intelligently, and now am doing quite well. That's the American dream. Opportunity here is real. I love America for that because I couldn't have pulled it off in any other nation. Europe is too engrossed in socialism and the rest of the world's governments are too corrupt. Well, you can achieve the dream in Japan, but I couldn't live in Japan. I need my space.

I am not at all implying not to criticize America. There is plenty to criticize. I'm just sick of the people who all they do is complain about America. These people need to get a life.

Shootin' Political Correctness in the head since May 2005. If you're soft skinned or weak at heart, you might want to try elsewhere.