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10-21-2007, 05:16 PM
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Re: How do Americans view Europeans?
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It's gonna be a rude awakening for our generation and the next generation when the smarter countries take over all our jobs and we are getting paid next to nothing relatively speaking. [/ QUOTE ] While the US are recruiting the best and brightest from other countries (like India)(the Mexican immigration is the exception), European countries are mostly getting uneducated people from Africa and the Middle East that only occupies the lower scale of jobs in Norway, and are heavily over-represented in regards of crime, unemployment and % that receives welfare. The American jobs that are exported to foreign countries are often low-paying jobs in call-centers and such. The engineers and doctors comes to the US and contribute to the growth of the American economy and society, and a lot of the top research facilities are still located in the US. 
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#2
10-21-2007, 04:48 PM
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Re: How do Americans view Europeans?
I generally like Europeans. They seem to "get it" about the important stuff, like family and vacations and work/life balance. It's tough to generalize because of all the different countries but that's my overall sense.
I understand that you may be interested in the thoughts of Americans on this matter but I don't think you're going to get much out of it. Most Americans think about very little beyond food and tv. Plus, Americans are all so different. I'm a northern liberal. I like hockey and Democrats, I live in an urban apartment, shop at a natural foods co-op and so forth. I drive a German car. I have way, way more in common with your average European (at least, in the Western European countries) than I do with a huge numbers of Americans (maybe even most). For instance, people in the South. I have nothing in common with them. Nothing. Their accents are ridiculous, they're politically retarted and their insanely consumeristic and narrow minded. I guess the thing I like best about Europeans is that they don't have huge political blocs in their country that are trying to roll them back to the 19th century.
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10-21-2007, 04:53 PM
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Re: How do Americans view Europeans?
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I generally like Europeans. They seem to "get it" about the important stuff, like family and vacations and work/life balance. It's tough to generalize because of all the different countries but that's my overall sense. I understand that you may be interested in the thoughts of Americans on this matter but I don't think you're going to get much out of it. Most Americans think about very little beyond food and tv. Plus, Americans are all so different. I'm a northern liberal. I like hockey and Democrats, I live in an urban apartment, shop at a natural foods co-op and so forth. I drive a German car. I have way, way more in common with your average European (at least, in the Western European countries) than I do with a huge numbers of Americans (maybe even most). For instance, people in the South. I have nothing in common with them. Nothing. Their accents are ridiculous, they're politically retarted and their insanely consumeristic and narrow minded. I guess the thing I like best about Europeans is that they don't have huge political blocs in their country that are trying to roll them back to the 19th century. [/ QUOTE ] This is (hopefully), one of the best satirical posts on the internets.
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#4
10-21-2007, 04:59 PM
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Re: How do Americans view Europeans?
who?
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#5
10-21-2007, 05:09 PM
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Re: How do Americans view Europeans?
A couple hundred years ago Europeans had a choice.
They could get off their asses and move to a place where with a little bit of work they could vastly improve their lives and the future prospects of their children. or They could just stick it out at home and muck out a miserable living. Today those of us who descend from the hard working people are asked how we view the descendants of the lazy people of Europe. Isn't it obvious?
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10-21-2007, 05:13 PM
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Re: How do Americans view Europeans?
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A couple hundred years ago Europeans had a choice. They could get off their asses and move to a place where with a little bit of work they could vastly improve their lives and the future prospects of their children. or They could just stick it out at home and muck out a miserable living. Today those of us who descend from the hard working people are asked how we view the descendants of the lazy people of Europe. Isn't it obvious? [/ QUOTE ] Wow, if this is serious it is the most retarded post of the lot here by far. Yeah, I guess since America was founded all of Europe has just sat on its ass and done bugger all...
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#7
10-21-2007, 05:40 PM
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Re: How do Americans view Europeans?
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A couple hundred years ago Europeans had a choice. They could get off their asses and move to a place where with a little bit of work they could vastly improve their lives and the future prospects of their children. or They could just stick it out at home and muck out a miserable living. Today those of us who descend from the hard working people are asked how we view the descendants of the lazy people of Europe. Isn't it obvious? [/ QUOTE ] Wow this is so crazy.
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#8
10-21-2007, 05:41 PM
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Re: How do Americans view Europeans?
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[ QUOTE ] I generally like Europeans. They seem to "get it" about the important stuff, like family and vacations and work/life balance. It's tough to generalize because of all the different countries but that's my overall sense. I understand that you may be interested in the thoughts of Americans on this matter but I don't think you're going to get much out of it. Most Americans think about very little beyond food and tv. Plus, Americans are all so different. I'm a northern liberal. I like hockey and Democrats, I live in an urban apartment, shop at a natural foods co-op and so forth. I drive a German car. I have way, way more in common with your average European (at least, in the Western European countries) than I do with a huge numbers of Americans (maybe even most). For instance, people in the South. I have nothing in common with them. Nothing. Their accents are ridiculous, they're politically retarted and their insanely consumeristic and narrow minded. I guess the thing I like best about Europeans is that they don't have huge political blocs in their country that are trying to roll them back to the 19th century. [/ QUOTE ] This is (hopefully), one of the best satirical posts on the internets. [/ QUOTE ] I was thinking the same myself.
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#9
10-21-2007, 05:43 PM
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Re: How do Americans view Europeans?
This thread is dangerously close to being too retarded for anything but lolcats. Don't make me do it.
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#10
10-21-2007, 08:28 PM
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Re: How do Americans view Europeans?
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I generally like Europeans. They seem to "get it" about the important stuff, like family and vacations and work/life balance. It's tough to generalize because of all the different countries but that's my overall sense. I understand that you may be interested in the thoughts of Americans on this matter but I don't think you're going to get much out of it. Most Americans think about very little beyond food and tv. Plus, Americans are all so different. I'm a northern liberal. I like hockey and Democrats, I live in an urban apartment, shop at a natural foods co-op and so forth. I drive a German car. I have way, way more in common with your average European (at least, in the Western European countries) than I do with a huge numbers of Americans (maybe even most). For instance, people in the South. I have nothing in common with them. Nothing. Their accents are ridiculous, they're politically retarted and their insanely consumeristic and narrow minded. I guess the thing I like best about Europeans is that they don't have huge political blocs in their country that are trying to roll them back to the 19th century. [/ QUOTE ] This is (hopefully), one of the best satirical posts on the internets. [/ QUOTE ] I was thinking the same myself. [/ QUOTE ] That post crushed it. When i hear about bible belt, god fearing, ignorant, highly conservative Americans i just can't believe they get a vote in my country. Nothern/liberal America vs Southern/conservative America is likely as different as any two European countries. I like learning about new cultures and seeing new countries, a lot of these people might never leave the country their whole life. Unfortunately our geography tends to force a cultural ignorance upon us. Canada above us is a very similar country, and Mexico below us is only visited when people want to get drunk on a resort. Most others are an ocean away. I'm not saying that makes it OK for so many of us to be so clueless, but at least there's a reason.
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