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#31
11-21-2007, 03:39 AM
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Re: What are you proud of as an American?
Toronto Blue Jays was/is an American team?
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#32
11-21-2007, 04:34 AM
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Re: What are you proud of as an American?
Good post. It's interesting to see what Americans are proud of.
I find it a bit amusing how many people mention American sports, such as "football" (the ball is primarily thrown, not kicked) and baseball (arguably the slowest and least entertaining sport to watch of all time). Sorry, I just had to get that out. I'm all for democracy, though.
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#33
11-21-2007, 04:49 AM
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Re: What are you proud of as an American?
As a norwegian I'm proud of that we lead the human development index, which measure personal freedoms. If I was an american I would be proud of the spirit of doing and the gung-ho attitude of making things happen. Maybe a hard thing to see when you live there, but from a bystander perspective it is quite the trait.
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#34
11-21-2007, 04:58 AM
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Re: What are you proud of as an American?
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As a norwegian I'm proud of that we lead the human development index, which measure personal freedoms. [/ QUOTE ] HDI measures life expectancy at birth, education/lieracy and GDP per capita. You can argue that these things are crucial for personal freedom, but the index itself does not measure personal freedoms.
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#35
11-21-2007, 05:12 AM
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Re: What are you proud of as an American?
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HDI measures life expectancy at birth, education/lieracy and GDP per capita. You can argue that these things are crucial for personal freedom, but the index itself does not measure personal freedoms. [/ QUOTE ] Yeah sorry, I meant the human development report. The index only takes out those 3 numbers.
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#36
11-21-2007, 06:19 AM
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Re: What are you proud of as an American?
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] We owned the world at football! [/ QUOTE ] [/ QUOTE ] In before some European tries to redefine "football" as a game where you kick a ball with your foot [/ QUOTE ] FYP. Oh and we defined it first.
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#37
11-21-2007, 06:29 AM
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Re: What are you proud of as an American?
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] We owned the world at football! [/ QUOTE ] [/ QUOTE ] In before some European tries to redefine "football" as a game where you kick a ball with your foot [/ QUOTE ] FYP. Oh and we defined it first. [/ QUOTE ] Please describe the event occuring in this photo:  [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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#38
11-21-2007, 06:30 AM
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Re: What are you proud of as an American?
Why would you take pride in something that you didn't work for? Woo my parents [censored] on this side of an arbitary line I swell with pride!
I take pride in the stuff I've achieved not made up stories.
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#39
11-21-2007, 07:22 AM
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Re: What are you proud of as an American?
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Proud that we were, at one point, the closest approximation of a free society that has every existed in the modern world (on a large scale anyway). [/ QUOTE ] When was that?
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#40
11-21-2007, 07:26 AM
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Re: What are you proud of as an American?
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I'm proud of teh interwebs [/ QUOTE ] Invented by an englishman I'm afraid... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee went to my college btw as well...
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