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#172
10-22-2007, 09:56 AM
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Re: How do Americans view Europeans?
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The EU is what the US was 200 years ago, but the EU will get to where the US is now a lot faster, since they don't have the individualist spirit that the US had for its first 100 years and still has lingering. 50-100 years. [/ QUOTE ] So as an individualist, why should it matter much to me if I'm part of a state with 15 million inhabitants one with 200 million? Your reasoning is not making sense to me. 
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#173
10-22-2007, 10:34 AM
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Re: How do Americans view Europeans?
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Or that people in Europe value time with their friends/family/doing stuff they want to do, and also that money is not as highly valued as it is in American culture. Where the hell in Europe are people paying 60% tax? [/ QUOTE ] Scandinavia
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#174
10-22-2007, 10:42 AM
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forced down our throats? why dont you look up some productivity/hours/gnp/vacation stats, and let me know if its "propaganda" [/ QUOTE ] Economics stats and whether a people are lazy are not the same thing. There're laws in place in some European countries that restrict how much you are allowed to work. That was voted for by their people. You could say that they voted that way because they are lazy, or you could say that they voted that way because they do not want to spend all of their lives at work. Of course, if your definition of lazy is "does not want to work all day", then I don't argue with you, except to say that I think lazy is a good thing by that definition. I don't have numbers at hand to back this up, but I am pretty sure that Europeans are increasing their productivity each year faster than Americans are, despite these laws.
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#175
10-22-2007, 10:44 AM
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Re: How do Americans view Europeans?
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As for political system, here it makes more sense to think your own country is superior (or inferior for that matter). Everyone else in the world thinks their own system is superior too [/ QUOTE ] I like this line of thought. I'd also say cultural system. The thing is that most people think this because they were brought up to think so. The people that don't think it, move. That's particularly easy in Europe too, with free movement of labour within the EU.
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#176
10-22-2007, 10:46 AM
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Re: How do Americans view Europeans?
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English - Ugly, pale, smart French - Stinky, suck, gay Spanish - Woman stealers, gay Italians - meatballs, lazy, like pasta Greeks - Tan, stinky and sweaty, eat gyros Germans - Nazis, like pain and science Polish - LOL Scandinavians - Girls blond/hot, like cheese and clocks Swiss - Robert Federer, again like clocks and chocolate Dutch - like windmills and tulips, cheese [/ QUOTE ] awesome.
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#177
10-22-2007, 10:49 AM
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Re: How do Americans view Europeans?
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Ive noticed this too. I have never even met a Norwegian, but the ones that post on this board seem to be all mainly self-serving, self-righteous, pieces of [censored], who's values and viewpoints are that of 6 year old children being spoonfed by a bunch of commies. Why is that? Norway seems like a cool country, but for christs sake, we have a lot of morons from there posting here. penis envy? [/ QUOTE ] If we changed the word "Norwegian" to "OOT Poster", you have to start thinking of exceptions rather than disagree with the statement, don't you?
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#178
10-22-2007, 10:53 AM
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Re: How do Americans view Europeans?
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We live in the same union... just like Europeans live in the same union... [/ QUOTE ] The EU is a LOT different from the USA. It is nothing like the same kind of union.
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#179
10-22-2007, 11:27 AM
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Re: How do Americans view Europeans?
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I don't have numbers at hand to back this up, but I am pretty sure that Europeans are increasing their productivity each year faster than Americans are, despite these laws. [/ QUOTE ] That's not true. http://bigpicture.typepad.com/commen...uropean_p.html Of course, that only matters if you find productivity rates to be of particular importance (they're not).
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#180
10-22-2007, 11:35 AM
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Re: How do Americans view Europeans?
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] And I'll add one more time to the sentiment that the States really are different and separate, more so than it may appear from the outside. [/ QUOTE ] I don't think anyone is disputing this, but comparing it to European countries is pretty ridiculous imo [/ QUOTE ] Given the increasing authority of the EU government, I don't think it is so ridiculous. [/ QUOTE ] Then you need to re-evaluate what you think the EU is.
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