Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Jamaica
Kenya (none of the tourist packages)
Landed in Heathrow Airport twice
Mexico (tourist trip)
Canada
All across the USI have issues, so I wouldn't really want to move somewhere other than where I live unless it was really really awesome.
Yeah, I probably wouldn't rather live in any of those places either, perhaps Mexico. I most definitely wouldn't want to live in Heathrow airport.
Originally posted by RobtardDon't really know much about Mexico n Argentina.
You need to travel more and/or pull your head out of your ass. Just in the Americas, Argentina and Mexico are levels above (government) corruption than the U.S.
Except that Mexicans apparently steal jobs and Argentineans bombed our islands, so we made them even more impoverished.
Originally posted by lord xyz
Don't really know much about Mexico n Argentina.Except that Mexicans apparently steal jobs and Argentineans bombed our islands, so we made them even more impoverished.
You've proven yourself to be massively geographically ignorant time and time again, you probably ought to just not talk about stuff you have no idea about.
Originally posted by RobtardI never knew that.
They both have overtly corrupt governments.
Originally posted by chillmeistergenWhy did you take that seriously?
You've proven yourself to be massively geographically ignorant time and time again, you probably ought to just not talk about stuff you have no idea about.
Originally posted by lord xyz
The ignorant statement that the US is the most corrupt nation? Doesn't seem so farfetched.You're probably just showing off.
Do you have any idea how corrupt some African nations are? Also a lot of South American countries? Clearly you don't have any idea at all.
Showing off about what?
Originally posted by chillmeistergenWhat must be noted is that the US is at the top of this corruption.
Do you have any idea how corrupt some African nations are? Also a lot of South American countries? Clearly you don't have any idea at all.Showing off about what?
Economic hitmen are sent to countries like the ones in South America and the middle east, and thus, the corruption was rooted in America.
Iran, Iraq, Ecuador and Panama are a few notable ones.
America the country is now a myth. It has ceased to exist over the last 3 decades. It is now a collection of corporations, a merchantilist oligarichy, if you will. The government does only what wall street tells it to do. We go to war to benefit certain economic interests. Americans and foreigners who feel Barak Obama will "change" that will be sadly disappointed. His higher taxes and increased government spending will only shift money and power to different corporations.
Originally posted by chillmeistergen
Saying that most of the population are good is quite a claim. Also, I always wonder when people say there's no where else they'd rather be, have you been anywhere else?
I said I think they are, just as they likely are in any given nation.
But, I have been to other countries. I think you make an excellent point, though. Most Americans have never been anywhere else. Many Americans have never even been across state lines or seen an ocean. When confronted with that point, they usually respond with the line about not wanting to go anywhere else because everywhere else is not America and we all know that means those places are evil, communists, fer'ners, who eat with their fingers, rape babies, elected Hitler, don't deep fry all their food and don't believe in baby Jesus as god. Obviously, their response only solidifies the point.
I think I'd really like to live in Bath. I've only been there twice and it was just for the day both times, but I really love the feel of the place. It feels ancient and modern at the same time.
Originally posted by chillmeistergen
Saying that most the population are good is quite a claim. Also, I always wonder when people say there's no where else they'd rather be, have you been anywhere else?
Yes, I have.
I’ve been to Italy, Spain (sis’s wedding), Portugal with a former girlfriend, the Dominican Republic, numerous times (I’ve also lived there almost a year when I was 10 and 90% of my family’s from there also. Puerto Rico, (grams live there), and Tokyo, Japan (for two semesters) -loved tokyo-
And I’ve personally’ve/physically seen their good and bad parts. The U.S.’s good and bad parts are better, let’s just say. I have noticed that people don’t seem as uptight as they do in the US but the opportunities for success here are unmatched, no matter your lot.
But maybe it’s because I’m an American and they act nice because of it. Or not. Or because apparently I come from a place that some people in the D.R. think has no poor people with cities are paved in gold, lol.
The most inviting country was Japan, I thought. They kinda seemed aloof to me but mostly they don’t mind you being around. They’re very tolerant/humble.. Like you found hardly any confrontational aggression in their dispositions individually and especially in their interactions or verbal confrontations with others and myself.
I thought Spain had the worse hospitality of ‘em all. They’re a very arrogant and snooty people (some are, at least). -The dudes meaning or especially- the ladies from all parts were/are always cool, cooler than the dudes were, at least. But I don’t know if it’s because they’re the mother country and feel they don’t have to equally look at another Hispanic country or it’s people in the same light they do each other, or what. But I found ‘em very sarcastic/condescending, but in a playfully way that still bordered on the offensive..But the chicks there are #1 in the looks dept. followed by PR., imo.
So I’ve been around a little bit. I want to visit egypt one day but I’ll say it again, and as Dorothy would say, “there’s no place like home..”
I’ve had good experiences over seas but I’ve had even better and more memorable ones here @ home in the U.S.
Now, i am a capitalist so i'm going to say that, even with our current and temporary condition, i prefer our economy to that any of other country. As far as our gov't. I believe that ours is indeed the greatest and has the most potential. The politicians are what gets to me. Like in the back of my mind i see us pulling out of the crisis we're in now with ease and in no time. Give our burden to any of the countries i've been to and they'd of sunk down deep and hard, a long time ago.
So U.S.A. all the way, man.
Originally posted by FistOfThe North
The kicker is, is that America's, i think, the planets' youngest nation.
Israel, Pakistan, India, Turkey, almost all of Eastern Europe...
Originally posted by chillmeistergen
Saying that most the population are good is quite a claim. Also, I always wonder when people say there's no where else they'd rather be, have you been anywhere else?
I've been to other countires, and I'd still take the US.
Originally posted by lord xyz
What must be noted is that the US is at the top of this corruption.
More than Mexico? More than Colombia?
Originally posted by Quiero Mota
I've been to other countires, and I'd still take the US.
I'm sure there are plenty of people who would. My point was what Devil King picked up on, how little the majority of the U.S has travelled.
Originally posted by Quiero Mota
More than Mexico? More than Colombia?
More than Sudan, Chad, Democratic Republic Congo, Guinea, Cambodia, Myanmar, Haiti etc.?
I second that, I have been to a few other countries, and can honestly say that I was glad to be back in the USA.
Twice in particular, when I got back from Japan and when I got back from Mexico, I am not talking a Mexican resort either I mean REAL Mexico.
The list of countries that I would not even consider going to is quite long, and yes, Mexico is on that list now.
I believe both of our political parties and our entire government is generally corrupt, however, I will live here before anywhere else on earth including Canada and the U.K.
If at some point more of our constitution were to be ignored/bypassed/re-written, I reserve the option to change my mind.