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Posted: 3/24/2006 9:00:35 PM EDT
[#1]
Because forgeiners are lowly, insignificant, weaklings with deservedly low self esteem and they know that we are smarter, stronger, braver, heartier and just plain better than them. |
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Posted: 3/24/2006 9:02:44 PM EDT
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It's all Alan Greenspans's fault.
 No seriously, fuck what the foreigner's think. We've moved on to the more intelligent life in outer space anyways. 
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Posted: 3/24/2006 9:05:16 PM EDT
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Yes, you are, generally, efficient, and you did, usually buy those resorces fair and square, and yes, you do get shat upon for removing said dictators. All this comes down to point 1:
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Posted: 3/24/2006 9:13:22 PM EDT
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quote] Arrogant is not a good thing, stop showing ignorance........now we have to define that word.... try a synonym: arrogant Part of Speech: adjective Definition: egotistic Synonyms: aloof, assuming, audacious, autocratic, biggety, boastful, bossy, bragging, cavalier, cheeky, cocky, cold shoulder, condescending, conceited, contemptuous, cool, dictatorial, disdainful, domineering, ego trip, egotistic, haughty, high-handed, imperious, insolent, know-it-all, lordly, overbearing, peremptory, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, proud, puffed up, scornful, self-important, smarty, smug, sniffy, snippy, snooty, snotty, stuck up, supercilious, superior, swaggering, uppity, vain This is from someone who was called arrogant in while in the military by a friend, I too thought it was something to be proud of. Took a while to get that under control but ,while still good at what I do, I work at not being arrogant about it. |
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Posted: 3/24/2006 9:19:33 PM EDT
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My wife and I took a tour of Britan, Scotland, Germany, and Prauge for about three weeks. I know what you mean. I would run into some other Americans and I thought that they were rather loud and obnoxious. Then, I realized something......they were all yankees! I was glad I could spread the Southern hospitality and help better the image of my fellow countrymen. 
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Posted: 3/24/2006 9:21:49 PM EDT
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Very likely.  That and "they're" tired of dealing with our shit.  
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Posted: 3/24/2006 9:30:43 PM EDT
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It is not arrogance if you can do it. If we can do it , who should we be apologetic to? |
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Posted: 3/24/2006 9:32:57 PM EDT
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In my travels it is embarassing to see how some of our fellow citizens act.... The thing is they wouldn't dare act that way back home. I sometimes go up to them, chat a bit and the tell them they are making an ass of themselves and would they knock it of. Quietly of course , it like someone turned the light on and they get embrassed , and start acting like normal people again, except for the really stupid drunk backward fool who doesn't think a brown skin person should them him anything, anywhere. Only happen twice that was fun, at least for me.... |
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Posted: 3/24/2006 9:33:56 PM EDT
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It's still arrogance if you can do it. You can be good and humble at the same time, and it helps people recognise your talents alot better. You also have to fight them less. |
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Posted: 3/24/2006 9:38:48 PM EDT
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And it only took us 200 years to fuck up our own country... |
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Posted: 3/24/2006 9:40:24 PM EDT
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No one, but being arrogant is not the way to act. An overbearing pride is never something to rub into other peoples face. You end up being your own worst enemy, self destructive and allienated with no one willing to follow you. If self confidence and self assuance in ones ability is displayed properly you will be a leader and others will follow . Look at some of the Antonyms: humble, modest, self-effacing, unconceited . Nothing wrong with these character traits, hope my children have them and are the best at whatever they do. I don't want arrogant children. |
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Posted: 3/24/2006 9:41:18 PM EDT
[#12]
No child left behind eh? 
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Posted: 3/24/2006 9:46:44 PM EDT
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Pride can be a good quality and a bad quality, depends on how you use it.
pride ( P ) Pronunciation Key (prd) n. A sense of one's own proper dignity or value; self-respect. Pleasure or satisfaction taken in an achievement, possession, or association: parental pride. Arrogant or disdainful conduct or treatment; haughtiness. A cause or source of pleasure or satisfaction; the best of a group or class: These soldiers were their country's pride. The most successful or thriving condition; prime: the pride of youth. An excessively high opinion of oneself; conceit. ETA: another word used to describe a misuse of pride: superbia n : unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: pride] |
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Posted: 3/24/2006 9:53:48 PM EDT
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Because chicks dig us and men fear us.
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Posted: 3/24/2006 10:01:12 PM EDT
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Then along came Reagan and fixed all that.
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Posted: 3/24/2006 10:04:57 PM EDT
[#17]
Yeah!!!! But along came Bill...  
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Posted: 3/24/2006 10:06:09 PM EDT
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In more ways than one... |
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Posted: 3/24/2006 10:09:44 PM EDT
[#19]
Like the English, French and Germans were never
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Posted: 3/24/2006 10:11:01 PM EDT
[#20]
Huh? All I know is that "No CHild Left Behind" is a great way to un-good your country really fast. |
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Posted: 3/24/2006 10:11:57 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/24/2006 10:12:40 PM EDT
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They have but the Liberals are trying their best to cover that up.
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Posted: 3/24/2006 10:14:17 PM EDT
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So because the losers act that way, it's OK for us to act that way???? I hope we are able to rise above what they do!!! |
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Posted: 3/24/2006 10:15:53 PM EDT
[#24]
Kyoto accord!! Blame America 
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Posted: 3/24/2006 10:26:52 PM EDT
[#25]
Ok, I pick cool 
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Posted: 3/24/2006 10:31:29 PM EDT
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That pretty good, I didn't make the list, that is good though. ETA: This could go on forever..... OK good or bad cool? cool ( P ) Pronunciation Key (kl) adj. cool·er, cool·est 1)Marked by calm self-control 2)Marked by indifference, disdain, or dislike; unfriendly or unresponsive |
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Posted: 3/24/2006 10:38:20 PM EDT
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Yeah, that doesn't help. Funny how no one hammers China and India for not signing because they're "developing"  We get hammer 'cause we didn't sign it either 
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Posted: 3/24/2006 10:41:44 PM EDT
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It's the in thing to do?
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Posted: 3/24/2006 10:41:47 PM EDT
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Oh Damn !!!!!! Elegant in it's simplicity yet fucking savage. I applaud you.
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Posted: 3/25/2006 12:04:55 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/25/2006 4:43:03 AM EDT
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I feel that we have risen above what they do/did. Didn't see them (europeans)acting too quickly to put down the recent ethnic cleansing in the Balkans did we???????? Or how about the ethnic cleansing currently going on in Sudan. France is proping up the Sudanese gov't for oil. That is real blood for oil. If the USA was even a fraction as brutal or overbearing as others have been in the past people would really have something to cry about. Now, because they no longer are top dog they point at us. France is currently going through a time where they feel very put upon by much of the world because they arr irrelevant in world affairs. They know they cannot justify their position on the UN Security Council. Look at how Chirac walked out of the EU Economic Summit this week because English was spoken........OHHHHH HOW HUMBLE edited for spelling |
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Posted: 3/25/2006 5:03:23 AM EDT
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Chirac upset over English use
03/24/06 - 03:05 PM BRUSSELS, Mar 24, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- French President Jacques Chirac, reportedly irate over a French industrialist's comment in English, left a gathering of European Union leaders in Brussels. Chirac's symbolic gesture was in response to the French expert switching to English after saying it is "the language of business," reports the EU Observer. The meeting had been called to discuss Europe's economic problems. The report said the comment was made by Ernest-Antoine Seillière, head of the Unice employers organization, who called on the leaders in English to "resist national protectionism in order to avoid a negative domino effect." France already is facing mounting criticism over its protectionist policies and "economic nationalism." Chirac, who returned after Seilliere's speech, has claimed his country is "one of the freest" in Europe. |
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Posted: 3/25/2006 5:07:38 AM EDT
[#33]
Nah, most europeans dont think americans are arrogant, most europeans think the french are arrogant .
I for one certainly appreciate USA's position as a world power. If America would stop projecting its power in the world and instead adopt a policy of political isolation, russian tanks would start rolling over the borders of my country right now, chinese cruise missiles would slam into Taiwan right now etc. etc. |
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Posted: 3/25/2006 5:17:45 AM EDT
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As a non American who has has a lot of contact with Y'all I'd only go so far as to say that "some" Americans are arrogant, but that goes for every nationality on earth...
For the most part the Americans I've met have been regular normal decent folks... The ones who were a**holes would probably been as such no matter where they had been born.
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Posted: 3/25/2006 5:20:16 AM EDT
[#35]
We're not arrogant... we actually ARE better than everyone else. It's a fact.
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Posted: 3/25/2006 5:34:53 AM EDT
[#36]
Amen brother, they act the same way when they visit down south!
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Posted: 3/25/2006 5:36:26 AM EDT
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+1 A vast majority of Americans do think they are better than the rest of the world.
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Posted: 3/25/2006 5:37:25 AM EDT
[#38]
all americans or just us texans?\\
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Posted: 3/25/2006 5:48:59 AM EDT
[#39]
You mean "compromise?" |
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Posted: 3/25/2006 5:50:24 AM EDT
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A dutch friend of mine did the whole route'66 in a car a few years ago. The idea that he got was that most people were very hospitable. What he did find strange was that most people he met actually seldom left their home town and very few had traveled out of their home state, let alone out of the country. As a consequence those people had no idea whats going on outside their home town. Also in the middle states (i think he meant Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, im not sure anymore) the people seemed to be very poor, badly built houses, worn out infrastructure, absolutely nothing to do. It looked like 3rd world there, not as the richest nation on earth.
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Posted: 3/25/2006 6:00:12 AM EDT
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I vote this one,especially the frenchies. FUCK THE FRENCH AMERICA FUCK YEA! |
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Posted: 3/25/2006 6:07:03 AM EDT
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+ 1 billion... Only 20% of Americans have passports and even less actually use them. This goes a long way towards creating the attitude that what yoo do and think is the only correct way. And to the person who said that the Romans, Alexander the Great, etc., were also arrogant; that is incorrect. Before Ceasar or Alexander would go into a country, they went to great lengths to learn and understand the culture and history of the people and DID NOT try to change the lives or beliefs of conquered peoples. Alexander had many historians in his army to teach him and upon conquering a city would very often lower taxes, restore their "ancient ways" and keep the existing govt intact. He would however, leave one of his commanders as governor and a small number of troops to keep order. Unless of course you really pissed him off; then he would kill all the men, sell the women and children intot slavery and burn down the city.... The way you gain peoples respect (and in return, their compliance) is by respecting their culture and beliefs...its just human nature. This is how its happened over thousands of years and it doesnt change just cuz youre the big kid on the block now |
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Posted: 3/25/2006 6:09:42 AM EDT
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i haven't read every reply, i don't have the time, so this may be a dupe reply. We influence the world more than the world influences us. That is also why other countries focus outwards. It is because other countries influence them. We are not affected that way. We focus more on other states. We are far more likely to influence each other than another country is. |
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Posted: 3/25/2006 6:13:53 AM EDT
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+1 Some of it is just foreigners with sour grapes attitude but some Americans actually are arrogant. I've seen Americans complaining because a Buddhist temple doesn't have a McDonald's in it. On a different occasion an American makes a fuss because a Chinese whore house doesn't have a good selection of white girls. That is definitely arrogance by my standards. |
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Posted: 3/25/2006 6:16:26 AM EDT
[#45]
...and also the fact that you have to cross big ass oceans to get to almost all other countries. Americans just dont have the day to day interaction with other cultures that most of the world has |
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Posted: 3/25/2006 6:18:12 AM EDT
[#46]
Thank you Madis.I know that all right thinking peoples the world over will in time join me in my hatred of the french
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Posted: 3/25/2006 7:24:37 AM EDT
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Girlieman, if the Americans you have come in contact with have been mostly "firearms enthusiasts", I fear your population sample might be rather heavily statistically weighted toward the "arrogant" side of the spectrum, with a higher than average "a##hole" standard deviation
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Posted: 3/25/2006 7:43:37 AM EDT
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Fear not.... I have not found that to be the case. There's usually one or two in every crowd, but I'll stand by my completely unscientific and bias laced research Come to think of it... I'd hafta say gun haters (American and otherwise) are more prone to arrogance than are shooters... Y'know, how they look down their nose at ya 'cause you're so uncivilized as to own a gun. |
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Posted: 3/25/2006 7:52:36 AM EDT
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Because we are.....the world sees us as a country that doesn't care about anyone else but us, and for the most part they are correct. What the world sees is actions like Bode Miller, and the girl snowboarder who tried to showboat andd lost a position, they see a country that finances people like Saddam Hussein in the 80's, and then turns around and goes to war against him twice while using WMD as an excuse that many people around the world didn't buy.....
As the most powerful nation in the world, the rest of the world uses us as their police force....and when we start up a military action the rest of the world usually thinks " great, here goes the US of A sticking their nose where it doesn't belong again...." BTW, the day we start to think that we are better than everyone else is the first day of our decline..... |
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Posted: 3/25/2006 8:11:24 AM EDT
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The Euros wrote the book on being arrogant! America is the "upstart" newcomer according to the euros. They THINK we have no right to be arrogant, yet it's OK for them to be? They have looked down on us from the start. Who do they ALWAYS call for help? AMERICA, thats who. Do we hesitate, NO. Do they, fuck yes! We are not the most arrogant nation on this planet. |
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