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Why is it that outsiders try and figure Americans out.....but they never get it right?

Foreigners are obsessed with America, they need to seek help to get over this.

We, Americans, don't give a rats- a$$ about what their opinions of us are. Yet they cannot let go of their obsession.

[Pitiricus]

Quotes from John Adams:

"I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved--the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!"--John Adams in a letter to Thomas Jefferson

"But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legaends, hae been blended with both Jewish and Chiistian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed.--John Adams in a letter to F.A. Van der Kamp, Dec. 27, 1816, _2000_Years_of_Disbelief_, John A. Haught

"The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity." --John Adams

[Modernman]

We, Americans, don't give a rats- a$$ about what their opinions of us are.

That is a very pre 9/11 attitude. What foreigners think of us can lead to the deaths of thousands of Americans.