Ugly Americans: The United States in the Eyes of Europe

Crisis Magazine ^ | February 3, 2005 | Dwight Longenecker

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Do you believe in God?

[scorpion43]

What the Europeans and especially the British won't admit is that they let Hitler build up his forces after Neville Chamberlain got a piece of paper signed by Hitler declaring "Peace in our time" They could have stopped him then.What they also won't admit is that even if the US came in at the end Britain would have been taken by Hitler. If it had not been for the lend/lease program Britain would have gone down sooner.

[God luvs America]

I find it laughable that the ignorant from Ol Europe consider us "intolerant"...they writer points out the Van Geough situation in the Netherlands but how about the french parliament banning head scarves being worn by muslim girls in school??

Let's look at it this way- how many eurpoeans immigrate to America annually both legally and illegally??? Reverse that- how many American's are on line trying to emigrate to Brussles, Lyon or Birmingham, England?

No wonder the libs and old Europe are joined at the hip- misery always loves company!!

[scorpion43]

The Europeans also don't want to admit that if it were not for the US keeping the Soviets at bay during the cold war Europe would have been taken over by the Soviets and they would have begged the US to save them once again. This would have been World War III. Only this time it would have been even worse because the Soviets and China both have nuclear weapons. They are naive if they think the Soviets didn't take over because they feared Europe. They didn't take over because they feared the United States.

[Luke21]

Beautiful. Especially the closing lines: "statistics confirm that the future belongs to the believers. Fitting, as believers are the only ones who believe in the future."
Wonderful post pointing out the differences between us and the lost European continent, and also giving us more insight into the mindset of our Democrat neighbors.

[Brian Allen]

<< But I am the first person to stand up and say America is our greatest ally for the last 60 years. I will not forget that.

Kiss me. >>

Don't let him kiss you yet -- he hasn't bent the knee and bowed the head to 1916!

Make him say "the last 90 years!"

Or so!

[Chode]

with a few Fellow Freeper Quotes thrown in, here's my take on the EuroTrash

Europe is still jealous of America because all their Smarter, More Productive and Adventurous citizens left HUNDREDS of years ago(and have KEPT ON COMING for the last 385 years) for a BETTER life in America and left them the dregs of Europe better known as the “Euro-Royals”, the lazy, the ignorant and the socialists/unionists.

America is the model of success that Europe will never be… it's jealousy, pure and simple.

I won’t raise my nose while stooping to their level, but… I have met MANY EuroTrash whom I would be kind in just calling "ugly". Smelly, Pompous, Arrogant, Big-Mouthed Nancy-Girl Silly Twit Jerks only starts to cover it.

Not all of course… but enough that I have come to the same conclusions they have.
Except of course… I’M RIGHT!!!

All this blah blah blah coming from the EuroTrash who no matter where they come from, their only points of note are that they just happen to live in a place that has had the same name for the last thousand years(vs our 250 years) they all speak ONE Language and could care less about the rest of the EU, are ALL the same Race and could care less about the rest of the EU, are ALL the same Color and ALL the same Religion and could ALL care less about the rest of the EU… let alone care about what happens to the USA.

Just exactly how hard can it possibly be to live in a country with THAT much homogeneity since they killed off all the Jews, Gypsies / Other Foreigners and Un-Desirables sixty years ago???
I mean, what kind of problems can they possibly have??? (other than political)
No: Bigotry, Racism, Religious Hatred, Cultural Hatred, Inter-Racial Families, White Flight, Racial Ghetto’s/Slums-Minority Drug/Murder/Illegitimate Children , Job / Housing Discrimination, let alone having to spending BILLIONS every year to print things in TWENTY different languages for everything from DRIVERS LICENSES to VOTING REGISTRATION/BALLOTS???????

And with all our problems… WE STILL KICK THEIR ASS IN EVERY ARENA!!!

It’s only when you put that collection of psychotic nut ball countries together as the EU do they have to deal with any of the conflicts that we have here in the USA.

But they think they know how to run the world, even though we’ve had to save it for them/from them… TWICE!!!
Listening to the EuroTrash tell us how to run the world is like letting somebody who could only manage to find a job working for the government tell you how to run your life… or like it was said about listening to that fat tub of guts U-Boat Commander, teddy kennedy, spewing his treasonous bilge, was that he is the “Political equivalent of Graffiti!!!” And there it is…

There isn’t a day that goes by any more that I don’t thank my ancestors for their leaving Europe in wake on Mar 22 1630 and setting sail for a three month cruise on the Arbella to land in the new world on June 14 1630 and having never looked back.

But then again… that’s just me.

[Clemenza]

Brits are still considerably farther to the left than Americans on average. That doesn't mean that inhabitants of the UK are bad people (outside of London at least!), just that their politics and cultural worldview are different.

[Clemenza]

Rudest Tourists in the states: 1. The French (and their cousins from Quebec), 2. The Germans, 3. The rich folks from various Latin American countries (Brazil and Venezuela come to mind), 4. the Japanese and 5. Scandanavians.

The English and Scottish tourists that I have encountered are mostly OK people. I try not to bring up politics, however.

[SuziQ]

Yadda, yadda, yadda...

[Clemenza]

I enjoyed Bavaria, although I find southern Germans to be a little tight a-sed with a hatred of loud New Yorkers.

In other words, they are little different in that regard than the folks who left Germany to settle Ohio, Iowa, Illinois, etc.

Northern Germany, of course, is filled with amoral perverts, much like San Francisco and Seattle here. East Germany is filled with welfare cases and druggies, much like Detroit here.

[NYer]

Most of the French people found around Notre Dame are there trying to steal the wallets of American tourists. It happens a lot.

I thought they were gypsies.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Salvation]

Mother of God, have mercy on us!

[NYer]

No french woman wanted to be with a frenchman anylonger, they wanted to be with an American GI.

I have met several of French women over the years who returned as warbrides of American GI's. That generation was truly remarkable.

[Selene]

November 05, 2004 "Thou Shalt Not Kill" = racist In the Netherlands, artist Chris Ripke reacted to the murder on Theo Van Gogh by an islamic fundamentalist by painting a mural with the text "Gij zult niet doden" ("Thou Shalt Not Kill"), one of the ten commandments of the Christian religion.

But because the head of the nearby mosque complained to the police that this was 'offensive' and 'racist', the cops came and sent in city workers to sandblast the mural.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Ugly is in the eye of the beholder-does an American's perception of europe count? I spent almost three years in France in the mid sixties, and I can tell you for a fact that they are mud fence ugly individuals who refrain from bathing with all the zeal of our hippies of yore. They are not only ugly, but they stink! Their arm pits stink, their breath stinks, their cities and tiny villages stink-their attitudes stink. Their cultural progress ended where our culture began-somewhere in the early eighteen hundreds.

The French are only the tip of the ice berg of asinity. The bulk of this civilization threatening berg, is out of sight, just below the surface of the sewer, recently re-named, European Union. Ugly is as ugly does.

[Michael81Dus]

Ok, so either I am or I am surrounded by amoral perverts. Cool & thanks. ;-D

You forgot the West, how can you insult the Western part?? ;)

[26lemoncharlie]

I think it's quite obvious why our ancestors left the LOWER END OF THE GENE POOL!

[Michael81Dus]

Uh, ok, so you are belong to the upper part of the gene pool? What´s that? And how comes then that y´all aren´t Einsteins, but just... err Chief Petty officers??

(no pun against the Navy, I would have filled the blanket with your former job no matter what it was)