Get a grip. You ever heard of a thing called "rhetoric"?
I would never disrespect every person in any one country, and in my post I certainly wasn't referring to all New Zealanders any more than I was referring to every citizen in old Europe. My disgust is aimed strictly had the loudmouth socialist malcontents who holler and spit and blubber on about America.
Yeah, I realize that's not everybody.
> My disgust is aimed strictly had the loudmouth socialist malcontents who holler and spit and blubber on about America.
Fair enough. I share your sentiments and can see precisely where you are coming from.
I have a healthy distaste for anyone who hollers and spits and blubbers about America, too. And I care not from whence they originate: show me one nation -- just one -- that gives as selflessly to the rest of Humanity as the Americans do.
I love America, almost as much as I love my own Country, New Zealand: as an immigrant I am here by choice. So, naturally, when people climb into New Zealand unfairly I get feeling, well, protective and maybe a bit riled, too... after all, America doesn't own the patent on Patriotism.
Gordon Sinclair gave a superb radio editorial many years ago, in 1973, called simply "The Americans". I was a kid back then, growing up in Vancouver BC, but I remember it as if it were yesterday: it had *that* kind of lasting impact in Canada back then. You'll find it here:
http://www.phillytalkradioonline.com/comment/usa.html
In a nutshell, it describes my sentiments exactly.
Kind regards
*DieHard*