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1. Entertainment The movies the world watches, the television shows they tune into, and the music they listen to are, for the most part, produced in the United States. For instance, the U.S. exports more than 25 times the number of movies and television shows than it consumes from abroad, a fact that causes Ben Wattenberg to observe quite correctly that America is "the most culturally potent nation in the world." Even the virulent America-hater Saddam Hussein reportedly spends a good portion of his time watching American-made movies such as The Godfather and Enemy of the State.

2. Immigration During the hundred years ending in the 1920s, a majority of the world's immigrants came to one lone country: the United States. Today, the U.S. takes in more immigrants than at any point in its history. Yet, the Left portrays America as a bastion of xenophobia and bigotry. Alexander Hamilton (the first Secretary of the Treasury), John Jacob Astor (America's first multimillionaire), Alexander Graham Bell (invented the telephone), Louis B. Mayer (Hollywood pioneer), Selman Waksman (cured tuberculosis), and Ralph Baer (invented the video game) are among the immigrants to America whose lives belie the Left's premise. Just as those who complain about "oppression" in the U.S. would never entertain the idea of living anywhere else, the people around the world we allegedly oppress flock to come here. This contradiction between leftist theory and real-world practice illustrates just how delusional the central tenets of leftist thought really are.

3. Technology Nothing disproves the Leftist mantra that "all cultures are equal" more than technology does. Americans have given the world motion pictures, the telephone, the television, the computer, the Internet, the airplane, the VCR, and a host of other machines and devices that have vastly improved the quality of life on the planet. Ironically, the terrorists who hate the U.S. give America a tacit endorsement every time they turn on a light, escape the heat through air conditioning, monitor their exploits on television or the internet, or communicate via telephone.

4. Creating Wealth America is the sun around which the world economy revolves. The typical creator of wealth in the world is an American. Foreigners benefit from buying better products from American companies and working better jobs manufacturing such products. Take America's $9 trillion dollar economy out of the picture, and the economic well being of the rest of the world nose-dives.

5. Generosity With great wealth comes great generosity. In 2000, Americans gave more than $200 billion in charity, dwarfing the amount donated elsewhere. Since World War II, the U.S. government has given well in excess of $500 billion (not adjusted for inflation) in foreign aid. Last year, our government distributed more than $20 billion to 130 countries. While American taxpayers have a right to gripe, what are we to make of foreign beneficiaries who return our favor by burning U.S. flags and chanting "death to America"?

6. Human Achievement Americans have stretched the bounds of the possible. The first transatlantic flight, putting a man on the moon, breaking the speed of sound, constructing the Hoover Dam, and building the Panama Canal serve as testimony to American courage and ingenuity. It wasn't Danes or Bolivians or Iranians or Koreans who achieved these feats. It was Americans. This is significant.

7. Enlightened Power The Soviet Empire ruled over Eastern Europe. The Ottoman Empire claimed dominion over vast stretches of the Islamic world. The Empire of the Sun sought dominion over the Orient. The American Empire rules...only Americans. America is an historical curiosity. It is the most powerful country in the world, yet it eschews imperialism. Instead, it has used its military might to liberate. Nazi Germany, North Korea, Soviet Russia, Hussein's Iraq, and Communist Vietnam are among the nefarious states we sought to prevent from increasing their totalitarian control over others. The world is a better place because America, and not some other country, is the sole superpower.

8. Medicine Will Nigerian doctors make the blind see? Will Cambodians cure AIDS? Will Pakistanis eradicate cancer? The answer is probably not. Why? The reason is that non-Westerners have had no discernable impact on modern medicine. This year, like 45 of the last 60, an American won a share of the Nobel Prize in the field of medicine. Americans cured polio and tuberculosis, developed vaccines for hepatitis B and yellow fever, pioneered modern chemotherapy, and produced the CAT scan and MRI. What's there to hate about that?

9. Democracy Leftists harp that American democracy is tainted because not everyone possessed the right to vote at the Founding. Denial of the vote in the 18th century, however, was universal. What made America unique was not that some people could not vote, but that anybody could. More than 215 years after the Constitutional Convention, most people on the planet still do not have a right to vote. Every Arab country, more than three-fourths of African nations, and many of the most populous nations in the Orient still deny their citizens the right to choose their own leaders. Despite the continued rejection by many foreign leaders, the ideals of the American Founding became contagious. Our example served to topple regimes far from our shores. Pro-democracy activists don't quote the founding documents of Saudi Arabia or appropriate the cultural symbols of China. They cite passages from the Declaration of Independence and hoist replicas of the Statue of Liberty.

10. Freedom America has shined as a beacon of freedom in an unfree world for more than two centuries. To this day, for instance, most people living outside our borders reside in countries where the private practice of broadcast journalism is illegal and where the state is the dominant banker. Americans can say anything they want, worship any god they choose, and associate with any motley crew around. Our legacy is not slave chains, Wounded Knee, and the murder of James Byrd, but American GIs liberating a Nazi death camp, an immigrant's first glance of lady liberty's torch, and Ronald Reagan exhorting the Soviet's to tear down the Berlin Wall. If nothing else, America means freedom.

(Side note, you cannot count down with numbering and can't go higher than 10(or just my 10 got pushed over all weirdlike))

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No comment ^^ xD

I can honestly say that is the best chuckle I've gotten reading this forums in a while, nice one jans ^_^

By the way, since the latest "national defense authorisation act" passed the senate without almost any uproar, you can scratch point 0. The US government can now arrest and detain US citizens indefinitely without charge or trial, leaving the constitution more useful as 1 ply toilet paper.

i dont understand one thing.

People protest on Wall street, they get arrested and kicked out of the street. And its ok.

People protest in Moscow, they get arrested and kicked out of the street. And its not ok.

how does that work tbh. Having war in Iraq and Afganistan cause Bin Laden was presumably there, while being ally with Pakistan, the country where Bin Laden actually was? Or attacking Libya for some democratic higher good, while conveniently turning away from shit that happens in Bahrain.

Its all about money. Its not even about America anymore. Or any other country. Its about certain companies, and certain people, and most definitely, about money. Now, you might think that America is important. But to people who really hold the power...its not.

cough Internet Censorship cough

Interesting point Jans, the National Defense Authorization Act does have some language that is indeed alarming. However, you seem to fail to realize that if a law is passed in my country it doesn't mean it is enforced that way or if it will even stand up in court. You fail to realize that there is such a thing as Judicial Review.

Anyway, I think it has only passed the Senate. Still has to go through the House and then signed by the President.

P.S Still hate america.

If i understood things right, Obama does intend to veto it. Though not because it's outrageous a government can lawfully lock up its own people, but because it's not good enough. Under this act, captives would still be considered POW's and those are subject to things like the Geneva convention. Can't have that.

You can try and trivialize it all you want, fact is your government can, when it feels like it, lock you up indefinitely without any charge, or declare you a threat and assassinate you, a US citizen. Legally. If that's not pure and utter fascism, i dont know what is.

But hey, don't let me rain on your parade. Here's some music :)

You can try and trivialize it all you want, fact is your government can, when it feels like it, lock you up indefinitely without any charge, or declare you a threat and assassinate you, a US citizen. Legally. If that's not pure and utter fascism, i dont know what is.

I knew this already and I don't have a problem with it, if it ever gets abused I have faith in my Judicial system to fix the problem.

Ever heard of Executive Order 9066 signed by Roosevelt?

The whole assassinate thing, where are you getting that from?

When it comes to assassination, you gotta realize you're talking to easy, assassinater2 (sp?)

Fuck that joke sucked, I'm going back to my shell.

LOL

If they really think Australia is Iran or France, :):)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp4iI59BfpQ

WISH I WAS BACK IN CHINA

Top Five Reasons Why I Love My Country and Would Never Want To Move Anywhere Else

1. It's warm, and I love it.

2. One of the last bastions of moral conservatism in law (I reluctantly have to thank the Catholic Church's influence for being partly responsible for this) in a world where morals are have become relative and "tolerance" has come to mean "tolerate anything," and standing up for what is right gets you branded as a bigot. Here, try to pass a law that, would, say for example, pave the way for legalization of gay marriage, and people give you hell. Still has large areas that contain communities uncontaminated by the moral decay that people accept as a part of progress. Great place to raise a family.

3. Rainforests, hundreds of square miles of virgin untouched Mother Nature. Also, never more than a few hours drive away from the ocean.

4. Population has, in practice, a basically homogenized ethnicity, or appears so due to the lack of racism (generally). The average Filipino has a little bit of a lot of races in their blood. (300 years of colonial rule have made us the bastards of the world) Some people look predominantly Malay or predominantly Chinese, predominantly Spanish, or American (WWII bastards' descendants), but other than preference for specific features (example, finding Chinese eyes or brown skin attractive) people don't care and don't discriminate.

5. Muslims and Christians live together in peace, no extremists, except for small bands of organized criminals + jihadists, who are based on a tiny island in the south and pose little threat other then them being used an excuse for US forces to be present on our soil and help thwart this "terrorist organization," who's roots by the way, were (surprise!) CIA trained operatives used in a proxy war in Afghanistan in the 80s.

6. (bonus) It's my homeland. I love it and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

I didn't know that being "american" was your own race now. I like the sound of that.

Not really, but Filipino-Spanish mestizos and Fil-Am halfbreeds look different, hence them being different items on my list, which was about physical appearance. =P

Well, natural 'americans' are native americans which are not fair skinned people. Also, there is 6 items in your 5 item list.

bonuses don't count towards the item count.

I love my country because it invented poutine. God bless those Anglo-French.

And on the subject of America, all I gotta say is:

I am happy to be a part of the assimilation process currently being worked out. I, as a Canadian will one day bow to my American masters and be stripped of all my rights as a Canadian and I'm cool with that.

PS: Please call in Rambo, I have a red dot on forehead.

PS: Please call in Rambo, I have a red dot on forehead.

Why would Rambo care you're a hindu??

I 2nd that question.

Red dot as in a sniper rifle scope red dot.

But you already knew that.

So HERP DERP YOU GUYS< HERP DERP.

Real snipers don't give themselves away like that.

Oh come on, are you telling me, in all honesty, that when someone says "American" you are thinking more on the lines of Hiawatha and not a a white person?

Nah, I'm just being politically correct :)

May your Gods bless you for that then. :)

thanks! :)

Hehe

Zal I want to punch you in the face for your comment....Where in hill billie land do you live again?

haha, silly canadians. :)

Leave Zal alone! He's the only canadian i like.