fox099 wrote:I do not know where alot of this notion comes from, but my experience in dealing with foreigners is the exact opposite. As an engineer, foreign engineers flock to this nation because we have the best and the brightest.
Nope. Engineers go to the US because of job opportunities not because the US has the best minds.
I feel that alot of this stems from our own fellow Americans. My girlfriend, who is extremely liberal, says the rest of the world does everything better. She claims the French have better healthcare, the English better schools, the Dutch better political policies, but she sees only one thing at a time.
Good thought as you would not want to sacrifice healthcare for a better education, you want both.
We Americans really do have the best of everything. We can keep 300 million people health versus Frances 50 million
This is not a reasonable argument. First of all the size of the population doesn't matter since you recollect more taxes. In fact given the economies of scale the US should have even better healthcare than France. However the life expectancy in France is way higher than in the US and it covers far more medical expenses than the US' healthcare system. The same applies to your following points too:
We provide education for 100 million young people versus Englands 20 million.
We watch over 100x more space and keep it all in check to Hollands.
I am amused when the French say they should be the model of the world when their own people are rioting, when they do not provide equal civil liberties for their citizens, when every week I read the number of cars burned in Paris in protest.
First of all you are late and misinformed. The Paris riots were four years ago so I doubt that you read about it every week. Secondly, they provide equal civil liberties for their citizens, better check their law because you are wrong. France is a democractic country and, as the rest of all the European Union, assures the equality of all citizens.
You can check the causes of the riots here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Riots#Triggering_eventAmerica, we are the envy of the world, the only major power to have our infrastructure undamaged from the ravages of the second world war, and we are the leaders of the world. The weak will attempt to drag you to their level but we must help them come to ours.
Lol, God bless America. This way of speaking is not exactly friendly and is a pure stereotipe in itself, the stereotipe the rest of the world has of Americans. First of all the "weak" you speak about are not weak at all and, most importantly, are US' allies , second the WWII was 60 years ago, by the same reasoning Spain used to rule all the world.
And more importantly, what do you want to prove with this? This is not an argument as far as I can see. It's a statement of dubius truth.
@Ack
Spanish films sucks. The reason is that they make movies as fast as posible without any regard of quality because the goverment covers all the expenses via subsidies. Never wondered why Uwe Boll keeps making movies when they don't sell? It's the same thing. Nobody watches them around here and the only reason they get "good" reviews is because the filmakers are the same people who review the films and because the TV channels are forced to waste their money in Spanish Cinema so they try to at least recover a bit of it.
It's not that I don't like the films. They are poorly made. Bad camera angles, crappy effects, fart-based humor, horrid actors, plots based in "controversial issues" that are no controversial at all or the civil war. I could go on for hours. This is not to say there are no good spanish movies but all directors have moved to the crappy film craze so you will not hear about them in a long time.
Literature is good on the other hand so I recommend it.
And about Spaniards as Mexicans I can assure you we laughed our ass of with RE4. That was funny if a bit bizarre. For me as long as Spain isn't depicted as a mud-filled hole it's fine, just misinformed.
