For all the Yanks :P

[SmokeyPotter]

live by your sig schmokey

What do you mean? It's really not something that you can live by

I just think it applies perfectly in America these days. For example citizens that actually support things like "The Patriot Act" ...come on, you've got to be kidding me. My rights are all I have... no one can take that away from me.

[notanovice]

you are giving up liberty for temporary security by moving to denmark.

[00Ampersand]

I understand you smokey ...nice pic, btw :P

you are giving up liberty for temporary security by moving to denmark.

How exactly? If he wants to live there, then so be it. It's not like Denmark's a prison-country lol...denmark has just as much liberty as the US, if not more so
~007~

[sawleaf]

Oh I know America is far from perfect and we are very fucked up in a lot of ways, but don't confuse the government with the people. I am just tired of people stereotyping Americans. There is more diversity in the US than in most other countries around the world.

[F L E S H]

Oh I know America is far from perfect and we are very fucked up in a lot of ways, but don't confuse the government with the people. I am just tired of people stereotyping Americans. There is more diversity in the US than in most other countries around the world.

I have to disagree.

Immigrants who arrive in the US absolutely HAVE to become good little americans, i.e. imitate how the white people live/eat/work/talk/etc... Eventually, everyone loses their heritage, the second generation often doesn't speak one word of their parents' mother tongue. I guess when you call it a melting pot, you mean it literally.

To me, this is the number 1 difference between Canada and the US. In Canada, people are welcome to keep their heritage. Heck, I know tons of people who moved to Canada from Italy in the 1960s and still get by using only a few words of french and english, speaking mostly italian. If you go to a big city, Montreal/Toronto/Vancouver, you are exposed to so many different cultures and languages. THAT is diversity.

That being said, I don't like it at all when people say all americans are this or that, because generalizations are never true. Most of my problems with the US are with the government, not the people, since it's the government that misleads people into believing what they're told to believe. Leave the people alone!

[Kombucha]

America has a lot of problems, one of it's biggest is an extreme lack of humility and an excess of greed. Unfortunately Americans seem to be constantly indoctrinated about how great America is from a very early age. They are so busy being told how free they are they fail to notice how they are in many ways one of the least free countries in Western society. I'm not aiming to offend any Americans here, I just find many aspects of America incredibly irritating, such as their arrogance and failure to do things like cut CO2 production.

[SmokeyPotter]

I want to move to Denmark because it's a beautiful country that could foster to my artistic talents. There are some thing's in America that I absolutley deplore. Like I said before: the Massive SUV "Get the hell outta my way, cause I have a huge truck" Mentality. Narrowmindedness that I see everywhere, everyday. The Greedy "Eat-All-You can, because you can" Attitude. Notice that none of these things have anything to do with me Hating America in any way. I just hate a lot of things that happen here. I am sure that if I move to Europe I'll be able to live a life of liberty just as well as in the USA. I just want to get away from all these social factors that shake me at my moral footings. I'm not saying Europe is some kind of Utopia. Just that I feel that I'd be able to live the life that I wanted to there.

Do any of you have a problem with this?

[Kombucha]

Sounds like a good plan to me. You should go to the Netherlands, where a certain something is legal.

[SmokeyPotter]

hehe, it's only a train ride away my friend

[maryjanemama]

Yeah, that's exactly right, if you don't like it, leave. Nobody's asking you to stay. It has nothing to do with my big truck... No bad vibes, just stating the obvious. Why wait until college is over? I'm sure Denmark has a college you can go to.