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What do the people of Dakka feel of the Home of the Free? Or was it the Land of the Brave?

Somewhat low...

However I understand they are people like everyone else.

To be 100% honest, I really hate American cheese the most. The stuff doesn't change when heated. it like... never melts or something. Especially that canned stuff. Not much food from the USA seems appealing (well that I have seen).

I like it here for the most part. I'm fairly safe, in a mostly stable economy, I have plenty access to clean drinking water, ample opportunity for gainful employment and affordable nutritious food. On the other hand the political climate is a bit disheartening I guess, I'm not fond of our criminal justice system, and we've got some oddly backwards cultural artifacts still swimming around. Still on the whole I can't complain too much. The country has treated me well enough and I'm more than happy to pay my taxes.

To be 100% honest, I really hate American cheese the most. The stuff doesn't change when heated. it like... never melts or something. Especially that canned stuff. Not much food from the USA seems appealing (well that I have seen).

American cheese isn't cheese. It's a processed food product made with some cheese. That said we've got some pretty good food overall. The place is huge so you've got great seafood on the coasts, all manner of dead land critters to eat further in and just about every grain you can imagine grows here, diverse fruits there is seriously a ton of variety. Not to mention our immigrant heavy history has spawned all sorts of tasty mutations on the cuisine of other cultures.

I know Europe does not allowed perservative in their livestock and grown products.....
Why we can tell the difference between a American and a European. Bone color. American has a yellowish tinge to it

Is Australia/NZ same way to?
Totally unsure about SE Asia
The ME I would avoid like the plague.....wait I got inoculated for that and small pox to three times over.....anthrax series shots...still avoid it like the plague. Those are not mud pies drying on the wall on some places....

No idea about Africa

Whether or not I, as a Canadian, can make fun of the USA for all its quirks, depends on if we can get rid of the Harpercons in October. I'll call back then.

I like it all right.

I admire it. I more admire what it could be, and what it has been in the past.

I think the country's endless focus on relatively small (or even symbolic issues), mostly all stemming from religion (abortion, evolution, gay marriage, what church your next President currently goes to, etc.) stifles what would be the greatest nation on Earth.

I think it's a great country, happy to put 'love it' as my answer.

This thread is pretty sad though. Weirdly insecure. You're the strongest, richest kid in the whole school, running around asking all the other kids if they really like you is lame.

Ukraine and Georgia very very very love USA =) it's new religion and america is like paradise for them, Europe pugratory and USSR is hell for them.

Russia tried not to hate USA but it all ruined in 2014 (as in 2008, 1999)

Most of the US seems fine, and your average American is a friendly guy though not always aware of things outside that huge country. I know I'm not as well versed in US history as I could be, but at least I don't call the German guide a liar for claiming her family house is older than Columbus. You know, because history starts when Columbus discovered 'Murica.

I hate how many 'Muricans believe that they're superior to everyone else and they're from the greatest country in the world... Reminds me a bit of Nazi Germany...

SGTPozy wrote:
I hate how many 'Muricans believe that they're superior to everyone else and they're from the greatest country in the world... Reminds me a bit of Nazi Germany...

You didn't fall for the FEMA Deathcamps conspiracy did you?

SGTPozy wrote:
I hate how many 'Muricans believe that they're superior to everyone else and they're from the greatest country in the world... Reminds me a bit of Nazi Germany...

You know I haven't met very many Americans who actively think they're superior to everyone else. Patriotic? Yes. Defensive of their country? Yes. But those who actively think they're better? No. besides, many Americans who come to foreign countries, which is who I'm assuming you've met, encounter rampant Anti-Americanism, which, through a variety of sub-conscious things going on, gets interpreted as a personal attack. It can get quite vicious on both sides when really its just one person telling the other they disagree with some aspects of US foreign policy.

I was born in the US, though I don't live there, and I consider myself American. Like others in this thread I love what we stand for and what we have the potential to become. I can see past the racial issues and the focus of meaningless stances on moral issues to see that the core values of the USA are something to be admired.

To the OP, the anti-americanism you so so prevalent in the western world is a recent phenomenon, brought about by the invasion of Iraq and subsequent PR nightmare that the war on terror became, and is exacerbated by the poor race relations and controversy over gun control. It'll pass in time I feel, we're already starting to get over Iraq.

 Jihadin wrote:
I know Europe does not allowed perservative in their livestock and grown products.....
Why we can tell the difference between a American and a European. Bone color. American has a yellowish tinge to it

Is Australia/NZ same way to?
Totally unsure about SE Asia
The ME I would avoid like the plague.....wait I got inoculated for that and small pox to three times over.....anthrax series shots...still avoid it like the plague. Those are not mud pies drying on the wall on some places....

No idea about Africa

My grandfather enjoyed his years in Africa, but then again, he was on the back of a tank, all guns blazing

 dusara217 wrote:
What do the people of Dakka feel of the Home of the Free? Or was it the Land of the Brave?

if you have to ask...

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:

My grandfather enjoyed his years in Africa, but then again, he was on the back of a tank, all guns blazing

Ah yes, the good old state sponsored OE

See Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, Holland and Germany! Get paid while doing it! Free room, clothing and board! Meet other young men your age!

 EmilCrane wrote:

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:

My grandfather enjoyed his years in Africa, but then again, he was on the back of a tank, all guns blazing

Ah yes, the good old state sponsored OE

See Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, Holland and Germany! Get paid while doing it! Free room, clothing and board! Meet other young men your age!

It's a strange thing to say, but I think my grandfather was one of the very few people that enjoyed WW2

He came from a tiny village, spent years working down the mines (very dangerous in those days) had never been abroad in those days (he was too poor for that)

and jumped at the chance of joining the army. He seen a ton of countries, got discipline (his words) and made life-long friends like no other.

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:

 EmilCrane wrote:

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:

My grandfather enjoyed his years in Africa, but then again, he was on the back of a tank, all guns blazing

Ah yes, the good old state sponsored OE

See Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, Holland and Germany! Get paid while doing it! Free room, clothing and board! Meet other young men your age!

It's a strange thing to say, but I think my grandfather was one of the very few people that enjoyed WW2

He came from a tiny village, spent years working down the mines (very dangerous in those days) had never been abroad in those days (he was too poor for that)

and jumped at the chance of joining the army. He seen a ton of countries, got discipline (his words) and made life-long friends like no other.

I can understand that, it was a pretty good deal for a lot of young men in the Western Allied armies.

 EmilCrane wrote:

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:

My grandfather enjoyed his years in Africa, but then again, he was on the back of a tank, all guns blazing

Ah yes, the good old state sponsored OE

See Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, Holland and Germany! Get paid while doing it! Free room, clothing and board! Meet other young men your age!

Indeed. My relatives got to see northern Russia, Iran, the sweet beach front property off of France, and the beautiful tropical paradise that was the Pacific. One liked the island life so much he stayed.

In the words of that great philosopher and gentleman, Milo Aukerman:

Listen up man, I'll tell you who I am
Just another stupid american
You don't wanna listen
You don't wanna understand
So finish up your drink and go home

 Frazzled wrote:

 EmilCrane wrote:

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:

My grandfather enjoyed his years in Africa, but then again, he was on the back of a tank, all guns blazing

Ah yes, the good old state sponsored OE

See Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, Holland and Germany! Get paid while doing it! Free room, clothing and board! Meet other young men your age!

Indeed. My relatives got to see northern Russia, Iran, the sweet beach front property off of France, and the beautiful tropical paradise that was the Pacific. One liked the island life so much he stayed.

How did he go from Northern Russia to Iran during WW2?

And please don't be a smart-ass by saying he went by plane/boat

Meh.

For every bit of good, I've experienced equal amounts of bad.

Always had fun with the American military though.

I voted meh. Met some yanks in my time, most of them were stand up blokes (somewhat arrogant though), but some of the events/news from there make me go WTF way to often for me to seriously consider living there.

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:

My grandfather enjoyed his years in Africa, but then again, he was on the back of a tank, all guns blazing

So did mine. Even after the Empire threw the colonials under the German bus the unfortunate events in Tobruk sent him on a Nazi sponsored holiday in Italy. Apparently the accommodations were lousy, the service was slow and the food bland. And, after a while, he felt the institution had nothing left to offer him, so he left.

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:

 EmilCrane wrote:

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:

My grandfather enjoyed his years in Africa, but then again, he was on the back of a tank, all guns blazing

Ah yes, the good old state sponsored OE

See Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, Holland and Germany! Get paid while doing it! Free room, clothing and board! Meet other young men your age!

Indeed. My relatives got to see northern Russia, Iran, the sweet beach front property off of France, and the beautiful tropical paradise that was the Pacific. One liked the island life so much he stayed.

How did he go from Northern Russia to Iran during WW2?

And please don't be a smart-ass by saying he went by plane/boat

One was a merchant marine sea captain. he did runs to Mother Russia, when his ship wasn't being torpedoed.
Two others in the Navy-one in ETO, one in the Pacific. Another was in the 2nd Marine Division.

 Frazzled wrote:

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:

 EmilCrane wrote:

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:

My grandfather enjoyed his years in Africa, but then again, he was on the back of a tank, all guns blazing

Ah yes, the good old state sponsored OE

See Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, Holland and Germany! Get paid while doing it! Free room, clothing and board! Meet other young men your age!

Indeed. My relatives got to see northern Russia, Iran, the sweet beach front property off of France, and the beautiful tropical paradise that was the Pacific. One liked the island life so much he stayed.

How did he go from Northern Russia to Iran during WW2?

And please don't be a smart-ass by saying he went by plane/boat

One was a merchant marine sea captain. he did runs to Mother Russia, when his ship wasn't being torpedoed.
Two others in the Navy-one in ETO, one in the Pacific. Another was in the 2nd Marine Division.

Ah, I thought the same person had done all that, which would have been quite a story!

Anyway, back on topic.

I like American history, politics, culture, and these pretzels.

Unfortunately, they spoil themselves with root beer , cheese and that god-awful bud beer

and writing dates as month/day/year, when the rest of the fricking world writes them as day/month/year!

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
Unfortunately, they spoil themselves with root beer

And you say this only because you like birch beer a little more...right?

Because otherwise that's just crazy talk that can only end in drone strikes.

I personally don't care what other people think of my country. Having said that I'm not happy with America anymore. At least in my area everyone is to concerned with making all the immigrants happy and ignoring all our own traditions and beliefs.

Americans, do you think, in 1950s 60s USA was better than now?

SGTPozy wrote:
I hate how many 'Muricans believe that they're superior to everyone else and they're from the greatest country in the world... Reminds me a bit of Nazi Germany...

'Merica people don't travel much, except for Disney and the Grand Old Opry.

Having been to Canada, Mexico, UK, and France, I can say that people are people wherever you go. There are lots of great countries out there, and if you truly believe in yourself, you can make Kanye West fething move to one.

 sebster wrote:
I think it's a great country, happy to put 'love it' as my answer.

This thread is pretty sad though. Weirdly insecure. You're the strongest, richest kid in the whole school, running around asking all the other kids if they really like you is lame.

^This.

For all her worts, I have no desire to leave my homeland.

Politically, there's a large segment (primarily the lefties, who wants us to be more like the rest of the world) believes that we should NOT be the bigggest kid on the block.