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20:32 - Thanks, same to you
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=21352_They_Hate_Us_They_Really_Hate_Us
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Huh:
People in Britain view the United States as a vulgar, crime-ridden society obsessed with money and led by an incompetent president whose Iraq policy is failing, according to a newspaper poll.
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In answer to other questions, a majority of the Britons questions described Americans as uncaring, divided by class, awash in violent crime, vulgar, preoccupied with money, ignorant of the outside world, racially divided, uncultured and in the most overwhelming result (90 percent of respondents) dominated by big business.
Yeah, look who's talking.
I hear this kind of stuff from British friends and acquaintances on a regular basis, and the one thing they have in common is no first-hand experience of America except what the BBC tells them. (That, and a rather creepy sense of deferential respect for the BBC.) I've tried to do my part to combat these perceptions by drawing upon my own personal experience, but more and more lately I've been losing the will to bother.
I hold certain truths to be self-evident.
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Brian Tiemann
