Frankster said:
Honestly this is the reason why I usually hope USA doesn't win major competitions.
They(woohoo for generalizations) are insufferable barstards with a superiority complex when they win anything, and are just as much of twats when they lose, in both cases usually deforming history greatly to fit in to their silly world views. Or so is the general impression I got of a significant portion of their inhabitants who populate youtube+facebook,etc...
As much as it's horrible now, just be glad they lost, otherwise would be waves of "we won again you gook barstards", "ha you we nuked you TWICE, in rl and in football" and much more loveliness.
Hey, don't hate on all of us. We're not all like that. However, the quiet majority who don't make public spectacles of themselves are not generally the ones you hear from. This might get me in trouble with other Americans on the forum, but at times like these I have no pride in being American, and considering the last presidency, it's hard for me to remember a time when I did that wasn't youthful exuberance.
The fact that I'd like to point out to those racist meatheads is that World War 2 was honestly the last time we did anything that could be considered a win. We lost Korea, we lost Vietnam, we never won Afghanistan because we got wrapped up in Iraq, which wasn't a win either, despite victory being declared. Ok, we finally got Osama, so maybe that's a win, but it doesn't have the same feel of saving the world from evil as winning WW2 did. Between Japans barbarism in China and Hitler's Final Solution, it really felt like we were doing something great. Osama was evil, and the things he did were terrible, but somehow they aren't on the same level of the shock and awe scale as the Death Camps and Death Marches.
Actually, World War 2 is pretty much America's ONLY win. What did we do before that? Slavery and the Trail of Tears, the Japanese Internment Camps (I know that was during WW2). Can we really count the War of 1812 as a great moral victory? Even the Civil War was shady enough, and all of the hate and civil injustice that followed is hardly a win. Perhaps we can take pride in the Civil Rights movement and the Women's Rights movement, but looking at all those posts full of racial intolerance and slurs makes me wonder how successful we really were at either.
... Getting back on topic after a rather rambling philosophical tangent, I would ask Frankster and other non-Americans not to paint us all with the same brush as those in that image. We're not all like that. Some of us can lose gracefully and celebrate the victories of others. Some of us find shame in the dark parts of our past and chose not to celebrate them but remember them as they should be remembered, failures on a human and moral level. Some of us aspire to be more that loudmouthed arrogant fools screaming hate speech in the vacuum of Facebook. We do exist, and we're ashamed of our countrymen, and just as put off by them as you are.
Peace.