stridsvagnen said:
I don't hate all americans, but all the talk about how wonderful and free their country is and waving the flag and making a very patriotic speech in movies all the time, im not saying that there's something wrong about being patriotic but maybe they should dial it down a bit =). I would never live there even though "it's the best country in the world" they got shitloads of crime. They have approx. 12.000 murders a year, i wouldnt dare walk outside at night, even in a good neighbourhood.
And also with their rights, most of them see it as a law. In some states you have the right to shoot someone if they walk on your property, but some of them do it just because they can, when they can just let the 12 year old boy/girl just move back to the street and walk there when they accidently touched their right foot on their lawn.
Maybe that's the only side you see on TV, i still think it can be great over there, i would love to travel to like NYC or LA. There's lots of things that are great that come from the U.S such as:
Movies
Music
Games
Tell me. The main body of your post there. Where did you learn all that stuff about America? I'm guessing news, and movies. Movies are fiction, and even the non-fiction ones are influenced by the people who made them. If the movies aren't American movies, then they are probably going to be biased against Americans, and portray them based on the stereotype that they know. News in itself is impossible to be unbiased as well. Stuff happens, and when it does, people make their own opinion of it, often influenced by the opinions of the majority of the people around them, and when they share that story, they pass on that opinion on to the people they tell that story to. When it's somebody on television passing on the story, people tend to subconsciously believe them more than if somebody on the street would have told them.
"12,000" murders a year out of 303,824,640 (according to Google) isn't making too big of a dent, and 4,138,349 people were born in 2005, with the birthrate climbing each year. The bigger a country is, the more murders there's going to be. Also from Google, you are 32 times more likely to die from heart disease than be murdered. If you live in places with high crime rates, of course you need to be careful, but I live in a suburb in Minnesota, and there is nothing wrong with going out at night here. It's calm, and beautiful actually.
On your guns thing. I used to live in Idaho. People aren't as eccentric there as in Texas, granted, but there were a lot of people with guns. They were also some of the nicest people I've met. As far as I know, people don't generally go shooting at people who accidentally enter their lawn, unless they are either unstable, or just have a certain personality type, and that personality type is just as likely to pop up anywhere you go, but again, the more people you put in one place, the more of a chance that more people will have a certain personality type.
For the record, I'm not one of those overly-patriotic people that will get in a dick-waving contest over the littlest thing country-related. I personally want to move to Australia. That makes me think that I have a slightly less biased view on America than a lot of Americans do. Also, being American, and having experienced over half of America (I've been to half of the continental U.S.), I think myself less biased against America than most foreigners. That's just my (not-so) humble opinion.
. We don't really hate you guys btw, too much in common. You're like our ver-enthusiastic, beach loving, gun owning children 
