On 10/10/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">marius schebella</b> <<a href="mailto:marius.schebella@gmail.com">marius.schebella@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Mathieu Bouchard wrote:<br><br>>> Americans today make ironic references to the "Axis of Evil" and the<br>>> "war on terror" and "homeland security" all the time. It doesn't mean
<br>>> they buy it, even if the media makes it seem that way.<br>><br>> Yeah but why do they still vote for one of the two big parties?<br><br>why? I think because USamericans are fearful people. they are fearful,
<br>because they never learned to talk about their problematic history.<br>genocide and slavery. they just inherit the guilty consciousness<br>unprocessed from generation to generation. therefor they only feel safe,<br>when they are protected by a big brother. they live with the idea of the
<br>survival of the fittest (make the rich richer). they never gave black<br>people compensation for their exploitation (nor any other group). as a<br>matter of fact this is not only US history, but western history in<br>
general, but european countries experienced worldwar II and I think they<br>changed their way on communal thinking about racism and so on.</blockquote><div><br>Well I've only lived in the US and Romania, but Romania is Europe; and they are way way behind the US on racism, sexism, gay rights, etc. The Roma pretty much all live like animals.
<br>I think your reasons are broad generalizations. Well, most of them anyway.<br><br>-Chuckk<br><br></div></div><br>-- <br><a href="http://www.badmuthahubbard.com">http://www.badmuthahubbard.com</a>