>yep there are real characters out here. It somehow amusing that those stereotypes you see on the TV and in movies actually exists in real life. I've met some of those when I visited the US. My first reaction was, this cannot be true, they are joking are they?
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>In europe, we have learned from our not so distant past that the world is much more complex than when looking it from only one angle. We have learned through centuries of propaganda and war that things are not so simple. In europe we had to learn to live with eachother. We've been flooded with all kinds of different religions. We've had our holy wars. And we still are fighting hard to work on a united europe where we had to sort out our differences through diplomacy rather than taking up the arms for everey little dispute. This explains why europeans are not on the front line when it there is a conflict in the world. Call it pasivism. the other side is the US where they had very few conflicts and nothing compared to the massive slaugthering in europe. In the US it seems very black and white. You're good or you're bad. Nothing in between. If you're not with them, you're against them. I'm not going to generalise, but a lot of people there did not learn from the past. They have their own fixed view by lack of the need to think differently. The problem is that they often have the bigest mouth you'll ever see and have no problem to use force to let you assimulate, which of course in the long run will work counter productive as they've got no idea where they stick their nose into.
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>BTW, this is one of my favourates: I've laughed my ass off.
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HPZpYKCpwY

The puppet seems to be wiser then the master. The title of this thread holds some truth. ::)

We will not be too contemptuous. The civilization here is only a thin layer. Look around in europe how the nazis and there predecessors gather hold.
We are forced to fight them back all the time. And we are the one with the handicap, because playing by there rules will make us like them.

And if the price is that the mosque in my quarter gets a minaret I will carry stones. I must bear the bells of the churches nearby, so the call of the muezzin will fall into the chorus.

Agnes

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