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Why the US is no longer the greatest country in the world anymore.

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Can you imagine how annoying a person would be who went around talking about whether they were the best person in the world (or the best person in the room, for that matter)?
 
MrX
Can you imagine how annoying a person would be who went around talking about whether they were the best person in the world (or the best person in the room, for that matter)?
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Why yes. Yes I can imagine that. It would be like living next to the USA.

It's a nice little speech from The Newsroom but the one thing that was most definitely NOT the most honest thing on television was when he was waxing nostalgic on the old days and all the great things the USA used to do - which it did - (and still does by the way) - and he said something like, "And we didn't go around thumping our chests about it."

If there was a nanosecond where there was no chest-thumping going on, I missed it.

I mean I don't even care on the surface. I see behavior like the lifetime of chest-thumping I have witnessed --> I roll my eyes, say, "Pfft," and move on. Goofy patriotism is a standard compensating behavior for insecure people everywhere. Americans are an extreme case but not unique. Move on.

My complaint is that a lot of Canadians have been heavily affected by it. They take it to heart and actually develop an inferiority complex about it. As a result, I have spent a lot more of my life than I want to dealing with Canadians with a major personality trait of: they want to teach America a lesson.

That lesson being something along the lines of, "Oh you think you're so big!"

Ugh.


Fortunately it seems to be dying out. It is common among people my age but less and less as you look at younger people. American chest-thumping is still there but it is near impossible to take it seriously.


Interesting clip though. I thought that show was so promising but it turned out to be not much IMO.
 
Mudcat
My complaint is that a lot of Canadians have been heavily affected by it. They take it to heart and actually develop an inferiority complex about it. As a result, I have spent a lot more of my life than I want to dealing with Canadians with a major personality trait of: they want to teach America a lesson.

That lesson being something along the lines of, "Oh you think you're so big!"
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Interesting. Don't tell America about this, it will only encourage us.
 
very nice Captain. I have to admit I was at least in the past a victim of this trait.

FF, you should forget about this notion of America helping others. Whatever our adventures are in foreign lands, they are not done for the benefit of the natives
 
I've seen it posted about eleventy billion times.

America does rule the world by way of its star system/pop culture. It has helped countless filthy foreigners like me learn American English. Beyond that, :dunno:.
 
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