Thursday, June 16, 2005

blog entry by my friend martin (the Manc)

"A comment was made to me last week that irritated me. I was in a conversation about the world and I am lucky that I have seen many parts of it and although in reality I know nothing about life I do have a better general feel of dealing with cultural differences. The comment made by this person was "They hate us over there so I wouldn't want to go!". What got me was that we were not talking about Iraq or some other place we are trying to destroy and rebuild for oil and wealth- I mean the rest of the world ... then in a moment of clarity I asked this person if they have ever set foot outside of America, "No" was the reply.... OK that wasn't what threw me.... I started to ask more people that I have met if they have ever left the country, out of the 50 or so people I asked only 10 had ever left and that was to Mexico or Canada only one had set foot off this continent........ Statistically, only ?% of this country has a valid passport but the majority are from immigrant backgrounds.
Now there is an unfortunate truth in the statement about negativity towards Americans in other countries and I understand the fundamentals. Basically, when only a few represent the millions and quite often, when it comes to international travel, only "elitists" can afford to roam around the world, they pass a bad view of what this country is like. So the basis of their judgement is from the few pricks that are loud and idiotic then backed up with the ridiculous media that we are programmed with and they see a bunch of morons..... It's not fair..... This country is the most amazing place; its a shame that the land of free speech allows such idiots to lead us and represent our image.
To those that dont know me I am British, I moved here 14yrs ago, and I am an American Citizen, by choice and sacrifice...........so fuck you if you think I am dissing the Yanks- I am a Yank with a hardcore Manchester attitude.
I propose a solution ........... GET A PASS PORT - GO TRAVEL - YOU CAN BE THE NEW AMBASSADORS and let the world know that we aren't just big and loud, and that our pride comes from our survival instincts and pure willpower. This is a tough place, 1500 get killed in wars but 11,000 get killed by ourselves- we are not the people that CNN shows, we are cool as fuck and if more of us displayed that then maybe we can change the world's view on us........"

Posted by camden :: 6/16/2005 04:30:00 PM :: 1 Comments:

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