America Vs. The Rest Of The World - Versus

Norway seriously?
America Vs. The Rest Of The World

Ok Norway has several nice looking locations, but nothing can be the "most" beautiful, for beauty is in the eye of the beholder, (not in a religious way). A large amount of people I know from the middle east think The British Isles are the most beautiful places on earth, I just think they are pleasant. But who wants to sty in norway for a whole year? Tonnes of snow but noone has set up any skiing areas cause all the mountains are up north in the perma night/day areas, theres a reason you and Sweden have such a high suicide rate. -reply by Spuddfluff

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War...I think America havent chances about this Russia and one county of east will defeat America I think.Russia is very dangerous when is on war i think...so its just an opinion.

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I live in russia! it's a nice place. I would probably want to travel to europe just to see other places. I have been in other countries. I would like to go to a place where it is safe. There are both good and bad people everywhere. I think a lot of people don't like Americans though. -reply by dmity

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Most American people I have met are good people. Most people from anywhere else are also just as good that I have met. Of course every culture has its own peculiarities. For example Americans abroad are seen as loud and brash, the British pompous, the Japanese photographically trigger happy etc etc. The problem arises when people strt to buy into media created stereotypes like the ones I hae just mentioned. You can find those character traits along with many others in practically every nation, race and people on earth. There is no country that can say none of its population are loud and obnoxious. No country can say that none of its population take hundreds of photographs everywhere they go. No country can claim that none of its population are pompous and arrogant.
These traits are found universally. Everywhere has friendliness, unfriendliness, is welcoming, is aggresive. Some places dont like outsiders, others actively call them in.
You can get mugged in every nation on earth. There is a common theme in humanity - usually they are decent people. A very few are antisocial - in any nation - and the media focuses on those behaviours, blowing them out of all proportion and this causes mistrust between the people. So the situation we end up with is that most of the aforementioned decent folk go around in a state of mistrust and suspicion of all the other mostly good and decent folk.
Unfortunately, this is the state that a lot of people would rather keep hold of. They feel "safer" by not trusting anybody than letting their "guard down" even though most of the time the other human will do the right thing, they have been conditioned by so many stories of betrayal and murder that they live in fear of their fellow human.
Thisleads to titles such as this thread "America vs the rest of the world". This is the trap. In reality there is no america, it's all part of the same planet. Do you see whales worrying about migrating from the arctic to the antarctic? Do swallows look out for the borders when flying every year from South africa all the way to Northern Europe? No. Just people have made these invisible boundaries on a world that is really one place. Africa and America are not different planets, they are part of Earth. HELLO!!!

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I live in Australia and dont plan on living, I'm really not the vacation type. I would say it would only be good to go to the USA only to do some sightseeing and not to stay there too long. Personally I wouldn't live there because it's a very big change from the society I live in now.

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