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For what it's worth, I did live in the US for five years. I met a lot of nice people, but damn! There's so much division and hate. Black vs white vs Hispanic. Right vs left. Gay vs straight. Pro-life vs pro-choice. What's up with that? There's so much bickering, I'm surprised ANYTHING gets done.
Can anyone answer this? Americans seem to always be at each other's throats. I've never seen anything like it.
A pretty self-explanatory thread. This was inspired by my fiancee, who is a Canadian citizen. We were discussing the political views of many American conservatives and she mentioned that many may feel that Canadians exchange their "freedoms". What do you think?
i'm not tremendously familiar with Canadian law, but as i understand it, canada, aus, nz, and the uk all have a different concept of "Freedom" than the United States.
in the U.S. we view freedom as the freedom to do what we want without government interference. Freedom has a downside -- it means the government doesn't step in and mediate as often if you screw up, or if you have a run of bad luck, or any sort of disadvantage or misfortune. That's the inherent price of freedom.
what people from Canada / Aus / NZ / UK seem to call "freedom," in my view, is actually "protection." The word "Freedom" is often used to refer to the government enabling people to live "free from something", like socialized healthcare is "freedom from worry."
If you keep this up, we're gonna send back Bieber and Carly rae Jepsen.
Just so long as you keep Celine; those other two rug rats will wane soon and no one will ever hear from them again. I predict in five years time you'll have to look behind a Target store in an appliance carton to find either of them.
Can anyone answer this? Americans seem to always be at each other's throats. I've never seen anything like it.
and it seems to be getting 'worse' by the day. . . . .i guess that's why so many good Canadians "feel sorry" for us!
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