For Europeans thinking about moving to SF/San Jose (London: crime, college)

[askwise]

Originally Posted by striker

So is political the USnews engineering ranking you proudly posted!

I didn't know Marconi, Volta, Galvani, Leonardo, Meucci were all Americans.

That's what those schools are. 4-year community colleges also known as continuation of high schools, commuter schools, etc.

Berkeley and Stanford don't belong to that group.

By 'it's political', I mean that it's not the medical institute's fault that people don't have insurance and have to pay thousand times as much as Europeans do to get a medical treatment. You misunderstood me. And how is the US News ranking political? It measures how difficult an institute is to get into, how much money they spend on research, how many people there have Nobel Prize, etc.

For one thing, I see hundreds of Italians who want to go to a college in the Bay Area, but not one American student I have seen wanted to go to a college in Italy.

Now, let's get back to the topic. Bay Area being lame and Asians being uncivilized.

[striker]

Originally Posted by askwise

By 'it's political', I mean that it's not the medical institute's fault that people don't have insurance and have to pay thousand times as much as Europeans do to get a medical treatment. You misunderstood me. And how is the US News ranking political? It measures how difficult an institute is to get into, how much money they spend on research, how many people there have Nobel Prize, etc.

For one thing, I see hundreds of Italians who want to go to a college in the Bay Area, but not one American student I have seen wanted to go to a college in Italy.

Now, let's get back to the topic. Bay Area being lame and Asians being uncivilized.

That's because it would require learning another language (Italian in that case) which goes against the US Constitution. Why can Europeans speak several languages and Americans none? You know the answer.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by askwise

For one thing, I see hundreds of Italians who want to go to a college in the Bay Area, but not one American student I have seen wanted to go to a college in Italy.

Now, let's get back to the topic. Bay Area being lame and Asians being uncivilized.

A friend of mine's daughter wanted to attend college in Italy.

I can't understand "striker"'s unreasonable hatred for the Bay Area.

There are good Asians, bad Asians, and in between Asians just like everyone else.

Striker may not have a preference for Asian women, and certainly someone from Italy would be used to "higher standards" of female beauty than exist in the US. However, that is a matter of individual taste, that is not to say that all Asians are uncivilized (which is blatantly racist - however that would have gone over well in the California of 100 years ago....maybe Striker would've preferred SF in the era of Boss Rueff and James Phelan....)

[ComfortablyNumb]

Striker, honestly. Taking a foreign language now is absolutely required in our High Schools (although few continue it). I forgot most of my Italian (took it in college), and I enjoyed it a lot. But Americans (or British, etc) simply don't need to know another language. Most people in Italy or Europe for that matter speak conversational English. English is just such a huge, dominant language, it would be an unwise use of time to dedicate years of study to it, unless it something like Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, etc - which is often too stressful for many to learn.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by ComfortablyNumb

Striker, honestly. Taking a foreign language now is absolutely required in our High Schools (although few continue it). I forgot most of my Italian (took it in college), and I enjoyed it a lot. But Americans (or British, etc) simply don't need to know another language. Most people in Italy or Europe for that matter speak conversational English. English is just such a huge, dominant language, it would be an unwise use of time to dedicate years of study to it, unless it something like Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, etc - which is often too stressful for many to learn.

I myself took French in high school and Spanish (and more French) in university.
Part of the reason why people from the USA at least (I can't speak for Britain, Canada, Ireland, or Australia) are often monolingual is not only the global dominance of English but the poor teaching of languages in our schools. My French teachers were rather lousy. (According to what other kids told me, however, my high school had a pretty great Russian teacher.) As I didn't take Spanish in high school I can't evaluate the teaching on that level, but on the university level most of my teachers were quite good.

I never did take Italian, but knowing French and Spanish I was able to figure out quite a few Italian words (the same goes for Portuguese)

[bigdave01]

I actually agree with Striker on this one, Americans should be required to learn other languages in school, mainly Spanish would be useful. High school courses are not good enough, we should teach it in elementary school.

[striker]

Originally Posted by majoun

A friend of mine's daughter wanted to attend college in Italy.

I can't understand "striker"'s unreasonable hatred for the Bay Area.

There are good Asians, bad Asians, and in between Asians just like everyone else.

Striker may not have a preference for Asian women, and certainly someone from Italy would be used to "higher standards" of female beauty than exist in the US. However, that is a matter of individual taste, that is not to say that all Asians are uncivilized (which is blatantly racist - however that would have gone over well in the California of 100 years ago....maybe Striker would've preferred SF in the era of Boss Rueff and James Phelan....)

I didn't say the Asians here are uncivilized. I said, that most Asian countries are. It's not the same thing.

[intensivecarebear]

Originally Posted by sfist

You sound exactly like the type of person native San Franciscans try to avoid at all costs: shallow Eurotrash whose best response is "you idiot". If you dont like Asians, Mexicans, gays and hippies, please, do us all a favor, and hurry on back to Milan (you know, the fashion capital of the world?!). This city is strictly for people who appreciate the diversty of its fabric (wasp's and all).

Amen. Striker's just as bad as some of the arrogant, racist euro-snob college students in Boston. Funny how he describes SF as being full of "ghetto ass Mexicans", yet he has never left South Beach. Miami is one of the most crime-ridden cities in the country once you leave "sophisticated" South Beach. Gotta love those racist European hypocrites. Striker, I do agree with you however that Silicon Valley is pretty boring. But honestly, what did you expect? Thank God most of us don't suck up to snobby "European" values.

[striker]

Originally Posted by intensivecarebear

Amen. Striker's just as bad as some of the arrogant, racist euro-snob college students in Boston. Funny how he describes SF as being full of "ghetto ass Mexicans", yet he has never left South Beach. Miami is one of the most crime-ridden cities in the country once you leave "sophisticated" South Beach. Gotta love those racist European hypocrites. Striker, I do agree with you however that Silicon Valley is pretty boring. But honestly, what did you expect? Thank God most of us don't suck up to snobby "European" values.

Oh sure, Coral Gables, Coconut Grove, Brickell, Key Biscayne, Star Island, Fisher Island, Midtown, Downtown, Bel Harbor, etc...all so ghetto!

Don't compare **** with chocolate, I mean SF with Miami. Enjoying "the best weather in the country" these days? It's raining and 44F. What a great weather city!

[nothingman]

Just so you know, "Striker" posted this in the Miami forums to try to stir up some s**t in there too. For whatever reason, he hates SF and thinks that the streets of Miami are paved with gold (this is not true at all).

Miami isn't a fraction of the city that SF is. In fact, this place is a dump and is the most overrated city in the world.

Don't believe what you see on TV - Miami isn't like Miami Beach at all.