Why most American's pay no attention to issues in other Nations.

Unlike most American's I do pay attention to what is going on in other nations but if we look at this there is a definite reason why the vast majority of American's could care less.

It comes from most American's living in a continent wide nation and even with our thousands of territories all over the world and Alaska and Hawaii the protection of a massive U.S. Military has basically allowed U.S. Citizen's to live in peace with the exception of those terrorist attacks.

In Europe there are thousand year old grudges that still to this day continue.

But here in the U.S.....grudges tend to be Red Sox vs Yankees.

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Most Americans pay no attention to issues in this country, so I wouldn't expect them to care about other nations.

 

LOL!!!

True.

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Ain't that the truth.

 

America is just so much better than everyone else, don't you know?

I recently learned about the existence of the Federated States of Micronesia.

I wonder what goes on over there lol.

 

I'm retired military and have been around the world, either at the whims of the military, or on vacation. I've been to countries like Turkey and Phillipines where children will fight if you throw out American coins. People living in North Africa in shacks or shipping containers...
We have a beautiful life here in the States, our 'poor' would be considered wealthy in many countries around the world. We have personal freedoms here in this country to be anything we want to be, as long as you are willing to work hard for it. You can become a doctor if you're willing to apply yourself, get good enough grades to qualify, write papers to receive grants, take out loans to pay for college, etc. You have the "right to pursue happiness", it in itself is not a right. You have to work hard, study hard, and not let the nay-sayers tell you that you cannot.
I don't want to become like China or any communist states that tell me how many kids I can have, what those kids will be when they grow up. The government is there for two main purposes: Defense of country, and interstate commerce...We don't need a f'in nanny state. We don't need Universal health care because there are those of us that take care of ourselves and don't go to the Hospital for every ache and pain because it is free...It isn't, I am more than happy to pay my fair share for me and my family...I don't like having to pay for yours.

 

It sure is funny though, when some foreigners get butt hurt since most Americans can care less about what goes on in their countries. Some Canadians are the worst.

 

True.

Unless somebody is kicking their door in, they could not care less.

 

Why should we care, with the exception of our allies?

This country does best with isolationist policies.

God gave us a vast ocean on each side, we're lucky.

Now, if we could just deal with that southern border issue.



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Very true.

 

At the core we have what made us great but we're being systematically separated from it and inflated into a clueless mass plagued with infighting by the proliferation of a false economy of distraction and the success of the growing industry of litigious political retribution. All while being duped into the yoke of Aunty Samantha where we'll eventually either slave for scraps or beg for crumbs. Either way neutralizing by way of conflict of self-interest or simply by exhaustion; Don't rock the boat or too busy...

The funny thing is we basically have a Political Industry. Money is made these days not by making anything or by any real invention or kraft or creativity of insight other than by exploiting the Cult of Personality and that just means that sociopaths and narcissists(politicians essentially) have a decided advantage in today's economy.

We have an economy of the liar masked in smiley-feels, the show of "productivity", and circular jibber-jabber. But it's just another bubble folks!

Don't let them reach the core...

...for they crave what they do not have...

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I don't follow your reasoning at all. Why would the existence of problems in other parts of the world explain the fact that Americans couldn't care less? And why wouldn't they still care about countries with higher standards of living and public safety than the USA?

Also, aren't race relations in the US a little more serious than the Yankees / White Sox rivalry?

 

Certain things can happen to you or your family, that will need use of the taxes I have paid. We CAN all carry our own weight... but sometimes you simply cannot.

Social welfare is a good idea; sometimes people DO need help (even a crutch).

 

Our thousands of territories?

Oh brother

 

I prefer giving individual people a crutch, then asking everyone else to "pitch in" to the pot. Self-dependence and self-reliance are good traits to develop. A strong economy allows us to be a self-productive nation. The productive means in the hands of a few, is exactly why the economy is where it is now.

 

Your 'thousands of territories all over the world' actually is five permanently occupied territories, and eleven with no native or permanent populations. And before both world wars, we were an isolationist country. If you think that we didn't have a grudge against communistic countries, what the hell were those bomb shelters about? And you don't have a grudge against the 9/11 perpetrators? And the Red Sox and the Yankees are what you consider not grudging against the Islamic extremists that bombed the marathon and took down two of the tallest buildings in the world with 3,000 people trapped inside?

You might think that they are "exceptions", but I think disemboweling Afghanistan and Iraq was sort of a grudge that "the vast majority of American's" did care greatly about, and cheered the shock and awe of our power (at least in Afghanistan). We are not Rome. We are not the English Empire. But what we lack in world awareness, we make up for in ignorance. Thank you for trying to continue that tradition.

 

In a modern society, we can/should provide assistance to those in need. Not that people should not be self-reliant... but that we aren't 1700's pioneers living out in a field somewhere. People should not be denied medical care in this society; and they should have shelter and food also.

 

99% of Americans have no problem with race. It's only the media that is obsessed with race.

And it's the Yankees-Red Sox, not White Sox.

 

Our "assistance" has only grown since we first started in the 50's and 60's. And we find that when you take into account population and inflation, we haven't made a single dent in world poverty. Why is that? Because we're far less efficient. Only 1/5th of Americans are entrepreneurs, that's too small and unacceptable. It's precisely because we're in the 21st century that we can be more efficient than ever.

It's time to create the technocratic society we've long missed here in the West. Look at Japan. They're dabbling in robots, and we're doing what exactly? It's time to speed it up.

 

Japan looked at our cars, and they made a one off imitation. Then they went one better. And they are still doing one better. We took advantage of our manufacturing ability given after the war. We blew that to hell. Now we want to keep even. We can't even keep up with the Koreans. Welcome to the free market. You want to think that we were better. No, we had an advantage that only war-mongers enjoy. We didn't actually want a war with Germany, but we had to face it. Now the German engineers are leading. us into Mercedes. I want one. I want to be bathed in German engineering. I'm such a slut;

 

I think the Europeans were always ahead of the USA in terms of engineering. Don't forget it took the industrial revolution two decades to hit the American shores after the UK and Europe.

Where American engineering and technology accelerated was during WWII where it had to compete with Germany and the USSR. The Cold War also prompted US ingenuity.

 

Take care of (nurture) and bolster this nation's middle class... and we'll be okay. Screw the masses over... and this nation will be over.

 

That is nonsense. (Got a citation to prove what you're saying?) One could only WISH what you said is true.

Stop blaming the media for the kind of specious BS you just spewed. The era to end talking-point worship and mantric commentary is right about NOW.

And it's the Yankees-Red Sox, not White Sox.[/QUOTE]

 

Right about the 80's (Reagan's time)... we neglected to do what was necessary (maintain the middle class) AND we allowed greed to take control over too much of our economy.

One need not be a highly educated scholar, to know that if the masses of people aren't doing well... neither will the nation.

 

That is because MSM tells people what is important and what is not. There are soooooo many things going on in the world, but the MSM spends 2 days on the death of Prince. Unbelievable.