So, today i have come to the conclusion that maybe, I'm not really American. I mean yeah,I still enjoy baseball and pizza but like TRULY American.
Now, I adore history. American history, European history, World history, basically any kind.* But after examining our country's more recent history I see things I don't like. I mean there's the obvious cruelty to Japanese during the Second World War, Watergate, and really sucky things in general. But there are the other things, mainly attitude. Now, really I love most of the people here and I was raised to have a lot of national pride but we, Americans, live very sheltered lives. I think Geography is to blame for some of it because we ARE a huge country with a LOT of people, but i still come back to our suckish attitude. I think we have a thing or too to learn from those happy, scary, and mostly insane Europeans.
I mean they do insane sports, eat weird food, and know a million languages. What's not to love? So while Mr. Obama was over there partying it up he should have been taking notes**. Again its not that i don't like America it just seems like I just don't fit in. Also, I think we should take care to restore our national image. It's sad that you try to hide the fact as long as possible in chat rooms that you're American. Because when they know I turn into "oh, that silly American girl" I takes hours of intelligent insisting and debate to convince them that I am really more like them.
So, Nerdfighters while we are out lowering World-Suck let's start here, shall we?
you know you want me (and all my greasy food),
xoxo
Alyssa
*particularly Tudor history or just queens in general. They tend to kick butt. Religious-royal history is quite interesting also. If you do not believe, consult Maddi whom has listened to many debates on the date of Anne Boleyn's birth and whether or not Martin Luther had put up his shanzy little list before 1530.
**Maybe he's following Maureen on Twitter and his monkey typed up some for him?
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I completely agree with you on the not feeling american thing. A lot of people now feel that if you're not with the government, you're wrong; and that's pretty much what America was against way back. Sometimes I wish I could move to Europe and become a citizen of wherever.
ReplyDeleteAnyways, I also completely agree with you about history. Science used to be my favorite subject, but now it's pretty much history and anthropology.