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Originally Posted by Little Englander (sour)
I didn't know that they actually taught "double standards" in the schools of today.
Now explain to me why it is fine and dandy for Kanadesaga to "stick up" for his country but is nasty racism when I "stick up" for my country.
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Hey, don't get your knickers in a knot!
I 'stick up' for the UK on a mainly American board, and who said you were a nasty racist for sticking up for your country? Certainly not me.
I just think it takes some guts to wade into a site where maybe your views are outnumbered. And like complimenting this guy doesn't mean I'm criticising anyone else.
My biggest problem with many of the Yanks who post on these boards is that they are all jingoistic, and 'you are either with us, or against us' in their attitudes. So any even imagined slight is taken as being anti-American. This is unreasonable, and I didn't expect to find that sort of thing on a Brit board.
There's lots of things wrong with the UK, and Australia, and the USA, and France, and Germany, and for anyone to point them out is not being ant-American or anti-British, etc. Unfounded and unreasonable criticism is not fair, but if we do stuff that warrants criticism, we should cop it sweet.