Excellent post! I visited Costa Rica when I was a teen, and the family I was staying with had just installed their first water heater and were finally able to enjoy a hot shower. People should travel more often so they can appreciate how amazing America truly is. (Note-I love CR and the incredible people. Just wouldn't want to live there lol)
After traveling abroad I sometimes want to grab other Americans and shake them. "You have no idea how good we have it here! Our poor are wealthier than the rich in many lands!"
I was reading a review of the Bollywood film RRR and a line the reviewer made always stuck by me:
"In the same way it cheers the honest heart to see a stranger truly and dearly love wife and child, so it is to see a foreign patriot love a nation not one’s own."
I find it sad that nowadays there seems to be this belief that to love one thing means you must hate another. I do not begrudge anyone their homeland or nation. Indeed, I find myself moved to see someone love their home just as I love mine. Why not let every homeland be distinct and... diverse?
I've also been to other countries (It was horrifying to see what communism had done to Russia) and I appreciated my time there and felt honored that the citizens let me be a guest. But i still want to go home eventually.
Up until the lockdowns, I viewed Aussies as our down under twins. But then when everything went down (and learning about the long-ago gun buyback) I saw there was at least one massive difference
Excellent post! I visited Costa Rica when I was a teen, and the family I was staying with had just installed their first water heater and were finally able to enjoy a hot shower. People should travel more often so they can appreciate how amazing America truly is. (Note-I love CR and the incredible people. Just wouldn't want to live there lol)
So true. People go to resorts and call it travel. Once people actually mingle with locals only then do the differences become clear
Very much this!
After traveling abroad I sometimes want to grab other Americans and shake them. "You have no idea how good we have it here! Our poor are wealthier than the rich in many lands!"
All this and you DON'T include the infamous Captain America panel? ;)
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I was reading a review of the Bollywood film RRR and a line the reviewer made always stuck by me:
"In the same way it cheers the honest heart to see a stranger truly and dearly love wife and child, so it is to see a foreign patriot love a nation not one’s own."
I find it sad that nowadays there seems to be this belief that to love one thing means you must hate another. I do not begrudge anyone their homeland or nation. Indeed, I find myself moved to see someone love their home just as I love mine. Why not let every homeland be distinct and... diverse?
I've also been to other countries (It was horrifying to see what communism had done to Russia) and I appreciated my time there and felt honored that the citizens let me be a guest. But i still want to go home eventually.
I love that panel :) I only ever read X-Men comics so there’s a lot of gems I haven’t seen.
Unruly and proud, and proud to be unruly; the Americans are a free people not to be trifled with.
This very much helps to articulate why the Superman debate is important!
Its interesting how obviously different you guys are too Canadians, even a stones throw away from Vancouver to Seattle.
I am Australian, I like to think we are closer to you guys, that part about the lockdowns hurt a little
Up until the lockdowns, I viewed Aussies as our down under twins. But then when everything went down (and learning about the long-ago gun buyback) I saw there was at least one massive difference
I truly think our political class is one of the worst in the world. And yeah, generally the people are much softer than they try to present as