Haven’t we been over this before?
lobley, the United States consists of some ten million square miles of territory, inhabited by over a quarter of a billion people. People who come from, quite literally, every culture on Earth. The only generalization you could make about such huge, disparate group of people spread over so much land that could be even remotely accurate is, “They’re all carbon-based lifeforms.” Well, that and, “They’re not terribly interested in soccer.”
Now, yes, some American soccer fans are a little too excited about how our team is doing. The same can be said about fans from every other country, too. Hell, didn’t one South American player get killed because he blew a kick in the last World Cup? People (all people) take sports (all sports) way too seriously. This is hardly unique to Americans. So singling out Americans for scorn over this issue is a tad unfair, no?
Secondly, as I mentioned, there are not a huge number of American soccer fans in the world, especially in comparison to our population as a whole. Yet here we have your thread, with the title, “Shut up USA,” followed by an OP in which you attribute a number of negative traits to all Americans. Well, I’m an American. Yet I’m not “shouting in your face.” I didn’t even know our team was doing well until I opened this thread. Hell, I only found out last week that the World Cup only happens once every four years. So here you are, telling me to shut up, and I’m not even saying anything. You can see why this might make someone angry, right? It really pissed me off, which is why this is draft three, without all the swear words and slurs on your lineage. Now I just know that, if you respond at all to this, you’re going to say something like, “Well, I wasn’t talking about you, I was only talking about Americans who do the thing I’m complaining about.” But you aren’t. You tarring all Americans with that OP, and ignoring the fact that y’all are pretty tar-stained yourselves.
I asked you this in your last pit thread about your misperceptions of American attitudes and behaviors, but I you never responded (not surprising, considering the virtiol you had stirred up. In fact, I again doubt that you’ll ever read this post, because of the volume of insults I’m sure have piled up while I composed it) So I’ll ask it again: how many Americans do you know in real life? Are any of your friends or family members American? Any co-workers? People you met on Usenet or characters from television don’t count. I’m talking actual, real life flesh and blood Americans. I somehow suspect that the number is pretty small. Maybe two, probably less.
I really, really hope that you take my advice to heart and try and learn something from the drubbing you’re about to take here, because damned if I don’t think there’s hope that you could turn out to be a decent Doper. So, in that spirit, I leave you with the immortal words of Samuel Goldwyn, who once said, “All generalizations are bad.”
Words to live by.