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Originally Posted by Debi

What you can commonly hear if arguing with an american about war in Iraq :

"we are so strong, we could beat the s*** out of anyone in the world, Russia, China and all those f*** doesnt stand a chance in front of our army. If they live it's because we let them live. blablabla, american rocks, chinese sucks, blablabla"

The only Americans I hear talk like this are junior high and high school boys.

Originally Posted by Debi

Who is stronger than who is pretty irrelevant.
What I wanted to point out is, you will rarely hear any modesty from the americans.

I doubt you will ever hear an american say : "Oh you know.. we are not all that powerful.. it's pretty much overrated" or whatever.

They all know they are strong, they are not modest about it.

I guess it is one of the few generality we can say about americans : Not modest.

I think you are confusing America as a country and Americans as individuals.

If you want to say America the country is not modest with its power, fine. But if you mean individual American people are not modest, I don't think there is as much basis for that.

Originally Posted by thcuteness

Im sorry but americans do tend to make themselve look stupid and lazy, I moved here from japan about two years ago, and the first thing I though was "what a bunch of morons"

What possible basis could you make such an inane statement like that on? Look at the work week and vacation times compared with Europe, for one.

And if you actually moved to the US from Japan and your reaction was "what a bunch of morons", please feel free to pack up your stuff and take the next plane "home".