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Originally Posted by MMM
You both are right. I don't spend a lot of time thinking about loving or not loving the USA, but you read here time and time again about how people appreciate their home country so much more after living some place else (in this case, Japan, but it could be anywhere, I suppose).
You get a different perspective that will, without fail, change the way you think about your home country.
That is why I don't think people who have never lived (and I mean "lived") outside of their home country can say "I hate it" because you have nothing to compare it to.
You can say you don't agree with the government or don't like certain things, of course, but I would reserve saying "I hate the USA" before you know anything besides the USA.
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So having said that, should I take my statement and change it to "I hate -insert long list of things I hate about America-"?