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Couple of additional thoughts come to mind. Yea, I know, I'm thinking....
Your complaints against America remind me of something. A very long time ago, I was in Atlanta. One of my first business trips. We were in a trendy area of town for dinner. Think it was Buckhead or something like that. We were waiting for dinner when Peter Coyote and Dee Wallace from the move E.T. were waltzed past all of us waiting and into a prime table. I remember at the time being kinda pissed.
As time has gone on however, I realized something. They deserved the treatment they got, I didn't. In that particular circumstance, they were simply better than the rest of us in line. They were more talented in the profession of acting plus they were simply better looking which is pretty important in that field. Dee Wallace back then was stunning.
The point is, you are strongly criticizing my nation and my President while struggling to make your points in my language. Now, I have no idea where you are from, who your president is or what language you speak, but here's the thing: I don't need to know. You however, know something about my country, something about my President and are trying desperately to properly speak my language. You want to know about us. You spending time learning about us. Unless you are from a country I happen to do business with, I don't need to know anything about you.
There's a reason why. At this point in history, the US is a couple of Hollywood actors and you are out in the cold waiting for a chance to sit down. You can be critical of the USA all you want, you can be critical of Trump all you want, you can be critical of me all you want. I would suggest however you think a little deeper. Where would the world be today without the US. And I'm not just talking about World Wars, I'm talking about the big picture. People are quite literally dying to get into this country. Despite the recent foolish infatuation towards socialism, this nation still manages to drive the world's events, the vast majority of which are for good. Maybe someday that will change and I'll be desperate to learn about someone else's land. If that's the case, I won't be doing that with a cloud of anger and resentment hanging over me.
But until then, go ahead and focus strongly on our few bad aspects while learning my language and eyeing the daily going ons in my nation and(I suspect) wishing you had the world I take for granted.
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