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I don't think that capitalism is the reason that USA (and Jews) idiots rule the world. Soviet union had too the same power USA have now with communism. It's just bad luck that these b****** became a super power. We have just to wait this will end in some years.
Reminds me of Nakita Kruschevs infamous line that the Communists would concur the US without firing a single shot.
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Buffalo Bill is our national hero? Wow. I didn't even know we had a national hero. It's quite funny that you said Buffalo Bill. The last time I heard someone mention that name, I was about 6 or 7 years old, and it was from a book in my Elementary School library. It's very hard to find two Americans that agree on people who are heroic, let alone the entire nation to agree on a hero.
LOL. He's a great great uncle of mine ( my mother shares his last name ) and I only know anything about him because of it.
Had it not been for that, he'd just be some guy who once existed and got famous doing something.
This country is to big to have a single national hero. I think Buffalo Bills biggest activity towards American heroism is that he brought the white men and Natives together.
Symbolically, it would be that during one of his theatrical performances, Queen Elizabeth of England saluted the American flag which was the first time British royalty ever did that.
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How is America's culture Coca-Cola or McDonalds?
Pepsi was the big thing last I checked.
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I share the same values that this nation was founded under. I try to live up to those values and promote them.
That's because they work as long as the people uphold them.
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That's one more of American propaganda. Many Americans think that they re the only in the world who are technologically developed and most other countries are 3rd world. That's a joke.
Many, but probably not most.
All I keep hearing from others is how much more advanced other countries supposedly are. Of course, this mostly comes from radicals and communists.
IMHO, it's kinda hard for Americans to think that by the mass when every other person you run in to has a computer email buddy in Pakistan, Greece, Thailand etc.
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Some Americans might think that there are kangaroos everywhere in Australia, including in the middle of cities.
I think most Americans know better then that, but I agree with you that Australia is a very misunderstood country in the US, and IMHO, that's probably why their so liked.
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2. Are Western ideas obligatory to follow for everyone? There're other civilizations in this world, btw.
You guys can blow eachother off the planet for all I care.
How you guys choose to live your lives is your decision and right. Just don't be griping at the US at how much your lives suck in comparison.
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Can I consider it worse in such case? Do I have such right? Individual vs Collective is just like Euclid's and Lobachevskiy's axioms about parallel lines. No one is better, just different.
Obviously, everyone is created equal. The Communist ideal of equal success forced down by a higher government authority generates minimal regard for human life and almost guarantees oppression and possibly tyranny.
Communism is rigged to benefit a minority of society at the expense of the majority. I must ask you Alex which side of that field do you see yourself on. The one who will suffer at the expense of a communist regime or one who seeks to benefit at the expense of others?
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I mean Reformation is just another Western movement without equivalent in Russian history. Communists didn't ban Christianity in fact, though it can sound strange, but it's so. They tried to give new "faith" to people and did it by force, but officially Orthodoxy have never been banned.
Maybe I am missing something but from what I've been able to find, the Soviets never attacked Christianity until Kruschevs reign, and even then only attacked certain elements, not Christianity as a whole.
I've even seen instances where you could say that they tried to USE Christianity, hence why we have such a thing as the separation of Church and state here in the US.