[ SECRET POST #1273 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1273 ⌋

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[hikari87.livejournal.com]

I have spoken (online) about this (and other things about us that aren't well known) to people from Germany, France, Spain, and Sweden. Granted that's not a lot of countries, but they all had the same way of thinking, so...The Germans sort of bypassed the whole separation of nation and government thing and went straight to "it's a little irritating that you are so patriotic", I tried to explain about the dichotomy and I don't know if they got it but they were nice about it. with the French girl, we started with the dichotomy and I don't think the patriotism came up much because we started talking about state government vs. federal government after that...the Swede was all "well, we're only patriotic one day a year over here" and sort of dropped out of the conversation...the Spanish girl, good heavens was she ever aggressive about both parts of the discussion lol. She said that she'd have no problem telling a strange foreigner all about the problems with her country and wouldn't say if there was anytihng good about it at all. I kept asking her if she meant her nation as a whole or the government, but she kept saying "country" even though I had told her about the dichotomy in my view. I don't think she really got what I was sating at all, though we had some very interesting discussions. I've seen other conversations/comments all over the internet on similar subjects enough to conclude that this is fairly common, unless most of the people online are just rude lol. The one exception I found, who was willing to admit they loved their country and be proud of it, was a Pole.
The thing about the America/American citizen bashers seems to be this. they THINK they know about us and understand our culture (probably because they watch our horrible "reality" TV shows.) So they feel free to act like jerks and tell us we suck because they only have a bad image and really don't know anything about us at all.These are often the same people who give us crap about supposedly not knowing anything about THEIR cultures (of course, not everyone is like that. Some of them are very nice, they're just not as loud as the rude ones.) But as far as I can tell, their entire "knowledge" of us is based on terrible fake tv shows and trashy pop stars.Well, if you only look at ANY country's terrible fake tv shows and trashy pop stars, you're not going to have a good image of them. But they won't look farther than that, and they decide that only we have the bad traits (that everyone has really) which they see there.
haha, we criticize ourselves a lot too.But like you said, anyone from the outside who tries that is going to get the crap kicked out of them. besides that, it's considered extremely bad form to complain about your own country to foreigners. We really take exception to our own citizens who do it, and if a foreigner bashes their own country to us we will lose a lot of respect for them (the person, not the country.)
I don't know of anyone in the US who dislikes Russia either. There are a lot of Russians here anyway, in certain areas. I used to live in Brooklyn when I was little and there are a ton of Russians there. You hear the language spoken all over the place and see signs written in Cyrillic letters. It's kind of thought of as this exotic and slightly dangerous winter land lol.