Thread: American Bashing

Originally Posted by Gumby

You don't have to go OS to see them, just watch the Boxing day test.

The visiting Yarpie team are our guests Gumby, and you should not be so unkind about them.

Originally Posted by Bodgy

The visiting Yarpie team are our guests Gumby, and you should not be so unkind about them.

Yarpie ?? Please explain. :confused:

Originally Posted by Iain

Two years he's been waiting to get that off his chest

I hope a few chest hairs came off with it. OUCH !!

[Yarpie ?? Please explain. :confused:

Sud Effrikans, I'm trying to be even handed in my racial villification.

OK, I think we have established that people are people no matter where they are from and that we shouldn't assume anything about a person based on some broad category like place of birth or religion.

There are perceptions of us held by others that we don't agree with and no doubt a lot of the perceptions we have of other countries would have the same reception with them.

However there are cultural differences that contribute to some stereotypes. Do German's really have no sense of humour? Well, my mate Helmut does, albeit a strange one. So perhaps they just express it in a different way. So in that regard, DPB is spot on when he says that a lot of stereotypes are given rise to through ignorance.

There are probably others that are deserved. One of the systems I work on is a psychometric test suite used exstensively for recruitment and team building. The program has to be tweaked for different countries and cultures so that the results are not distorted. For example, in the US certain attributes are less favourable than they are here and vice versa. The differences are even bigger when you go into places like Hungary, Brazil, China and Denmark. You can't just compare Joe from Sydney with Mikkel from Copenhagen because their cultural environments are so different. If Joe is a go getter in Sydney he might be considered arrogant and rude in Copenhagen.

Doesn't that indicate some broad differences? Or is it just a flawed attempt to pigeonhole people? I don't know, I'm no psychologist.

I suppose we all have to try and be a bit less trigger happy and a bit more aware of where people are coming from.

Originally Posted by Bodgy

[Yarpie ?? Please explain. :confused:

Sud Effrikans, I'm trying to be even handed in my racial villification.

Oh them fellas. But I wasn't thinking about who was on the actual ground, more about those who go to 'watch' (and I use the term 'watch' very loosely)

Originally Posted by silentC

OK, I think we have established that people are people no matter where they are from and that we shouldn't assume anything about a person based on some broad category like place of birth or religion.

Except to say that we could make the one generalisation we all know to be true about anybody who contributes to these forums, regardless of nationality, one thing is absoultely certain. You have no life.

Originally Posted by silentC

OK, I think we have established that people are people no matter where they are from and that we shouldn't assume anything about a person based on some broad category like place of birth or religion.

Very true and most of us are not American people bashing, well may be some of them ought to be bashed, like S.A. , but are objecting to the yankee imperialism that their country feels it ought to inflict on the rest of the world.

Whether it is economic imperialism, when they kept their dollar and gold prices artificially low for decades so they could buy up overseas competitors after the war years, or their alledged culteral imperialism with their cheap export of their Hollywood junk, or their military imperialism and involving us in them, their massive cheap exports and their corresponding closed markets keeping the trade deficits most countries face too high and their export of their hamburgers which ruined the Aussie hamburger are IMO fair things to criticise.

So when some one tries to justify the above, whether a Seppo or not, he deserves to be knocked down.


Peter.

Swish!

He was under another name 2 years ago but that person has never posted.

My guess is that he registered and forgot his pass word and reregistered. We have quite a few like that.

I personally agree with him that it sometimes seems you are American bashing and the only reason the other thread with "Sailing American" was left open is that he deserved it whether he was black, blue, green, yellow or Hindu, Christian, Sikh or African, American, English or Australian.

[quote=]Swish!
I personally agree with him that it sometimes seems you are American bashing and the only reason the other thread with "Sailing American" was left open quote]

I would postulate you should read we. Not specifically for the US bashing, but we're all singing from the same hymn book, aren't we?

Originally Posted by

Swish!
only reason the other thread with "Sailing American" was left open is that he deserved it whether he was black, blue, green, yellow or Hindu, Christian, Sikh or African, American, English or Australian.

Maybe it was Pauline as a troll??

and its "Straylens"

Originally Posted by vsquizz

Maybe it was Pauline as a troll??

Nah, Kenmil's revenge

Originally Posted by vsquizz

Maybe it was Pauline as a troll??

and its "Straylens"

Is it possible for Pauline to be anyhting else?

Imdusty,

Welcome and please stick around. We are going to have a lot of fun and you will enjoy it I promise. This is an Aussie forum but we do have many regulars from the US, UK, NZ, Canada and Queensland. All are welcome.

There are so many great people here. I know coz I have met many of them.

So, whos turn is it now? The Franche? Yez, I tink sew...