America

 

The Kung people, Hunter Gatherers from Southern Africa, make fun of somebody who has achieved something great, like kill a big animal for food.  They make fun of that person in order to humble him so that no one is above anyone and everyone is equal.  They poke fun at each other in good fun, but it helps to keep the community together.

 

I didn't say I came with My father.  My father came and then I was born.  I am a US citizen and not proud of it.  My ideas are not without reason.  Read "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn before you say that my arguements are naive.  We do have the freedom to read whatever we want.  everyday I have to be exposed to propaganda with comercials and the News channels that are controled by big business.  I am taking my freedom and expressing what I have noted and I am troubled because I always have to deal with people who say that I say what I say without reason.  I could say the same about the person that supports a nation that has been the cause of misery throughout the world.  I can say that that person does not think about his fellow human beings.

 

I just want to be fair.  I'm willing to comprimise, but those that oppose me and anybody else who thinks like me has to be willing to compromise too.  We have reached a point in this country where the masses are being put to sleep by all the comforts that life has to offer.  Life keeps getting easier and easier for Americans.  Unfortunately, this keeps the people from being humanitarians because we are indoctrinated from a very early age to be individualists.  It didn't matter how many people were kicked out of Palm Beach when contractors decided to build city place.  City Place is like an outdoor mall here in south Florida that people actually have appartments in.  These apartments are very highly priced so only the "elite" have the ability to move in.  Where city Place is now used to be what people would call the ghetto.  Instead of helping the poor with a city beautification project, they made the people sell their houses while they were still cheep and made them move further west, away from the beach and away from the rich people.  Then, they tore down the houses and built city place and everyone just forgot about how the place used to be. 

 

This individualism and capitalism, and competition that the the US promotes, allows this kind of injustice to happen.. People don't care what happens to their neighbors, capitalist don't care about anyone, and competion means that there will be losers which means that there will be poor people living miserable lives.  I thank Jesus that he came into my life, otherwise I would have been miserable myself.  It's only the capitalists that feel miserable when they are poor, but I am not a capitalist, so money is just not the first thing on my mind.  we have to be able to understand each other before we deal with money because nobody is better than anybody else and Jesus came to give us all a chance.  Why should a government be allowed ignore the cries of the unfortunate?  What right do they have if the one and only real authority, Jesus, will allow anybody into heaven that aknowledges his existence?  I know not everyone is a Christian, but this is something that everyone should understand.  a rich man will feel if he gets stabbed in the leg.  So would a poor man.  A rich man laughs and cries and feels angry, so does a poor man.  The rich man wants to protect his interest.  So does a poor man.  Now where to compromise?  Maybe the rich man should realize that he has lots of money that he will never use.  Maybe the rich man should realize that being generous will protect his interest even more before no one will be motivated to bring him down.  If an entire community could be brought together in order make things better, everyone's interests will be protected and everyone will be happy, and who know, everyone might start sharing.

 

This is very Idealistic of me, I know, but that doesn't mean that I am wrong nor that you are wrong in believing what you want.  true democracy is also a lost cause but it seems like it works, but at the expense of many lives.  We can at least compromise individually to make things better for each other.  The rich will always be there and so will the poor, but we are better than that if we wanted to be.

 

Thanks but don't misunderstand me. USA is far from perfect, the system has flaws and please the homeless living bellow the bridges or in boxes are not better than anybody else. I try to be honest, I'm not a USA fanvboy ar want an American way of life, I'm happy in my country despite our problems but what is fair is fair, USA is a free country.

 

Democracy is the worst system except for all the rest.

 

My problem is that a person can't hate his own country and less a country that received his family, I don't care if it's USA, China or Singapore, if a country received my father and gave me the chance to study and work (taking the oportunity to a natural born citizen) because I'm a refugee, the only decent and moral thing I can do is thank them or at least respect them.

 

You can disagree with the GOVERNMENT (You have the chance to vote against them)  but you can't say you're not proud of the nation you have been born and made you the person you are.

 

USA is not the paradise but I prefer the worst democracy and freedom than the best  Dictatorship and USA is neither the best or the worst democracy, it's a free country and that is enough for me.

 

Iván

 

" I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races (applause); that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.....

And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."

 

-Abe Lincoln giving a speech in Charleston in Southern Illinois.

 

Lincoln used the slavery issue to gain support from the abolitionists when he needed their votes like bush is using Jesus to gain the Evangelical Christian vote. 

 

You guys should read "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn before you go and praise any coutrie.  Look at my example about the Kung people a few posts up.  It's the perfect analogy as to why I give my heart to no country.

 

Peace.