Is this done to compensate all the American-bashing or do you seek some American friends?
Ok, then. The only thing I like is their ice-hockey and baseball leagues. I don't know whether that counts in you topic
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Is this done to compensate all the American-bashing or do you seek some American friends?
Ok, then. The only thing I like is their ice-hockey and baseball leagues. I don't know whether that counts in you topic
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24 (tv program) top class!
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Coffee. And proper food for prices I can actually afford.
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"Now basketball is my favourite sport"
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Forgot Starbucks!
NFL is pretty good. better than the other sports although Ice Hockey is alright I guess.
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Having never been there I would need to go with their TV programmes, well some of them, like 24 and CSI, though the original CSI is better then the spin offs.
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Tv-shows, movies and ofcourse half my family
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The landscape, the friendly people and the hotties (can't beat a Chicago Hot Dog
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Wow. I've spent my last 24 years trying to remove all forms of American TV from my life (except for Red Sox baseball).
I'll swap any of you Euros all my TVs for any curry recipes you have laying about.
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most of the people are really nice. Outside of the U.S.A. people say that American friendliness and helpfulness is all fake. It isn't. I really like home but it's so doom and gloom and F*** everybody but the U.S. seems to have a sense of hope. It's nice
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[QUOTE=Ldvs]Is this done to compensate all the American-bashing or do you seek some American friends?
No! I really love to discuss about American politics
But to me it is too much black and white. I just want to see what Americans. Europeans or others love about the US.
P.S.: Why do Canadians call the US Americans?
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Good question. First, I think, because it's the United States of America. Therefore Americans seems a logical contraction or colloquialism if you would.Originally Posted by Franconicus
As an extension to this contraction, since they get the America, we get the North.North is cool.
Canadians, also, have a somewhat deperate desire not to be tied to, or seen as, (US) Americans, to the point where we refused our seat at the OAS (Organization of American States, which encompases all of North, Central, and South America) for years. The reason was that the US would obviously rule over the whole body and Canada did not want to lend credence to that overlordship. In the end, that scumbag PM of ours, Mulroney, exactly in order to appease the US, joined and we lost our sense of dispassionate objectivity.
We like to see ourselves tied to the global community as opposed to tied to the US. By distancing ourselves from the image, and name of, Americans, I think we do just that.
But I still love Americans. They're all squishy and warm and fuzzy.
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Its several thousand miles away.
They speak English, albeit a bastardised English, but at least they are sensible and are backing the winning horse. They are helping to spread English throughout the world which makes global communication much easier.
They dislike the French.
They have a positive war aggregate with the United Kingdom. A good ally is always useful and so we can forgive the occasional friendly fire incident.
The South is full of some downright decent country folk, although being white and straight can occasionally help.
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I've never been there, but US tourists are always friendly.
They have managed to make entertainment a goal in itself, although the current 'entertainment' we get from there is pretty bad.
They're a great example of the Euro liberals (in the euro sense).
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The very, very good science that is done there.
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I think America gets the rep for 'manufactured emotional happiness' from our culture of sales persons and whatnot. (Waiters, clerks, make-up counter women, flight attendants, etc) A nasty side effect of consumerism.
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