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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
I see you don't read the paper very often..
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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
America is absolutely corrupt as can be, it is just less open. Everyday I read about corrupt politicians, corrupt police, corrupt businesses, corrupt schools, etc etc etc. Where is all that law and order supposedly? I haven't come across it yet.
The whole "you americans have it so good" is as destructive as ignoring the problem. Why do you want to block a bridge when an american confesses his being upset with America to you? Why can't we all work together instead of saying, "oh you americans don't really know" oh yeah? Maybe we do and your blinders can't let you see it.
Sure, the police don't stop and take bribes, but honestly, sometimes I wish I COULD just give some bitch ass rookie a bribe to get him off my ass  |
it's nice to buy off a cop with a couple of sandwiches when you're in trouble (i've done it), and i don't trust american cops more than cops in other countries, but to live in widespread and socially engrained corruption creates moral double standards and ethical quandaries that is hard to live with if you want to live with any kind of integrity.
americans are by far an honest and trusting people; of course there are leeches and parasites out there but this does not change that fact.
when i lived in mexico as a kid if you dropped a coin in the schoolyard another kid would step on it and "claim" it instead of letting you pick it up, much less giving it back to you. (this was not a ghetto school by the way, the kids were well off). and then--much worse--the grownups did it too! that's also a country where the police are extremely rapacious. the little things become big things.
i have never lived in russia but i read enough newspapers to know that corruption there is *massive* and of a scale that people here have never experienced in their everyday lives.
the problem with americans is that they know little of other countries and cultures and tend not to travel abroad, so if you think that the world begins in florida and ends in california of course it will appear to you that this is the center of universal corruption. IT IS NOT. there are worse places. much worse. it feels ridiculous to have to say it, but this is not the center of the universe and it is not the capital of evil and it is not to blame for everything that happens elsewhere. america is not omnipotent, omnipresent, or
better at everything, including crime. it's not!
of course there are problems, crimes, corruption, abuses-- but if you're going to diagnose diseases, diagnose them correctly. THIS IS THE WORST CANCER EVER. no, it's treatable.