Ahhh!!

I tried to post yesterday, and it wouldn't let me!!!  I sat there for like, two hours (trying to read for class at the same time) trying to get it to load, and it wouldn't!!  I attempted so many devious ways to fix it, but none of them worked!!  Ahhh!! xD  I was upset at first that I'd already missed a day, but now I'm kind of glad.  I didn't really have anything to post yesterday anyway, and I really want this to be a meaningful blog. xD  I don't want to talk about my life; my life is boring! xD

Anyways, what I want to talk about today is just the general American Superiority Complex.  I hate it!!  Honestly, we're taught in school that America is sooo awesome, and we're sooo perfect, and sooo much better than other countries.  But seriously, do you think we'd think any different if we were born in France, or Italy, or Germany?  The fact is: we wouldn't.  That leaves about two possibilities.  Either we're completely wrong about America being so superior to other countries, or (get this) every country could have its own thing to be proud of.  I don't see why that's so blasted difficult to believe!!  Honestly?  America's made a ton of mistakes, especially for its short time on the map.

When we learn of horrible things like the Trail of Tears and all the terrible things that happened especially to African American women during the times of slavery, we just shake our heads and say, "Wow, we really messed up then.  Good thing we've got things together now!"  WRONG!  We absolutely do not have things together.  When you hear something on the news every week about some corrupt politician stealing money, having an affair, or worse, you know we've got trouble.  There are not enough of them to cause that much trouble!  Not to mention people even thinking of burning Korans at a Christian church!  What is wrong with the world?!  And of course, corrupt politicians isn't limited to the United States, but it'd be naive to think that we're incapable of making as gigantic mistakes as we did with the Trail of Tears and the Japanese concentration camps.  Regardless of popular opinion, we're not some unified angel who knows no sin.

What really gets me is we freak out at other countries for the same things we're guilty of.  Hopefully you've been reading up till now and understand that I'm verbally beating up the Americans for their unlimited arrogance.  Well, guess what they hate the French for, among other things?  Arrogance!  Now, how exactly does that make sense?  Well, it's well beyond me.  Honestly.  Oh, and let's not forget that it's mostly the Parisians who hate Americans, and otherwise it's different.  The people I don't understand is the French people who like Americans.  What's to like?  We've got our heads so far up our butts we can't see daylight, and honestly, we hate a country and then expect them to bow down to us in eternal gratitude for our very existence anyway?  What the heck?!?  AMERICANS, YOU DON'T MAKE ANY SENSE.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm an American.  And I'll admit to even loving the principles upon which America started.  But now you might as well take the rotting remnants of those principles and cast them on a fire as scrap wood.  At least then they'd keep at least one person warm.  Just now nobody cares about them at all, why can't we just put them out of their misery?

Really, I don't see what's so hard about sacrificing a little of our overblown pride to admit that hey, other countries are awesome too.  They all have something genuine to be proud of, though it may be different from what we believe we have to be proud of.  For France it's beautiful art and literature, as well as a history of cultural pioneering, and actually successfully playing nice with the Indians.  For Italy it's gorgeous and ingenious architecture, Rome, and all the mythology that goes along with being at the heart of the Roman empire.  For England it's a carefully-preserved monarchy and long-enduring traditions.  For Spain its vibrancy, fiestas, and consistently joyful spirits.  If we'd throw aside our nationalistic tendencies (which are virtually useless anyways) maybe we'd open our eyes and see that.  After all, we are all people, no matter where we happen to have been born.  Can we please just focus on this for a while?  Thanks.  After all, as Victor Hugo so truthfully says:

"Civil War?  What does that mean?  Is there any foreign war?  Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?"