Maybe what I was trying to say is that I like to remember regular people, normal people with common sense who aren't their government. I go on many forums, some say americans are arrogant, proud etc.. THEY say the same about Europeans, it's funny! And I'm starting to think that.. on both sides there is the nice guy, the nice girl, compassionate, reasonable, the army freaks, the gun people, well just haters, stupid kids etc.. once again it's complicated, numbers of things that make one person, I can genocide for hours on unreal tournament, doesn't mean I want them to be a specific kind of people..
There are commercial on TV these days, to get in the army, it says "become yourself".. well fuck them lol, "become yourself, be a man, die for me, I want more money more oil more profits you're my meat puppet"
US as a laughing stock maybe not, wouldnt go that far in my opinion. What I mean by "idealized" is that I thought it was the best place to be and live, it's not really true anymore if it ever was. I'd be a bum in the street if I was there, I'd be sunken. again everything is true everywhere at different levels, so much modernism but so many third word countries inside the country, people dying on the pavement. what scares me the most is to be lynched by jesus freaks LOL. never saw some much evil in the name of good, the contradictions, such a pretext, right is often wrong. I dont think i'm intolerant because I would be against someone who points the finger going "my religion is the true one, yours is a false one from satan" etc.. I think God would want human to know how to live together, we see the amount of fail here.
Anyway, didnt follow the US hating wave here in France, I'd get along with some americans who kept using the word "french fry", those who can think for themselves. No someone who'd hate me just knowing where I happened to be born. Still some morons have power (typed mower lol) and are dangerous.