[Professor]

your point is well taken - - - perhaps it says something about what i value - perhaps it says something about the things I enjoy - perhaps its says something about what i'm accustomed but I'm proud to live in this imperfect country with all its flaws and with all its injustice.

Originally posted by Ideal08
Pick up Randall Robinson's Quitting America, and read it from cover to cover. It's not about what we HAVE in America, it's about the quality of life. If you define quality based on capital and tangible resources, then yes, maybe the US is the best place to be. But if you base quality on the intangible (freedoms, equality, justice, etc.), I'm not sure the US is in a position to compete.

I think that the argument that things are better here and could be worse is an invalid one. If a woman said that about a man (No, he ain't got a job, but at least he don't beat me), she would be ridiculed and told that she could do better. Just because things could be worse does not make it OK.



There is a difference between complaining and critical analysis.

I am one of the people who has travelled abroad. I have been to the third poorest country in the world. And I am here to tell you, there are AMERICANS (of all races and ethnicities) who live there and have lived there for 30+ years because the quality of life there is better to them than here. I can't speak for anyone but myself. I know what I experienced. I have conversations on the regular with people who have traveled to "third world" countries. I have seen people CRY because they didn't want to come back home, only to go back to live. The assumption that the only people who "hate" America are people who haven't travelled to other countries is, in my opinion, absurd.

People try to CHANGE where they are before leaving, wouldn't you agree?