|
 FurrowedBrow
Free yourself from yourself
 
Registered: 04/20/08
Posts: 12,045
Loc: Carpal Tunnel
|
 Are you really American?  1
#524709 - 02/08/11 01:40 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
I was thinking the other day about this. I don't really consider myself to be an "American". I never really gave much thought to reciting the pledge of allegiance, which is fucking crazy in the first place. Anyway, I'm wondering if you guys and gals consider yourselves to be Americans (or British or where ever youre from)? I am from america, but don't classify me as an american.
|
 KaptKid
Spaced Pirate
Registered: 04/20/08
Posts: 5,615
Loc: Bright Side of the Sun
Last seen: 11 months, 20 days
|
 Re: Are you really American? [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#524711 - 02/08/11 01:52 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
I'm a born and raised Texan.
--------------------
Child of the 60's, Tripping ever sence.
|
FarBeyondDriven
Truthfully, I'm a bullshitter
Registered: 04/22/08
Posts: 13,834
Loc: Greenbow, Alabama
|
Re: Are you really American? [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#524714 - 02/08/11 01:57 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
FurrowedBrow said:
I was thinking the other day about this. I don't really consider myself to be an "American". I never really gave much thought to reciting the pledge of allegiance, which is fucking crazy in the first place. Anyway, I'm wondering if you guys and gals consider yourselves to be Americans (or British or where ever youre from)? I am from america, but don't classify me as an american.
I dunno, I think our Government is a joke. I mean, I actually laugh sometimes when they're making speaches on tv n shit. It's funny to me cuz it's horseshit. I wish our soldiers the best. I don't want any of them to get hurt, so I guess in that regard, I might be considered one. But I'm not like wearing an american flag t shirt and jumping around n shit. So I guess I'm an american if you look at my birth certificate 
|
MFDoom666
trash hoarder
Registered: 04/24/08
Posts: 8,842
Loc: emerica
Last seen: 7 years, 5 days
|
Re: Are you really American? [Re: KaptKid]
#524719 - 02/08/11 02:07 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
KaptKid said:
I'm a born and raised Texan.
--------------------
FurrowedBrow said:
They should teach african engineering at the college level. mcgyver 101
Harry_Ba11sach said:
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
|
iStoner
Astral Beast
Registered: 06/09/10
Posts: 7,176
|
Re: Are you really American? [Re: MFDoom666]
#524728 - 02/08/11 02:24 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
FarBeyondDriven said:
Quote:
FurrowedBrow said:
I was thinking the other day about this. I don't really consider myself to be an "American". I never really gave much thought to reciting the pledge of allegiance, which is fucking crazy in the first place. Anyway, I'm wondering if you guys and gals consider yourselves to be Americans (or British or where ever youre from)? I am from america, but don't classify me as an american.
I dunno, I think our Government is a joke. I mean, I actually laugh sometimes when they're making speaches on tv n shit. It's funny to me cuz it's horseshit. I wish our soldiers the best. I don't want any of them to get hurt, so I guess in that regard, I might be considered one. But I'm not like wearing an american flag t shirt and jumping around n shit. So I guess I'm an american if you look at my birth certificate
Quote:
MFDoom666 said:
Quote:
KaptKid said:
I'm a born and raised Texan.
--------------------
|
RasJeph
Psycho Pete
Registered: 01/14/09
Posts: 11,657
Loc: Bumfuckt Egypt
Last seen: 1 year, 17 days
|
Re: Are you really American? [Re: iStoner]
#524735 - 02/08/11 02:36 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
Ever hear the song 'Merican by the Decendents?
I think it describes my attitude toward America, and being an American to a T. I tried to pick a few lines from the song that reflected it, but I'm going to post the whole thing. Its not long, so read through it if you have an attention span that lasts over 30 seconds 
Quote:
We flipped our finger to the king of England
Stole our country from the Indians
With god on our side and guns in our hands
We took it for our own
A nation dedicated to liberty
Justice and equality
Does it look that way to you?
It doesn't look that way to me
The sickest joke I know
Listen up man, I'll tell you who I am
Just another stupid American
You don't wanna listen
You don't wanna understand
So finish up your drink and go home
I come from the land of Ben Franklin
Twain and Poe and Walt Whitman
Otis Redding, Ellington,
The country that I love
But it's a land of the slaves and the ku klux klan
Haymarket riot and the great depression
Joe McCarthy, Vietnam
The sickest joke I know
I'm proud and ashamed
Every fourth of July
You got to know the truth
Before you say that you got pride
Now the cops got tanks 'cause the kids got guns
Shrinks pushin' pills on everyone
Cancer from the ocean, cancer from the sun
Straight to Hell we go
--------------------
Of course it's happening inside your head.
Why should that mean it isn't real?
|
Shaggy420
Registered: 07/06/10
Posts: 3,372
Last seen: 12 years, 9 months
|
Re: Are you really American? [Re: RasJeph] 1
#524753 - 02/08/11 03:23 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
i dont really consider myself British, but im not too sure i know what being British even entails, i like fish and chips, and sunday roast dinners so that must make me a bit British  but i also think the royal family is a waste of space, the queen can suck my dick and i hate our govnerment. so that probably makes me not so british
judging by everyone living around me, the British culture predominantly revolves around television and booze, its the only things urban dwellers seem to be interested in. but all major cities in Britain are over populated urban wasteland, so it doesn't have much of a culture anymore, unless football and beer count.
but there are some awesome culturally rich places in the more rural locations, such as on the Cornish coast
im rambling
Edited by Shaggy420 (02/08/11 03:30 PM)
|
MFDoom666
trash hoarder
Registered: 04/24/08
Posts: 8,842
Loc: emerica
Last seen: 7 years, 5 days
|
Re: Are you really American? [Re: Shaggy420]
#524754 - 02/08/11 03:26 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
i want to hear moar.
--------------------
FurrowedBrow said:
They should teach african engineering at the college level. mcgyver 101
Harry_Ba11sach said:
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
|
FarBeyondDriven
Truthfully, I'm a bullshitter
Registered: 04/22/08
Posts: 13,834
Loc: Greenbow, Alabama
|
Re: Are you really American? [Re: Shaggy420]
#524756 - 02/08/11 03:28 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
we hate our countries
|
Shaggy420
Registered: 07/06/10
Posts: 3,372
Last seen: 12 years, 9 months
|
Re: Are you really American? [Re: MFDoom666]
#524758 - 02/08/11 03:34 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
MFDoom666 said:
i want to hear moar.
dont think theres much else to say, its a simple country
|
CrayolaHalls
Dreams of Oceans
Registered: 08/15/10
Posts: 588
|
Re: Are you really American? [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#524763 - 02/08/11 03:44 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
I think there needs to be some distinction drawn between people labeled by their country of citizenship and personal feelings such as patriotism.
I am not a strong patriot of the United States and I do not condone patriotism. I accept that I am a natural-born American.
I guess I just don't let anyone pile on additional crap to a pretty simple term. Politicians love to say an American should be this or that... its all bullshit to play on emotions, sympathies, and irrational thoughts.
--------------------
I am not a cannabis grower. I find the cannabis growers to be the most open to experimenting and sharing out of all of the different botany groups I enjoy. I frequently use the suggestions that I find to apply to own organic gardening and food production.
|
Tangerines
Grease Wizard
Registered: 04/20/08
Posts: 9,497
Last seen: 6 years, 5 months
|
Re: Are you really American? [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#524766 - 02/08/11 03:51 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
You were born, raised, and currently live here (I am assuming). You are an American there really is no arguing that fact. I understand you want to distance yourself from the world-image we have, as Americans.
|
kyuzo
Stranger Than Fiction
Registered: 07/05/10
Posts: 981
Last seen: 11 years, 10 months
|
Re: Are you really American? [Re: CrayolaHalls]
#524769 - 02/08/11 03:57 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
love this country
|
Tangerines
Grease Wizard
Registered: 04/20/08
Posts: 9,497
Last seen: 6 years, 5 months
|
Re: Are you really American? [Re: kyuzo]
#524773 - 02/08/11 03:59 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
I just live my life outside the whole grande ol' scheme because that scheme is way too complex ya know. Just gotta do your part whether it be saving, killing, robbing, giving errybody got their thing to do. America does have some great opportunities though and that's a fact.
|
DeadHearts
Registered: 03/12/10
Posts: 710
Loc: ▐▐▐▐▐
|
Re: Are you really American? [Re: Tangerines]
#524778 - 02/08/11 04:06 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
Ill never consider myself to be "American".
The idea of it now makes me sick.
|
Tangerines
Grease Wizard
Registered: 04/20/08
Posts: 9,497
Last seen: 6 years, 5 months
|
Re: Are you really American? [Re: DeadHearts]
#524780 - 02/08/11 04:07 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
It doesn't matter what you consider. You are what surrounds you.
|
DeadHearts
Registered: 03/12/10
Posts: 710
Loc: ▐▐▐▐▐
|
Re: Are you really American? [Re: Tangerines]
#524781 - 02/08/11 04:08 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Tangerines said:
It doesn't matter what you consider. You are what surrounds you.
Thats not true. Not even close to being true.
|
Tangerines
Grease Wizard
Registered: 04/20/08
Posts: 9,497
Last seen: 6 years, 5 months
|
Re: Are you really American? [Re: DeadHearts]
#524782 - 02/08/11 04:10 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
You are like a self hating black person. Just because other people who are similar to you act like idiots you cannot stand being generalized along with the idiots into one lump sum.
Accept it you are an American. An American who doesn't agree with the idiots.
|
FarBeyondDriven
Truthfully, I'm a bullshitter
Registered: 04/22/08
Posts: 13,834
Loc: Greenbow, Alabama
|
Re: Are you really American? [Re: DeadHearts]
#524785 - 02/08/11 04:11 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
DeadHearts said:
Quote:
Tangerines said:
It doesn't matter what you consider. You are what surrounds you.
Thats not true. Not even close to being true.
It's how other people perceive you. You might be a cool dude, but thing about Arabs. They probably would perceive you as some stupid American just because you live here Not necessarily just Arabs, but I think it made my point.
|
Shaggy420
Registered: 07/06/10
Posts: 3,372
Last seen: 12 years, 9 months
|
|
USA is an awesome place to visit and explore, for some of its beautiful landscape, nature and its varied cultures. but its not a country i personally would want to spend my life in, and i say the same for England.
|
|
Threaded
Previous
Index
Next
Edit 
Reply 
