Thanks, KLP, but I have a fair "understanding of Americans and the US" by now. I have been all over the US, educated in the American system, in English, among Americans pretty much all my life.
Nowhere have I said anything against Americans, or the US of A in general. My concerns at this point of time have more to do with the recent shift in the US foreign politics, as expressed in that article by Jimmy Carter that I had posted the link to.
Yes, the US has a huge arsenal, and it had never bothered me before. However, allow me to freely express my concerns (shared by many people on this side of the ocean) about the current US administration that is currently presiding over this arsenal.
These "notions" are not "preconceived", in any way you care to define the word. I am not a peasant in some French village with an internet connection, who, one day, formed an opinion of the US after watching several hundred Hollywood films. I am possibly as near as you will ever get to a foreigner who is neither European nor American, but who has quite significant experience in both cultures, and who has an objective viewpoint on both.
So you (not personally, but as the board community) might like to harass me a little less and just let me express my opinion, which could and often will be different from an American's. If, as you say, "most of us are learning from everyone else here", than I guess differing opinions would be most welcome. |
