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Ah, American exceptionalism. You're right. Everything but the US is some kind of barren desert which only exists in cartoons. Have you ever left your home city
by madaxe 13y ago
Ah, American exceptionalism. You're right. Everything but the US is some kind of barren desert which only exists in cartoons.
Have you ever left your home city? State?
- sigkill 13y agoBut American exceptionalism is a real thing. Well atleast today I don't think it stands for "Well, America is awesome" but more on the lines of "Where in the world will I find 300 million people having roughly similar culture, and for whom I don't need to translate my product into a dozen languages (bonus if it's English since we program by default in English), and who're more probably willing to spend money." Bam, America. I'm not supporting anything, but looking at it from a business point of view this is pretty tempting.
- madaxe 13y agoChina and/or Russia. For English, Western Europe.
- atlanticus 13y agoThis comment from another site is appropriate: >The deep rooted anti-American theme of the EU does not take long to emerge. This undertone is rarely flaunted, but is intuitively detected. Few seem to understand that it is one of the bases of the United Kingdom’s deep unease with the EU, because UK people simply do not understand or share that objective.
- madaxe 13y agoThe UK's "unease" is artificial, constructed by nationalistic media. It certainly has nothing to do with the EU's stance towards the US. Had it, there would be no euroscepticism. The US is deeply unpopular, even in the UK.