If You Really Believe Diversity Is A Strength...

I read innuendo into your first post. I have grown accustomed to hostility from Australians on this board. I don't give them the benefit of the doubt.

 

and this is .. derogatory, well I apologise.

should it read .. bad old American boys
.. good, young American boys
.. American people

It was just an example, I have no problems with Americans, white, black, yellow, blue, green, chartreuse. It was about the numbers ...

 

My grandfather used to say, "Where there's smoke there's usually fire"

 

On this board the Australians for the most part are unrelenting and unremitting in their invective towards America and Americans. Can you understand why some of us think the best approach is not to have any sort of relationship with your country?

 

I suppose the same reason many Australians don't want the US meddling in our affairs.

Like I say, if as you say, most are unrelenting and unremitting in their invective towards America and Americans, maybe there is a fire, a reason for it. Maybe we are getting sick and tired of the US's arrogant and condescending view of everyone else.

Maybe there is another reason ... I don't know, but that's mine.

 

Is this about Israel?

 

No, nothing to do with Israel. My first comment was about multiculturalism, you know, the topic. You deduced that I had a problem with white American boys, which I do not. I have a problem with "white or black superiority". I have a problem with the US's attitude to anybody who is not "playing the game by their rules". I have a problem with the US trying to Americanise everything. I have a problem with your need to hang on to guns. I have a problem that a child under 15 is 22 times more likely to be shot in America then all the other Western countries combined. I have a problem with the US lying, stealing, supporting tyrants when it suits their (the US's) needs, then declaring war on them when it suits them. I have a problem with the US believing it's military is above the law.

The fact you believe this thread is all about America also worries me.

 

What possible concern is American domestic gun ownership to a non-American. This is exclusively an internal matter.

 

I have a problem with how many children need to die to justify your right to bare arms. I am a concerned world citizen, I also have 4 American cousins who all have children.

Being robbed at gun point for the crime of filling up with petrol (gas) during my last US trip also is my concern.

Grow up and find some real arguments.

 

Do you recognize the right of Americans to make their own laws concerning domestic ownership of guns? If not, is there any limit on the right of foreigners to interfere in internal American affairs?

Your cousins are irrelevant to this argument. They don't give you standing to interfere in American internal affairs.

You can avoid crime in America by not coming to America.

My stage of growth is irrelevant to our exchange.

 

Well from the country most likely to stick it's nose into other countries domestic affairs that's cute. My cousins have a right to feel safe too. They are my kin so they are my business. I don't go to America for pleasure, I was asked to come to do a job. I can guarantee if it was reversed you would be screaming for our government to do something about it.

So you would agree that the US troops in Australia and coming to Australia should be answerable to Australian laws while here????

No it's not, when I talk with my grandchildren I talk to them in words children understand. When I talk to adults, I expect an adult reply.

 

If you want America to mind its own business you must mind your own business. The discrepancy between your actions and words is appalling. You want America to mind its own business while you want to intervene in American domestic affairs. Do you not see the paradox?

Your cousins give you no standing whatsoever. Their lives are subject to the risks that all Americans live under. If your cousins feel endangered it is up to them to determine how to protect themselves.

Don't make this personal by trying to be demeaning. That will simply end our exchange.