ANALYSIS
AMERICANS VERSUS FOREIGNERS:
What foreigners like and dislike
most about us
By Maximillien de Lafayette
Before
I go into some details and explain:
1-Why the majority of foreign countries lost faith in the United States (Who
cares? Yah, right!)?
2-Why many foreigners look down on American men and women?
3-Why the majority of foreigners would never trust us again?
4-Why American women scare the hell out of them?
5-Why contemporary American art is falling apart in Europe, Latin America,
Africa and the Middle East?
6-Why those bloody antagonistic foreigners keep on coming to America and suck our blood, eat our honey and drink our milk?
7-Why do we allow unfriendly and potentially dangerous foreigners who live in the United States to freely demonstrate in the street and create social and political chaos, when Americans living abroad are deprived from similar rights and freedom of expression?
Before
I do that, let me illustrate some funny and entertaining instances and
examples which
frustrate, alienate, confuse and perhaps amuse foreigners, when they look at
the way we live, think, act and do business. Those examples might look silly
to us but, they caught the attention and curiosity of foreigners, and as such,
they might shed light on the conception and preconception of foreigners about
the “very essence” of what constitutes the fabric of our life, beliefs and
what we stand out for. They are silly opinions, remarks and observations, but
their silliness and perhaps the limpidity of their substance are causing
global misunderstanding of the American way of life, American art, American
dignity and intensifying the lack of respect for all of us.
WHAT
CONFUSES OR AMAZES FOREIGNERS:
1-A mall at the Pentagon.
In almost 99,99% of foreign countries, you will never find a boutique or a
shop nearby a military high command post. They would not allow merchants and
shop keepers to open shops and boutiques in the vicinity of a strategically
positioned and located military centers. And most certainly, not in the
basement or a parking lot of a ministry of defense.
2-Americans' Passion for
football. In
America, football players are Gods! Role models, superstars, millionaires,
celebrities. In 92% of foreign countries, they are simply “sport people”.
Usually, in the majority of foreign countries, from France to Guatemala and
from Sudan to Austria, only uneducated people and low class people become
soccer (football) players. And they never enjoy a global fame or become
wealthy, unless they are really extraordinary with a magic touch such as Pele
of Brazil, Eusepio of Portugal, Bochkash of Hungary, Maradona of Argentina and
Bobby Moore of England. The rest of them remain obscure and hard working
middle class people.
3-High
percentage of divorced American women. Almost 89% of Europeans, 79% of
Latinos and 99% of Middle Easterners, Near Easterners and Arabs believe that
marriage has been desecrated in America. Every time they hear the news about
this star getting married to that star, they will automatically tell you that
they will divorce in a few months. Statistics show that 72% of American women
are or were divorced once upon a time. It is really alarming.
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