MTrip said:
LOL! This just reminded me of part of a stand up comedy routine I saw when an American showed up to make some pretty wild assertions about the rest of the world. Dara O'Briain did a bit in his stand up show on stereotypes around the world. The words the audience came out with for the US stereotype were fat and stupid. You're definitely not helping this, because just about everything you've said there about Europe is misinformed.
1. Yes we have materialistic women here. Check out the attractive women who have married ugly professional footballers. You can be as generous and give as much benefit of the doubt as you like... nobody will deny the money was playing at least a fairly significant role.
2. There are parts of Spain (for example, look up the popular destinations of British Ex-Pats) where English is the predominant language. This applies to a number of European countries where English is not the national language.
3. What's this irrevocable decline? Economic? Moral? Social? We're no further along or behind the rest of the world. (Certain EU countries could be accused of being further along the economic decline, but let's remember that's 2 or 3 out of 28.) But ultimately, none of it is beyond rescue.
4. In terms of percentage crime, some parts of Europe are safer than the US, others are less safe. Bit of a wild assertion there.
Perhaps you should try visiting Europe and actually seeing for yourself before making lots of "poor me" statements about the tragedy of living in the US. There's a lot less between first world countries than you'd think. The differences are spread quite widely if you really get into the nitty-gritty of it. It'd be a good horizon broadening experience to take a trip anyway!
Back on topic - What do I have to offer? Breadth of knowledge... which is also a negative lol.
