10-06-2016, 11:28 AM
(10-06-2016, 12:33 AM)Dill Wrote: What is your "petty country"?
Just wondering. I am always curious as to how US politics appear to people outside the U.S.
I am often surprised listening to Americans imagine how those others view us--eg. respecting "strength" or not.
(10-06-2016, 10:14 AM)michaelsean Wrote: Austria. If I remember my high school German correctly, that would be Osterreich with an Umlaut over the "O".
Indeed, Österreich.
As for how they view us form overseas, there isn't really a universal way to answer that. Most people from Europe I talk with (I spend a lot of time talking to Europeans on Reddit and via WhatsApp) they tend to think the US, if personified, would be very self-absorbed and ignorant about the rest of the world. How the left tends to think of the right is how they often think about the US as a whole. That doesn't mean all Europeans feel that way, but that's the impression most of those I talk to have of the country. Hollodero will have a better insight since he lives over there.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
