wow,
long rant Golo,
nice joke, too.
hey, i have no prob that a american feels proud to be american,
like i have no prob that a 'from what ever country men' feels proud to be a kid of his country. sure i will not start to answer to the racist meaning, specially not with an american, would be a huge joke my friend.
the chinese built the WALL?
yes,
and all other by their time big powers built their 'walls',
at least the chinese built it on their own,
the american 'wall' during cold war been the 'weapon', but the knowledge about that weapon did not came out of any american brain, did it?
the american dollar is one of the world currencies, no doubt about that fact, but as a matter of fact it is by far not the only one, the chinese isn't yet, but i await in the very near future it will be 'an other' additional world currency, too.even that the chinese do not need their own currency to be one, b/c they own enough Yen, Euros and Dollars to run their businesses big time.
Russian Rubels??
the russian big business guys have more US dollars at their order than Obama, thanks god they do not have the brain to make something big about it, i personally would not like to see that gang as a power again.
"NO american buys the chinese products"????
now we are def kidding, right?
as a matter of fact the 300+ millions of americans NEED to buy those chinese cheap products built by the 1.500 millions of chinese, they depend on the existance of those cheap chinese products, because they could not afford to purchase the 'american built' counterpart of those cheap american products, b/c not every american citizen is a Donald Trump who makes his money even out of his bancrupcies.
i got paid as a young adult in US Dollars$$$, (hey, i am German, yes), the exchange rate back in the day been a very comfo over 3 german marks for 1 US$ Dollar, it felt like heaven, and the currency went down in a short time period to less than half of what it was worth prior towards that German Mark, still got paid in US dollars, yeap, sure our weekend parties sized down to other much lower levels back in that time.
know what?
compared to the today's exchange rate between euro and dollar(even that the euro is at this moment compared to the dollar on a low level) and keeping in mind that the switch from German Marks to Euros been 2 marks for 1 euro, till today the dollar did not come back to it's former power compared to what it been prior to the convertion, under no precidency of what ever party/president or such. even actually under 1.30 dollars of worth per euro, a down point, it is still much higher than the expected move of that new currency, no need to cry from the european side, absolutely not in case of comparison to the dollar my friend.
the only point where european countries have to cry b/c of their strong currency is the fact that the american market can not afford to purchase much on the european market, b/c to buy in US dollars is too expensive due to the non-power of that currency.
i respect your rant of course as your patriotic opinion to defend your mother country when you feel that others may offend it, doesn't matter if offenses are based on factual reasons or not, it is what we do, but from my personal and only MY personal side of view of the globe and the stuff written above i have to claim that i do not agree on any single word of the post.
in many cases i see it as the opposite.
but that's just mine.
btw,
talking about the good brought to the globe by the US,
what again was that good thing they brought to our Island??
heck, don't start with mentioning McDonald/Donald Trump/Chevrolet or such.
most americans drive a foreign brand of car today's.
i drive a super reliable and reasonably priced Honda,
my PC i built on my own, pieces for that purchased mostly over e-bay from the US(do i need to mention that they All, absolutely ALL are sold but not made in the US?), my IBM laptop purchased in spain is built of 'far eastern' pieces.
if ya look for somebody to save the US and it's economy,
maybe it would not be that bad of an idea to finally send a good and reliable and intelligent(yeap, hard to find, i know) US Embassador to China, b/c those boys could be of help.
a country based on the high %%% of incomes due to it's weapons industries/technologies\weapons\ developments faces a tough time when the world comes together in a peaceful way.
Obama may be the first one in history who looks on such.
i wish him luck from deep inside.
peace
Mike