[WS:] Europeans tend to be more blunt - not afraid to say what they think.
Americans tend to be more politically correct and say nice thing in your face (unless they are using internet :). You may call it prejudice, I guess, but it does not matter, because those prejudices do not influence public policy to the degree they do here (at least not for the past 50 or so years.)
So if I were to chose between people speaking bluntly and supporting policies that provide decent standards of living to the great majority of their population, and people who say politically correct things and support policies that strongly favor elites and foster social inequalities - I would go for the former. I would not even think twice.
Wojtek
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:07 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> Well, I've been reading that nazis are taking over whole towns in Germany
> and many of my European aquaintances complain about the Arab problem.
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> And, then, you know WWII and all its glories did take place in Europe, and
> there wasn't much de-nazification that took place after. So....many of the
> Romanians I know are racists and despise the working class so....I don't
> feel that deluded.
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> Joanna
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> Wojtek wrote:
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> > That is why in the EU hateful political rhetoric is limited to the
> > fringe right.
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> Oh sure. That's why Thilo Sarrazin's book went straight to the top of the
> bestseller lists in Germany, right? Because hateful rhetoric is just
> oh-so-marginal in utopian Europe.
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> Question for American liberal Pollyanna Europhiles: Do you guys actually,
> like, you know, read anything about Europe in the newspapers or magazines,
> or are you all just basing your utopian projections on your viewing La Dolce
> Vita on DVD or something?
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