Why do you love America

[angus]

economic freedom, mostly.  this has largely been achieved a number of countries, as some posters will immediately point out, forgetting, or ignoring, that that condition was only realized through US funding and US intervention.  the ability for some white trash, second-generation american, non-WASP lowlife like myself to go to university for many years, to travel around the world, to have employment mobility is a big one, at least for me.

also, I really like the Brook Burke exercise video.

And wal-mart.

and New York City.  I love hanging around in new york.

And the Hardee's Thich Monsterburger.

and, of course, The Simpsons.

[angus]

Well I'm straight and republican.  And I can tell you I like SF as well.

But not as much as I like New York.

[angus]

Oh, I do like rural Texas as well.  Good call.

anybody watching that Brooke Burke workout show just now?

[angus]

DanielX, you make an excellent point.  Unlike, say France or China, the United States isn't buildings, or land, or blood, but rather it's an idea.  And because it's an idea, it does not know skin color, religion, ethnicity, or even language.  We have borrowed all those things from others and made them our own.  One can make the exact same arguments about Canada, of course (but not australia!)  But the difference between us lies in our ideal:  one claims to be a Cultural Mosaic (but is actually somewhere between a cultural mosaic and a melting pot) and the other claims to be a Melting Pot (but is actually somewhere between a cultural mosaic and a melting pot).  Canada, ideologically, thus, runs a close second.  But then there's that damned climate.  USA wins out. 

[angus]

I never did when I lived in California.  I do now.  I also did when I lived in Massachusetts and when I lived in Texas.  I can't remember whether I did when I lived in Florida.  That period is pretty much a blur.  Probably not.