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I’m immigrant to USA, and have to say that what I knew before I come here, and now, is a big, big difference... I hope that good Americans will understand me... but there is huge number of biggots, racists, and worse, sadists and masohists, and they all like to humilate other people... this is true, you like it or not.
USA society is based on fear, humilation, greed, treatchary, brownnosing... And you can feel it in workplace, everywhere... it is the very nature of America... HUMILATION IS AMERICAN WAY.
Thats the way it looks from here.
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9 May 2004, 05:18
I don’t know what country you are from, but your perceptions of the U.S. are right on target. Take it from me, a black (or "African-American" as they have renamed us) born in this country—we are powerless and must perpetually endure racism and 2nd class citizenship in every aspect of our lives. When I saw the grinning, torturing American whites in the Iraqi prison photos I thought, "once a lyncher always a lyncher".
Smiling white men, women and children were present in public killings of black Americans in the South while the U.S. was in denial as it is now. When I hear the media and the white Americans say that this is not what they are about, I just laugh. It is exactly what they are about and what this country is based on—mistreating and abusing people of color for both power and pleasure. I invite you to look in any collection of archived photos from the 1940s and 50s and you’ll see what I mean. Yet no one publicly draws these parallels and blacks are too afraid as usual to speak out. Centuries of abuse create a people who are intent on merely surviving and principal often takes a back seat. Just look at Colin Powell.
I admire the Arab people for their spirit and are glad they can see white America for what it is. I hope they will keep fighting and never believe the promises of the U.S. or else they will end up with the "gift" America gave my people—perpetual 2nd class citizenship.
Sorry you were yet another victim of the hype—they do have quite the PR machine here in America—but in the future please choose your countries more wisely.