OT (or is it?): American Imperialism

[Yith_Saulkar]

StrategiaInUltima said:
And I do NOT have any objections to people wearing Levi's... it's their choice. But it's the way that the US is promoting itself everywhere it can, patting itself on the back for something that they had no right or reason to do, that did not go so very well, and that is still not exactly finished.

Your confusing "America" with "American Business".
We import Japanese cars by the bucketloads... We buy more foregin cars than domestic I believe. Does that mean the Japanese are trying to push thier "cultural imperialism" on us? No, it is simply international trade and business men trying to make a buck.

Iraq is a total mess. BUT it is not America patting itself on the back. People everywhere in the US still protest our actions there... it is the Bush administration doing the patting. You should see/hear/read the heated debates between the Republicans and the Democrats over the war. Just so happens the Bush supporters are in control of the government right now. Republicans hold majority in both the house and senate so Bush has little opposition to his agenda. So the "American Policy" transmitted to the world is the "Republican/Bush American Policy".

America has the same problem as an overplayed comercial. You get sick of seeing it all the time and end up hateing it.