American Exceptionalism

[off2bed]

America is not an idea-state like the Soviet Union. America is an ordinary nation-state like France, which has been through at least ten regime changes since 1789 yet still remains the same country. An America under a different constitution or even a completely different system of government would still be America.

I completely disagree. France is France because they have, for the most part, been one people, one culture. The US is made out of other cultures (like Frankenstein's monster ). If one of those "other cultures" becomes dominant enough to drastically change the Constitution, then we are no longer America.

 

[Peregrinator]

That av is a joke. It's the douche boho reading list.

I note that two of them were on my summer reading list for prep school. Perfect.

Monica Crowley?

LOL

Please.

And I find it highly disrespectful when you neotards call the President....Mr. Obama.

And you know you do it to be disrespectful so as soon as I hear that all credability goes out the window along with the piece.

Like Junkmail.

What's disrespectful about that? Presidents have always been referred to that way. We had eight years of Mr Bush and eight years before that of Mr Clinton.

 

[LadyFunkenstein]

I note that two of them were on my summer reading list for prep school. Perfect.


What's disrespectful about that? Presidents have always been referred to that way. We had eight years of Mr Bush and eight years before that of Mr Clinton.

Of course its disrespectful. Presidents have never - in my lifetime anyway - been addressed like that.

It's Mr. President or President LastName. Nobody addresses as "Mr LastName" unless they are being disrespectful.

 

[off2bed]

Of course its disrespectful. Presidents have never - in my lifetime anyway - been addressed like that.

It's Mr. President or President LastName. Nobody addresses as "Mr LastName" unless they are being disrespectful.

FFS, read a newspaper. That's how they address all presidents. Typically the first reference uses the title President, then after that it's either "Mr. ___" or "Obama."

 

[IrezumiKiss]

I completely disagree. France is France because they have, for the most part, been one people, one culture. The US is made out of other cultures (like Frankenstein's monster ). If one of those "other cultures" becomes dominant enough to drastically change the Constitution, then we are no longer America.

Translation: Once caucasian male hegemony is no longer the standard in America, then we are no longer America.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Translation: Once caucasian male hegemony is no longer the standard in America, then we are no longer America.

I am enjoying the last days of my hegemony.

dance wenches!

 

[IrezumiKiss]

I am enjoying the last days of my hegemony.

dance wenches!

I knows how you like them Spanish girls, Rosc. "Spanish" meaning the Spanish girls around Avenue C and Houston.

 

[rosco rathbone]

I knows how you like them Spanish girls, Rosc. "Spanish" meaning the Spanish girls around Avenue C and Houston.

In my day there were all kinds of spanish hotties on that block.

Me thinks the yuppies have sent them packing though.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

In my day there were all kinds of spanish hotties on that block.

Me thinks the yuppies have sent them packing though.

I never, ever thought I'd see the day when there would be velvet rope door restaurants in that area. Every time I walk around there I still bug the fuck out. I can't even remember where The World used to be.

 

[rosco rathbone]

The World used to be.

I saw Public Enemy play New Years Eve there.

That's how old school I am.

 

[Peregrinator]

Of course its disrespectful. Presidents have never - in my lifetime anyway - been addressed like that.

It's Mr. President or President LastName. Nobody addresses as "Mr LastName" unless they are being disrespectful.

Are you serious?

In the National: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=.../article/20090703/FOREIGN/707029862/1011/NEWS

WSJ: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=...ine.wsj.com/article/SB124649175841883047.html

NYT: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=.../world/middleeast/03iraq.html?ref=global-home

Olberman: http://video.google.com/videosearch...&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=5

Vanity Fair: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour..._XArCJh6KRJDGT5qg&sig2=20ef_wLeNQZJTU45sl7pVQ

There are a million others.

 

[RightField]

gracias.

You're a scholar and a gentleman.

 

[Sean]

ROTFL.


OK. The thousands of dead people?

 

[The_Trouvere]

Translation: Once caucasian male hegemony is no longer the standard in America, then we are no longer America.

When whites become a minority in the United States, the Republican Party will have had it. I don't want to wait that long, however. I want the GOP to get it earlier.

 

[Sean]

One point five million.

Iremain a victim isn't bothered.

 

[off2bed]

One point five million.

Iremain a victim isn't bothered.

Texting from the paddy wagon again?

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Texting from the paddy wagon again?

LOL

That was cold, but funny. Joke too much though, and he'll smack you upside the dome with an axe.

 

[Sean Renaud]

When whites become a minority in the United States, the Republican Party will have had it. I don't want to wait that long, however. I want the GOP to get it earlier.

Cus countries without white majorities are such blissful places. I mean South America, Africa, the Middle East. . . at least some Asia kicks ass!

 

[John Doe]

The US is not a democracy.

 

[John Doe]

Of course its disrespectful. Presidents have never - in my lifetime anyway - been addressed like that.

It's Mr. President or President LastName. Nobody addresses as "Mr LastName" unless they are being disrespectful.

http://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=31201309&postcount=32

http://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=31243165&postcount=48

http://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=29036466&postcount=110

http://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=28646060&postcount=25

 

[KingOrfeo]

I completely disagree. France is France because they have, for the most part, been one people, one culture. The US is made out of other cultures (like Frankenstein's monster ). If one of those "other cultures" becomes dominant enough to drastically change the Constitution, then we are no longer America.

That is a lie, and a damned lie, too. A nation is an ethnocultural entity, not a political entity, and the American nation existed long after colonization but long before independence.

The Polish state was partitioned in the late 18th Century, but the Polish nation survived all those years of foreign rule and was ready to be expressed in a nation-state in 1918.

The American Nation is like that. It existed long before independence from Britain, and all subsequent waves of immigration have assimilated to it.

 

[John Doe]

That is a lie, and a damned lie, too. A nation is an ethnocultural entity, not a political entity, and the American nation existed long after colonization but long before independence.

Wrong. You're thinking of a country. A nation is a political entity and a state even more so, though most people think all three terms are synonymous.