HannibalX
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Originally posted by: jonks
The majority of Americans have never left the country so what they think shouldn't matter all that much to anyone else.
That might have something to do with our country being 3,794,066 square miles in total area, having a population of 320 million or so people and only bordering two other large countries. Americans can't hop a train to France. We have two huge oceans to cross to the East and West to get to Europe or East Asia. Just traveling across our country is a large effort. It isn't like taking a 30 minute train ride from the UK to France.
Compare those figures to the UK or Italy and it's easy to see why people living in those countries move around a bit. They are small and have small populations. It's much like Americans taking trips to other states. Keep in mind our states are their own little countries so to speak. They have their own locally elected Legislature, Executive Officer (Governor), Constitution, economy, law enforcement, education system, tax system, and even military.
Not to mention the US has more ethic and cultural groups than it knows what to do with. Just crossing our Nation's capital from North to South represents a huge cultural change (Baltimore on the north and Alexandria on the south).
However with you making completely ignorant remarks like the one you just did I think a better decision would be to not care what you think about just about anything. :thumbsup: