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Picture of youthforchange
Registered: April 24, 2006
Posts: 113
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What do people first think about America? I am interesed in what people (that dont live in the US) first think of America? Like, your steriotypes and such
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Registered: December 11, 2003
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by the way did you know that the word "hurray"(as in shouting hurray) is mongolian in orgin?


Cool. English is a very diverse language...reason it's one of my favorites.

Yeah, pants are a very important invention. I need not see a guy's dick through straw skirts.


"Regardless, I have always, and will always, succeed."
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Registered: February 22, 2004
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I dunno I rather like my pants


"The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done"."
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Registered: January 15, 2006
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Hurray for the mongals! Creators of hurray and pants!

I'm tempted to put that in my signature, lol. But then again, I'm not sure the creation of pants was really good for the world.


~*The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
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Registered: May 18, 2006
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Hurray for the mongals! Creators of hurray and pants!


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Registered: February 22, 2004
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a whole lot of things exist in the world today as commonplace because the mongals made them standard when they conqured the world. Pants are one such thing before the mongols everyone wore tunics. Postal Systems are another example and so is freedom of religion

if your intrested read the book "Ghengis Khan and the making of the modern world" It's a great read


"The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done"."
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Registered: May 18, 2006
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I did not know that about hurray. Hurray! New knowledge!


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Registered: February 22, 2004
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Yeah I know but english has gotten quite a few words from just about everyone

by the way did you know that the word "hurray"(as in shouting hurray) is mongolian in orgin?


"The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done"."
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Registered: December 11, 2003
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If French isn't a real language then the English Americans speak should become illegal.

It sucks as a language, god knows I hate its sound, but it is a language that English got quite a few words from.


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Registered: February 22, 2004
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No Kate just highly biased


"The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done"."
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Registered: May 18, 2006
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Hey! Thats mean Amp.


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Registered: February 22, 2004
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yeah I can understand that, Most people don't seem to understand that not only are arabs not all muslims the extremists who attacked us are pretty much general outcasts from society over there.

and Kate that sounds like a personal problem to me, I recommend dropping french for a real language, like german or arabic for example.


"The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done"."
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Registered: January 15, 2006
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Amp, I guess it's more Muslim hating whores but since so many Americans seem to think that Arabs and Muslims are the same thing, the distinction kind of spread to include everyone.
When I hear French, I think toast. *shrugs*


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Registered: May 18, 2006
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Hey! I speak French! Not very well, but still


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Registered: December 14, 2004
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Oh. Amp. You crack me up sometimes.


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Registered: February 22, 2004
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really? I never thought that there was a real hatred of arabs here. though I wonder what people from the US has sterotypes about when it comes to other nations.

I try to keep an open mind but when ever somebody mentions france I instantly think of snotty, rude as hell, rich people eating bugs and amphibian legs and speaking in the worlds most annoying accent


"The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done"."
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Registered: January 15, 2006
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I think "Arab hating whores" sums it up pretty nicely.


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Registered: January 17, 2003
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I think of a huge Burger King, with an obese man in an over-sized basketball jersey drinking from a super-sized pop can walking in front of it. I also think of big SUVs driving up every street corner, and a little, old man with jean overalls and chewing on a piece of wheat rocking in a wicker chair. Hmm... then in the background, I also think of that infamous Hollywood sign, and the massive homes of the O.C. Shake in a smidge of smog and a twiddle of a "Rawchesta" accent, and yep, that about sums it up. But, I mean America has so many things associated with it, it's hard to whittle them down to just a few. So those are the ones that just sprung in to my mind.
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Registered: October 30, 2005
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Aww. How sweet.


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Registered: October 28, 2005
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Yes she is. I made her account for her. Roll Eyes


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