| REVIEWER | RATING & REVIEW |
 | CanadaSucks (50)
03/24/2005 | What planet does this list maker come from? Can this person name 5 nations in Europe?
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 | JonTheMan (29)
08/28/2004 | Generally people don't desire to use ideas that have been used in Europe because of some sort of conformist instinct. It's usually the case that many ideas have been shown to work in Europe (or in other countries) and thus it's only logical to bring up their success when arguing for their implementation. Nothing wrong with using facts to back up ones arguments.
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 | numbah16tdhaha (162)
08/28/2004 | Baa, you silly little sheep.
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 | abichara (66)
02/16/2004 |  I agree with the sentiment that we should try to understand other cultures a little better and be more receptive to new ideas. However, we must remember that the United States revolted from England. The political culture of this country is far more different than Europe's; you can't discuss American political history without mentioning the American Revolution. We've always made it a point to differentiate ourselves from the European aristocracy and the stiff feudalistic connotations that come along with it. America was founded as a colony with vast natural resources; not counting Native Americans, we have had a very short history of living here. Our cities are designed differently, the composition of the population is different and our values are different. Americans have a libertarian bent that you'll never get rid of. I think this gives American society more energy than other European countries whose societies have generally stopped growing. Yes we can be a more efficient society, but America has always been at the cutting edge and that's more than we can say about Europe, a continent that is stagnant and has been torn by deep historical divisions that's only been remedied recently by the rise of the European Union.
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 | pabob (2)
01/20/2004 | Amazing how many Americans actually feel this way. I call it arrogance.
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 | Enkidu (39)
01/19/2004 | Conversely, and more important, the prevailing feeling that anything done in any other country can't possibly have any validity here. Accepting that we don't have all the answers ourselves is part of growing up, and growing up is something we need to do as a nation.
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