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Originally posted by MegaMan
you a damn idiot!
I hope everyone got that. It's an important point. I a damn idiot.
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hemispheres dont have to be horizantal (SP CHK) since 'hemisphere' implies a HALF OF A SPHERE the dividing line can be up and down or left and right..
No **** Sherlock.
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i dont think you know your geography too well.
this HALF -- the western world is often referred to as the western hemisphere-- in that light one might conclude that the US/CANADA area is the 'northwestern quadrasphere' (SP CHK),..
its all about geographic division-- after all geography throughout humanity has shaped every culture and political endevor (SP CHK) the US gives special attention to this half of the globe as it is essentially our 'neighborhood'
It's interesting that you can tell that I'm bad at geography. Obviously there really is a westernmost point to the globe and I'm just ignorant.
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and in regards to your mcdonalds crack! MANY COMPANIES IN THE US FAVOR PEOPLE WHO SPEAK MORE THAN ONE LANGUAGE over THOSE WHO DONT!
Wow you're just a fountain of inspirational statements. Oh yeah, you seem to have trouble with small writing; WOW YOU'RE JUST A FOUNTAIN OF INSPIRATIONAL STATEMENTS.
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MY GRIPE WITH WHITE AMERICANS IS THAT THE MAJORITY THINK THEY DONT OWE ANYTHING TO THE MULTI-CULTURAL COMMUNITY BY LEARNING A THING OR TWO-- HAVING SOME CULTURAL SENSATIVITY-- EXPANDING ON THEIR LIMITED POINT OF VIEW.. ITS MUCH THE SAME GRIPE ANY NON-WHITE AMERICAN HAS WITH WHITE AMERICANS. blacks, chinese, latino, europeans.. the list circles the globe. -- and that is a generalization-- this does not, (obviously) apply to everyone.
Yeah, if only they all had some more 'cultural sensativity' :rolleyes:
They don't owe anything at all. They're perfectly entitled to keep speaking whatever languages they like. If it just so happens that they don't find it necessary to learn another language, then if you want to talk to them you'd better be talking English. If that is a problem, it is your problem, not theirs, up until the point they decide their lives would be better if they were multi-lingual.
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I mean whos fault is it that what one might term as "American Culture" is really no culture at all. or better said-- no one distinct culture.. it is a mosiac of many different cultural influences of the people that make the United States, including baseball and apple pie. those arent really inovative as far as a cultural identity is concerned.
Who really cares whose 'fault' it is? Who actually gives a crap for a practical reason? The issue at hand is language, not culture. They are related but different.
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Its really quite funny how some Americans cannot understand why the World loathes them so much-- the same thing occurs even within the border lines of ths US.
Which Americans specifically? Do you loathe Americans because they are reluctant to learn Spanish? That's a pretty flimsy opinion.