One of the major issues is that the media tends to glorify violence. The Columbine Massacre is one such example, and the glory and such that led to many copycat shootings, in what the Post called “beat the number of dead.” I do not have the article, unfortunately, as this happened 8+ years ago.

But yes, while you have listed many good points, the point that anyone can legally acquire a firearm easily is misguided. This is not true. Like everything else, some people fall through the cracks — no system created by the human mind is perfect — it works in the cases that are not exceptional.

Hope all is well!

Genetically? For all your plodding long-windedness in trying to make a point you never, ever back or qualify that initial statement. Your logic is the same that propels racial superiority arguments and besides, there’s a lot of Brit in the American gene pool.

>>>A point of note is that most American swearwords have a sexual theme, while a word ‘fucker’ is an insult, if one calls someone a ‘killer’ in America, it is a matter of pride.

“A point of note” indeed but do you have any linguistic or cross-cultural data to back it up? You know, linguistics, anthropology and sociology are real disciplines. You could have called upon them. Your argument is weak.

>>>it is no surprise then that incidents in the likes of Columbine High School massacre and Virginia Tech massacre are exclusive to United States

Um, heard of Finland?

Chileno the high rate of all this violence and crimes in America is a proof that Americans are violence. Which peace loving country makes such a mess at home and abroad? Shedding politically correct statements is not racial superiority it is facing reality. Anthropology or linguistic data can’t explain the excessive amount of swearwords Americans make at every conversation. How would you do that anyway? Find some ‘f***’ genes in American DNA or understand the correct usage of ‘f***’ words in situations. Americans must have inherited a language of curse and swearwords from South Americans who find it odd to say ‘please’. The Finland massacre happened today November 08th, how can the author forsee this on October 4th? And this happened because of US influence in Finnish schoolkids, read the newslink you posted here.

Americans have become a disease who are trying to infect the world with their culture of violence, gluttony and sex obession.

Well, congrats you guys for doing your small part to make the word “liberal” synonymous with “stupid”. If this were part of the vast right wing conspiracy I’d have to hand it to you. Sadly, you guys do seem to be very sincere in your motives, yet of such limited mental capacity as to do your cause more harm than good.

@ Chileno - “Why did you block my comment? Truth hurts I guess.”

I am glad that you have taken the effort to respond Ms. Chileno. Rest assured, we do not engage in unnecessary censorship which is why your comment is here. All new user comments are automatically placed in moderation till a site editor approves them. This is to prevent all those “I like your site but please visit my Ice Cream blog…” spam. If that really annoyed you, my regrets for putting you through that inconvenience.

@ Chileno - “Well, congrats you guys for doing your small part to make the word “liberal” synonymous with “stupid”. If this were part of the vast right wing conspiracy I’d have to hand it to you. Sadly, you guys do seem to be very sincere in your motives, yet of such limited mental capacity as to do your cause more harm than good.”

As for the rest of your comment, I agree with you we are extremely stupid people who need brains like yours to string a few words together. Spell check and a speech synthesiser does all the articles for now. The site is sponsored and funded by the mental asylum that we are inmates of and that we are trying to get out of. If you ever feel like giving back something to the world, pledge your brains to us after you die, so that we can benefit from all that brimming intelligence.

Now, what about the update?

To the people that pointed out America’s involvement in Iraq and how innocent civilians were killed purposefully, what! To suggest that Americans love war more than Europeans are loving of the slaughter of innocent civilians I say look back at the 20th century and say that with confidence. It is America’s government that lied to its people and invaded, just as Germany’s government lied to its people and destroyed Europe. No to say that a nation, made up a European immigrants, fellow humans, is somehow inferior in many ways is a dangerous path to walk down. Before you know know it you may have the blood of millions of “inferior” souls upon your hands. BE SERIOUS.

Please don’t tell me that I’m not guilty of pointing out a prejudiced mind. Anyone with a brain and a thought who’s plowed through your inner thoughts and blogs can make you out as the cultural, intellectual and historical snob that you are. Your blogs, and your words speak volumes to whomever has lived and experienced both the U.S. and the European Continent. You are as ignorant as you are bold.

It doesn’t matter how many Americans you’ve encountered overseas, as you’ve encountered on their home turf. You’re a snob and and intellectual elitist in opposition to what you perceive as the inferior American mind, as guilty as the next.

No worries though. I’ve traveled through Europe as the knuckle dragging, Neanderthal minded American that you’ve so painfully pointed out in your blog. Yet still careful to be appreciative of their cultures, speak their languages, and live the life that they live. From the three trips overseas to the European continent I’ve encountered no such hostility, or smugness, that you would no doubt greet me with.

There are Americans like me who wish to see the world. It is your kind that give us the belief that perhaps we should stay home. We are of a different country, and amazingly, perhaps of different beliefs and tastes. Much better to meet a European who is actually curious of Americans, and of no pre conceived notion that we are all evil and fat. I want to travel the world in order to see how cool other countries are, not to be told how awful my country is. Perhaps you believe you’re doing us a favor by educating us on how awful we really are, when all we really want to do, is learn to say in your language “thank you.”

“I like you and your country” How do you translate that in your own tongue. And please. Tell me how awful I am because I’m American. And give examples of stuff that happened before I was born, as though I don’t know about them, but you do.

God bless you.

I know people who fall into that category who also fall roughly into the category of child, seeing as I attend a high school, and the majority of those people come from impoverished families. However, very few of the kids who are of more well-off origins exhibit similar behavior and/or interests; while I admit that American culture is quite influential, the people it primarily influences are of a select segment of the population. One, I might add, which is larger and more virulent than those of similar nations due our system of extreme capitalism.

To suggest that it’s due to some inherent quality in all (or most) Americans forgets the larger picture, and suggests an author who is very bitter, highly prideful, and extremely snotty. Need I remind you that “American” is not an ethnicity; only by some voodoo magic could all Americans be afflicted with a perverted love of violence. Need I also remind you (as others have done) that Americans come from all genetic backgrounds; at my school alone there are:
-Vietnamese
-Mexicans
-Scotts
-Irish
-Germans
-Brits
-French
-Italians
-Russians
-Chinese
-Spanish
-Croats
-Hungarians
-Kenyans
-Ethiopians
-and more

Of course, as per your haggard English (no offense intended but I have to point it out), it is entirely difficult to determine if you mean by “inherent” some sort of permeating inferiority in Americans or something wholly different. I think you are near the mark when you say that American culture promotes “violence,” but I say near the mark because such a statement suffers from flaws.

I think in a lot of cases it’s simply pig-headed arrogance (concerning foreign policy), as well as a complex array of social problems (concerning domestic violence). Did it not occur to you that large numbers of inmates could just as easily be a product of the justice system as it is of “violent people”?

It is important that the American people be not confused with America’s foreign policy; a different entity entirely. Our foreign policy is driven by obscene corporate interests, which in turn is prettied up for mass consumption by the media. Ultimately, many Americans are short-sighted and overly patriotic, making them susceptible to having the wool pulled over their eyes, although that’s definitely understating it considering the intelligence of most right-wingers.

Finally, to say that the Virginia tech massacre is a symptom of American violent culture, or to say the same of Columbine, is once again failing to see the big picture. The Korean immigrant, immigrant being the operative word, was psychotic; a symptom which exists in Europe too, I imagine.

“Another cause of violence in America could be the large ownership of guns in America. Coupled with impusive behaviour and social acceptability of walking around with firearms, it is not surprise the a large proportion of violent crimes in America is because of guns. Guns in America is more acceptable and normal on kids than cellphones, many US states have laws that allow school kids to carry concealed handguns. There is also in incident where US authorities issued a gun on a 10 month old infant in Illonis state, admittedly the state with the strictest gun controls.”

As a student in college who has lived in many states within America (27 to be exact) At NO high school, middle school, or college campus have I seen ANY student carrying any type of gun. Please provide quantitative and qualitative evidence to support your ludicrous claims.

Also, there is no state of Illonis. (there is Illinois though)