The biggest lie that Americans tell themselves is that we are the "greatest" country in the world in that our culture is somehow more evolved than other cultures. That the bad things that are "inherent" in other cultures do not exist in ours.
I am here to tell you that it all happens here. Every bad thing that we want to believe only happens in other places happens right here. Because it's people. It's all people, and we are all capable of terrible things.
The biggest lie that Americans tell themselves is that we are the "greatest" country in the world in that our culture is somehow more evolved than other cultures. That the bad things that are "inherent" in other cultures do not exist in ours.
I am here to tell you that it all happens here. Every bad thing that we want to believe only happens in other places happens right here. Because it's people. It's all people, and we are all capable of terrible things.
Update:
The backlash of this post on my Facebook page was a barrage of "America really IS the greatest!," "If you don't like it, LEAVE!," "America has the most freedom!," "Where else could you go to be treated as well as you are here?!"
Which completely missed the intent of my statement, but absolutely proved my point. So, I guess I should be grateful.
#murica
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