Sanders starting to kick some HC... whatever

[fishonjazz]

I've lived in areas where the homes and smell is like that. Not on nearly as large of a scale as big city Brazil of course. But learning the language, culture and their view on the world would be a tremendous experience.

Well your dream should be easy to achieve then.
You want to live in big city brazil for a few years. Hell I bet you could live in one of them ****holes in sau paulo brazil for 2 years and it would only cost you a couple thousand.

Can't imagine it would be that great to live that way but whatever floats your boat bro

 

[Stoked]

Well your dream should be easy to achieve then.
You want to live in big city brazil for a few years. Hell I bet you could live in one of them ****holes in sau paulo brazil for 2 years and it would only cost you a couple thousand.

Can't imagine it would be that great to live that way but whatever floats your boat bro

Well if I was on a hole like that as my residence I'd really only sleep there. Imagine all the adventures,, things to try, see and learn in an environment like that.

 

[fishonjazz]

Well if I was on a hole like that as my residence I'd really only sleep there. Imagine all the adventures,, things to try, see and learn in an environment like that.

Ya and I'm being hyperbolic anyway. It's not like those ****holes agree the only places to stay in sau paulo. There are tons of nice places too.

 

[Deleted member 848]

Wasn't for me but I want to answer.

I'm a dream scenario is live in a very different culture for an extended period (2+ years). Big City Brazil, rural Japan and rural S Africa are the most attractive locations to me.

Spain and Austraila round out my top 5 but those two is more of a visit. Couple months maybe.

rural Japan is beautiful beyond your comprehension, and the people are nicer than any other place I've ever been to. Yes, Even to Americans.

 

[Stoked]

rural Japan is beautiful beyond your comprehension, and the people are nicer than any other place I've ever been to. Yes, Even to Americans.

In my experiences over seas I haven't encountered that many negative reactions because I am American. Probably because I wasn't an insufferable jerk. I treated people with respect and if I offended thru ignorance of their customs I apologized and explained why I did what I did. Normally it lead to them appreciating me and my ways more and me appreciating them and their ways more.

 

[Joe Bagadonuts]

In my experiences over seas I haven't encountered that many negative reactions because I am American. Probably because I wasn't an insufferable jerk. I treated people with respect and if I offended thru ignorance of their customs I apologized and explained why I did what I did. Normally it lead to them appreciating me and my ways more and me appreciating them and their ways more.

This has been my experience too. I've been fortunate to do a lot of travel and I can literally only think of one mildly negative cultural experience. I can think of many, many positive ones.

 

[fishonjazz]

rural Japan is beautiful beyond your comprehension, and the people are nicer than any other place I've ever been to. Yes, Even to Americans.

I'm not surprised.
Most counties I have been to it seems like the people there are nicer than Americans and I always seem to hear the same sentiment from other Americans who have traveled as well.
Maybe it's partly because allot of the time when you travel you are on vacation and in a better mood in the first place so people seem nicer and partly cause Americans are assholes.
I mean trump having a chance (and a pretty good chance too) to be president says allot

 

[Deleted member 848]

In my experiences over seas I haven't encountered that many negative reactions because I am American. Probably because I wasn't an insufferable jerk. I treated people with respect and if I offended thru ignorance of their customs I apologized and explained why I did what I did. Normally it lead to them appreciating me and my ways more and me appreciating them and their ways more.

The amount of Japanese civilian casualties during WWII would merit a very well-understood grudge across the entire nation-- but they interestingly don't roll like that. Speaks to their people. I can't tell you how floored I was. I expected the old people to look at me with disdain-- nope, they were probably the nicest ones. The same people who had brothers and parents killed from allied bombing attacks.

America is dead-set on scapegoating Muslims after a relatively paltry attack during 9/11, comparatively. Think about how long it would take for Americans to have normalized relations with Japan if they experienced the same extent of a bombing campaign.

 

[Joe Bagadonuts]

The amount of Japanese civilian casualties during WWII would merit a very well-understood grudge across the entire nation-- but they interestingly don't roll like that. Speaks to their people. I can't tell you how floored I was. I expected the old people to look at me with disdain-- nope, they were probably the nicest ones. The same people who had brothers and parents killed from allied bombing attacks.

America is dead-set on scapegoating Muslims after a relatively paltry attack during 9/11, comparatively. Think about how long it would take for Americans to have normalized relations with Japan if they experienced the same extent of a bombing campaign.

I've personally met Japanese (and Germans) who say they were thankful for the American bombing campaign against their countries. They said there was no choice. I even know an American WWII bomber pilot and his German wife. He bombed her city multiple times. She calls him a hero.

I think that's a very different situation than terrorist attacks.

 

[Stoked]

The amount of Japanese civilian casualties during WWII would merit a very well-understood grudge across the entire nation-- but they interestingly don't roll like that. Speaks to their people. I can't tell you how floored I was. I expected the old people to look at me with disdain-- nope, they were probably the nicest ones. The same people who had brothers and parents killed from allied bombing attacks.

America is dead-set on scapegoating Muslims after a relatively paltry attack during 9/11, comparatively. Think about how long it would take for Americans to have normalized relations with Japan if they experienced the same extent of a bombing campaign.

2 observations about the bolded:

1. A segment of America, not America as a whole.

2. Calling it paltry is a good way to encounter very negative reactions. I know what you meant but as an American it was HUGELY symbolic to us. You ask almost any American where they where and what they were doing on that date and they can tell you. It is a modern day Pearl Harbor and look how that is still held on to 70+ years later. Americans don't take that lightly. Just an observation.

 

[green]

The amount of Japanese civilian casualties during WWII would merit a very well-understood grudge across the entire nation-- but they interestingly don't roll like that. Speaks to their people. I can't tell you how floored I was. I expected the old people to look at me with disdain-- nope, they were probably the nicest ones. The same people who had brothers and parents killed from allied bombing attacks.

America is dead-set on scapegoating Muslims after a relatively paltry attack during 9/11, comparatively. Think about how long it would take for Americans to have normalized relations with Japan if they experienced the same extent of a bombing campaign.

I'm sure if al-Qaeda had dropped fliers for days before the attacks warning the citizens to leave the cities and explaining why we were dropping the bombs...we'd feel differently about al-Qaeda as well.

NOW, I'm not saying irrational hate towards a religion is ok. What I AM saying is that I can see how some dumb, toothless, uneducated Trump supported would buy into this crap when al-Qaeda killed innocent people without warning.

As compared to the atomic bombs where we warned everyone that it was happening, gave the day and time, and gave ample time to evacuate the cities.

Small difference there.

 

[Stoked]

I'm sure if al-Qaeda had dropped fliers for days before the attacks warning the citizens to leave the cities and explaining why we were dropping the bombs...we'd feel differently about al-Qaeda as well.

NOW, I'm not saying irrational hate towards a religion is ok. What I AM saying is that I can see how some dumb, toothless, uneducated Trump supported would buy into this crap when al-Qaeda killed innocent people without warning.

As compared to the atomic bombs where we warned everyone that it was happening, gave the day and time, and gave ample time to evacuate the cities.

Small difference there.

There is a difference but as Dala said any anger would be certainly understandable. No matter how we went about it we still nuked them twice.