Robert Byer wrote:
> > Heard of any eleven year olds shooting up their classmates in Europe
> > recently? There's American culture for you!
>> No, but I can't recall the last time one of our International Airports was
> closed because someone was lobbing mortors into it (i.e London a few years
> back) or for that matter, our ratio of car bombs over that of Europe is
> much lower (counting Oklahoma City and the World Trade Center bombs).
>> Violance is violance weather it's guns here or car bombs their.
>> I will also point out that the shooting in Scottland was carried out by
> a person that had obtained his hand guns and permits legally.
This is getting a bit ridiculous. I justed wanted to say that calling
America's culture the most advanced culture on earth is not justifiable.
Hopefully you'll at least agree on that. My own opinion is that, in terms of
violence, it is actually a lot less advanced than various other cultures, car
bombings notwithstanding.
As I indicate in another reply, I don't think you can say terrorist acts are
part of the culture of a country. They are performed by adults, with their own
agenda's which usually have nothing to do with their country's culture. The
car bombings you refer to happened in Northern Ireland and in the former
Yugoslavia. Both places can be said to be (or have been) in a state of civil
war. And nothing similar to the shooting in Scotland has happened since, or
before.
Eleven year olds don't have their own agenda, if they do something like what's
happened several times now in several months in the US, that does reflect on
the culture that they're from. I'm not bashing on Americans. I'm just saying
you cannot honestly say that American culture is the best in the world.
Pepijn
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