Puh-lease. The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth. We have the most powerful military. We have the most powerful economy. We have the richest population. This is just a fact. There is no nation on earth that could obliterate us without being themselves snuffed out. Simply being the best does not make us arrogant or narrow minded. What is narrow minded is to show such utter contempt for a country that has done so much good for you and the world. We give away more money in aide than any other nation on earth by several factors. We provide billions of dollars to NATO in arms, troops, training, and technology, just so you bastards in Europe will stop killing each other. We had an isolationist government for most of our existance as a nation. Only after we were forced into WWI and WWII did we finally decide to enforce world peace by our own means. You can't blame us for doing it. You can't possibly believe your nation would do differently given the opportunity.
Also, before you attack American's as individuals, I suggest you come to America and meet a few. You would find that the sensationalized America you THINK you know because you watch Baywatch and the 6 o'clock news couldn't be farther from the truth. Both the U.K. and Canada have a higher violent crime rate than the U.S., and they are both rising. Canada has the highest homeless rate of all industrialized nations.
And, since we're completely off topic for this forum anyway, here's some more useless information I've stumbled across in my internet wanderings...
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following.
There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and
South America
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States.
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer
-= This is our wading pool.
Stop pissing in it. =-