Original post by YavannaHa, gun "crime". See my above post if you want to amuse yourself with the wise and wonderful workings of the wonderful state of Texas.
Well you see, the worst racial discrimination there is here aside from the outright violent kind is the really subtle kind that never gets reported on the news. Like how Americans treat some people as if they are stupid, even though they have a university degree in international law from another country (if they don't look white). And we do have a bit of freedom of choice in those areas (well, it seems like the news makes it seem like we don’t) because if you don’t want them to know, they don’t have to find out. Ahem. I never said that. Awful food quality? Definitely. Let me tell you, if you think McDonald’s is bad, then don’t risk your life by going to the US and trying it. The chicken nuggets I ate a few months ago (that was actually the first time in a few years since I ate McDonald’s in America, and I only did it out of curiosity because the McDonald’s chicken nuggets and French fries I ate in England weren’t that bad)… ohhhh god. They didn’t taste like chicken and they didn’t have the texture of chicken, and they barely even smelled like chicken. But out of those, the worst part was that they didn’t taste like chicken. I don’t even know what they tasted like, but it did not taste like something people should be putting into their digestive system, or any other system for that matter. But fast food in the UK (or at least the parts I went to) are much better than fast food (in general) in the US. The quality of British fast food is roughly equivalent to fairly reasonably priced “table service” restaurants. Lucky, lucky. And the “dodgy education” you’re listing is just what’s reported on the news (though you are right), but it’s much more than that. In most places, especially in Texas, if you’re going to a public high school… Good luck, because rather than spending money to improve the quality of teachers, they spend it on 5 new tennis courts (when there are already 4), or a new parking lot, or renovating the football field (okay, maybe that’s just my school). And most of the time, the teachers are pretty bad quality (I’ve had a few good ones. A few.), and I swear, some of them are hired just because they served in the military (I mean, you’d think they’d know a thing or two because, well, military, but they don’t). Basically, the quality of nearly everything in America is pretty bad, and people are tricked into thinking we have a good standard of living because we have so much crap, I mean, stuff, even though nearly everything we consume is from China or Mexico (who couldn’t care less about our health; don’t think regulations do anything much about it, they trust what the companies say about their products).
Oops. I ranted a bit. But yeah, I agree with you, but because of more specific (and... uh... less publicized) reasons.