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Originally Posted by teratos
There are also an awful lot of social factors you are not considering. You say our (the US) crime rate is high, but our system is harsh. How are the two connected? There are far too many variables not being considered for you to fairly correlate the US with the EU
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it just seems that many people outside the US also take this stance. i hate to say its ignorant, but it is.
no one that is non-American can really understand what its like to grow up/live in a country of 300million, and those that assume they know everything about everything with the US are just plain foolish. i took European history in high school and college. does that make me an expert on Europe? i also took Euro economics. should i criticize the EU and its countries? if anything, i feel LESS inclined to do so, because there is so much that i don't know, and could never learn w/o years of studies.