You must be quoting the wrong post, because I'm pretty sure I didn't say anything about freedom. Regardless, nothing the government has done to me that warrants leaving the country. I'm not accusing anyone of anything, but personally I have nothing to hide. They can look through my phone records and library checkouts all they want. All they'll see is a bunch of calls to a girl and well, basically nothing else since I only checked out Origin of Species one time and didn't even read it.I don't think America is a Utopia. I don't think there really is one in this world. I just think it's downright silly to come here and then whine about how terrible it is and how lazy the people are if you are lazy yourself. Not only that, but you kinda contradicted yourself by saying that most Americans are exhausted and working too hard but are also lazy. That doesn't make sense. This is a capitalist society. If people want to work 50+ hours a week, we can't stop them. That's their decision. Okay, yeah, there's some people who have to work a ton of hours for their family. Like I said, I don't think this is a Utopia. I don't think all those people have lived great lives though, either. Sadly, I'd have to say some people earned their way into poverty. And there's poverty (and ridiculously higher unemployment) in other countries. The bottom line is, I have friends that work all the time in school. They put in endless hours to make great grades so that they can get 6 figure jobs or go to graduate school. That's not the life for me. I'd rather just get a job I enjoy and make 5 figures. Most people in America have the opportunity to be happy, which may not be the case in a lot of other countries. If you don't want to be here, leave? I don't care. I am happy, so I'm staying here.As for most Americans being OMG LAZY OMG, most foreign people I've seen come here to the public schools haven't done that great. And yes, I had four foreign exchange students who went to high school here, so I did get to see how they lived and acted. The others that I have seen were even lazier. Most of them just smoked all day and told stories about whatever the hell people wanted to hear about. In a nutshell, they were complete jackasses. My foreign exchange students were better, but not mind-blowing. I don't think they worked any more or any less than a normal American would. Is that surprising? The top 2 in my class out of high school were white Americans (pretty sure there wasn't an immigrant in the top 10, although there were Asian-Americans, if that matters). Does that surprise you? Comparing foreign schools to American high schools is ridiculous. It's like comparing apples and oranges. "THIS ORANGE ISN'T RED ENOUGH YET!" Seriously though, there's a reason there's so many foreign-born students at my university, and I don't think it's because foreign schools are better.The reason I'm sick of hearing about Americans being lazy is because I'm not lazy. I've worked through 4 years of high school and 2 years of college, and it's not like I'm planning on sleeping through a year of my life in the future, y'know. This crap just gets old. You talk about hype, why don't you base your opinions on actual people instead of hype? I'm not lazy, and I don't think 5'10", 130 lbs. is fat. Do you? Get over yourself. No one is acting holier-than-thou except you that talk about Americans being lazy. Honestly, count the American businesses you shop at and the American products you buy in the next month, even if you live in a foreign country. I don't think that comes from laziness.
