Maybe the pedagogue in me was just giving you the chance to find out for yourself!
Do try, though, talking to anyone who spent 5 minutes in any of the Scandinavian countries or in the north of Europe, or, actually, pretty much anywhere in Europe. I would go as far as saying that a few latin american countries provide more real-life freedom that the US...
Of course, this all depends of what you understand by freedom. But I have been both in the US and in Europe repeatedly, and I would not take one fourth of a second to choose the latter as a more freer place.
But do not take my word for this: do do some research for standard comparaisons on quality of life, on respects for individual and civil rights, etc; freedom can be measured by the effects it has on people. Ideally, visit some foreign countries: this has the added value that it can be actually very nice.
The status of the US as a `leader of the free world' is mostly based on state-funded propaganda in rather low quality movies during the beginings of the cold war and the rather inobjetable reality that the US has right now the biggest military power.
The first of these I needn't discuss, but you will understand that the second has nothing to do with freedom---at least, with freedom when it is understood as the actual freedom of people: the second candidate to biggest military power was, for ages, the Soviet Union, and no one claims that that was the second most free place in the world...
Now, will you find more freedom somewhere else than what you have here? I don't know the answer to that.
A standard thing to say to that would be that that's because all places you can think of are those that have been bombed during Bush's on-going plan to teach americans some geography... I won't say that, though.
It really amazes me that (some) americans continue to think that the US is the place with more freedom on earth.
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Maybe the pedagogue in me was just giving you the chance to find out for yourself! Do try, though, talking to anyone who spent 5 minutes in any of the Scandinavian countries or in the north of Europe, or, actually, pretty much anywhere in Europe. I would go as far as saying that a few latin american countries provide more real-life freedom that the US... Of course, this all depends of what you understand by freedom. But I have been both in the US and in Europe repeatedly, and I would not take one fourth of a second to choose the latter as a more freer place. But do not take my word for this: do do some research for standard comparaisons on quality of life, on respects for individual and civil rights, etc; freedom can be measured by the effects it has on people. Ideally, visit some foreign countries: this has the added value that it can be actually very nice. The status of the US as a `leader of the free world' is mostly based on state-funded propaganda in rather low quality movies during the beginings of the cold war and the rather inobjetable reality that the US has right now the biggest military power. The first of these I needn't discuss, but you will understand that the second has nothing to do with freedom---at least, with freedom when it is understood as the actual freedom of people: the second candidate to biggest military power was, for ages, the Soviet Union, and no one claims that that was the second most free place in the world...
A standard thing to say to that would be that that's because all places you can think of are those that have been bombed during Bush's on-going plan to teach americans some geography... I won't say that, though.
It really amazes me that (some) americans continue to think that the US is the place with more freedom on earth.T'is is perfectly good English...