Defeat Tehran not with bombs but with culture

[Universe Prince]

Just as long as you realise that it is not a peacefull solution , they are fighting to preserve their way of life , your solution will have us shooting each other ,just as often as any other.

Yes, I am sure that relatively peaceful trade will no doubt result in lots and lots of deaths (no, not really). I'm sure that trying to bomb them would be a much better solution (actually, no, I don't believe that). Bombing people always makes them want to be like us (no, can't think of a single case where that happened). So now we're in perfect agreement (except for where we disagree).

[Plane]

Just as long as you realize that it is not a peacefull solution , they are fighting to preserve their way of life , your solution will have us shooting each other ,just as often as any other.

Yes, I am sure that relatively peaceful trade will no doubt result in lots and lots of deaths (no, not really).

It is already an important reason that we are fighting.

I'm sure that trying to bomb them would be a much better solution (actually, no, I don't believe that). Bombing people always makes them want to be like us (no, can't think of a single case where that happened).

WE shouldn't have as a goal  that they become redundant xeroxes of ourselves , this began to happen in Germany and Japan , but we are not really trying to erase the differences so Germany and Japan have become friends without entirely loosing their national identity.

So now we're in perfect agreement (except for where we disagree).[/color]

If you have the reciprocal of a perfect understanding , an epiphany becomes so simple......

[Xavier_Onassis]

I didn't invent the term Cultural Imperialism , it is a real issue everywhere but here , we alone don't seem to care that the World is becomeing Americanised.

This is the flip side of Americans who want all immigrants to speak English .
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I am sure that no one cares more about this than the people who market American style products all over the world. Mattel and Galoob (I think that is who makes Bratz) design these things, slap a copyright on them and have them made to spec by Chinese women who earn $4 a day, tops, then they ship them all over the place.

The same is true of CD's and DVD's and an infinity of products that the US copyright holders sell all over the place.

The average American does not really want to go to any foreign country, because people there babble on in unintelligible languages and eat weird food. The more skittish prefer to visit the Chinese, Italian, Norwegian, or whatever pavilions at Disney World. The less skittish will go on a cruise, where the food is beyond ample, there are casinos with the worst imaginable odds, and you get to see foreigners for three to five hours every two days or so. By near foreigners, I mean US Virgin Islanders and Puerto Ricans, perhaps Bahamians.

Then they come home and show their pictures and duty-free purchases (which they could have had delivered to their door had they bought it online for less), and enjoy the sweetest part of all: the envy of the rest of their friends, who only got as far as Branson or Dollyville.

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I have yet to understand what is so bloody annoying of having to "Press One for English", How hard is that?
It is a small price to pay for all that money they saved on their last roofing or patio job.