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cahult:
I will tell you some things about my homeland. In return I

voidmain:
I've been to Sweden and remember it being a very nice place. I only spent a short time there (a few hours). I took a ferry from Copenhagen Denmark over to Sweden (would it have been Stockholm?). I remember going in to a pastry shop and if memory serves me correctly pastry shops were a plenty. I also recall something about not being able to get a beer anywhere. Is my memory correct?

Nobody wants to hear about my country, even though I like it.

Bazoukas:
I am with you Void :D
 Even though I lived most of my years in Greece, I see from first hand what US gives to this world.
 Actualy it reminds me ALOT, and i do mean ALOT the Athenian empire during the rule or Periclis before the civil war with the Spartians.

Pissed_Macman:
In my country the majority of the population is overweight and the people there are extremely ignorant to other cultures. Many teenagers do mind-altering drugs that effect them later on in their lives without thinking about the consequences. People are generally tired and overworked and because of this they spend most of their lives miserable. People also spend most of their lives working, only to find out when they turn fifty that their retirement funds just went to hell. The people  here are also incredibly greedy but donate small sums of money to charities to relieve their guilt and then live out their lives of luctury without experiencing what suffering is at all, yet somehow they remain miserable despite this. Large corporations swallow small corporations and then make crappy products that sell very well because they look good, which brings me to my next point. The stupidest things in out culture are what appeal to the most people, meaning 1) that the majority of people are stupid and 2) that the majority of people are very gullable. Our education system is also in the gutter. Our teachers are overworked and underpaid and many still cling to the teaching methods that were taught to them long ago, which pretty much ruins the school system and in turn ruins the youths trapped in that school system. In my culture we look to the past and celebrate how we declared our independence from an oppressive government and created a just form of government, then we go on with lives that are total opposites from the ideals that created this nation. Then we look at all we've done and beat ourselves up for it. We say that we aren't caring enough, that we're blind to the rest of the world when in truth most of us are actually caring people that are victims of a system created by an unending cycle of cruelty and oppression.

But at least we're free, aren't we?

Kintaro:
In my country not only is the population overweight, the gap between the rich and poor everising, And on top of that there is screwy weather (yesterday it was hot, today its freezing).

I still think australia in my opinion is a much better place to live then others because most things are cheap, IT jobs aplenty, The aussie outback is a land of its own. In fact I will say that there is nothing better to me then being in the bush, with my mates, a slab of VB and the only thing resembleing technology being a wristwatch. (FUCK TECHNOLOGY).

In the suburbs of australia, they are much like the USA ones... Full of people in 4wd monsters and lifestyle addicts. In the city (well melbourne to me) its quite insane and busy, like many others. Austrlaia is what you get when you get the UK mix it in with General Europe, throw in the Captialism of the USA, the culture from asia, you get Australaia.

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