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Why I’m NOT proud to be American

Posted by elena on 22 Mar 2008 at 01:49 pm | Tagged as: views

These are a few reasons I don’t like being an American:

1. America is one of the top two contributors to Global Warming.

2. We are the most obese country in the World.

3. Despite being a rich country, we have worse health care than Cuba.

on 22 Mar 2008 at 8:24 pm sage

i think that we could do a lot better in america we eat bad! we even think we are following the food perymid and the facts are that the food perymid is a complete fake! please understand that in america we need to do somthing we need to stop global warming we need to eat healfy we need to give the health care that we all deserve!

And untill that happens we can not say we are proud to be Americans!
on 23 Mar 2008 at 3:58 pm Valerie

good 4 u Elena. its about time someone said: there r things were doing wrong.
on 23 Mar 2008 at 4:42 pm Elena

Thanks for your responses! I really like to hear what other people think about my views.
I’m glad you agree with me, and I agree with everything you said.
Thanks again!
on 10 Apr 2008 at 10:36 am Aunt Paula

Hi dear Elena,

Glad to see you thinking and writing. Some things to consider:

America is the best place for a girl to be. As Oprah says, just by being born here you are automatically luckier than 99% of all the girls in the world.

America is one of few countries who has the financial and natural resources to do something world changing about the way we use our environment. It just takes all of us to exert the effort.

Our government is not America. We are.

I’d love to hear what you think. Peace and blessings to you.
on 11 Apr 2008 at 6:17 pm elena

Thanks Auntie Paula!
That makes me feel a LITTLE better about being an American.