Two America's

When people bash the US (for one of many reasons) I usually start my retort with: Remember, there are two America's. What do I mean by this? Well you really can't group all American's into fundamentalist-Kansians. For instance, if you look at the Morons v. Evolution/Science, NY isn't a staging ground. So the basic problem is that the dumb American's have an unusually loud voice over intelligent America. But don't think this isn't true of Canada as well, remember Alberta! It just happends that our middle-country isn't completely retarded (and more importantly doesn't have enough political sway to do very much). In the end it is ignorance and religious fundamentalism we tend to be annoyed at so we should concentrate on the views of the person not their nationality. It would be incorrect to say Iranians mistreat women as all muslims do since Iranian people are largely non-religious (despite living in a theocracy). The failing is with interpretations some book not the persons nationality. Bashing nationality only tends to let the people band together with their country-men, bashing their beliefs beliefs them thinking (or some approximation of it).