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i had an exchange student awhile back and when she left she said and i quote "i hate America you are all pigs" but i think she was mad cause people kept flirting with her and bugging her in classes as to Iraq she never said anything
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idk, but i think we should stay there and finish off those terrorists.
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First of: research "German school system". There are three types of "high school" in germany. Hauptschule, which goes up to ninth grade, or jsut up to when people are 16. than there's Realschule, which goes up to tenth grade, so up to when people are 17. And than there's Gymnasium, which used to go up to 13th grade, now will go up only to 12th grade. Hauptschule enables kids to go into apprenticeships, but not even for all apprenticeships out there. Plus, they are not really taken on for many apprenticeships that they would legally be qualified for. Realschule enables kids to go into every apprenticeship programm, though even they are not accepted for some types of jobs, the employers basically simply wanting higher trained people (has to do with computerization and rising technical standards in the jobs). With Gymnasium, kids can go on to University, or they can go into really every apprenticeship they want. As you can see, the type and quality of education those three school types provide is very different. Hauptschul-kids largely don't really care whatsoever you are doing wherever you are doing it. Realschul-kids do have a little wider horizon, but even they basically are not really interested in your foreign policy. They have enough to do with getting ready for getting an appretniceship, and the basic history and social studies and computer skills lab and English as a foreign language and German classes and ethics and maths and physics and Chemistry and so on. Kids on Gymnasium have a couple of more years to think and be informed about stuff like that. Usually, foreign politics are discussed in social sciences, foreign language classes (in this case: English), politics classes, history classes. Basically, I'd say if they care about the stuff you mentioned: Their view of the US differes nationwide, depending on if they live close to US bases in Germany or not. Your being in Iraq is your thing, but you bombed your way in there largely on a scam (there was no way the US coud have found out that 9/11 was planned, funded or whatever in Iraq, and if so, not by the whole country! And there were no mass destruction weapons!), Germany told you it thought you were acting irrationally fast and irresponsible, with insupportable harshness, and we were not going in there besides you on that ill-founded information you provided, and than after you had gone on with your plan of action, you came to us begging us to help you pay for the damage you had done and help the poor people in Afghanistan and Iraq. Think again! You wanted to break it, we told you you were being s.t.u.p.i.d, you broke it, and than you come to us and want us to fix it. Not going to happen! Stop acting like a child. I know 9/11 was horrible, and you are loosing a hell of a lot of great people down there, but stop blaming that on lack of support from other countries, acting as if the US were the brave heroes of the world and everybody else are just sissies. Everybody else is just asking questions and think before we act. After all, wasn't that what everybody told us Germans we needed to learn, after WW2? Now that we do, you don't like it either, cause we're not on your side and "it isn't fair". Yeah, well, suck it up! That, basically, is the predominant opinion of Germans per se about the US and their wars. And that, predominantly, is what kids get put into them in school, too. Which, of course, is also questionable, as they think they are thinking those things themselves, when it really is just the opinion of theri teachers and parents put into them. IT is just such a nice, reasonable sounding opinion that it is easy to say it is well founded. And about exchange students telling you she doesn't liek the US because "you are all pigs": Well, a fine job you have done representing your country, haven't you? Maybe it's time you all had a look in the mirror!
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