Americans consider themselves to be the epitome of everything great. We seem to think that we’re the flag bearers of Western civilization, and that the world would be much better off if everyone would just hop on board with us. Now, I’m not saying that Americans are terrible, or that we’re a bad country, but in reality, we aren’t always as good as we claim to be.
To begin with, while most of the western parts of the world (and including in countries like Pakistan, a very conservative Islamic nation) have had a woman executive, Americans seem to think that it will somehow change everything once we have our first, and almost think that the rest of the world really thinks that its that big of a deal. Well heads up, they don’t really care.
America is quite possibly the farthest behind in social issues in the entire developed western world. We champion human rights, criticize other countries for their records, yet completely disregard the fact that we are a very sexist and racist country, (SPOILER ALERT: Yes! We are racist!!!) and this irony isn’t lost on the rest of the world. Even China, notorious for its terrible human rights history has stood up and said that our history of racial violence and slavery leave us in no true position to criticize anybody.
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