Meet the World Flags

[ScarlotteDorian]

wow, american's flag is true though. sad, really.

[voyd]

Originally Posted by TheJake

China

I'm not sure how accurate this is since this site says that 73% of Chinese kids get enrolled in secondary education (which I believe goes up to Grade 12).

[TheJake]

these flags are a couple of years old and china is changing RAPIDLY.

[BelfastFlyer]

Kinda bugs me how people like to point out how stupid they claim americans are. The countries education system is no worse that most of europes, the only difference is europe is too arrogant to accept it!

[TheJake]

we really don't learn anything much in school after the reading and writing bit... the rest we pick up from movies.

[hurr111]

I absolutely hated my History & Science classes back in school...All the reading was so boring and drawn out and slow. Some of the teachers were ok, but they just seemed to really be as ancient as the text books that were shoved down my throat.

Now however I find myself loving all there is about history and sciences. 90% of the time I watch television I am either watching the History Channel or The Discovery Channel (The other 10% is the News Channels). I wish some of my classes were as entertaining as those programs

[Rozza]

it worrys me that it takes gimmicks to make people take notice, everything has to be sold now, and still people buy it but leave it in the Box.

Its like the Make Poverty History campaigne in '05 before live8, lets do a year of campaigning and fundraising to save africa, then stop... wtf? why stop, it had such weight behind it, an entire year of headlines and being the only thing people talk about? Thats amazing in a society where everyones looking for new news, not important news, But no, one year is more Symbolic! Bollocks to that beurocratic puppet fuckwit geldof! i'm sure people in poverty really care for sybolism at the sake of conitnuity. "aid for a year? wow, thanks for thinking of a new way of shitting on me West"

Its like a form of moral masturbation, you give money, which does help, but the fuzzy warm feeling of compassion to your fellow human last alot longer than the aid that person gets. Again, you see these clever cartoons in the papers, or the internet or whatever and people think:

"you know what? I Am a bastard piece of corporate scum... but thanks to satire i've just realised this, so i'm not a bastard piece of corpoate scum... but the Government and the coporations are... Fyou London, Fyou Washington. hell that felt good, i suddenly feel compassion towards fellow man, if i didn't have to break this 5 i would give that homeless guy some money, what the fuck, i might as well recycle this news paper.... this is thirsty work, i'll refresh myself with a coke or a starbucks, then i'll phone jimmy and see if he's scored some speed for tonight."

I'm not really sorry for the rant... just sorry i forgot what i was ranting about... somthing to do with attention spans fickleness

[xanthuos]

Originally Posted by patchouli Lover

I hate that song but I think Allen Jackson that he wrote around 9-11. I think it is Where were you when the world stopped turning..... or something like that. It is a beautiful song and I understand the meaning but the phrase " I don't know the difference between Irag and Iran" drives me nuts!

It's Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning by Alan Jackson. I liked the song because unlike that craptacular song by Toby Keith, it wasn't uberly patriotic or beating the drums for war. The lyrics aren't exactly as you quoted. In the song, he actually says "I'm not a real political man...I watch CNN but I'm not sure I can tell you the difference in Iraq and Iran." It's unfortunate but true that many Americans don't know any differences between the two. Then again, I doubt most Europeans could expound on the many differences between the two either. What differences can you name off the top of your head other than the fact that they are two different countries?

[TheJake]

They are very similar countries in many respects... both border Turkey and the Persian Gulf, both are predominately Shiite Muslim countries.

Some of the Major differences would be in the geography of both, Iran being much bigger and mountainous but the biggest one would be the language difference. Iraq is Arabic and Iran, formerly being known as Persia, speaks Persian.

That's just off the top of my head... Not all americans are uneducated ignoramus's like the ones i've met in memphis....

[expatben]

Of course another difference is that Iran is more fundamentalist in its Islam at the moment whereas Iraq is more liberal-I am not judging, just saying.