Strikes me kind of uneasy...

[deficite]

I'm glad other people feel as I did when I heard that speech. I felt it was highly inappropriate and disrespectful. It'd even irritate me if FIRST was only a United States competition. I simply can not put up with this brand of supreme arrogance and cockiness that has unfortunately been with this country since the late 1800's.

In the United States I've grown so tired of the idea that being proud to be an American means you have to criticize all other nations and say that the United States is the greatest country ever. What gives you the right to say that? Oh, you were born here and have (most of the people saying crap like this) never experienced much if anything at all of the world outside of the United States. If you only ate cabbage your entire life and only knew about cabbage, besides always smelling bad, you would be ignorant of all other foods. When you had the opportunity to embrace the variety of nourishment available to us, you would rather push them away and spit on them. It's the government's job to keep people ignorant and patriotic and to let them believe everything they say. He happens to be an employee of the government. Guess what his job is?

It's going to be our own undoing one of these days.

PS: Please do not get the wrong message here. I am not attacking Americans, I'm attacking arrogance usually spawned by ignorance. Most of the last argument would not apply to him since he was born in Cuba and lived in Mexico, but it was mainly me venting about people who HAVEN'T experienced other nations yet try to bash them and throw the United States in their faces.