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Originally Posted by Toby
I didn't think so. You wish to participate in a global economy, but don't want to extend that same courtesy to non-US based businesses.
1) Time to wake up and smell the coffee. Economies are now global, just like the Internet. The 80's called, and they want their attitude back.
2) You claim to speak for the "VAST MAJORITY of Americans". Care to share the poll results? I must have missed them.
3) The flag icon you're all bent about is for making choice for preferred language, which in this case is English. If my history classes were correct that language was invented in ENGLAND centuries before the US even existed.
You're welcome to express your opinion, that's a right we have here in America, but please don't think for a minute you're speaking for anyone but yourself.
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1. Nice thought, but American wallets don't work on the "Love everybody" principle. Waving someone else's flag at an American is likely to anger them....which leads to #2......
2. Just above this message my point is made for me. Don't see a whole lot of "flag burning" going on around this country, do you? How'd that whole "we got a right to burn the flag" thing come out a few years ago? Most Americans are closet patriots, but the liberal media (and now you) seem to want to make that somehow "shameful." Sorry, not buying it.
3. Actually, they're rooted in Latin. more recently, The Roman's put a hell of a twist on their language, when they conquered most of the continent .But, how far back do you want to go? I speak American English. I don't deny the language came from England, as did many of my ancestors. But my country is just over 200 years old, and is the most powerful nation, ever, in the history of the world. I'm thinking that earns us the right to our flag.
So, again I say, you wanna sell to me? and the same "Joe Public" I've been dealing with at the retail counter for the past 30 years? You better put my flag up there....if you're putting flags up.
Had you just put the word "english," up there, I probably wouldn't have been too upset.
So, again, back to the thread....if you want to know about it's "saleability,"
MY OPINION is, you better change the flags.
And I'm guessing yours is, "ok with me."
Oh...wait. I'm sorry. You haven't expressed a helpful opinion yet.
Did you have anything to say
about the thread topic?
Or did you just want to bash America, or my opinion?