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Agree: ‘A huge part of knowing about foreign policy is just showing off’

March 13, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

Gavin McInnes writes:

I’ve been trying to care about Putin’s reclamation of Crimea but it’s honestly a lot easier caring how rude Justin Bieber is in his deposition. Many would disagree with this and claim this conflict is crucial to our understanding of the world today but I suspect they’re lying. (…)

Maybe if Americans traveled to the places they pretend to be interested in, they’d see that we’re not just different on the surface. We are intrinsically different to our very core. Russians think death is funny. The Chinese pray for material items. Central Americans think the handicapped are cursed. Africans think albino blood is magic. Even Europe is fundamentally different than us. Have you ever seen Eurovision? It’s a mind-blowingly lame song competition that brings the entire continent together in screaming applause. No thanks.

 

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