Coward – American Arrogance – Stupidity on Display

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Life provides a great follow-up to my previous post on “Green It Is” where I mentioned stupidity. Stupidity is a mental dullness that separates the heart from the mind. And stupidity generates ignorance and arrogance.

Hope Solo the Olympic U.S. soccer goalkeeper, called the winning Swedes in their match “cowards.” Cowards – two teams facing each other in a sport, how can one team be a coward? They came to play. If they didn’t show up then maybe you could brand them as cowards.

On the other hand, cowards are the elites of the world that send others to their death to do their dirty-work for power and the almighty “buck.”

I feel Charlemagne was a despicable, contemptible, and loathsome human being sending thousands and thousands of pagans to their death when they refused to convert to Christianity. But he was no coward. He was a warrior leading the slaughter of innocents not holed-up in an ivory palace dictating the slaughter as happens in today’s world.

Stupidity breeds ignorance and arrogance. It was a stupid comment by Solo.

Arrogance is a hallmark of traveling Americans outside of the U.S. I know through experience not only firsthand but by my interactions with the locals of foreign lands. Americans, instead of fitting in with the local culture, want to maintain their own familiarity of life while viewing others as below them—thus the label of the arrogant American.

In all of my solo travels to foreign lands I was never taken as an American. When the locals would discover that I was from the U.S., they would shake their heads and tell me that they thought I was a local as I fit in as one of them and wasn’t arrogant or demanding of them. This led them to believe that I was not an American.

I always honored and followed the local customs and culture. Many people that travel to foreign lands do not. This is one of the reasons for the immigration crisis in Europe. The immigrants do not want to accept or follow the local culture, which just fans the fires of resentment, anger, and fear against these strangers in a strange land.

When you travel aboard, learn not to be a stranger but a follower of the local culture—embrace it and enjoy the differences that make life wonderful.

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