tennis, federer vs roddick

and i was watching this tennis match in the lounge in my hostel (Cobb), and i was surrounded by a million american freshmen, who were all madly supporting Roddick.

i mean, good man, good to support and love your own country. but then, from the way they made some comments, you get the idea that they really think that america is god.

i dunno if they were sarcastic, or joking, but comments such as "is there any country that we haven't beaten? oh yeah, vietnam, but we almost won there" show a certain level of cocki-ness and stupidity.

i was so tempted to turn around and say, "i'm not trying to be rude, but you guys may want to know that there are many many people out there who hate america". i didn't in the end, cos it was rude - i'm in their country, afterall - and cos i'd have gotten wallopped by them all big brawny white guys.

i'm glad that the americans i hang out with (roy, mike, sagar, seth, dan etc) hate their country's foreign policy too, and do not express blind support for the usa. i respect them, and i think they are intelligent. bloody, please just be critical of your own country's excesses, and don't think that you own the whole world. anyway, the way they are running into deficits every year, very soon every american building will be owned by a chinese or japanese company.

this is the south, complete with rednecks and stuff. i was warned by my friends about them, and little did i expect to find redneck behaviour on campus.

reminded me of a song we heard on radio on the way to mike's place (in seth's car). it was entitled "do you remember", and was talking about the tragedy about 9-11 and about how america should contine with the iraq war and the war on terror, and blow out osama's ass. it was so bloody blatant and funny, i thought i was tongue in cheek, but my american pals assured me that it was not. like, people actually believe that it is america's god-given right to blow out people's asses.

i could not believe it.