I'm doing a study on settling arguments with people out of the country and who do not like how American Government works.
I would like to ask you guys to make Non-Confrontational Responses to the questions asked. This means you can't answer them defensively or take sides. Please control the content of your responses :D and if you are stuck you can skip to the next question. Do what you can :]
Thank you for helping me in my studies!
Q1: The United States is always talking about Human Rights. Why has your government and businesses continued to trade with countries that have poor human rights policies such as China and Turkey?
Q2: I've seen on T.V. that there are many homeless people in your cities. Why don't your families take care of their family members?
Q3: Why do young people have so little respect?
Q4: For many years, the world has been attacked by criminals who you call terrorist. It was easy for your country to declare war on drugs and to invade the countries supplying the
Answers:
Q1: The United States is always talking about Human Rights. Why has your government and businesses continued to trade with countries that have poor human rights policies such as China and Turkey?
A1: The issue of who to deal with is old in the ethics arena. Honestly, of the human rights abuses that currently exist in Third World countries existed in the United States at and after the turn of the last century. Without economic development, those abuses will continue to exist. A famous quote exists in which the man admits he will work as a farmer so his son can work as a politician so his grandson can study the Arts and Sciences. Progress cannot occur if no interaction does.
Q2: I've seen on T.V. that there are many homeless people in your cities. Why don't your families take care of their family members?
A2: Sometimes, the homeless do not have family, or their family does not know where they are. Many homeless choose to be homeless in some kind of a "quest for freedom." Speaking from personal experience, sometimes attempts to help family members has exceeded the treshhold of pain. How many times should one put him or herself in debt to help a family member only to see that help wasted?
Additionally, despite the lack of social systems in America compared to Europe and some Asian countries, the United States does have programs to help those who really want help. I personally believe no excuse exists for someone to leave on the street in America if they do not want to be there. Naturally, it requires effort on the homeless person's part.
Q3: Why do young people have so little respect?
A3: Children learn what their parents teach them. I was very proud. On a trip back from the United States, a stewardess stopped me and complimented me on the conduct of our eleven-year-old daughter. She hadn't done anything special on the flight. She simply said "please" when she asked for something, "thank you" when she received it, "please excuse me" when she walked past someone, and addressed her elders with "sir" or "ma'am." Apparently, what my wife and I consider "normal" behavior for an eleven-year-old has become exceptional. Children learn what they live.
Q4: For many years, the world has been attacked by criminals who you call terrorist. It was easy for your country to declare war on drugs and to invade the countries supplying the
A4: The last part of your question was unfortunately cut off. I truly wish the last of your thought was there. Terrorism is an age-old phenomenen. I some, even many, cases, terrorists have emerged to become respected statesmen. One only needs to look at the State of Israel or the apartheid-free State of South Africa. It is true that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
Nevertheless, your assessment of terrorists being criminals is appropriate. Anyone who intentionally attacks innocents (whether man, woman, or child, christian, jew, muslim, black, white, or any other race or ethnic group) is a violent criminal. Declarations of war are on people, not things. The declaration of war on drugs, or illiteracy were fallacies. On the former, perhaps there was a country on which war could have been declared; on the latter, we would have to declare war on ourselves. On terrorism, I truly do not know the answer, but I strongly suspect a root cause to terrorism exists that is beyond the obvious. Perhaps radical Islam has less to do with our current terror problem than does poverty and social injustice. I don't really know. I do know that continued attacks will only solve the problem through attrition. Perhaps we need to look at the root instead of the weed.
A1: Our government continues to make lots of money by continuing to trade with china and turkey.
A2: America is a very "Independence" oriented society. One you turn 18 you are booted out of the nest and far too many people are not prepared to fend for themselves at this early age.
A3: It is illegal to discipline your children in America these days.
A little spank on the bottom is considered, by the law, to be child abuse.
As it has been said: Where there is no discipline, there is no respect."
A4: Huh?
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1 ) We try to lead by example
2 ) We see that they don't starve and at the same time
try to encourage them to better themselves on there own.
3 ) We no longer use the same old fashion wisdom our
forefathers brought over here from your country when they
came.
4 ) We are trying the best we know how to protect our
youth and other loved ones from any and all threat at hand.
Hope that helps.
1. free trade open the eyes of the general public and helps them put pressure on their government for their human rights money talks
2. simply put our government went through the great depression and cam up with many programs intended to help people these were short term projects however they were never allowed to expire after the crises so now may people think its the government's job to take care of the poor and homeless, additionally as we fade away from our traditional religious roots this problem is exacerbated.
3. that's easy they are not taught respect from their parents mostly because of liberal laws that wont allow parents be parents The government butts into to many family matters.
4. the war on terrorism is hard because its a war on individuals not a country and its hard to separate the individuals from the country they live in without starting more conflicts, so as long as certain countries tolerate these terrorists terrorism will abound.
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