Divide and WHAT??

Arjay,
If fuel prices go through the roof [they already have] then surely the Australian Government should invest some of it's $10 billion surplus refining alternate sources of power to oil, there are a range of technologies which have the capacity to replace oil.

Yes the Americans, certainly not the magnificents of Australian cultural awareness.

And apparently it's important for some Australians to point that out even if it is a gross generalization and not an actual truth.

What Americans need is a good dose of filtered sewage to shake them out of their complaisant coca cola cultural ignorance.

Bashing America. It's come to represent the epitome of Australian cultural think. What fine people we are. The great we...except you know, us we, not those other we of Australia.

America is a country built by different cultures the Irish,Italians, British, Africans, Native Indians, Japanese,Mexicans and many others.Each and all of them are an important part to the history and development of America.
I think America could be one of the most successful multicultural countries in the world.And I believe one of the reasons why it has so much power and success is because their not afraid of changes.I would agree that some Americans are unaware of the outside world and are not as willing to learn about it,but so are many Australians,British and others.Most people from non-european cultures go to America and can bring something of themselves without so much of a hassle. It has problems with racism crime and poverty like everyone else but America is still open to diversity and accepting of those who want the American Dream.

Most of you are caught up in an oil conspiracy. Iraqi oil was available to the U.S before the U.S invasion of Iraq and is more vulnerable than today. As oil peak is slowly taking grip on oil dependence technological adaptation is lagging but will get there. The war in Iraq will possibly grind on for decades - who knows? The cost of the war has already outstripped any gain the U.S could possibly dream of making. By the time the last killed U.S soldier is zipped up in a body bag the cars of the U.S will be fuelled by Chinese or Indian owned and manufactured alternative fuels.

The main protagonists in the war is the honour of the president who committed to a folly of grand proportion in a political system which like ours has no fail safes. How many workers are sacked for less?

Probably the most important protagonist is the myth of rapture which that same President subscribes too. That a glorious Christian army will defeat the heathens of the east and the Jews will rejoice by converting to Christ and then Jesus descends and Christians are airlifted to heaven. Before September 11 the President was playing cat and mouse with the Chinese for no apparent political or economic reason. America could have got back to “No1” If they embraced China; now like us they become more dependent on China every day. The whole axis of evil is the rapture discourse. No secular president has ever sanctioned torture.

Jesus failed to show, the term of Gods president is almost up. The world is moving on, bombings in Iraq have moved from the front page to a few words buried away where no one notices.

I don’t think the U.S will be a place of importance within 20 years. I also believe with climate change even though the world needs global action most countries will have to be very self focused to hold fast during the next few centuries of increasingly destructive climate change.

"America's problem is a serious lack of understanding of other cultures".

And this differs from every other country in the world and their people's lack of understanding of other cultures. How?

Arrogance of race is a worldwide problem of all races.

In fact given the lack of multiculturalism in many countries their lack of understanding is probably much worse than Americans is.