First off, I agree with Hollow, although I don\'t know about that \"Southerner\" thing (yes I know it was a joke, I\'ve just heard it more equated with little old stuck-up or religious ladies then with people from any certian state (jokingly)).

Second, censorship should not exist. \"Lyk, OMG they shotted her nd they sexx0rzd in |>4 shooooow!!!!oneone!!\" Why can\'t kids watch sex? Either they know what it is, so it\'s okay, or they don\'t know what it is, so it won\'t hurt \'em. Why do they have to hide? (Note: This is a rhetorical question :P) Video games don\'t cause senseless violence, mental instability causes senseless violence, it\'s not like the kid doesn\'t know that guns can kill people if they don\'t play the game.

Asa for the gayness and transvestite and all that, yeah, we all know there\'s WAAAAAAAAAAAYY to many prejudists against that, so I don\'t know what their problem is. But just \'cause you don\'t like them, doesn\'t mean they can\'t be on TV, they exist in real life, so they should be in stories. We have rapists on TV, don\'t we?

I know America is more worried about sex and gayness and random other things being censored then Europe, but then in Japan porn is ILLEGAL, even full showing in cartoons. And thankfully, America, unlike most countries who might be involved in a discussion about this, doesn\'t have the, \"OMG you said \'period\' in public!!!,\" preogative, nor has it have the common, \"I\'m better then you because I make more money, and you must RESPECT ME!!!!!,\" which is really not, of course, respect, but the person saying, \"I\'m better then you, and I don\'t respect anyone at all, so you must do what I say.\" Although we do have people like that. I don\'t know if a lot of countries have that, but I know Japan and England do, although the England one is more along the lines of, \"You have to hold your glass the right way, or we will all hate you!\" I couldn\'t imagine going to a country where people acted like that. (Although, I want to go to Japan anyway, but I have to, \'cause I like anime :P).

And the \"3vil\" thing... well that happens everywhere. But no countries have that view.

To the_dreamer and Shadowfire, this topic is about the countries. You have to make generalizations sometime, and not only that they are quite often true. But it\'s not stereotype unless you meet an individual, let\'s say, American, and expect them to act that way. And there\'s nothing wrong with it unless you\'re saying ALL people with a certian trait have the other, and not when they are the same thing (for instance, all Christian have a religion... is not a stereotype). Nobody ever said that all american, or British people, or whatever, are a certian way.

AirMan, I doubt that\'s true about the army; walking through walls in your physical body is impossible, although they may have people who astral project for them to view what the enemy\'s doing. And they probably have some sort of psychics on them somewhere, most government divisions do (although that\'s a different thing).

[Oh wait, it\'s AirMan again, this paragraph was going to be for that person :P, anyway], your paragraph about England and America with \"witchcraft\" doesn\'t make sense. You said Britian executed people for \"witchcraft,\" then you said America doesn\'t do that anymore, then you said America is behind. So, whatever you were saying, didn\'t really work. But, since I mentioned this, I\'ll comment on what I can; although there are plenty of people (Americans) who still think witches are \"3vil,\" mostly bewcause they don\'t know what witches are, Paganism isn\'t really looked down upon by most Americans anymore, the only religion which still has a highly negative reaction like that is Satanism, and that\'s because the ones who do this think the Satan they are dedicated to is the same Satan as the one in the Christian or the one in the Jewish religion.

Anyway, if you think something is 3vil, or bad... well I guess that\'s your problem (or in some cases a good thing). But that doesn\'t mean it should be taken out of books.

[Edited on 12/19/2004 by God]

It\'s not true, I have about 6-7 friends who are retired frm the army there about in their 20\'s, I even asked, No they don\'t do that, lad.

I didn\'t read everything yet, but AirMan, your post on witches or \"withces,\" I wasn\'t saying you were stupid, I know you don\'t think they still execute people for being accused of witchraft in America, I was just saying the way it was worded didn\'t excactly make sense, and, except for the part I commented on, I\'m not really sure what you were trying to say.