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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kkoie" data-source="post: 323085" data-attributes="member: 1160">ok, I can see the point about a lot of people being overweight in the US.  Seeing as how this is a 'I want it yesterday' culture.I can understand your points of view, despite your backyard generalizations, stereotyping, and not-so-factual statistics.But I think a majority of those people who've hijacked this thread into talking about crime, have yet to use any legitamate and objective sources to prove their point.Yeah America has more crime than Euro Countries, but so far none of you have been able to factually say WHY we have more crime, beyond the elementary fact that it's because the USA has more people! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Anyway, back to the topic of this thread, Europe seems to be more layed back than America in comparison.  I think this can be seen as the underlying reason why a portion of the USA population can be seen as overweight.  We are the guys who invented Fast Food for crying out loud.  Have you considered that?K KoiePS: if you are going to continue the silly debate on crime, then whats to stop from opening up the whole can of worms?  Health Care, Government Programs, Taxes, Entertainment, Public Transportation, etc etc.  If you are going to imply that one section of the world is better than another, you need to compare everything, not just one or two points.</blockquote>

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