That's not how it works...
you made the wild statement that you were better, your lifestyle was better, your school were beter and your parents were better,
it's your job to back up and proove your wild accusations correct, not my job to hunt down studies and prove you wrong!
That's a large part of democracy, and seeing as America's military fights so hard to bring that kind of democracy to all corners of the world, I'd have thought that one might have been beaten into ou by now, (turn of phrase, not literal expression).
No, you said that parents in the military have a stronger mind...
that implies that your parents, (who are in the military) are better than my parents (who are not).
it's a completly anal asumption to make that you are better than anyone.
it's the same as when you did that person A, person B analogy, your assumptions may have been based in common sense, but you make out like person B military back ground will slot right into a place on his otr her own whilst person A will be effectivly disfunctional....
this is just donwright disrespectful to anybody else suggesting that they couldn't cope with having to change environments, and also completly negates the fact that whilst yuo *think* that you may do better just moving off on your own to another country, you forget that when you do it now, you wnid up at a base, or in a area near to a base, where there are plenty of people to help you, and lets not forget that you have your parents and brother/sisters there as well to help you settle in. IMOP if yuo were told to move on your own for business, you' be just as lost, and just as quick to find yuor feet as any other person, pertty much regardless of their background...
actually in some cases, you may even be worse affected, because the entier supprot network that you are used to, (mommy daddy faily base staff other people speaking your languages etc) have also been completly removed from you as well.
the absolute last words I'm going to say abuot this is as follows...
firsty, you spent 7 years in a civillian school you alerady sid that, was that in the same 7 years that yuo'd setled? surely you can't use the fact that you settles for 7 years in civii street in your argument as to why military schools are better,
againg going back to your numbers, you say you've spent 3 years in military schools, but also say you've moved 6 times, so exactly how long do you stay in one school, it sound a lot like you're staying in any one lpace for less than an achademic year,
and nuless i've misread what you are saying, I don't understand how your education could be better if you've never completed an entier achademic year in any one school.
(apart from civillian schools, and as I already pointed out, you can't say that military schools and live style is better than civillian lifestyle if that civillian life styl;e is the only time that you've settles in a place for any longer than a year or so)...
You have 15 friends that come round for christmas? some american some german, (whoopee for you), believe it or not Nik, but that's further weight as far as I'm concerned to the arguent that al this moving actually socially stunts you,
i'll be seeing more than twice that many people at any christmas party that I attend,
the point isn't that I have more friends than you. just if you think that your social skills are so great, and constant moving doesn't upset your social development or the ability to keep friends, how come you only have 15 close and personal friends that you can invite around for christmas?
You may *think* that you are a more rounded person because your moving, but IMO, like I said, all it goes on to do is destroy social networking skills and mean that you'll never have the ability to form a long lasting friendship, cause there is always the option that you'll be moving tomorrow.
you may *think* that you're a better person for all your worldly experiance, but you forget the fact that I live in a town right next to an american base, and I know full well that off base housing is usually small estates of pertty muh american houses.
there is an estate in my home town known as the american estate, it's where the off base housing is, all the huoses are the same "cookie cutter" (-I hate that expression), houses, all built on the same plans, all american design, all decorated to traditional american decorations, where everyone puts lights on their houses, fr christmas, and everyone barbeques in the sumer for thanks giving.
in short it's a piece of little america in the middle of a town where everyone drives american cars etc...
so the premis that you integrate with surrounding society might be true, but it's certainly not true of all american military families who mostly live enither on base, or in little american settlements near to the base...
I never suggested that travelluig out of state for an american would make them any more of a rounded person, I simply said that for most americans it's actually harder to leave the country, it's easier for many british people to leave the country, that's why it's different in europe,
the point was that most europeans leave the country because they want to see more, most americans don't leave the state becasue they couldn't caer less abuot seeing more of the world...
your opening post tarred everone with the same brush...
don't forget there are people who post on these forums who have seen more of teh world than you, have a better education than you, and still arn't from a military family.
no school should get more money just because of a smart kid, but it does happen, usually it's not just one smart kid, but a whol raft of kids who excell at some subjects de to quality teachers, therefore those teachers are awarded with more money to try to keep them inside those subjects and help them develop...
do you really think that the lecturers at famous universities like MIT etc really get paid the same amount as lecturers at universities you've never heard of... Judging my your posts, you either do think that, or you think it's completly unfair that centers of excellence recieve better funding...
and if indede it is unfair that centers of excellence recieve better funding, (andI can see where you are comming from), then perhaps you shuold work to get that changed, but at the same time, don't forget to have teh fnuding for your private military schools slashed to the same as that of innercity schools as well... (got to keep it fair right?)
You reckon that you're parents have a stonger back bone...
well whilst I don't believe that, (and I don't believe what I'm about to say either, it couldn be argued that military people have less of a backbone since they are just trained to do what they are told. having back bone is about making reasonable decsicions, not being strict, military parents lack the ability to make reasonable decisions since they never have to make decisions, they are always told what to do!
I don't reckon that you're parents have a stonrger backbnoe, in fact I think that they are weaker. they've spent their entier lives just following orders, and yuo've spent your entier life in a schooling system designed to make you think that you are somehow better than other people, and most likely will want to join an armed service.
In spite of your su[pposably better education you still can spell, punmctuate, have crappy grammer and seemingly know very little about the actual world.
and IMO your debating skills also sck, you don't start debates, you start heated arguments. also any erson who really was, better rounded, /more worldly/ better educated, would cretainly know that they shuold start a post like this!
your list of famous people basically means jack shit, cause there are a lot more famous people from civillian families!
as for being any better than Hitler or Stalin...
kind of an odd comparisson seeing as they publically went out and said that they were better than everyone else as well! (and both of them came from military backgrounds)...
