"The Third World attitude toward the United States is also easy to understand if you think of it in terms of adolescence. The citizens of the Third World are in a teenage muddle about us--full of envy, imitation, anger and blind puppy love. I have been held at gunpoint by a Shi'ite youth in West Beirut who told me in one breath that America was "pig Satan devil" and that he planned to go to dental school in Dearborn as soon as he got his green card. In Ulundi, in Zululand, I talked to a young man who, as usual, blamed apartheid on the United States. However, he had just visited the U.S. with a church group and also told me, "Everything is so wonderful there. The race relations are so good. And everyone is rich." Just what part of America had he visited, I asked. "The South Side of Chicago," he said."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Comedians from the United StatesHumorists from the United StatesSatirists from the United StatesJournalists from the United StatesPolitical authors from the United States
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/P._J._O'Rourke
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Related Quotes
"Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please."
"Chapter One: The Campaign Begins: Ready, Set, Go to Hell"
"Chapter Two: The Abominable Showman: June 16, 2015"
"Chapter Three: The Horror! The Horror!"
"Chapter Four: A Huck So Unlike Finn: July 26, 2015"
"Chapter 27: I Endorse Hillary Clinton"
"It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a huma…"
"Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians."
"Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they'v…"
"Author's Note"