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Seriously, there is so much american animosity here, it is outrageous. Why is there so much hatred? What did we ever do to you?
All you anti americans are just anti-capitalist socialist liberals who are jealous of our prosperity and wealth,and you make up all kinds of accusations against us to hide your jealousy. However I do agree with Derek that our popular culture is horrible, with no refinement however, and that our public education system sucks too (I go to a private school).
- You don't have much of a history or culture, which is why your morals are low. You're rootless people with no respect for the history and ancient traditions around you. Besides, you don't know anything about them, because they don't teach you anything about the rest of the world at school. You think you rule the world yet you know nothing about it.
Ha there is nothing wrong in america, our foreing policy is perfect
Now, these are reflections of the general opinion here, so no flame war on me, PLEASE.
I can't say much about other countries, but in Finland the US is generally disliked. Why:- You chose someone like Mr. Bush to represent you. In a way, the president of the US is the most important person in the world, and what he does affects everyone. You chose someone who's never been outside the US and has an appalling history in economic matters. We're very afraid, and our only comfort is to laugh at all the incomprehensibly stupid things your leader says (we, too, have books on that).- No one likes the big kid at the sandbox who bullies everyone and wants to have all the toys. By what right you are acting as the world police we do not know. Patriotism is your euphemism for wanting power and sending men to a field trip.- Hypocrisy can be found everywhere, but you're just something else. You declare yourself the land of freedom and democracy and keep preaching about it to others. Freedom? We don't have metal detectors at our schools. Democracy? At least we don't stop counting the votes when we feel like it. We don't have a messed-up election system that misleads people. You boast about your scientific superiority. What you actually do is that you lure top scientists from others. You have to do so, especially when your educational system favours the ones with money and not brains.- You don't have much of a history or culture, which is why your morals are low. You're rootless people with no respect for the history and ancient traditions around you. Besides, you don't know anything about them, because they don't teach you anything about the rest of the world at school. You think you rule the world yet you know nothing about it.- You impoverish other cultures. Most of our movies, TV programmes/formats (commercial channels) and music come from you. McDonald's, shopping channels, reality TV, big insignificant movies and their sequels, they're all here, and we cannot escape you shallow people.Edit: I forgot to mention that the present environmental stand pisses people off, too.
If you are going to dish it out, you should certainly be able to take it. Being assertive enough to present ideas means being able to back them up.
Bush may be viewed as a power monger (and thus all of America) because he is trying to stop crimes against humanity in other nations. It is not that he tries to play World Police but that he sees a problem and targets it because it is the right thing to do.
I'm not sure about the freedoms of Finland but I think our metal detectors simply stand for the right to bear arms (which is getting out of hand).
Our election system is strikingly simple and being copied by other countries (we got it from the ancient Greeks)
It's a shame to hear attacks against nation simply because it is new (I'll agree that 230 years is relatively new) but our culture was not simply created out of thin air 230 years ago.
We got our values from Britain who got their values from the Germans and Romans. Yet I also take pride in knowing that our country has established its own sense of culture and morals.
As for prejudices against America's bullying escapades, just know that "our country puts $1 billion a year up to help feed the hungry. And we're by far the most generous nation in the world when it comes to that, and I'm proud to report that. This isn't a contest of who's the most generous. I'm just telling you as an aside. We're generous. We shouldn't be bragging about it. But we are. We're very generous." - President Bush, 2003
He is manipulating statistics. In terms of BNP the US government pays very little compared to other western countries.
That's good to hear, because we had heard that in 2000 a lot of votes were rejected because the forms or whatever you call them were too complicated to fill.
I'd also like to say that it's not America's fault that people in your countries buy up crappy American pop music. It's their fault for having no taste (besides from what European pop and rap I've heard, you guys are just as bad )
We basically control everything there is no country in the world that can defeatr us.
self thinks that people actually believe that the actions of the few with power represent the beliefs of those without(funny unrelated story...or is it)self was playing halo 2 and a british guy starts to talk about how fat americans are and rags on fast food british people are fat too and french people are catching upself was born at the bottom rung of the ladder doesnt fit in the middle but arrived there somehowself's been up and down the east coastself can tell you all - The Worldmost americans arent that different from you allmost people - with truly democratic beliefs - are too concerned with just getting by to look at some incident on CNN and get mad at a whole nother countrythey have to focus on whats in front of themself also would to tell say that the majority of (hell all of) the images depicted of americans in movies are shared in reality with but a fewour country is rich yes - but the majority of people are not
Topic: Besides foreign policy, what wrong with america and americans 