Calling All Non-Americans!!!: America?

[emeraldrafael]

American looking in at America. Its not as bad as people like to make us out to be, though I find everyone who says anything about America being Jerks cause they have so much power in the world ot be rather funny. Cosnidering that any country in the history of the world have been gigantic pricks, just like all of them after will be. You think if China or Britain, or one of the "stable" South Asian/Middle Eastern countries takes over the world they'll be any different? It must be nice to live in fantasy.

Thats not to say America is doing best, but they're not doing any worse.

As to one specific case. This one:

I live in Canada and have all my life. I think that the United States is starting to wane on its global influence as the model of Economy,

I've seen what other Countries' economies are, and they're not very pretty now. I've also seen that IFRS thing the world wants to institute instead of GAAP, and its a joke in comparison to be perfectly honest. Is basically a large gray area and says "we'll leave it up to you to decide." It tries to let the person decide when cash is received and other things and thats just a piss poor way to do business, cause that means you think that your cash is earned when its given and not before you do the service/provide the good required while the other business may not use the same principle. And it only applies to Public companies, not private, so you'd either have ot come up with something else new or still use GAAP (which is all encompassing).

Then again, I think we need a Metric switch, but not a forced Metric shift, and our Government and Health Care could use a reworking. If we dropped that No Child Left Behind crap there could be so much more potential.

TL;DR America is a good country for its status in the world, but the policies are sorta hit and miss.

 

[omega 616]

I'm from the UK. My country seems to generally dislike America. it might be because our country used to be America's *****. you know, the one who got slugged and promptly yelled "thank you sir may I have another" from the kitchen floor while fetching them a beer and making them pancakes every day. It might also be because we got dragged into the Iraq 'war' by them. Oh well.

Personally, I don't hate America at all. In fact, I recognize it as the powerhouse driving force behind most things that it is. Movies, TV shows, games. all that good stuff, America is where it all gets decided. In fact I want to move there in the future, and fully intend to once I finish or leave/get thrown out of my Uni course here.

I just make fun of it cause it's a pretty easy target. There's SO many stereotypes to play on, plus there USED to be the millions of jokes you could effortlessly make about George Dubya.

Your going with "used to be America's *****", really? We have most of there tv programmes over here, we take after them with the gangs and what not, we absorb there music, we change the name of things to there's (marathon - snickers, Opel fruits - starburst).

Were America lite ...

I know most aren't like the thicko's we see on TV and youtube, every country has them. The thing that always gets me about Americans is they seem have this idea everybody is going to invade them and America is just THE best, just look at the guys crying on TV and stuff about patriotism and "god bless America".

Ok, us British say god bless the queen, but that's almost never. I think most English people are fed up of the bankrupt royals.

"two of them are getting married"
"who cares!?"
"Were getting a bank holiday 'cos of it"
"YAY!"

Last thing, man do you guys love your guns! Wont put them things down, will you? Why are you so attached to these things? All it means is more people die over petty things, if somebody is waving a gun in your face and your unarmed, you do what they tell you to do. If you have a gun, you start thinking "I will kill this guy for this $40 in wallet before he kills me", the guy only wants the cash, he has nothing to gain from killing you and neither of your lives is worth $40.

It also means things like columbine are more likely to happen and shoot outs with police happen more, the amount of times I have seen police out gunned is silly! The police have little glocks and the criminals have AK47's, pure craziness.

That links back to the invading thing though.

 

[Russian_Assassin]

I am from Russia and the majority of my people does not view America (US that is) with a good eye. Personally I hate the loud mouthed stupid ones. Everyone else seems a-ok to me.

 

[C117]

My country is Sweden...

Well, I've never been to America, and I've never met someone from America, so my view is based solely on stuff I've heard or read, and is probably more of a sick stereotype than an actual representation of the nation and its people. And to me, it seems like America is a bigass country, full of fat pricks that use their guns as masturbation fodder, all while thinking that they're some kind of superheroes despite not knowing that Africa is a continent and not a bloody planet the most hypocritical nation ever with the possible exception of a couple of dictatorships and Sweden.

Sorry everyone, but that's what it seems like.

 

[iseko]

Don't know. Never been there. If I look at reality shows american's have the tendency to piss me off. But I know in general only idiots want to be in a reality tv show so I try not to base my opinion on that.

I would have to go there to see for myself. Which is an idea me and some friends are thinking about. Taking a 3 month vacation and driving from the west coast to the east coast. Stopping where ever we feel like. Sounds like fun.

 

[DanielBrown]

Sweden;
My view on Americans are that the inhabitants are on the edge of retarded, fat, overly patriotic, gun happy and fanatical Christians.

I know these things generally aren't correct, and I have spoken with several "normal" Americans, but the insecure dogs bark the loudest!
Media is always overblown and often purely fake, but being bombarded with these things your entire life does unfortunetly change your perspective. USA is also a pretty darn big place. If we took all of Europe and added the cuckoo-heads togeather I reckon we'd have the same numbers.

Edit; On seconds thoughts, I don't think we'd have as many crazy people. There's not that much propaganda in Europe.

 

[Napierdalac]

Im from Denmark.

I would say, that most of the danes generally respect you.. Untill you guys elected Mr. Bush.

Our opinion has been going downhill ever since.

Oh and we have a saying "Det er fandme amerikansk" meaning something is large, loud and generally stupid. It's not a compliment guys!

My own opinion slightly differs from the general opinion, but then again i actually KNOW real americans, and have TALKED to real americans, so i know that not all of you are stupid enough to think that Denmark is the capital of Stockholm.

 

[Barciad]

The English view of Americans is one of extreme superiority, but then you could argue that this is our view of everyone. We tend to see you as the wayward son or younger brother. So young, so naive, so truly ignorant of the ways of the world. Blundering around here and there, quite unaware of your own hurculean strength. You do make progress here and there, but learning is at times a difficult and painful process for you. Sometimes you even forget yourself and do things that even we find hard to defend - like voting in George Bush, twice, for example. I could go on further, but you tend to get very defensive when we bring up faults like this.
Yet despite all this, we wish America well, and hope that it matures long before its currently imminent decline leads to be a world ruled by China. This is a world that none of us ever wish to see.

 

[The_Yeti]

I'm going to give my american opinion here as an american 'cause thats how crudely we roll

Anyway, every level of our government is incompetent and rotten, no surprise. Schooling is pathetic at best, with college being more of a qualification for a label as a wealthy individual rather then an intellectual. Business is pretty much the same as anywhere, everything is an attempt at scamming your hard earned money, or easily gained money if your one of the government sobs that makes five times the amount your average working man does while doing almost no work at all ~.> Just as many sports addicted morons as anywhere else, and just as ridiculously overpaid, seriously they claim its some sort of "risk" payment seeing how they snap a leg their out of the only job their steroid rage would let them excel at, 'course they could just work for several months to a year and never have to lift a finger again. Wouldn't say theirs any cultural aspect to america other then being a hate the neighbors on each side of you for being asininely overzealous with their homeland cultures / sports team / opinions on things like laws on anything, from pot to abortion, to the extent they should be palming you in the face with painted hands. Same as anywhere else when it comes to the average percentage of IQ having citizens 'cause the few sentient people to slowly go mad from both rage and feeling unsafe to walk down a street without some drunk, druggie, or overzealous fanatic of sports causing you some form of grief.

America, the land of opportunity!... if you were born into a rich family, or have an IQ low enough to find success in a mentally deluded state from any vice you could trade your morals for, woo.

 

[Iwana Humpalot]

Country: Finland
I like America/U.S in some ways, some other ways i don't. I like that they make really nice bunch of movies, tv-shows and video-games and shizzle.

On the other hand i hate americas goverment, which is full of oil-loving douchebags who would sell their own mothers for couple barrels of oil.

Meh.

 

[michiehoward]

-le sigh- Christ...

Country - Canada

View on America/Americans I love America, I love Americans, I haven't met an American I didn't like or at least like meeting. All I can say about my country view is our border is the longest undefended border for a very long time. America is my neighbor, and something like 90% of Canada's population lives with 50kms of the Canada/US border. good times, good people, good food...Pretty much like you'll find in almost EVERY COUNTRY ON THE PLANET, every place in the world has a population of asshole, i wish the world would stop trying to sell me the idea that America is just full of asshole who want to dominate me....

PS I'm gonna copy/paste this for next weeks version of this thread sorry op

 

[MissDK]

I am Danish, but I currently live in the U.S... I don't have anything against America as a whole.. Sure, there are some things that I don't like about it, but there is stuff I don't like about Denmark..