why do so many people hate the united states?

[LitleWaffle]

Not many in the US are afraid to leave the house at night either.

Aahahaha! Ha...

I live in a town with mostly just senior citizens and yet i'm terrified of going out at night. Same with the majority of people I know all over the place.

 

[Sovvolf]

I don't hate America... I don't have a problem with America or Americans. I have a problem with some of the idiots on that large island. I have a problem with some of your politics and parts of your government. However Americans them selves?... No I don't hate you.

To me your just flesh and blood... Any other human. Just because you happened to be born on one island to one tribe doesn't make you any different in my opinion. I'll judge each individual on their own actions rather than generalising their entire people based on the actions of a few of the louder members of the tribe.

 

[Andy999]

As has been said, it's primarily because you have a very vocal, very obnoxious minority that seems intent on giving your country a bad name. I actually feel bad for the many reasonable, intelligent Americans being judged unfairly because they have the misfortune of sharing a country with the sort of people who made Glenn Beck successful.

 

[smashmaniac64]

im only asking this because its in every forum i go to. If this has been done before sorry but im getting sick and tired of people bashing the US with no explenation. I DO NOT WANT A FLAME WAR! i just want an explenation so please no america sucks comments.

because
1.they are fat
2.they are hippies
3.they are smug
4.they are dumb
5.they are insecure
6.they are easily offended
7.they have no sense of honor
8.they are lazy

well, thats what all the other people say. not too sure myself seeing how it is IMPOSSIBLE to say that 3 million people are exactly the same.

this is just my personal response to all those stereotypes
1.im underweight
2.im not to fond of hippies
3.meh
4.your not smart until you realize youre an idiot =P
5.maybe
6.not really
7.i have a fairly high sense of honor
8.you caught me there

 

[manaman]

Also, a lot of Americans kinda hate everyone else in the world. I've never really understood it, but I guess people like hating on shit.

No, that this might grill you a bit, but it's far more common for an American to not give a crap about your country then it is to hate you.

OT:

Now if you really want to know why people hate something just look around you at the people you detest. Why do you hate your boss? Because he tells you what to do? Because he drives an expensive car shows up an hour after you do takes a two hour lunch and leaves you to finish his work when he leaves early to go play tennis?

Or could it be that since your boss is not a part the pool of common employees and that he becomes an acceptable target to vent your frustrations on?

The car being a penis substitute. The expensive suit a crutch because he has no personality. That he is an ass kissing sycophant. That you are sure a trained monkey could do his job, and while numbers prove otherwise, you just know that you would get more done if he would leave you alone.

You gossip about him because he is a safe target, you are sure that everyone you talk to in the office is going to side with you about the boss, vent without repercussions.

That deep down inside everyone knows that the gossip has little basis in truth, and that in their bosses position they would likely make the same choices in their personal life never even enters into it. This isn't about being honest with yourself. It's about finding an outlet and sticking with it.

I am not saying the US is hated because it's the boss, and better then everyone else, not even close to that. I just wanted an example everyone can relate to. It doesn't really matter what has made the US an acceptable target, just that it is.

You want prof of this, start a casual discussion about the US with a friend. Make not of their answers and tone. Then start the same casual discussion about the US with four or five friends (try to steer clear of anyone with obviously unfounded prejudices) and compare your friends comments. You will likely notice that the level of hate and rhetoric will multiply with the number of people around.

It's the same in the office. Two people can have a casual conversation about the merits of their boss, but the more you get together the more predictable the conversation gets.

Just throwing my two cents out there.

 

[lovemyredguitar]

"HUR DUR WE GOT MOAR NUK3S THAN ANYONE ELSE! WERE DEH BEAST!"-Yeah thats why

Please keep 1337 speak and all-caps to a minimum. Mod.

 

[Lexodus]

Apart from the militant Jingoism, the arrogance, the gun nuttery, the retarded religious extremists, the willing disregard for knowledge and intelligence, and everything else people have no doubt already stated, mostly it's the stupid shit you've done, the stupid shit you're doing now, and the stupid shit you will no doubt continue to do in the future. Plus, those fucking accents make me rage. Not all of them, but the kind that people impersonate when they're pretending to be American, i.e, Valley Girl, Southern Hick, etc., etc., etc.
Besides, any country where somebody like Sarah Palin has a valid chance at being elected King of Everything deserves to be hated.

 

[Varrdy]

PS I can't really stand up and say I hate America anyway because:

a) I don't "Hate" America. I hate certain things about it but the same could be said about other countries.

b) I live in Britain which, thanks to Labour, is now so utterly fucked we are far from being #1 either. I'm proud to be English (which is something I couldn't have said under Labour because it was considered "racist" in their eyes) but there's a lotta work to be done!

Wardy

 

[MartialArc]

I don't really care for us that much, especially for the fact that we keep boasting that we are the land of the free, but there are two things wrong with that.

1. We are not the only one. Many European countries such as France, England, Spain, etc. have around as much freedom as the United States.

2. To back up the first reason, though people may say that the previously mentioned countries are not truly free, it's not like we aren't completely free or anything, of course not!
Can you say: "Prohibited Gay Marriage"?

Also, we invade other countries affairs way to much. I know a lot of people died on 9/11, but seriously? Haven't we taken it a little too far by now? They attacked 3 buildings, destroyed 4 planes and severely hurt our morale. We have however, ripped away their government, destroyed many villages, and probably killed the equivalent amount of people by now and counting.

That went on a lot longer than I expected...

To be fair, there are many cases in which we are acting in accordance with the UN. Its not as if the US is running around invading countries for no reason at all, and without some support. Conversely, prior to WW2 the US had no interest in being "world police" or meddling in anyone's affairs. We might have been the most isolationist country in the world at that point, very hands off in regards to Europe and the Middle east for sure. We took a lot of flak for that as well.

Maybe folks expect a bit much, as if we're vanguards or something, and should wield our powers for righteousness and good, and all that nonsense. Sounds dandy, but we're just as clueless as anyone else in the world, it's just we have the biggest stick at the moment. Yes we have objectives and interests of our own. Every group of people on the planet big or small, are looking out for their own interests, from nations to individuals.

 

[Mikkaddo]

im only asking this because its in every forum i go to. If this has been done before sorry but im getting sick and tired of people bashing the US with no explenation. I DO NOT WANT A FLAME WAR! i just want an explenation so please no america sucks comments.

Where would you like the list to start?

There's the various laws we have regarding anything from taxes to exporting.

Religious "rules" as well as laws about what religions can do and where.

The implied massive "race wars" that people love to scream about but hate to give details about most of the time.

The laws about schools or marraige rights, or businesses.

The laws that judge what people can do or not do, where, what they can say, what constitutes a "hate crime"

basically take anything you're used to, like, dislike, love, hate, don't get, never understood . . . and imagine someone that DESPISES that . . . perfect . . . you've now got the picture of why at least one person out there somewhere hates America. As a social worker for the afterlife said in Beetlejuice "it's all very personal" remember that . . .

 

[captaincabbage]

Because we're so hateable:

[...]it's full of pompous, self centred faggots who like shooting at anything that is marginally different to them. It has the lowest intelligence scores for the education system. It has horrendous crime rates and prison overcrowding. It has a flawed governmental platform that offers the illusion of choice. They're responsible for triggering a financial disaster that served to put millions into debt and ruined the lives of many hard working people because some stupid bankers decided to delete some numbers on a computer.

It is the worldwide example of what humanity is and why it should be annihilated.

Pretty much this.

I can't believe Mr Montmorency got put on probation for that post. He was simply posting his opinion (admittedly with some unnesessary language) and a lot of points, which in my opinion were correct.

I can, but then I'm American.

Crime rates, prison overcrowding, education: all valid points.

"faggots": Interesting to use a derogatory term for gays to insult a country known for being less tolerant of gays

Government: I don't necessarily like our government structure, but then I dislike things about every country's. So I'd put ours as not much worse than others.

"they're": Sorry, I don't recall having anything to do with the economic implosion. Of course he immediately says "some stupid bankers," which is him admitting it makes no sense to generalize all Americans, even though he does.

Yeah, I'm mildly offended. Could've said the same thing without sweeping generalizations and offensive language.

Yeah, you raise a lot of valid points. I'm not saying he shouldn't have been probationed tho, since that sort of faggotry (if you'll excuse the term) needs to be rooted out of the escapist as much as possible.

I don't see how being called a ****** is derogatory personally. I've been called a ****** before and I was just confused, as technically the actual saying 'you're a ******' doesn't make sense as an insult.
a ****** is a bundle of sticks roped together. NOT GAY.

anyway, umm, where was I? I kind of lost my train of thought.

 

[Project_Omega]

Because it's full of pompous, self centred faggots who like shooting at anything that is marginally different to them. It has the lowest intelligence scores for the education system. It has horrendous crime rates and prison overcrowding. It has a flawed governmental platform that offers the illusion of choice. They're responsible for triggering a financial disaster that served to put millions into debt and ruined the lives of many hard working people because some stupid bankers decided to delete some numbers on a computer.

It is the worldwide example of what humanity is and why it should be annihilated.

I'd counter your argument, but it seems everyone else has already beaten me to the punch exlaining how you're a moron.

OT: Because we're big and the minority of assholes get way more screen time on the news than they should.

wait, what was that? How the hell do WE get more screen time!? You are involved into everything, wars, spills, world economical depression, mentioned in everything. OH, an american paedophile was caught on a motorway in poland, oh barack obama has turned down the anti rockets system, oh barack obama has countered the spill, oh american people this and that. Your country has more screening than any other. I aint gonna add to the flamewar, but DONT YOU FOOKING TELL ME BULLCRAP LIKE THAT!

 

[MartialArc]

Not many in the US are afraid to leave the house at night either.

Aahahaha! Ha...

I live in a town with mostly just senior citizens and yet i'm terrified of going out at night. Same with the majority of people I know all over the place.

That is empirical evidence with little basis in reason. I doubt someone has researched this, but I'm sure that fear of going outdoors after dark is not significantly more prevalent in the US in comparison to other countries.

I'm sorry for your fear of the night.

 

[lokun489]

because every thing is represented by its worse and with our freedom we have had for so long it has given us some pretty bad worst

 

[Nmil-ek]

I dont hate AMERICANS but your government, military praticses, economic model, influence and foreign policy are all disasterously backwards for a superpower. I dont like the level of rampant consumerism previlent in America when I stayed there it was rediculous, corporations should not have free speech or political power for one, mass privatisation is a horrible idea, de-centalising and deregulating things is a recipie for disasters. Your politicians are very clearly bought even to the point of bragging about it why are your politicians allowed ot earn money from private donors/coroprations? How stupid and complacent are people that they would accept this as the norm? If politicians in Britain were earning half as much as US senators and representatives we would riot being payed a set wage on the tax payer and nothing more is the only way to keep politics clean. Hell we nearly chucked several MPs here foer buying guarden furnature on taxpayer money your politicians are taking 500k from companies and letting it effect legistlation.

You have an unparalleled military force but an incompotent structure, why are you everywhere in the damned world and who gave you the damned authority to police first world nations?

 

[Imat]

We view things that are commonly done and accepted in other countries, (driving on the left side of the road, metric system, universal health care, Islam) as 'scary' and 'the enemy'.

Heh, driving on the left. Are you trying to say we should switch to driving on the left, or that we don't believe it exists, or something else...Anyways, that doesn't really matter, because the vast majority of the planet drives on the right, and I'm not saying the other countries should be forced to drive on the right as well, or even encouraged to, but attacking people from one group who forget which side of the road to drive on in another country is ridiculous. Humans are human, they're bound to forget once in awhile.

The metric system, we're not afraid of. Frankly I think metric would be easier, but all the people who learned non-metric would feel cheated perhaps, and there's a strong sense of tradition and stubbornness, which is not in itself a bad thing.

I strongly disagree with Universal Health Care. If it worked, that'd be one thing. Problem is it doesn't, and until humans lose their very nature as humans and become enlightened beings with no self-interest it will never work. It is the Communism of the medical world.

And who said we don't accept the Islamic faith? Certainly there are those who generalize that all followers of Islam are terrorists, but isn't this thread about the stereotypes on Americans which cause undue hatred?

I feel as though your comment wasn't thought through...You just took stereotypes, some of which don't even exist, and thrust them upon Americans. If this is truly how you feel, I feel sorry for you. Clearly you don't see the United States of America that I see everyday.

 

[Slaanax]

The real reason we make crappy beer and try to pass it off as good.

 

[Xojins]

It's because other people suffer from the delusion that all Americans are the same. They see a few examples of the 'bad apples' (for lack of a better term) and automatically assume everyone else from the US act like them. It's quite stupid actually.