Why do people hate the USA??

[SampSon]

It's fashionable to hate the US and love Canada.

It's even more fashionable if you're a Canadian and you hate America.

 

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: SampSon
It's fashionable to hate the US and love Canada.

It's even more fashionable if you're a Canadian and you hate America.

It is still quite fashionable to be an American and hate Canada, too.

 

[SampSon]

Originally posted by: BD2003

Originally posted by: SampSon
It's fashionable to hate the US and love Canada.

It's even more fashionable if you're a Canadian and you hate America.

It is still quite fashionable to be an American and hate Canada, too.

I guess you could say that. Though that's like the trend on it's way out.

LOL yea, we have some great Indian restaurants here in America.

Theres a place in DC called Bombay Club that even Bill Clinton visited many times.

Don't argue with the brit, they are still pissed about being kicked off this continent.

I love how Canadians get so defensive about their country, and thier vehement hate of America.

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: Excelsior
6) No British person has the right to talk about the quality of food. Ever.

Our cheese & chocolate, to name but two things, are far superior to Americas.

 

[EXman]

ENVY is all it is!

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Siddhartha

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Siddhartha
1. but has one of the highest prison populations for a first world county
2. Has an active capital punishment program that has been shown to be biased against minorities.
3. The US is a racist country.

Wow...I'm really sorry you feel that way. But let me make some logical points.

1. There is no reason to believe that because we have a high prison population, we're a human rights violator, and further, I remind you that the U.S. is the world's third most populous country.
2. Show me a stastic (solid and with a large sample size) that indicates that the capital punishment program has proportionally more minorities than the rest of the U.S. judicial system. If you can conclusivly make that case, I'm willing to concede that point, if not, I ask you to do a logic check.
3. What does this mean? Many complain that we make generalizations, yet with on broad stroke, you characterized nearly THREE HUNDRED MILLION people as racists.

Furthermore, I guarantee you that you can find a better correlation between economic status and improsonment than race and imprisonment. What does this mean? That we have a problem, yes, but that it is economic, and not racial problem that we have, and the solutions to that are a lot less obvious, are they not?

Please, In the future think about these things before you make such insensitive and logically weak arguments.

You missed my point. I answered OP's question of why the US is hated.

I'm confused...do you agree with the statemnts you made, or simply posit them as commonly held misconceptions/half truths?

What do I think?

I am not surprised that US citicizens have trouble accepting that the rest of the world does not consider the US god's gift to the world.

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Siddhartha

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Siddhartha
1. but has one of the highest prison populations for a first world county
2. Has an active capital punishment program that has been shown to be biased against minorities.
3. The US is a racist country.

Wow...I'm really sorry you feel that way. But let me make some logical points.

1. There is no reason to believe that because we have a high prison population, we're a human rights violator, and further, I remind you that the U.S. is the world's third most populous country.
2. Show me a stastic (solid and with a large sample size) that indicates that the capital punishment program has proportionally more minorities than the rest of the U.S. judicial system. If you can conclusivly make that case, I'm willing to concede that point, if not, I ask you to do a logic check.
3. What does this mean? Many complain that we make generalizations, yet with on broad stroke, you characterized nearly THREE HUNDRED MILLION people as racists.

Furthermore, I guarantee you that you can find a better correlation between economic status and improsonment than race and imprisonment. What does this mean? That we have a problem, yes, but that it is economic, and not racial problem that we have, and the solutions to that are a lot less obvious, are they not?

Please, In the future think about these things before you make such insensitive and logically weak arguments.

You missed my point. I answered OP's question of why the US is hated.

I'm confused...do you agree with the statemnts you made, or simply posit them as commonly held misconceptions/half truths?

What do I think?

I am not surprised that US citicizens have trouble accepting that the rest of the world does not consider the US to be god's gift to the rest of the world.

What I wrote earlier is what I have heard from people from other countries said about the US.

I think that US foreign policy is the major reason the US is hated.

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: Phil

Originally posted by: Excelsior
6) No British person has the right to talk about the quality of food. Ever.

Our cheese & chocolate, to name but two things, are far superior to Americas.

Now you are talking about your cheese and chocolate? Get a grip! The rest of Europe has you beat in both of those areas.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: Siddhartha

Originally posted by: So
I'm confused...do you agree with the statemnts you made, or simply posit them as commonly held misconceptions/half truths?

What do I think?

I am not surprised that US citicizens have trouble accepting that the rest of the world does not consider the US to be god's gift to the rest of the world.

What I wrote earlier is what I have heard from people from other countries said about the US.

I think that US foreign policy is the major reason the US is hated.

I'm still unclear, so could if you wouldn't mind humoring me -- could you answer directly...

do you agree with the statemnts you made, or think they are commonly held half truths?

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: Siddhartha

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Siddhartha

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Siddhartha
1. but has one of the highest prison populations for a first world county
2. Has an active capital punishment program that has been shown to be biased against minorities.
3. The US is a racist country.

Wow...I'm really sorry you feel that way. But let me make some logical points.

1. There is no reason to believe that because we have a high prison population, we're a human rights violator, and further, I remind you that the U.S. is the world's third most populous country.
2. Show me a stastic (solid and with a large sample size) that indicates that the capital punishment program has proportionally more minorities than the rest of the U.S. judicial system. If you can conclusivly make that case, I'm willing to concede that point, if not, I ask you to do a logic check.
3. What does this mean? Many complain that we make generalizations, yet with on broad stroke, you characterized nearly THREE HUNDRED MILLION people as racists.

Furthermore, I guarantee you that you can find a better correlation between economic status and improsonment than race and imprisonment. What does this mean? That we have a problem, yes, but that it is economic, and not racial problem that we have, and the solutions to that are a lot less obvious, are they not?

Please, In the future think about these things before you make such insensitive and logically weak arguments.

You missed my point. I answered OP's question of why the US is hated.

I'm confused...do you agree with the statemnts you made, or simply posit them as commonly held misconceptions/half truths?

What do I think?

I am not surprised that US citicizens have trouble accepting that the rest of the world does not consider the US to be god's gift to the rest of the world.

What I wrote earlier is what I have heard from people from other countries said about the US.

I think that US foreign policy is the major reason the US is hated.

Just thought I'd like to say that I have never met an American in my life who thought that that the US was gods gift to the rest of the world. I have no idea where some of you get that idea.

 

[eits]

because they, like us, can't distinguish a country's government from it's people.

not to mention that american's are dumber than hell for buying into all the obviously bullshet lies the bush administration threw out AND for electing the prick after he wrongfully took the presidency the first time around.

the current regime is enough to make me want to move to europle. thank God i live in america where, at some point, we'll realize what the fvck is going on and set our course the right way as opposed to the way we've been led thus far.

 

[eits]

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: MulLa

Originally posted by: UNESC0

Originally posted by: Atheus
I don't hate America, but I can understand why some people do. It's mostly because of stuff like this:

Originally posted by: WyteWatt
They hate us because we have 229 years of being better than any other country. Our culture is the culture of the winner. We take the good, the desirable, and the wanted, hotglue some glitter and ribbon on it, and sell it back to the rest of the world. And those foreigners stand in lines to lick it up, moaning about the horror of it all, but licking it up just the same.

yup pretty much that's the America no one outside of the US can stand

Totally agree!

Agreed

agreed. i don't believe we even HAVE a culture, to be honest. the closest thing to culture we have, in my opinion, is called "americanization"... it's like a viral form of culture.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: eits
because they, like us, can't distinguish a country's government from it's people.

not to mention that american's are dumber than hell for buying into all the obviously bullshet lies the bush administration threw out AND for electing the prick after he wrongfully took the presidency the first time around.

My friend...get over it. That was six years ago. You can't change the past, and bringing it up time and again only seves to make you look bitter, which hurts any other argument you're making.

 

[w00t]

because it's the fatest country

because it's a peace country

 

[So]

Originally posted by: w00t
because it's the fatest country

because it's a peace country

WTF?

The first one I kinda get...even if it's illogical, I can accept that people are illogical, but WTF are you going for w/ #2?

 

[jvnn]

reference to the poll please.

 

[coomar]

calling it the "long war" instead of the "war on terrorism"

 

[insename2]

Originally posted by: Excelsior

Originally posted by: Siddhartha

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Siddhartha

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Siddhartha
1. but has one of the highest prison populations for a first world county
2. Has an active capital punishment program that has been shown to be biased against minorities.
3. The US is a racist country.

Wow...I'm really sorry you feel that way. But let me make some logical points.

1. There is no reason to believe that because we have a high prison population, we're a human rights violator, and further, I remind you that the U.S. is the world's third most populous country.
2. Show me a stastic (solid and with a large sample size) that indicates that the capital punishment program has proportionally more minorities than the rest of the U.S. judicial system. If you can conclusivly make that case, I'm willing to concede that point, if not, I ask you to do a logic check.
3. What does this mean? Many complain that we make generalizations, yet with on broad stroke, you characterized nearly THREE HUNDRED MILLION people as racists.

Furthermore, I guarantee you that you can find a better correlation between economic status and improsonment than race and imprisonment. What does this mean? That we have a problem, yes, but that it is economic, and not racial problem that we have, and the solutions to that are a lot less obvious, are they not?

Please, In the future think about these things before you make such insensitive and logically weak arguments.

You missed my point. I answered OP's question of why the US is hated.

I'm confused...do you agree with the statemnts you made, or simply posit them as commonly held misconceptions/half truths?

What do I think?

I am not surprised that US citicizens have trouble accepting that the rest of the world does not consider the US to be god's gift to the rest of the world.

What I wrote earlier is what I have heard from people from other countries said about the US.

I think that US foreign policy is the major reason the US is hated.

Just thought I'd like to say that I have never met an American in my life who thought that that the US was gods gift to the rest of the world. I have no idea where some of you get that idea.

yea, me either... the US aint that great but it has its ups

 

[insename2]

Originally posted by: jvnn
reference to the poll please.

http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/91/365/14434_poll.html

 

[jvnn]

Well, After a bit of googling, I'm not convinced this is real. Been to gallup international and a few other sites.
Here's what google says: related:english.pravda.ru/world/20/91/365/14434_poll.html - did not match any documents.

I have plenty of opinions on the subject, but won't waste time discussing bs.

 

[JDrake]

Originally posted by: OhioState
they hate America for the same reason they hate Wal-Mart.

:thumbsup:

 

[Staples]

Some because of our foreign policies but for the ones who hate the US over jelousy, they don't have any idea what it is like here. They somehow get this notion that life here is a lot better than anywhere else in the world. It isn't. Life in any developed nation is not much different than it is here.

 

[kalster]

Originally posted by: Sunbird

Originally posted by: JLGatsby
Basketball, baseball, American football dominates the culture of the entire world.

I'm gonna have to sue you since I nearly died from laughter...

I second that, no one gives a sh*t about American sports outside the US. ofcourse that is not a reason to hate the US. but just pointing out.

 

[Molondo]

Basketball was invented by a canadian. Didn't america lose to serbia(5 mill pop, lol) in a world cup finals in basketball couple years ago?
Football is nearly non existen outside of north america.
Baseball.....i only watch it when i need something to put me to sleep.

 

[eits]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: eits
because they, like us, can't distinguish a country's government from it's people.

not to mention that american's are dumber than hell for buying into all the obviously bullshet lies the bush administration threw out AND for electing the prick after he wrongfully took the presidency the first time around.

My friend...get over it. That was six years ago. You can't change the past, and bringing it up time and again only seves to make you look bitter, which hurts any other argument you're making.

i'm over it. i'm just saying that it's a possibility why people dislike americans. they hated bush during his first term and we elected him for a 2nd term, so they'd hate us for keeping him in.