why are there so many out there that are anti-american?.... please read.....?

Question

born here and had no choice in the matter, but i am glad i was. have been around and have found good and bad everywhere, i dont live in the cluster **** of things like new york etc. i live in a great area with moderate means. the only ones that hurt to say anti statements are truely our friends from up north (canada)....... if there were to be another world war, where would you stand? you can get all types of foolish answers now but it doesn't change anything, i would not change my privelage of being a us citizen for anywhere else. why do so many want in here if it is so bad?

Answer 1

I completely agree with you. There is entirely too much anti-Americanism. Being a Canuck myself, I have nothing but respect for the American people. Now, having said that, here comes the reason for the US bashing that is happening all around the world.
1. America has become the police of the world, and many people would choose their own bad governments rather than a just and benevolent foreign government.
2. That just and benevolent government mentioned above is strangely missing from your country. I always found the US Constitution to be a thing of genuine beauty. Does it not say that you are responsible to throw off such governments that detract from the rights of the people?
3. American Foreign Policy, for the protection of American business interests, not the mutual betterment of all nations.
4. The attitude that Americans have about their culture and country. The self proclaimed best country on earth, sounds arrogant, and nobody likes an arrogant person.
5. The fear mongering being put forth by the American media machine. Hasn't anyone noticed that the hard won rights of the individual are disappearing in the name of security? I hope you enjoy living in your police states of the future.
As for a Third World War, where can we stand? In line with Bush's for or against policy? If that is my choice, then I must stand against. I now, always have and always will stand against tyranny and evil, even when that repression is claimed to be for my own safety.
As for wanting into the US, because you have greater freedoms than most, but not all.

Answer 2

They want to get away from where they are right now which is pretty bad. America is bad but in other ways. We aren't starving (or at least we don't think we are, nutrition went down the tube long ago), we got a lot of crime but it's not like the gunfights that go down in the streets of others countries, or the massive starvations, or the droughts or any other number of things.

But what we got a lot of is corruption. We also have a lot of people which we support with massive farms, lots of petroleum, and lots of pollution. We also don't do nearly as much for the world as we used to, and over the years since those times we've actually gotten into the business of overthrowing nations and blowing up a lot of ****. We also got a lot of sexually deviant things that have been accepted into our culture that are taboo to others and their religions.

Our drug culture is also destroying our society, and it's prevalent enough that everyone can see America and drugs go hand in hand. We had the nuts to pepper a country with depleted uranium. We sprayed Agent Orange all over Vietnam's lush jungles, and doomed the people who lived in those areas. These are a few things that have really turned the world against us in recent years. Our war on Iraq was the straw that broke the camel's back, and very soon the Anti-American sentiment will spill out from every corner of the globe.

If that isn't enough, the times are going to be getting Biblical reeeaall soon. Climate change is going to sweep the globe, and crops are going to be failing pretty hard, especially here in America. Then NOBODY will be wanting to live here with all the mentally unstable, sick, desperate and depressed people who have guns running around... but that's for a different question.

Answer 3

1) Jealousy or Envy.
We in the USA have more than anyone else in the world "Materially". Even our "poor" would not to be poor in other parts of the world.

2) Not all but an awful lot of US citizens are horrible bores when they travel. That is why the old term Ugly American was coined.

3) It's "Vogue" to knock America. Most groups/people doing so don't actually know any Americans, they are basing their opinions on very bias TV & Press coverage. Which is very negative or overly sensational & down right scary.

4) Humans no matter where they reside come in all "Flavors". There are no more evil or bad people in the USA than anywhere else on earth. Sad to say there are probally no more good people either. What we do have is the TRUE, PURE, FREEDOM to be ourselves however we are.

Answer 4

I just finished the novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany", which was published in 1989. A large part of the novel talks about the senselessness of the Vietnam War, and lighlights the faults of various presidents. Reading it in 2006, I can see how Bush's "War on Terror" is proving to the world that the American people can so easily ignore their own history.

Answer 5

Americans around the world are perceived as arrogant and boisterous. I am married to a European. He has traveled all around the world and he explained it to me. Of course it is a misconception, but that is how we are perceived. We police the world and decide what is best for a particular country. I don't ascribe to this but many around the world do. We're the 'new world' and what do we possibly know about the way things are. We are new comers to the scene. I think it is in part envy. Its really a love, hate relationship we have with the world.

Answer 6

I would be neutral, I'd be on the first plane or boat to Ireland. The only thing in this world worth dying for is family, not a country that none of us have no sense of identity in. People from England are English, people from France are French, people from Russia are Russian, but in America we could be composed of anything, we have no identity. We're in a multi-cultural cesspool that frowns on individualism and separatism, but it smiles on conformity and blending in as if we were all clones of each other. We don't own this country anymore anyway, these days anybody but the tax-payer owns this country. I love what America was, but what it's becoming makes me sick. I'm heading back to where my ancestors came from, Ireland.

Answer 7

i think you misunderstand what is meant by "anti-americanism". very rarely is the world's dislike for the u.s. caused by the lifestyle of the american people. rather, anti-american sentiment is caused by and directed at the u.s. government and its policies toward the rest of the world. the u.s. government has for years acted with disregard for international law and opinion, and this practice has only gotten worse since the so-called war on terror was declared. typically, americans see the u.s. as sort of a global policeman who will step in to keep other countries from doing some injustice. in the u.s., it is just understood that this is what the u.s. does and that when it does so, it does so with good intentions. however, outside the u.s., our government is seen less as a policeman and more as an aggressive bully. while the u.s. government purports high-minded intentions when intervening in other nation's affairs, often in the rest of the world, the action is seen as aggressive and undertaken only with american interests in mind (e.g. in the u.s., the war in iraq was largely pitched as being about disarming and deposing a potentially dangerous tyrant. elsewhere, it was widely viewed as a conquest for control of key oil reserves and strategic location in the middle east). furthermore, in the united nations, the u.s. routinely shows disdain for nations that try to assert power (it's a big deal when one of the other countries on the security council vetoes a resolution, yet the u.s. routinely does so with impunity) and even vetoes or disregards resolutions that look to hold the u.s. to account for its actions. you have to recognize that by and large the u.s. answers to no one in the international community. what it says is right is therefore right, and there is little meaningful recourse for nations that disagree with the u.s. or that see its policies as aggressive actions behind a thin veil of moral righteousness. with this perspective in mind, it's easy to see why so many around the world have such a resentment for the united states. it's only natural that such an attitude toward the u.s. government is easily translated into a negative attitude toward its people. considering most americans don't view the actions of their government critically, it's little wonder that "ignorant" is one of the labels most often applied to americans.

Answer 8

As the SUPER nation you are bound to cop flak from ppl who live in ya country and definitely from people outside of the country...

Every move your government makes is scrutinised by world media, so inevitably there is going to be good and bad media...

I'd say the ppl bagging out on your country are really just a minority... who don't represent your countries ppl as a whole...

Answer 9

you really should stop thinking of yourself, and there are more people wanting to go to australia rather than the us, and the only thing that portrays us as bad are shows like jerry springer and maury povich where there are so many people cheating or not knowing who the father of there children are, so to get rid of americas bad image the shows should show more positive and less negative things in them.

Answer 10

I love my country, but I fear my government, and so does most of the rest of the world.