Why is it that foriegn people hate our beloved free country the wonderful USA?

Question

They call us american cowboys, sinners and the sort. We were born in this country we know nothing any different. If we were born in a country with bombs exploding outside our windows we might be different. Yes there are some mean people that do terrible things in our country but these people are world wide and to single our country out is just lack of knowledge of how wonderful it is to live in a free country and to be free! I don't hate people because of where they come from but I do dislike jealousy and that's what I think allot of the problem is.

Answer 1

The word you are looking for is animosity. It’s not meer jealousy or envy, it is resentment! Those that believe that by history and heritage they are superior detest America and its people for their success, wealth, power, and Yes…Freedoms!
They express their true feelings the way most underdogs do…If you cannot be big…
Belittle. Which brings to mind the suggested reading assignment, someones Else's take, but from excerpts I have read I agree.
Kinzer was used as an example of media bias by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky in their book Manufacturing Consent. The authors show that Kinzer fails to quote a single person in Nicaragua who is pro-Sandinista and contrast this with polls reporting a 9% support for all the opposition parties taken together. The authors conclude that such a persistent bias can only be explained by the propaganda model.
Admittedly not overly traveled it is humble opinion that of any country I have ever stayed, America is the freest most open and hospitable.
Respectfully, Tegid Foel, Kilkenny.

Answer 2

Maybe they're jealous of our lifestyle and that we have a society so totally different than any other country. And i feel people don't like countries with power because they can't stand that it's not their country with the power. I'm proud to be in the US because this is the only place on earth where anyone from any country could come and start a life and not be judged or looked in a different way because this place has races from all over the world and that you can just do things here that you can't do in other countries. And i think it's also the media that feeds the people a load of crap about our country.

Answer 3

We don't hate our country, its the fact our government is not doing anything about our immigrant problem, and some Catholic politicians are trying to reverse abortion laws, defining marriage between a man and a women etc..also the fact they are allowing huge corporations to flee to other countries to avoid tax. Americans are patriotic and love our country.@Josef, really we have the lowest minimum pay? Where you get you resources from? You get about 10 dollars an hour working at McDonald's, and usually for kids. America still.has one of the best economies, we export the most in grain, corn, wheat, rice, beef to the world. We have the highest paying sports, MLB, NBA,NFL,Golf. We have the highest paying doctors, lawyers, politicians, engineers, you can become a millionaire over night, and we are home to the most millionaires,. We are high-tech and everycity is modernized, you can find cheaper homes near canada,but no one wants to live there. You go to places like California and your home will be at least a half a million, or up. Same in new York. We have Hollywood and animation, Disneyland and world, countless zoos, universities,...oh yes poor Americans, that's why we have an immigration problem because everyone wants to live here not Canada.

Answer 4

You're right on a few points, most of the people born in the US don't know anything different, which is really sad. When my family moved to the US from Sweden we moved to the northwest of Washington state, a very cultured place by american standards, but sadly, about 80% of my fellow students in high school had never made the 50 minute drive to Canada. Most hadn't barely seen the most attractive parts of the US. And those that went to Mexico our senior year went to get wasted drunk, not to experience the culture. So you're right, you don't know anything different.
Actually we're not more free than many other people either so I don't see your point about people resenting our freedoms, this is something the far right would have you believe and I see its working. People in many western European countries have way more rights than we do. Check out most of scandinavia and the netherlands, Switzerland just to name a few.
The reason people don't like us is because we have the worlds strongest economy and the worlds strongest military which we use to apply pressure to other countries to be like us and do like us. Even a rich small european country can't even evaluate its own currency, the US economy is too big and strong. The state of California by itself is the worlds 5th biggest economy. And most of all, people don't like us because we're ignorant to their situation and in most cases don't even know who they are. I'll give you a quick example, what countries border Switzerland and what are their four national languages? At the beginning of this I said I moved to the US from Sweden, are Switzerland and Sweden the same country? If not, which one is in Scandinavia? These are questions that most people that went through high school in any country in the rest of the world could answer without hesitation, but americans can't, and to foreigners its insulting that the worlds most powerful country doesn't care to know the rest of the world.
With that said, there are many things about americans that the rest of the world can learn to appreciate. We are a country of optimists and dreamers. We are also a much more culturally integrated country. I have never seen the kind of socially accepted racism in the US as I have in many other places. I'll give you the riots in France as a quick example.
It is true that we've earned some bad stereotypes and that we've been unfairly assigned others, but regardless, people who put too much importance on stereotypes will find it harder and harder to find them significant as they get out and see the world, my advice is to do just that and you'll find yourself wondering why you ever thought about what foreigners thought about you in the first place.

Answer 5

America is disliked because of our policies to many countries. We favor countries that kowtow to us and turn a very cold shoulder to others that want to be independent. One method is by the quota system that is turned on or off if countries follow or don't follow our thoughts on various issues. Russia that is communist and an enemy to the US for a long time suddenly recieves favoritism but a tiny island nation without nuclear weapons is shunned aside? Other countries see this too. We complain about human rights and then read daily about the abuse of prisoners in the Iraqi war and forget Kent State, Watts, Chicago. It is not lack of knowledge about America but perhaps a plethora of information that brings attention to our deeds or misdeeds. We have supported many dictators that pillaged their own countries...in Vietnam, Cuba, Panama and Iran and others. We have interferred with other countries' domestic issues and used assassination to remove those we couldn't control or suborn. I live in China and I have the same freedoms as you do, I go where I want and do what I want under the same strictures as you do. You think jealousy may be a factor, perhaps in some places, but the Japanese own a great deal of Los Angeles and control some powerful companies. Freedom? Sure! with the Domestic Security Act, your very freedom is being watched and Big Brother sometimes gets brutal. It happened to Japanese Americans during World War II, it happened to Americans under McCarthy. We support a neighbor to the south that supplies about 95% of illegal substances...so the poor people just don't notice? People are not stupid, perhaps less fortunate in education,and they see things that Americans fail or don't wish to see. President Thieu of Vietnam fled as his government collapsed but with a very healthy piggy-bank. Marcos did the same, Sukarno, Batista, Papa Doc of Haiti and the list goes on.
Do we have the right to interfer. If Jesus Christ were living today, would he be a rabble-rouser and Bush would help the Romans subdue him?

Answer 6

i blv no one hates the USA, i have never been to USA but i like it... i know it is a great country...
however, people do not hate the USA! why would they hate any land wherever.... they just hate the government that has always been supporting Israel, putting hands over the oil of other countries, starts a war for no good reason... people also see americans as any other humans, there are good Americans and bad Americans... but people hate the ignorance of Americans and how they live their lives listening and reading what the American media wants them to know... if only the American people could search for the truth beyond the news they get, they would absolutely move! they would never accept what their government is doing...

Answer 7

You throw the word free around a lot but don't really understand it. There are so many restrictions placed on us that we are not longer the most free country in the world. Many other countries enjoy freedoms that we are decades away from having. Throwing around words like freedom and free just gets people riled up, its just not true.

With Domestic Spying, ever growing censorship and lawsuits that restrict what we can do on the Internet we are far less free then other places. The FCC for example wants to ban anything relating to the excretion of waste from being mentioned on TV. They hopefully will be denied but they are trying.

Answer 8

Nobody hates Americans, or USA. Nope.

The problem is how the US government handles certain situations that piss people off.

Example: In Italy an american fighter plane caused many deaths because the pilots were betting on who was able to fly the lowest.

What happened next? The pilot has gone free... because the government did not want to turn him to Italian government.

Answer 9

The fact that you think that you live in a free country shows that what you need is not this website, but to sit down with some history books.

"Overthrow" by Stephen Kinzer would be a good start.

Also, try reading the Bill Of Rights, and then start paying attention to how often it is ignored in this country (and in the foreign policy of the federal government).

Good luck to you. May you become well informed.

:-)

Answer 10

You truly illustrate why people from other places tend to shake their heads when they see us coming. You think other people are jealous of us--maybe they're jealous of our ignorance? For instance, most teenagers in the United States can't pick out New York State, or much else, on a map. I doubt most American teenagers these days even know what a map looks like. We revel with arrogance in "being number one" and rarely look outside our own national belly button. Our attention spans have shrunk to toddler size, and we have become consumed with materialism. People aren't jealous of us, they're more likely disgusted by us and our holier-than-thou provincial attitudes. They shake their heads because they know this country is not truly free--it's lately been hijacked by warmongers who distract their retarded public with appropo retarded rhetoric while passing laws behind the scenes which are propelling us in the direction of Cold War Soviet Russia politically. The only people who feel totally free in this country are the people who fit into a narrow description of being good boys and girls. People single out our country because we're the perfect example of awesome, immense wasted potential and our populace seems to them to be totally unrepentant about being ignorant about itself and the world outside its borders.