Americans don't seem to understand why anyone would hate them? Can you tell me why anyone would hate the US?

Question

Americans talk about how they've been wronged with 9/11, but when the country decided to go to war, it never asked itself, "Why would anyone hate the US enough to bomb a skyscraper in NY?" If it knew the answer to this, the US might actually be able to make progress in this war instead of making people angrier at them.

What do you think? Why would anyone hate the US so much?

Answer 1

it's not because of jealousy (of US being a rich country)

We know there's a lot of bums, beggars, shanti towns, prostitutes, unemployed people, uneducated kids in US.
And we also know that US gov. spends most of your tax money for bullets and missiles instead for those poverty/education problems. What's to jealous?
What the use living in a rich country when the gov. doesnt care about you?

remember New Orleans? America didn't look very rich then.

I'd prefer to be jealous at the Germans. Their goverment pays the unemployed (Yes, believe me). Their goverment pays full for their education (from elementary to doctoral level).


not because of your freedom

Freedom lets you buy bullets in WallMart. SICK.
only in america, kids bring guns to school and shoot their friends. America also has the most serial killers. WHAT TO ENVY?
(but if you want to know the real free country: check out The Netherland. Dutchs are the real free-men, they buy canabis legaly, their legal sex-age will be 12.. YES TWELVE. REAL SICK)

not because of religion

Most of you don't even go to church. Even at Christmas. So don't pretend that you have a religion to hate. (for you practicing-Christians in US, im sorry, You're not whom I reffer to.)

but yes, some hate US because of US gov.'s policy over Israel-palestine crisis.. which often mis-interpreted as jews-moslems conflict.

in my opinion, It's because of US goverment's foreign policies (vietnam, cuba, venezuela, mid-east, guantanamo, etc.)...

and maybe: Americans ignorance about their goverment' foreign policies.

Americans hate those policies -- i.e.: sending boys and girls to war for oil-- but most of americans do nothing about them..

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but i don't think the 9/11 was mostly about hatred. I guess 'The love for Money' was the real motive. (just like the invasion to Iraq's oil)

Answer 2

Human nature. Jealously, envy, whatever. Think of the United States as one person, who has all the money, good looks, best car, etc, etc, etc. The person who doesn't have it, covets it, and will do (almost) anything to bring the United States down a notch. Doesn't matter how great the personality the United States has, or how much charity work is done. Some people just can't get beyond their petty little selves. They don't want the United States to be "Big Brother" and monitor them, get involved or whatever.
Think of how your mom got involved in fights you had with your siblings when you were little. If she didn't get involved, who would stop the fighting, or wrongdoing? Now, think of Hitler. Wasn't it right for the United States to stop the mass slaughter he did against the Jews? Is it any different what Sadam was doing to his people? Maybe the United States does get over involved in some things, but the excuse that we're just doing it for oil is ridiculous. Some nation has to keep a good eye out for the wronged. No one else seems to want to take the lead in this and the United States is left doing the right thing. The United Nations talks and talks and talks a thing to death thinking that if they just talk about a situation long enough, the problem will resolve itself. Look what their not doing with North Korea.

Answer 3

When the Monroe Doctrine was passed, Europe just kinda laughed at America. Then came the Roosevelt Corrollary, and by that time we had a big enough stick to enforce it. Later on, the US began a policy of imperialism with a high and mighty aim to spread democracy to the heathen and oppressed people around the world. Panama, the Phillipines, Iraq. We became a nation that loved to shove our noses uncomfortably close to everyone elses business. It might have been all the red scares that touched off America's insistence on spreading its broken system of democracy. Whatever it was, it certainly hasnt put the US in a good light. Unfortunately, a lot of Americans are retards who cant name a single supreme court justice (or dont know what that is) much less know anything about other nations/cultures. Combine that with a naturally occuring sense of nationalism founded in nothing more than the idea that America is "free", you have the perfect recipie for an arrogant America that is hated by the rest of the world.

Answer 4

C'mon, we didnt really vote in GW, it was rigged. Dont blame the American people for what it doesnt control. We've been told to be a good american is to support our president and bring freedom to Iraq (and stick your head in the sand) Its dangerous for us to resist. Do you have any idea how many people have protested this? We have not been this divided as a nation since our last civil war. You'll find most people do not agree with the way this is being handled. We went along at first because we all wanted revenge for 9/11. So much we still do not know about that but I know it wasnt Sadaam. Our govt doesnt even want Bin Laden or we could have had him by now. I do think we need to come together with the world and listen to each other and work out our differences. Like one big dysfunctional family in therapy just working it out peacefully.

All this killing I am against it, and the targeting of civilians, hey terrorists and Israel, find a different target, dont blow up children. Stop killing the children everyone!

The mothers of the world should unite and resolve the worlds problems, learn to live in peace and prosperity for all...

Answer 5

Think about it like this. Do you remember that group of spoil cocky kids in school that seemed to have everything and bragged about it, or thought they were better than everyone else and made sure other people knew that. You often wondered what it would be like if they had nothing or if you could do something to make them vulnerable. How would they act and feel? Well that's kind of the way other countries look at the US. Except with alot more disgust because not only do they brag about being the superior nation they butt into other countries business that they think they can strong arm. They don't do that to anyone they think is on or close to their level. And dont let anyone be a better country than them. They will find a way to downgrade their way and make them out to be the bad guy. BUT all in all there is not another place in this world that people would want to come and live to fulfill their dreams.

Answer 6

People hate Americans because we are the biggest hypocrites in the world. We talk about "freedom and democracy", and we have the Supreme Court decide the Presidential election in 2000, and we also have that very nice resort in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where detainees are locked up indefinitely and will not get a fair trial. We just conceeded this week that we must treat them as POW's under the rules of war set up by the Geneva Convention.

How is it that we can preach to other countries about how they should run themselves, when it took our federal gov't 4 days to respond to those people's lives who were destroyed last year in New Orleans? What's up with that? The rest of the world sees our b.s. for what it is: 100% pure, filtered American B.S. It's our largest export at this point...

Answer 7

Where I live, in Saudi Arabia, people like Americans. Here, in the eastern region of the country, there are many Americans, and Saudis like them and get along with them just fine.

What is hated is Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield, and Rice. And much of US foreign policy. And the US government's attitude that they are above the law, that their way is the right way and anyone who doesn't wholeheartedly agree with them is wrong. US isolationism, unilateralism, imperialism. Unquestioning support of terrorist states like Israel, while crushing poor third-world countries for supposedly supporting terrorism. Unquestioning support of free speech when the Danish press and government insults our religion and prophet, but demanding that the heinous offense of burning US flags be stopped and support of France's laws against anyone suggesting that the Holocaust is fiction. Now many of us are rolling our eyes at the fuss being made about Mexican immigrants while the US government continues to deny Natives their land and rights. But that's the government, not every single American citizen.

I do wish that more Americans could make the same kind of differentiations instead of generalizing and thinking that all Arabs and all Muslims are terrorists. For sure a few are, but why judge all of us by the acts of a few? Are all Americans just like Bush? Do all Americans think just like Cheney? Do all agree with everything Rumsfield says and does? Of course not!

Answer 8

Because...USA is too capitalist and nosy. USA only care about it's own self, not enough sincere compassion about others in the world.USA care for one thing oil and power.

I been around American before, and one on one, they are good people, but when in a group, they become arrogant and self centered. They don't care about nothing else but them self.

They are even cruel toward one another. Millions of Americans are homeless and without health care, and they use their money to fight in Irak. Very sad...

Look at how New Orlean people were treated by their own government during the Katrina storm. WHAT A SHAME!!! I am convince that their so call freedom is a smoke screen. In USA, you do as they say, or you take the highway.

Answer 9

There is a lot of misinformation about American policies. American press is also responsible to some extent.
American support for Israel is main factor for its unpopularity in Muslim world.
It is time that America should work through UNITED NATIONS. War against terrorism should be made meaningful by better intelligence work, a soft tone policy and try to win over hostile groups.
America is a great nation. Only history will tell us whether present policies have good or bad impact on world peace.

Answer 10

1. We are the only superpower left in the world.
2. We feel that as the only superpower we can pretty much do what we want.
3. We really don't have a foreign policy in effect that allows us to improve our image in the worl.
4. We have invaded a sovereign nation.
5. We break the rules of the Geneva Convention with our treatment of foreign combatants and terrorists.
6. We play politics with other peoples countries.
7. We funded the mujahadeen of Al Queda, Bin Laden, back in the 80's in their war against the USSR. Trained them, and then left them after they were done.
8. We are the "evil satan" in the west that supports Israel over the interests of Palestinians and other Arab/muslim interests.

just a few thoughts.

Answer 11

The reason we were attacked on 9/11, at least according to bin Laden statements, is our foreign policy. We have taken sovergn land to create a Jewish state, set up military bases throughout the middle east, and supported atrocities across the area (see our support for the Saudi regime and the support we gave to Saddam in the 80s for further proof).

Bin Laden was a part of this policy during our campaigns in Afganistan (special ops / CIA) when he was being trained by the CIA to combat communism.

Bush has furthered that hatred by his unilateral, "we can do no wrong", attitude toward the rest of the world. He has isolated us from the diplomatic world by attacking Iraq illegally, ignoring internation treaties that we have signed, and many other things.

Americans themselves have lowered the respect of the world by reelecting someone like him.