Why do so many people from other countries feel the need to insult Americans?

Question

If you don't really know much about America, generalizing and insulting is a sign of poor self esteem or jealousy. Have you ever lived in America? Perhaps you should come see how great it is to live here before you talk bad about this country.

Answer 1

jealousy

Answer 2

I find that it isn't necessarily feeling the need to insult Americans. However, I find that Americans tend to find it ok to assault or insult other people's cltures without apology or care for how those people feel. eg. When an American commits a crime on someone else's turf, the American government quickly asks to have that person extradicted to their own country on the promise that justice will be served, usually it amounts to nothing. In turn making that particular country's citizens feel as though they don't count for anything. Yet when a foreigner commits a crime there everyone is up in arms about having that person serve time there and usually gets this done by intimidating the country involved. we all would love to see justice served, and what's good for the goose is good for the gander. You country always seems to get its own way no matter what. This is the true resentment people feel. Why should America be treated as though they are more special that anyone else, we all are.

Answer 3

Way to go! Thats the attitude that gets Americans insulted. Americans are seen as rude and insensitive besides being insufferable know-it-all Johnny-come-latelys. This is because a lot of Americans are indelicate and neither tuned nor receptive to local sensitivities. The 'America is best' seems a smug and parochial attitude born of ignorance about other places. Needless to say there is nothing to back this claim! I have however had the pleasure of meeting fine Americans who are better informed and therefore not such chavs - May their tribe increase.

Answer 4

I've met very nice and humble Americans. But there are also those people that give america a bad image whenever they go to another country. Some people from foreign countries resent Americans who try to enforce their way of life and customs in their turf. It doesn't help that some Americans think that they have to get whatever they want.

Answer 5

we do not hate our united states of america, its the very certainty our authorities isn't doing some thing about our immigrant difficulty, and some Catholic politicians attempt to opposite abortion rules, defining marriage between a guy and a women etc..also the very certainty they're permitting huge agencies to flee to different international locations to avert tax. human beings are patriotic and love our united states of america.@Josef, fairly we've the bottom minimum pay? the position you get you elements from? You get about 10 funds an hour operating at McDonald's, and often for toddlers. u.s. nonetheless.has between the perfect economies, we export the most in grain, corn, wheat, rice, pink meat to the international. we've the maximum paying events, MLB, NBA,NFL,golfing. we've the maximum paying medical doctors, legal experts, politicians, engineers, you may develop right into a millionaire over evening, and we are homestead to the most millionaires,. we are severe-tech and everycity is modernized, you'll stumble on more less expensive houses close to canada,yet no man or woman needs to stay there. You visit places like California and your position will be a minimum of a 1/2 a million, or up. similar in ny. we've Hollywood and animation, Disneyland and international, endless zoos, universities,...oh convinced poor human beings, it truly is why we've an immigration difficulty because each and every person needs to stay right here no longer Canada.

Answer 6

I think besides the envy (even hatred) factor of America that prevails all around the globe, one of the things that brings on these insults is the way Americans themselves behave in foreign lands.

Americans, by nature, are arrogant and unknowlingly rude when a group of them travel together overseas. Have you ever been around a group in a restaurant or bazaar? They are loud, boisterous, unrestrained and oblivious to the fact they are "guests" in another country.

This behavior is mainly attributed to the younger Americans, the college age kids, that travel with their peers to get discounts and take advantage of money saving travel offers.
You find that the older generation Americans are just the opposite of those mentioned.

It is very unfortunate it has to be this way, but the youth of America, running amok around the globe, is spoiling things for the rest of us Americans who value our image and how it's presented to the rest of the world.

Answer 7

Sometimes, Americans bring that upon themselves. I spent 34 years in the military, and a fair amount of that time in foreign countries. When I saw American tourists, all too often they acted as though the country they were in should immediately change its way to please them. I heard a woman in France complain about the outdoor restaurants, calling them "dirty". They aren't. A fellow in Germany got very upset when the German bar didn't have "Budweiser" beer. Germany is known for wonderful beer, why should they import Bud? This does not happen all the time, but a lot of Americans are very uppity and arrogant in foreign countries and that makes the people in these countries resent Americans. If one of them criticized America, wouldn't you resent it? So, why should we have the right to criticize them in their own countries.

Answer 8

Good question and good point. Americans share the First Amendment. Even though many Americans do not fully understand what this right entails, most people will never experience this right.

Answer 9

Because they've been programed to. We take our freedom and many advantages here for granted. That's why so many that come here will probably make more money than the average person born here. We are basically spoiled.

Answer 10

You should do same think about other Countries before you judge them and learn where they are located at least.

Answer 11

It's just so bloody easy to do! Hell, I live in America and insult them all the time.