2006-08-14 19:34:02 · 26 answers · asked by Hedgehog 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Just so as you know - I'm no school kid....
I'm just passing comment to get a knee jerk reaction - and boy haven't you reacted...... Can I just say personally I don't view Americans as a joke - the question is about THE WORLD viewing Americans as a joke...............
Keep 'em coming... i'm enjoying this......
2006-08-14 20:11:54 · update #1
absolutely correct
2006-08-14 19:47:21 · answer #1 · answered by GRUMPY /UK 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I am not an American, but I do not view them as a joke. This is a foolish view. America, for all its faults, has been our guarantor of freedom, right or wrong, since they helped defeat Nazism and Fascism during WW2.
While here in the UK I would prefer that our role be one of a 'critical friend' as opposed to the one of abject submission that Blair seems to favour, most folk of my parents generation still remember the brave men and women who came from America to support us in our fight for our freedom and liberty, and the many who gave their lives and are buried in northern France and elsewhere around the world.
Although many people are critical of America and of its foreign policies, it is still a country where thousands of people want to go to live and work, a country that lots of people view as the place where they can go to escape persecution and have the freedom to live as they believe. Can all these people who flee to the USA for safety now, and in the past 150 years or so, be wrong?
It seems to be the fashion at the moment to deride the Americans and to denigrate them and this, in my opinion, is an error. Sure they seem to throw up some strange right wing politicians, but have the courage to criticise them for their policies and don't condemn the whole of the American people as laughable. I don't believe that the 'whole world' as you put it, views Americans as a joke and thank you for giving me the opportunity for telling you and them so.
2006-08-14 20:36:51 · answer #2 · answered by keefer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not American and I do not view any nationality as a joke. What is going on the world is no joke either, I do not agree with the violence, the spreading of religious hatred on all sides and I hope my children will be able to live freely and not be persecuted because their parents were hanging on to remants of a free state where all (Agnostics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Gay groups, Ecologists, Etnic minoroties) could live, mingle and all the rest. I hope that I am not alone in the world.
2006-08-14 19:47:17 · answer #3 · answered by Lady Penelope 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Americans know NOTHING about the rest of the World UNLESS their boys and girls are fighting there.
When the latest caper with blowing up planes surfaced their 2homeland security man" said We are glad this was foiled as a lot of American citizens would have been killed.
Yea right but no mention about other Nationalities!
I rest my case
2006-08-14 21:29:20 · answer #4 · answered by Gordon R 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dont think the vast majority of Americans realise the extent to which they have become unpopular in the rest of the world. Sentiments range from irrational hatred, to justified anger to irritation and contempt for American society. Sadly, i think this is going to get a lot worse before its better.
2006-08-14 19:40:44 · answer #5 · answered by Pi 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some do, yes.
Others are oblivious.
I hope that American politics, media sensationalism, and puritanic conservatism can be separated from Americans in general.
Any nationality can be stereotyped into a joke.
2006-08-14 19:40:55 · answer #6 · answered by zouninorusarusan 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry but I think you're a joke. I'm not American but I support any country that's trying to defeat terrorism especially when it pretends to do it in the name of religion!
2006-08-14 19:56:44 · answer #7 · answered by brainyandy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some of us know and understand why. Some others are too busy calling us and the world all kinds of names. Do you know that the world doesn't even matter to these clowns?
2006-08-14 19:47:12 · answer #8 · answered by I Q 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would imagine that some do, and are ashamed of it.
I would also imagine that others do, and not only could they not care less, they are rather proud of the fact. Like the t-shirt says, "I'm number 1, so why try harder?"
2006-08-15 13:19:06 · answer #9 · answered by Pete S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it the height of conceit and ignorance to call probably the biggest super power in the world a joke, it is no joke. America's foreign policy could destroy the whole of the Western world. Think on...........killing, wars etc., are not funny. We would do better to respect this power and be wary of it.
2006-08-14 19:46:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Speak for yourself - I don't view them as a joke. This is the country that brought us George Clooney - that makes them blessed amongst nations, as far as I'm concerned.
Now, their President, on the other hand......
2006-08-14 19:41:17 · answer #11 · answered by Hello Dave 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋