Why is it that no one in the world doesn't seem to have problems with Mexicans...but Americans???

Question

On the other hand....why is it that ALMOST EVERYONE in the world HATES Americans??

I don't hate Americans, actually I admire the USA, but the fact is clear.

And don't say it's because you're a powerful and developed nation. Europe is also powerful and developed, Japan is too, and, with the exception of the Britons, Spaniards, Israelis and Italians, no one else is afraid of being attacked by terrorists.

Correction: I should have said "No one SEEMS..."

My mistake.

go kart 121 has serious mental issues...he says Americans have been TOO NICE!! What if they suddenly decided to be MEAN?

Answer 1

The Mexicans one sees in Europe are either doing the obligatory European Tour, are business or professionals or the children thereof, or otherwise come complete with American Express card and passport.

In America, one thinks mostly of the Mexicans ones sees in the parking lot of Home Depot, or working in the fields or in other jobs Americans by and large won't take.

The popular feeling towards migrants among those who style themselves conservatives in America is the same as in Britain towards what the British call "asylum seekers".

A young mexican woman came to my door last year, to return the keys to our rental apartment on behalf of our tenant, a graduate student who left a few weeks before the end of her lease to attend to her mother, seriously ill in El Salvador. It turned out that the woman at the door was Mexican, the daughter of the mayor of a large Mexican city. She herself had been born in San Diego. What right-wing, anti-immgrant and anti-Mexican Americans would call, I suppose, an "anchor-baby". Except that nobody wants to keep out Mexicans (or Salvadorans) like that: multilingual, highly educated, rich.

I think the Salvadoran had a German passport. I never asked; that's my rental agent's job. And I didn't want to know, really, if her grandparents were ex-nazis.

Answer 2

Wealth and power.

Illegal immigrants take jobs in the US - mostly jobs American citizens don't want. But thanks to the government and companies eyeing only the bottom line - the jobs American citizens do want are disappearing at an alarming rate to other countries.

So the corporate types get richer, America amasses more wealth but fewer and fewer people have access to it.

Most people overseas who hate America have never been here. Some hate for idealogical reasons, others because they are jealous and still others because they have been told to do so. American's also have a different cultural norm - we come across as being loud and arrogant.

Besides, it's always easy to hate the big guy and at this point in history that is America. With time, that will change too.

Answer 3

Americans do not have problems with Mexicans. Americans have a problem with a border that is so open that people can come and go at will without the knowledge of officials. Most Mexicans who come to the United States are wonderful people and nobody really wants to deny them access. However, criminals, drug smugglers, gang members and other undesirable people, of many nationalities, pass through the southern border of the United States and that needs to be stopped. Cooperation by the people of Mexico and their government would help the situation, but their government either cannot or will not do anything about it, because they see it as being our problem, not theirs, and they are more than happy to see criminals leave and even to see their own people leave rather than demand changes. Mexico is a beautiful country, with a rich history and blend of cultures and ethnicities. The people who leave for economic reasons are being deprived by the corruption in their own country.

Answer 4

I think your question reveals you own bias on this issue, but in general I think it would be highly absurd to characterize all Americans as having the same feeling with regards to this issue.
While I'm sure some Americans do have a cultural/racial bias against Mexicans and other Latin American people, I would say most (including myself) do not. That does not mean I am unconcerned with illegal immigration - I am.
With regards to the other issue, I do not give a hoot whether other nations like the USA. I am concerned that they respect us, or barring that I want them to fear us.
What American stand for is freedom? Freedom to think and feel and live my life as I choose. America offers a greater amount of freedom than anywhere else that I know of. Some people who want to limit that freedom and force us to live the way do threaten and attack us to achieve their goal. They will fail.

Answer 5

Ummm, first off "other" countries aren't forced to pay for illegal Mexicans' medical care, education, jails etc...
I do read other countries' concerns about their immigration problems.. like Poles and other eastern European peoples in the UK. Muslims in France...And the fact that other countries aren't afraid of being attacked by terrorists? How about Turkey, Indonesia, France, Pakistan, India,....Maybe you should do some research before you talk out of your ( { ) ...
As far as those other countries--some that you mention don't allow foreigns to invade their country--like Japan.

Answer 6

Because Mexico is irrelevant in the world. They have no effect, no power, no voice, they cannot run their own country effectively, so obviously they cannot influence anyone else. No issue to provoke hate, no presence at all.

Isn't it funny that you finally used the term American to describe the citizens of the NATION called the United States of America. It's nice to hear you get it right for once.

Answer 7

It's interesting that you say that, that everyone hates americans.
Unless your first name is 'everyone', then it's a fallacious statement.

In one sense, you have to ask the question if we've somehow been TOO helpful to other countries, to the point where they've now become almost wholly reliant and dependent on us,
and another good question would be when they intend to get off their asses and start taking care of their own problems. It's the 21st century, they have these things called 'books' out there,
reading and learning is how you gain knowledge, nothing stopping people but fear and good sense from solving their own problems instead of crying about how bad America is...
the moral of 'hate on america' is that no good deed shall go unpunished...we've been too nice, too generous, too giving, hoping that generosity will solve problems. Boy, did we ever get THAT one wrong! LOL What did it get us? Trillions in debt, no clear future, and a world full of people that now feel entitled to talk crap to us. I say 'let them solve their own problems, then'.

I say build the border fence, support the US Border Patrol, have highly structured, highly regulated foreign aid, complete with disinterested 3rd party oversight, and let's just take some time to rethink our delusions of the past...idealism's all good and fine, but I think we're being taken to the bank, here.

Answer 8

Lets sing a song...
hehehe
Mexico is close by and there is a lot of bull fed down American throats. Americans are hated for their arrogance (not just foreign policy, thats for the smart people, their simple presense as tourists) and Britons, Spaniards, Israelis and Italians and Americans are afraid of terrosrist attacks because it happened (in Italy was the threat sufficing)
Americans need a scapegoat to blame for their internal mess and to justify more spending. Mexicans make a large part of immigrants because they are close by and it is easy to cross.
Salut con un poco de Jose Cuervo :)

Answer 9

Because the USA is the only country they are trying to illegally enter. And also the USA is right next door to Mexico. The Rio Grande is probably alot easier to swim across than say the Pacific or Atlantic ocean

Answer 10

Hmmm ... the reason why most people in the world don't have any problems with illegal Mexicans is that they don't HAVE any illegal Mexicans ... where else but the U.S. do illegal Mexicans go??

And you're dead wrong about hating Americans ... plenty of people hate the Bush administration around the world, but very few I know of actually hate the American people ... maybe you should travel around the world and find out for yourself ....