Why are Americans so despised? Read thoroughly please before answering?

Question

I have always been curious. When I went to Germany, my first time out of the country, I was spit on and called an american pig. When all I have done in my life is live it. I have done nothing to anyone yet I'm despised. I seem to remember that sometime in the early 1900's, in some thing called WWI, everyone loved us because the tide of the war turned in the favorible direction. And why's that? Oh yeah. Americans. Same in WWII. We were content in staying out of it. Then the Japanese bombed us and we came in. After that we were loved.

All I've got to say people, in all of history, there has always been a superpower who "police's" the world. Unfortunatly, no one likes the police (except the police themselves). To those who say Bush, he is just one man without utimate power. And why should an individual American be hated when I have done nothing to anyone?

Answer 1

What happened to you was sterotypical. People of other countries have a sterotype of Americans as the "fat egotistical jerks that want the entire world to be opperated by us" that, admittedly, some of us are.

As to why people hate us now, it has to do with the war (which is entirely reasonable). A lot of people don't agree with how we run our country with deomcracy, and hate how we're trying to force Iraq to change to our liking.

In the end, it's all sterotypical. Everyone else (that hates us, anyway) in the world assumes that because some major Americans in politics do something they don't like and act a way that they despise, that all Americans are like that.

Answer 2

Was it, perhaps, a young man who spit on you? I doubt very much that it was a woman or even an older German man. They are far too conscious of the American role in their economy and in the world.

My experiences traveling abroad are very different. They insult our president, yes. WE DO, TOO! They have no respect for our current leaders. I am ok with this and I'm waiting impatiently for 2008 and the end of Bush.

Yes, before Bush, we got a lot more respect. He brought this down on us by taking us into Iraq. But you have to understand that those young men who have no money and no jobs and no real purpose can always be led into hating someone. We're top dog and so we are the target of their hate.

When 911 happened, there was talk about Arabs dancing in the streets. It did happen. A young female friend who was backpacking in Morrocco saw YOUNG men dancing in the streets. Their fathers, though, looked worried and even upset by it. The women were even more so. The tension was pretty thick and she couldn't get back to Europe because all flights were cancelled. Who helped her? A dozen Morroccan Arabs told her what was happening (all she knew was America had been attacked) and helped her find a ferry that would take her and her friend (also female) across to Spain.

In a nutshell, it's the have-nots who hate us. The young men who have nothing to lose by going to war need someone to lead them and those corrupt leaders have decided that they'll gain more by throwing them at us.

How can we stop it? By giving them something else to do. Education, information, and occupation (as in jobs). A returning American soldier told me that Iraqi men are very poorly educated--at least the ones going into their police forces. The most industrialized Middle East country is Israel because the education is the best. It's no wonder they hate Israel, too.

If we poured as much money into education and industrialzation as we did into weapons, most countries could be turned around. We still need a goal to absorb the most restless. It's time we pushed for space. It's the next frontier.

Answer 3

Since WW! ,we as a nation have shifted from a nation of people of civic participation and a proud knowledge of our country and heritage ,the people had a say so in the policies of the government,over the decades we the people are more preoccupied with the daily trifles of the day and do not have a strong will to participate in the decisions of our government,s policy worldwide or domestic,since we got accustomed to throwing money at our problems.Nature is democratic and so is the USA,when we are the mirror to the worldand we do not live up to our own expectations set forth by our founding fathers we dissillusion the rest of the world which could translate into hate for our own hipocricy,since we deny taking care of our own and try to be" A light ot the world ,but darkness to ourselves",We the people need to take back the birthright of our country by being more involved, the responsibility is our,sto take back.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

We are hated because the world judges us on the basis of what our government does. For the last 6 years the world has had a lot of reasons to hate us. Some people think the government a country has is the reflection of all it's citizens. We know this not to be true.

Answer 6

America is funding both sides of the war. We don't set out to do that, but we have companies trying to make money. We need to elect politicians who will state what their foreign policy will be, instead, right before elections, issues get turned to the economy, and the parties bashing each others efforts. Look at the websites, not the campaign material, and ask how we will treat other countries.
You just got caught up to represent everything unlikeable about any large country.

Answer 7

Americans are despised around the world because of our foreign policies. Everyone likes to place labels on people, and we assume that all people that fall under the label placed on them act the same. During WWII we rounded up Japanese and many Germans in America and put them in interment camps. The vast majority of these people never did anything to anyone. We didn't trust them because of the actions of their leaders. The policy and actions of America's current "leaders" are so far out of step with interests of other countries and all Americans are branded with their actions and policies.

Answer 8

Just like the US in 1900, Europe (except England) is taking the "ignore it and it will go away" approach to radical Islam. They think we are kicking a hornets' nest. Perhaps they also are covering the guilt the should feel for taking an appeasement stand on terrorism.

Answer 9

that's a great ??, sorry to hear that happened to you. I have a different story, i was in Egypt this year, a Muslim country, i would say that 90% of the people we talked to all said the same thing, that they don't hate us because we are Americans, that they don't hate the American people, they just don't like our government

Answer 10

americans r despised becuz they support dictatorship. they supported bush. they r colinizing iraq and many other countries in the world. u think evryone will love u for being a part of the country that hates evryone? if u can hate evryone then evryone else has a right to hate u too. get over it!