Do Americans even care that there's rising anti-americanism even in Australia?

Question

I don't dislike the American people just a lot of things in their society and most of all their governement.

Answer 1

Do they even know should be the question? We are despised throughout much of the world, Europeans do not like us ( not us but our government) we as a nation are made fun off politically, economically etc. I have many friends in Europe, that tell me "it is nothing against you, but your government is more screwed up than ours and ours is pretty bad"

Answer 2

I'll get worried when there's that kind of anti-Americanism in America. Aside from that, I know I'm a nice enough guy. If I ever have enough money to travel, I may worry about my country's image with the rest of the world.

Answer 3

Whenever I travel to a foreign country, I try to be an ambassador of my country and treat my hosts with kindness and respect. But if you want to judge me, based solely on what my government does, or by what you see in the media, then I really do not care what you think.

Answer 4

You are so foolish!!!
You say you Americans because of government and society.
That is not hating the people.
You reall American government and society.
Try to get to know the people, the faces.

Answer 5

Imagine the richest, best looking, smartest kid in the junior high school class. By several orders of magnitude. He's got the best toys, nicest clothes, the coolest parents, the best grades, the hottest girls. No one else even comes close. Do you think he is popular? Or do the rest of the kids hold a simmering resentment of him due to envy?

Look, the straight fact is the USA gets blamed for doing nothing when the Sudanese government kills its own citizens in Darfur. The USA get blamed when it intervenes to prevent the government from killing its own citizens in Iraq.

When there is a natural disaster like the tsunami in 2004, only the USA has the airlift and naval capability to launch large scale rescue efforts anywhere in the world. We offer our help and Indonesia's government at first refuses, then accepts, then puts conditions on it, then has local Islamic groups repackage USA aid so that it looks like islam is helping them, not the USA. In the meantime, rich muslim nations like Saudi Arabia have to be publicly embarrassed into contributing anything.

Blaming the USA is so much easier than admitting your own society's problems and fixing them. Just ask the islamic world.

Just hope the USA does not make Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" required reading for its students. Imagine the next nuclear-armed Hitler-type that decides to go on the rampage and the USA shrugs and sits it out.

As Australians, you should be pretty sensitive to this. Your neighbor Indonesia is the world's largest muslim nation, dwarfing Australia's population. A muslim fundamentalist government could really make your lives difficult. China is building a blue water navy, has nukes, and is desperate for raw materials to fuel its economy. You are sitting on a natural resource goldmine. Not to mention the smaller regional crazies like North Korea who have nukes and are developing missiles to deliver them that will eventually reach Australia. Now imagine Australia alone to face them without the USA.

No nation is perfect, but since America assumed a leading role in the world, Nazism and Japanese imperialism (bet you Aussies remember that one) were defeated, Communism's global empire building was defeated and millions freed, and an international order was build based on democracy and free trade that has lifted billions of people out of poverty from Bejing to Brazil to Bangalore, while providing freedom from Seoul to Warsaw. The US has spent trillions of dollars on this effort.
How much thanks have we gotten for it?

So now you say some Australians are indulging in anti-Americanism. Ask yourselves why? Certainly whatever you think of our policy in Iraq, it pales in comparison to all the good the USA has done and continues to do for the world since WWII. What are your other complaints? Democracy and free trade are flourishing, and the USA still brings progress to the world, as any count of Nobel prize winners will confirm. Overall the American record as a world power has been better than any other nation's in history.

And yet you tell me anti-Americanism is rising in Australia. Look yourselves in the mirror and be honest. Is this based on substance, or is this really the envy of the junior high school classmates of the kid who has everything?

(If you like this answer, feel free to send it to your Australian newpapers' letters to the editor. Oh gee, I forgot, that bloody Aussie turned American named Murdoch owns most of them. ;-)

Answer 6

Nope.

If other countries, including Australia, really hate us, then stop taking our money. Then stop trading with us. Stop selling us stuff you make, stop buying stuff we make. Send back all the aid you get, ask our military to leave.

Oh, wait that would hurt too much wouldn't it? It's far better to get up on the soap box and scream how evil Americans are while you take money from us.

I'll take notice when other countries stop taking our aid, and stop trade, and ask for the military bases to close.

Until then, don't bother me.

Answer 7

there are good and bad things about all countries i dont care if australia like us, as long as they stay over there and i stay over hear we wont have a problem they can think what they want

Answer 8

most Americans think Australia is in the Alps, sadly enough.

Answer 9

Nope.

Answer 10

We care, we just can't do much about it except try to get rid of the Shrub and his flunkies.