Why don't Americans take anti-americanism very well when most of it is credible?

Answer 1

WTF Would you be more specific so I can rip your words to shreds with some facts.

Answer 2

I am an American and I must say I could care less what anyone thinks of me but, you are stereotyping people,sure their are some bad ones but, most of us are good people. As to the credibility part of your question-you have the right to your own opinion. But, I will tell you that people like you spread hate in the world--think about it!

Answer 3

Hmmm..just how credible, really? I'm was born in America, but I have family all over the world, in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Its been my experience that Europeans who spew stereotypes about Americans have usually never been to America, just as Americans who spew stereotypes about Europeans have usually never been to Europe. I can tell you for certain that ignorant provincialism is alive and well all over the world, and among all people.

Answer 4

I can take it.
I know many of us are fat, I know we can be egotistical, I know we have a shady governemnt.
It's the generalization of the Anti-Americanism that I don't like.
I'm not fat, I'm not egotistical, and I don't support Bush or many of the policies of our government.
It's not fair to stereotype a whole people.
You people can be rude too. Just last night I asked a question, a simple one, about royalty and I got flack from this prick saying how Americans should "take their heads out of their arses and go focus on killing babies in Iraq."
That's not appropriate at all.

Answer 5

It is the nature of people everywhere to be protective of their social and cultural institutions or traditions because these things give us our comfort and security. So many of us will turn a blind eye upon any wrong-doing perpetuated by those institutions we depend upon whether they are our nation, our religion, our employer, our fraternity or our family.

We want to remain secure and comfortable so we prefer to ignore or attack anyone who might rock the boat.

We rarely want to listen to criticism of our nation or our other social and cultural institutions because then we might be expected to act on what we learn to change things for the better. But that might mean making choices that interfere with our personal comfort and security so we prefer to disregard anything that challenges any of the institutions we rely upon for our stability and stagnation.

I agree, BTW, that much of the criticism is credible, there are critics whose opinions are less credible, and many critics who are spot on with their analysis of our national policies' short-comings.

We have helped launch the multi-nationals that are taking over the world and which owe allegiance to no nation. We participate in the oppression of people in poverty to ensure a cheap labor market for the benefit of those corportions our own government has assisted in moving offshore so that our own people lose their jobs while those who receive their lost jobs earn too little to lift them out of endemic poverty.

There are far too many examples of how our government has failed our nation and failed the rest of the world to list them all here. Many of us still believe this is the land of the free, but our civil liberties are being stripped away along with our jobs by a government who no longer has our nation's best interest at heart and now serves only the corporations that sponsor it.

Answer 6

We're very emotional people. When muslims got offended by those cartoons they abandoned that whole Islam is a religion of peace thing and were threatening death to everyone because they're emotional about that stuff, we work like that, just not quite as violent.