Should insulting Americans become an Olympic sport?

Question

Most nations seem to do it, after all.

Answer 1

No. Olympic sports should have a certain degree of difficulty.

Answer 2

During the Olympics, and really in many other venues, people love to hate the US and its funny really. People in other countries do not welcome immigration while the US is almost completely made up of former immigrants. When people hate the US they act as though we are the Germans or the Poles or we are one race or ethnic group. We are many groups and they should note that success in sports seems to be about the merging of many cultures and bloodlines. So people love to hate the US but in some ways they hate themselves why they are doing it. Too bad. Many Olympic champs from the US are first and second generation Americans who succeeded as somone from another ethnic background while living the American dream. We are not a race or an ethnic group, we are everything. Race haters and ethnic haters really disapprove of that but that is what the human race is about. Can you imagine people from Jamacia, Nigeria, Asia, South America immigrating to Russia, or the Middle East or China and being welcomed and sent to the Olympics to represent those countries? Naw, never happen. But that is what makes the US strong. We are the world races and ethnic groups, hate us if you want but hate yourself while you are doing it.

Answer 3

Way too easy I agree. Thats why we insult each other so much especially in our humour, we are the best at it and love a challenge

Answer 4

Yeah cuz thats all they can do is talk. No back up to their game. And its pure jealousy, no matter what you say. We dont care what the world thinks of us... but we love how you guys seem to know alot about us. We are like the popular kids that everyone knows and notices. and yall are the geeks we refuse to aknowledge.

Answer 5

thats not a bad idea but the way american politics and policy is going they would probably win gold silver and bronze!!!they hate thier country as much as the rest of the world!!

Answer 6

well it'd be the only event that every nation would receive a gold medal in... except Canada. those crazy canucks and their soft-spoken, laid back, hockey playing attitude. that's it i'm moving to canada.

Answer 7

well the USA seem to be experts at

1. jumping to conclusions
2. chucking their weight around
3. hurling abuse
4. diving in head first
5. kicking innocence into touch
6. sitting on the fence when it suits them
7. taking the moral high ground
8. swimming "out of their depth"
9. running scared
10. having a lot of cycle paths - or is that psychopaths

Answer 8

Space and time limit my response. Here are three or so specific instances you might consider out of literally thousands of similar responses. I looked everywhere but failed to see YOUR country standing along side of us.

Tsunami Reconstruction, Two Years Later - 12/22/06
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In December 2004, a major earthquake followed by a tsunami hit Asia and Africa, devastating many coastal areas. Almost 200,000 people in eight countries perished in a few hours, and over 100,000 are still missing. Many more had their homes and livelihoods swept away. The coastal areas of Indonesia and Sri Lanka and two Indian island chains bore the brunt of the calamity. They will require significant repair and reconstruction.

USAID's historic commitment to these countries, 40 years of expertise with disaster assistance, and solid working relationships with the region's governments meant we were able to respond immediately, providing life-saving food, water, medical care and shelter.

Now, standing side-by-side with the survivors, we are rebuilding communities and lives. Our cash-for-work programs give families incomes. Loans, business advice and training in job skills help develop new businesses and sources of income. Longer-term projects to reconstruct water systems, roads and other critical systems are underway. The success of our work is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, learning from experience and the power of partnerships between nations.

Total USG Humanitarian and Recovery Assistance Pledged 12/31/04: $350,000,000
Tsunami Recovery and Reconstruction Fund: $656 million*
India: $17.9 million
Indonesia: $405.7 million
Maldives: $ 12.0 million
Sri Lanka: $134.6 million
Thailand: $5.3 million
Regional, other countries: $31.8 million
Program Management: $17.4 million
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During the 1930s Britain and other European countries defaulted on their war loans from the US, valued at around $30 billion. In the US borrowing for the ‘New Deal’ to mitigate the effects of the Great Depression increased Federal debts to nearly $43 billion by 1940.

During and after World War I, the U.S. extended a substantial amount of credit to its European allies. In 1922, the U.S. and 15 European countries agreed on a total indebtedness of about $11.5 billion -- slightly more than $4 billion for France. Payments were made until 1931, mostly from German war reparations. Then the Depression led Hoover to declare a one-year moratorium, and by 1934 all but two of the countries defaulted. As of last December, according to the U.S. Treasury, principal and interest due on the French debt amounted to about $11.8 billion, or about twice what France may be owed by Iraq.
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When the rest of the world is ravaged by famine, flood, drought, tsunami, civil war, and great unrest, check out who is the ONLY country in the world to come to everybody's aid, who is willing to commit manpower, energy, effort, support, and prayers for those who have less.

Check the list of where your own country stands on helping the other nations of the world when times are tough.

Before you start America bashing you might consider exactly where you would be without the US holding off the threat of communism for the entire world and without our willingness to go to great lengths to make sure that you have hope.

Think deeply about that while you give your dose of venomous poison.

Answer 9

might as well, the rest of the world can't beat us at anything else, besides pansy *ss soccer, so they might as well try something new.

great answer, answer man. how soon they forget, if it wasn't for us the entire european continent would be under nazi rule to this day. they greedily accept american charity, and then spit in our faces. euro-trash losers.

@jayfire: were we running scared when we kicked your limey *sses out of our country and sent you back across the ocean with your tails between your legs during the american revilutionary war, or the war of 1812? were we running scared when we saved your limey *sses from hitler in WW2? we're the worlds only superpower, we run from no one.

Answer 10

Don't be a jealous Brit