What do people from other countries think of Americans?

Question

I thinking about leaving America. We are going downhill and everyone hates us. Nothing is special about being American, and I don't want to be associated with a country that is corrupt, greedy, arrogant, etc. I don't hate America, but I don't want to be associated with America at the present time. I want to leave, but I'm not exactly 18, yet.

I want to move to ireland.

Answer 1

I came to America at 17 and am now 28 and want to leave.

I feel I've become one of them and I do not like it.

I would love to move to Europe....ahhhh, bliss!

Answer 2

Which American. A Central American, a South American? People need to stop acting that people from the United States are the only people called Americans. As long as you are born in the Americas you are an American, being an U.S. citizen is different though. But I agree with what your saying, the U.S. has been in deep sh!t for along time now. I rather live in Japan or Great Britain but I'm only 15 so I'm stuck here for now. The U.S. is all about being free but there is too much hate here you can see on this forum now with all this people bashing each other about race and religion. WHO CARES?! Be adults and learn to respect each others beliefs and culture already.

Answer 3

Hey, everybody - he's 15. He hasn't figured it out yet. He's got this romantic idea of Ireland. Now, Ireland has some very lovely landscape and some of the people are pretty nice but if when he grows up and does actually move there I think he'll regret it.

Kid's got a real complex, too - check out his previous questions: tons of "Why do I hate women?", "Why do women hate me?", "Why do I have bushy eyebrows?" and the rest is just ragging on America and how much he hates it.

Teenage angst, that's what it is. He'll grow out of it some day.

Answer 4

It's not the people I dislike in America, Americans are generally nice people, and I like their way of life etc. It's the foreign policies I dislike about America which seem too self centred around it's own religious and economic conveniences.

Answer 5

You could go to Iraq! But there is a war over there?
You could go to Iran, but they are having problems to?
What about Africa? Not a lot of food to eat and jobs are hard to come by?
What about China? No they already have a population problem.
Indonesia? No they just had a tusunami and the clean up is really bad. Canada is burried under snow and Mexicans are trying to get into the US not out of it.
Wonder why that is?
Columbia is run over by drug lords and the dead lay in the streets unburried people are afraid to go to them for fear they will kill them to. It is called the most dangerous place on earth.
Before Iraq even.
Most of South American's come to Mexico to work, because they work for 1. day in south America. Mexicans come to the USa to work. Min. wage is big wages to them. Let's see Japan!
They work in sweat shops for 5. a day. That's not to good and homes are impossible to get they live in cardboard houses, if your lucky enough to get one.
Germany doesn't take immigrants. France has muslims tearing up the place. England is way to crowded. I know you could go to Egypt? But they are having a drought and water is scarce.

Answer 6

Keep your cool, man. So you want to leave the USA - what country are you going to? Do you personally know of a country that hasn't been guilty of being corrupt, greedy or arrogant?

And, where's your sense of patriotism?

Answer 7

I have nothing against the people of America. I do have certain prejudices against Bushy over there. The war in Iraq - all a big media thing that blew up in his face and i'm not to fond of Johny Howard over here in Oz backing him so yea...

Answer 8

I am English- from the north west. My opinion of America is simple. I would rather live in Aleppo

Answer 9

This doesn't apply to all Americans, but they are generaly portrayed as overweight, stupid and in desperate need of a sense of humour.