why do the people from other countries hate the US?

Question

did people like us better when clinton was in office

Answer 1

Yes because we treated other countries with dignity. We have become the fat rich ostentatious bullies of the world.

Answer 2

We don't hate the people only what your country has come to represent. Unfortunately, though not incorrectly, most people around the world see America as a rich money grabbing bully and resent the arrogant stance America takes in any political discussion. Also the hypocrisy of the current anti-nuclear campaign sickens most of us who fell its just another method of control.
Clinton was better than Bush but only because he less aggressive, he still ripped off the rest of the world.

Answer 3

The majority of people around the world love America. The ones who don't like us are obviously those who would make the most noise speaking out against us. If you don't have a problem with something, will you go out of the way to tell someone? Probably not. You don't call technical support to tell them how well a product works... well people don't get on TV to make speeches about how much good we're doing... usually.

Clinton was a MUCH better politician than Bush. I see this as a fault of his. We didn't need a politician after 9/11, we needed a leader. Unfortunately, people in this country claim to know how to run it better than a twice-elected president. But we also havn't been attacked again in America since Bush was in office.

The world runs to America with its problems. If a country is dying of famine, America comes to the rescue. If some people are in the mist of a genocide, America comes to the rescue. If disease is taking over a country, here comes America. If a country lacks structure for economic advancement, here comes America. If a country is under attack and allied with us, here we come! Now, we decide to take precautions for our own safety, and certain entities in the world are complaining. We go to Iraq to make us (and in reality the entire world) safer from a murderous, terrorizing dictator... but because it was mostly for our own benifit, we are called selfish, bullies, etc. We wern't called selfish or bullies in WWI or WWII. Why can't America take action to protect itself once in a while, in addition to the rest of the world?

I find it funny that France is pretty much leading the opposition to our war in Iraq... I laugh because France had illegal oil deals with Suddam Hussain. They disregarded the embargo placed on Iraq. They had no problem dealing with someone credited with 400,000 to 1.5 million deaths... and they call US selfish for attacking our enemy?!

Be confident in knowing that most people around the world love America and what we stand for. We have helped many of them and will continue to do so. Most of the noise regarding our actions is from ignorant, fanatical people within our borders.

Answer 4

What is so hypocritical about our anti-nuclear campaign rithhew? I don't know what country you are from,but we don't have a problem with other countries having nuclear weapons just not the unstable ones.

As for the question who knows what they thought of Clinton,I know what I think of him though.

Answer 5

THey hated us back then. Haitians hated us because we invaded Haiti and put a worse dictator there. We enraged the muslim worls because we recklessly fired missiles. We insulted Pakistan, an allie by firing a missile over their airspace with out their permission. We angered China by attacking a civilian merchant ship in international waters because we thought they had chemical weapons, which we did not find. Somali hated us and danced when they killed American peace keeping troops. I think the only difference is that Latin America hates us even more now and France started hating us.

Answer 6

Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But if you step back and look at what freedom actually means for us today, it's a strange and limited kind of freedom.

Politicians promised to liberate us from the old dead hand of bureaucracy, but they have created an evermore controlling system of social management, driven by targets and numbers. Governments committed to freedom of choice have presided over a rise in inequality and a dramatic collapse in social mobility. And abroad, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the attempt to enforce freedom has led to bloody mayhem and the rise of an authoritarian anti-democratic Islamism. This, in turn, has helped inspire terrorist attacks in Britain. In response, the Government has dismantled long-standing laws designed to protect our freedom.
The origins of our contemporary, narrow idea of freedom.
shows how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's idea of freedom. This model was derived from ideas and techniques developed by nuclear strategists during the Cold War to control the behaviour of the Soviet enemy.

Mathematicians such as John Nash developed paranoid game theories whose equations required people to be seen as selfish and isolated creatures, constantly monitoring each other suspiciously – always intent on their own advantage.

This model was then developed by genetic biologists, anthropologists, radical psychiatrists and free market economists, and has come to dominate both political thinking since the Seventies and the way people think about themselves as human beings.

However, within this simplistic idea lay the seeds of new forms of control. And what people have forgotten is that there are other ideas of freedom. We are, in a trap of our own making that controls us, deprives us of meaning and causes death and chaos abroad.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/noise/?id=trap

Answer 7

i dont know if politics play such a big role but i guess it is definitely one of the important factors. other than that, people feel that americans dont think that there is any other world beyond their country. they dont respect other cultures very much. if something is not american, then its not perfect. my cousins live in us and when they come to my country they are like, what is this? they dont respect our nation. if anything is slightly different from the way it is done in america, they turn up their nose at it.
and dont u honestly think that people from US are also prejudiced against people from other countries?

Answer 8

Great bully.
Dark side has taken power in Capitol Hill.
I pray for the return of the Jedi.

Answer 9

Its not a popularity conests sports fans, this isn't American Idol or Dancing with the Stars, this is real life, get out and grab some :)

Answer 10

No, when Clinton was in office, the world thought we were a joke, and rightly so.