Why are people so Anti-American? not only others countries but americans themselves?

Question

I don't know if it's actually true or not but it seems to me there are more anti-America Americans than pro-America Americans. I, myself am pro-America. But nearly everyone I speak to is anti-Bush, my high school U.S. history teacher being the biggest of them all.

Re-reading my question it seems as if i'm asking why people are anti-bush. Which isnt really what im asking.

Answer 1

The liberal media has brainwashed their puny little brains into being anti-American.

Answer 2

most of the tools on here who are anti-bush are not anti-american. there's a difference

it takes a select few of us to actually be anti-american. as to why- we recognize that it is not who's in the white house that's the problem. clinton was a ****-up too. the problem boils down to the very constitution being an illegitimate political fraud, a system that will continually fail when you consider that democracy is pointless when fused with capitalism, and that reforming the government will not change any of it. it takes full working class political, economic, and social revolution.

and before you chumps start whining at me telling me to leave and go to another country, keep in mind that i cannot organize or agitate workers to better their own lives and foster spontaneous revolutioanry potential from a different country. running away won't destroy the bourgeois american disease it has infested on not only its own workers, but the world itself.

give it 20 or 30 years until our economy collapses, and we're in another great depression, and perhaps you'll start to see things my way.

Answer 3

I definitely understand what you mean. I don't know if it is American vanity that we want to be liked by the world. Or if it is Americans have been so caught up in being 'politically correct' and not offending anybody that they think everything is wrong that offends somebody (with a couple of exceptions that would be offtopic, so I won't go there).
But take heart, those who speak the loudest are not necessarily the majority. American society has just taken a very skewed path since the '60's of hippies and the VietNam war. It has jaded a lot of people. And realize that the people of that generation are the ones who are in the leadership positions of our government, our schools--in particular college and all those young minds are lapping it up without every double checking anything that is said and trying to think for themselves---everything in society is being run by that generation now. Many of them are still rebelling against the common sense of the generations before them. They are very deep, almost rabid, Liberals and they are unexplainable. They are in their own world.
They think that we should stay out of other countries' business, not be the world's policeman, and there are people who have thought that for 90 years when we got into WW1. But we are a global economy and we have to watch what goes on and know how it effects us. It is bigger than oil. If oil doesn't come out of the Middle East, then Asian countries where we get most of our cheap goods, can't produce such cheap products. So the oil in the Middle East isn't for us, its for our allies, trading partners. (The top 3 countries we get oil from are Venezuela, Nigeria, and Russia/Siberia. #4 is Saudi Arabia and we only get 12% of our oil from them. Iraq is not and was not a supplier, they have little oil, that's why they invaded Kuwait becuase the big fields are there) Would we rather that China went in there and kicked the Arabs around to make sure they get their flow of oil? I think not.
We also live in a soundbite era now and most people don't know the whole story of anything that goes on in our country, government, or the world. You see stories about insurgent attacks and civilians getting killed. But they never show the stories of our military units that rebuild schools and hospitals and are trying to restore electrical, phone, water, and sewage service to the Iraqi people. You don't see footage of all the Iraqis that our military doctors are treating in the military base hospitals there, regardless of whether or not they know they are insurgents or just common folk. People whose knowledge of the world and history come from TV are the same people that don't remember how WW1 got started, that don't remember who was the president that took us in to VietNam (John F. Kennedy), who don't remember that we were on a UN mission when the barracks in Beruit was truck bombed killing 283 US Marines and 15 French soldiers when they were trying to keep the piece in a country that had no oil to worry about, it was just the right thing to do to stop the fighting. These people forget that the 9/11 attackers came here to our own soil and killed over 3,000 Americans, they also forget that people of the same fanaticism tried to bring down the World Trade Center with a truck bomb in the basement in 1995. They forget that Bill Clinton knew a lot and did little and Bush only took office just 8 months before 9/11 and was using all the notes that the Clinton administration left him. Clinton launched a missle at Afghanistan and Sudan after the bombings of American Embassies in two African countries in August 1998, he knew that Osama bin Ladin was responsible and that he was in Afghanistan then.
I think the freeing of Iraq from Hussein's rule was the right thing to do, it was long overdue. Just because the other coutnries of the UN didn't want to get their butts off their hands doesn't mean we did the wrong thing. Just that we did what they should have done in 1992 when Hussein threw out the UN inspectors.
I think Bush should have listened to some different advisors on how to carry out the mission, and being an Army wife for 18 years now, I think he hasn't given the soldiers due benefits in exchange for their service, but that too is a different discussion.
I'm glad you are thinking for yourself. Don't let a teacher bully you. And he is supposed to keep his personal biases out of the classroom. Be proud and know that you are not the only pro-American American. Just because we aren't as loud doesn't mean we are outnumbered.

Answer 4

Well, you equated anti-American with being anti-Bush (which he, himself does, making him the most anti-American person ever).

There are very few Americans who are anti-American. The people who have told you otherwise have been lying to you.

After all, I don't hate my home, my family, my friends, or wish for their destruction any more than you do.

Confusing America with it's worst actions is, itself, un-American.

We were each of us born with a brain. Many of us have a conscience.

It's not anti-American to use them; in fact, it's one of the basic idea on which this country was founded.

I have, not only the right, but the obligation to say when my government is doing the wrong thing, or is about to do the wrong thing, or has done the wrong thing.

That's not being anti-American; that's being a patriot.

Mass murder is wrong.

Torture is wrong.

If the president says that murder is liberation, he's wrong.

It's the furthest thing from anti-American to say so.

America has done a tremendous amount of damage to a lot of people all over the world.

The government got away with it, without most Americans stopping it because they succeeded in framing the issues as being pro- or anti-American.

"If you disagree with our overthrowing this democratically elected government in country x, y, or z, and putting a dictatorship in its place you are anti-American."

Except that depriving a people of their democratically elected government, and subjecting them to a brutal dictatorship is wrong and anti-American.

Answer 5

many are anti bush but your teacher is wrong for bring hate to school. many people think bush is America that he does what we want not so but that is what they think. many people in america are here illegally an alot come from other country's they think america should be like there country they ran from if there country was so good why are they here

Answer 6

I can see why you said that ; but Surely everyone is NOT anti-American..If that were the case , we wouldn't be embroiled in the issue of mass illegals sneaking into our great country . Anyone who spends more than an hour in a public school - will hear lots of derogatory remarks about the country & president .
As for the liberals ..and turning your question into a Bush bashing event- that's what liberal democrats seem to do for fun these days : anything and EVERTHING is turned into a way to slam President Bush . Just like they turn every topic into a political event . It's getting so old ..it's moldy already . Teachers who speak in defense of this nation or President Bush are a small brave few because the others fear they'll loose their jobs . I hope your grades don't suffer if you let it be known that you don't hate your country or America .

Answer 7

Being Anti-Bush is NOT being Anti-American.

Americans are entitled to believe in any politician they so choose. American nationalism is not pinned down to one guy.

Conservativism DOES NOT equal Patriotism.

Answer 8

I read your add'l details, but it still seems as though you are equating being anti-American with being anti-Bush. I think Bush is possibly the worst President we have endured in many a decade. But I'm anything but anti-American. I love this country, deeply. Right now she's hurting and she's divided but I know that we'll pull it together, we always do and we always will. This country is completely awesome, to use one of my son's words.

Answer 9

Wanting a better America is not anti - America.

Answer 10

because the guy is a moron forget your affiliation with political parties and just listen to the guy speak for a second. I mean he in fact represents America. People also are hypocrites especially Americans for example, how many people drive foreign cars and have American flags on them or are so called Christians, support the war, and their bible says thou shalt not kill.
Most Americans are hypocrites that's the problem.

Answer 11

Theres a big difference between hating bush and hating america.