AMERICANS: Ever feel alienated by the rest of the world?

Question

Many people around the world are upset with America's foreign and environmental policies. How do you get treated when in a foreign country, and do you think people are justified in their opinions of your nation and people?

Just to be clear - do people confuse anger towards America with anger towards Americans?

Answer 1

Americans feel alienated because they know nothing of the rest of the world. For example: Where is Europe? They have World Championships sports in which only Americans take part!! If you believe American films and TV, they won WW2 single handed!!

Its Gung Ho Presidency has got the Middle East in a mess from which it will be hard to extricate itself and GB of course. Bush was voted in for a second term, so the majority of US people must be for the situation in the ME and will continue to be so - so it follows that the US people will bear the brunt of people's anger and become alienated.

Individually, US citizens are OK, but when they get together that they become overbearing and continually remind us that we them something for our survival.

We paid dearly for US involvement in WW2 - nothing the US does is for free - it was called Lend Lease and lasted 50 years - payment for which has not long ceased.

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Answer 2

If I'm in a foreign country, I try to keep my mouth shut and blend into the background.

Even if they do only disapprove of my government, I know that most of the locals will probably want to talk about it. I don't mind it if it's a little bit. But it just goes on and on forever.

I came to visit this country in order to see how cool it is, not for you to come up to me and tell me how much my country sucks. Please let's talk about something else, like what some of the nice places to eat local cuisine are around here.

I would say that I've been purposely ignored by others because I was American, but I've never had an insult thrown at me.

It used to bother me that a lot of people hated my country and its people. Then I found out who those people were who hated my country, and most of them aren't worth a pot to piss in, and barely have the brains that God gave geese to come out of the rain. Anti-Americanism is kinda trendy right now. So now I just really don't care.

Answer 3

I live in germany and am married to an american (im british). A lot of the americans over here do get picked upon by the germans and they dont want them in their country anymore. My husband doesnt like to go out to bars or clubs simply cos he is an american. Also, I deal with americans at work and for the most part they are ok, but there are some really dumb small minded ones that pick on me and bring up the war of independance and also the fact that if it wasn't for america, all british people would be speaking german right now !!! They are the ones that give the rest of the country a bad name !!!! Also, I had an american friend of mine travel to Australia and she told everyone there she was canadian !!

Answer 4

People like to blame the rich for all their problems. They blame the most technological country because they are jealous. America is the greatest world power the world has ever known. We have freed more people and are responsible for more technology and science gains than anybody.

We are not saints and we have made mistakes but the facts speak for themselves. If you free someone from a dictator then all the people who lost money are going to hate you. Tuff, that is the nature of being a great power. The "rest of the world" which I believe to be a minority of leftist idiots for the most part, are too dumb to know any better. They might appreciate their lives more if they knew how their lives would be under Nazi rule or as a subject of the USSR.

Answer 5

watching the a number of above solutions provides a feeling that some individuals, enormously the hot technology are being ideas washed to have them think of that purely in united statesa. is there this style of element as a "ideal existence" little do they comprehend, they are those to be held to blame for many the international's suffering and crises. and that there are a number of places in the international that are greater advantageous than united statesa. itself. i assume It takes a chick to hatch in the previous it is conscious that there is greater to the international than the interior an egg... fairly human beings provide up being so ignorant and don't nod your head at each and every little thing the media tells you.

Answer 6

Last year in Paris, we were treated fine. I think that the French can make a distinction between individual Americans and the policies of the President of the US.

Answer 7

i've been to canada tons of times and have always been treated warmly and i've never, ever tried to hide the fact that i was an american. when i went to clubs and bars there they only played american music and the canadian girls seemed to have an eye for the american boys. i know several canadian girls that travelled all the way to nyc for fleet week just to try to pick up an american GI also. It is sad that people say so many dumb things about americans, but i have often found that they are very immature and say things they dont really mean. the people that say these things are also very hypocritical. They will treat an American great to their face, then say something bad about america to their friends at home when no americans are around to defend their country. that's cowardly.

Answer 8

No. I feel very comfortable in claiming that there are legions of U.S. citizens who, like myself, have traveled to foreign countries with little concern for the ill-treatment that may be encountered. Through my travels within and outside of the U.S., my conversations with persons of various nationalities, it has become very clear to me that those who are inured to high levels of stress, anxiety, and alienation do not, per se, suffer in a comparable sense from the reproaches of stragglers expressing the local prejudice from a cozy rostrum they have arbitrarily tagged "the world".

Answer 9

I tell people I am Canadian when I travel abroad - especially in the Middle East , but I never agreed with much of or foreign and domestic policies - ever since a villiage in Texas has been missing its idiot.

Answer 10

I could care less what others think. And I've never had any problems in any foreign country when traveling.

I do know that MILLIONS of people are trying to get here, legally and illegally....... so we can't be that bad.
Can you name any other country people are flocking too in masses?????