Is it part of the local culture and community or is there a correlation to be made with the number of brain cells present.
2007-08-01 04:44:24 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Sociology
wow. by your own definition, you sound very "American" to me, you idiot.
2007-08-01 04:53:08 · answer #1 · answered by andrea 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You may have lived in some other country, or not.
I have found that meanspiritedness has numerous disguises, yet can be found in equal measure all over the world. When people talk about how much better the behavior is in some other place, it usually means that they are comfortable with the mask in that place.
Most Americans regard the Japanese as polite. They are just getting shown the surface mode. Austria seems like an over sized Disneyland until you become a member of their job market. The Chinese people I have met, including my own family, have their own ways of being spiteful.
The whole deal with spite, wherever it occurs and whatever face it is wearing, is that it is based on the fundamental delusion identified as the "arrow in every man's heart" by the historical Buddha. Since we, visually, seem separate and since the social, cultural, genetic, language ties are not visible to the eye, and since visual input overrides long term memory, most of are deluded by the false sense of separation.
For more on visual overrides, see http://www.erhardsculpt.net.
Once a person understands that we are all part of the same universal flow, moments of spite are just moments of forgetting.
2007-08-01 12:08:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spiteful = petty ill will or hatred towards others. Americans are not spiteful. Americans are the most giving people in the world. Americans have and do help others globally to improve them selves. Spiteful works much better for some European countries. Americans maybe arrogant but spiteful. Nah
2007-08-01 11:56:29 · answer #3 · answered by Peter R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could be the brain cells in some cases, however:
The very fact that we have the right of free speech can really magnify spitefullness. If we were ruled by a dictator, then we'd get our heads chopped off for being spitefull towards whoever is ruling.
There are a lot of rude people out there, especially when it comes to opinion.
2007-08-01 14:15:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Believe it or not, we (on the whole) don't enjoy being spiteful. It's just that the spiteful ones tend to be the loudest. I know a lot more kind and caring people than jerks.
And, on average, humans have nearly equivalent brain cell counts no matter what the geographic region.
2007-08-01 11:51:44 · answer #5 · answered by theboman@sbcglobal.net 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The question certainly indicates a bias against Americans (assume you mean US citizens) to start with. You question sounds rather spiteful so, based on you attitude, I have to assume you are an American.
I don't know where you got your idea, but if you approach everyone with the attitude displayed in your question, you are going to meet a lot of "spiteful" people.
2007-08-01 11:53:41 · answer #6 · answered by ghouly05 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Everyone has frustrations in their life - don't you? I enjoy having an outlet for my frustrations. I enjoy the fact that when someone asks
"Um this guy was like totally looking at me, then he looked me up and down, and smiled. Then he kept smiling at me. What does that mean?"
I can give a smart as* response. Is there something so wrong with that? Or is that not actually spiteful by your definition? I'm not sure.
2007-08-01 11:51:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm still waiting to find out why you are so facinated with Americans and American culture and why you have the need to dis a whole country.
2007-08-01 14:10:38 · answer #8 · answered by ilufthemountains 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's not just Americans, it's all humans. Have you ever heard of that three letter word called SIN. Well, it's a natural nature in us all. It's not pleasant but it's there to rear it's ugly head.
Welcome to planet earth!
2007-08-01 12:24:51 · answer #9 · answered by Dee D 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wow, there's a "troll" question if I ever saw one. Maybe we're just tired of propping up the rest of the world and then getting sh** on.
2007-08-01 11:49:28 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it's a universal trait that gets noticed more in non-local people.
2007-08-01 12:03:23 · answer #11 · answered by Peggy B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋