Is Anti-Americanism justified?

Answer 1

Depends on if you have been victimized by America or not.

Answer 2

Anti-Americanism is on the increase here in UK. I'm not sure what exactly is causing it. Probably a combination of pig ignorance and prejudice. The exact same slanderous accusations which are aimed at the Yanks by these looney Brits who seem ever to be living in a time-warp of around the time of the Vietnam war.

Hello - we've all moved on. You can go home now and have a wash.

I have good reason to dispise anti-Americanism and it is simply this! Read the American Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independance and tell me what is wrong with either of these documents?

Now tell me just how much freedom do we really have here in UK! Not nearly as much as is enjoyed by the Americans.

There is no justification ever for anti-Americanism. Fine if a person wishes to blast off at an American government but please, not the American people. They're all doing their best to be nice, but for how much longer?

In any case, it's just plain bad manners, if you ask me.

Answer 3

Case by case - - - in some corners of the world where our CIA has interfered with local politics and people have been killed, of course people are justified in such opinions.

However, in a lot of instances it isn't justified. If it weren't for our sacrifice of blood and treasure the French, who love their language so much, would be, take your pick, speaking German or Russian. I think saving their butts in two world wars and bearing most of the burden of winning the cold war more than repays them for their help in the Revolution and for the fact that Britain might have won "Madison's War" were they not occupied on the continent with Napoleon. France is like the little brother who resents his older brother rescuing him from a losing fight all the time.

And there is also a lot of envy and stubbornness. Our economy is freer than that of almost all other economies. And because of that, our per capita standard of living is the highest in the world. Other countries have less economic freedom and higher taxes and thus they are less affluent. Yet the UN and many of the foreign socialists insist that somehow we have more because they have less, as if it were a zero sum game, and that they have less because we have economic freedom - that somehow if we limited ourselves, that would make them better off.

Because we do so well and they do so poorly, our immigration "problem" is one of millions of people coming here, and theirs is of people leaving - - the more totalitarian the government the more they have had to do to keep people from leaving. Most of the people who come here are poor and skill-less yet they risk everything to come here because even when you start at that level you can do better here than anywhere else. What's truly amazing is how our per capita affluence and incomes keep growing even though we keep importing such low-skilled and poor people into our population: legally and illegally combined we import between 1.25 and 1.5 million poor people a year now - we've discussed how this props up the stats on poverty and uninsured as well as unemployment, and how it is a drag on median household income - but it's remarkable that these stats are still excellent despite the effect of this shift in immigration patterns.

Answer 4

im sorry but my answer is quite simple
i hate there politics, there view of the rest of the world and there so called war on terror but i dont mind the vast majority of the people. therefore no i dont think anti-americanism is justified you cant judge a people by there government.

but on the people, while i cant speck of the majority of american people as i havnt met them so therefore i can only speak about the people i have met, so here i go on a few things that i have noticed.

as a people they seem to be on the whole extreamly ignorant of many things. for instance they only ever see the good they very rearly see the downside of there countries actions. some of the americans that i have meet dont realise that for thee richest country in the world they have hugh areas in there country where the employment level is far below that of the rest of the developed world.

and there stance on immigration seriosly annoy's me!!! unless you are native america by that i mean that your origional desendents were from that contenent then you are all immigrants!!!! get the f**k over it!!!!!!

sorry about that that particular point really annoys me

Answer 5

Depends on you determine if something is justified or not.
What is the morals you use to judge if something is justified.

McViegh thought he was justified to blow up buildings.

As far as Anti-Americanism I don't think it is and here is why.
1) We give out more aid private and government than anyother country in the world.
2) We freed more people than any country in the world.
3) When someone is in trouble with a diaster who is the first to show we are.
4) We have people from around the world who want to come here and willing to risk death just to become a citzen here.

Yes we have problems but over all this is still the greatest country in the world.

Those who are really Anti-American here don't have a clue about the rest of the world.
I have been around this world and always glad to land back here.

In some ways we are spoiled. Our poor have cars, TVs, homes, computers and live better than most of the middle class.

So I don't think it is justified.

Answer 6

The Anti-Americanism you see exclusively from the liberals/progressives/left is a product of several things. The most significant of which is this:

"So, it was these men-Horkheimer, Neill, Gramsci, Fromm, Adorno, Reich, and Marcuse-who constructed the stereotypical authoritarian composite character that was to become a symbol of intolerance, rigidity, and patriarchal repression to the American public. They used every ploy they could think of, from eroticism and feminism to racism, but a key goal was to create an image that compared traditional values unfavorably against the new 'revolutionary' *** 'democratic' man, who supposedly had 'vision' and was 'flexible.' Thus the larger agenda of the Frankfurt School/Institute for Social Research was (1) the 'abolition of culture,' as Lukacs termed it, so as to undermine the Judeo-Christian value structure, and (2) to introduce a 'new barbarism'-new cultural icons and ideas that would be sure to divide the population and increase alienation between the younger and older generation." B. K. Eakman, p. 149,155 (Adorno's The Authoritarian Personality painted Fascism as a rightwing ideology and then brushed Christians with the fascist paint and hence authoritarian. Because Adorno was a Marxist the Communists were not, by definition, authoritarian. The truth is that Marxism, Nazism, Fascism were all leftwing socialist ideologies. See Ludwig von Mises, Socialism, p. 523.)



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truth teller – what you engage in is moral relativism. You sir are the reason nations have fell. You can’t make up your freaking mind as to who is right or wrong. You and your kind can’t stand for anything other than adversity… Liberalism IS a mental disorder.

Answer 7

US of A is a great country with many nice people.
Trouble is that the egoistic bastards are more visible than nice people. Most people do not like egoistic bastards, therefore Anti-American egoism is justified.

Answer 8

Anti-Americanism is the first principle of patriotism in a democracy.

Our job as citizens isn't to rubber stamp our leaders and support them no matter what. Our job as citizens in a democracy is to watch our leaders, to distrust them and their motives, to be informed of their actions and to be ready to draw and quarter them the minute they violate the public truse.

Following leaders blindly is what is done in monarchacies and dictatorships.

So Anti-Americanism is absolutly justified, particularly by American Citizens.

Answer 9

You may be anti-American today but Americans will be anti-European tomorrow...

- Then we'll see who needs who more. My bet is that Europe will be begging for the Americans to save them again and again and again and again....History always repeats itself...Pucker up euro-wimps...

Answer 10

Yup, take for instance the statement "you are either eith us or against us"

You essentially have a leader stating that you are either in compliance with our policy, or you are now our enemy. By removing the neutrality from the political mindset of people he automatically created a strong anti-American sentiment.
You can't say globally the world is nothing but black and white. Every nation is either black and white, except America, we can still be gray. You can't make such a profound statement and expect that some people aren't going to opt to disagree.

Answer 11

I don't think there is such thing as Anti-Americanism...think about it, people only speak their thoughts and they may not be what other people want to hear. If there was such a thing as Anti-Americanism then it would also apply for other people like Anti-Mexicanism for example.