Should non americans be allowed to answers questions in our politics section?

Question

Ive noticed many foreingers especily from the british islands are hatefuly anti american. why do they come to our politics section and give there unwanted and ingnorant opinions?

Answer 1

They love hate. Look at the replies you got.

Welcome to global communication. Would any of us have expected this from Western countries, especially the Commonwealths?

Answer 2

Go to the bottom of the page and you will see a selection of national flags. I've just hit on the United Kingdom Flag, but here I am answering a question from an American.

You should be asking yourself, why am I on the Brit section? Not describing us Brits as foreign.

The British are not foreign if you are a Yank. Like it or not, the Brits and Yanks are related both in history and blood and war.

You cannot escape your own history.

One more final totally useless point. Of the nine battles fought between the Continental Army and the British Army, the Brits won seven of them. If it had been a game of basketball, the Brits would be the winners. Right?

Think about that and much else. We are not foreign. You speak the same language of Shakespeare as we do, only difference is the use of words.

Of the automobile we say "bonnet" you say "hood", we say "boot" you say "trunk". All these words are English and that is why we are not foreign. Your president, George W Bush [soon to be of fond memory] is descended from English Purtian stock. He is in effect English by race.

Ask Dolly Parton and she will tell you she is English and this applies to millions of Americans.

Did you know that half the signatories of the American Declaration of Independence were Welsh? My own race. The rest were a mixed bag of English, Scots and Irish.

Make no mistake, Americans are very much related to us and we are NOT FOREIGN.

God save the Queen.

Answer 3

There is a very simple key when answering questions or conducting discussions on politics, and it is simply this: phrase answers in a clear and non-confrontational manner. Avoid, in particular, obvious anti-Americanism or anti-Britishism or any other form of xenophobic expression.

Your intention is to convey a point, often a critical point. If you couch it in anti- terms, you will immediately lose the receptiveness of your audience, and put them on the defensive. The point will be lost. You have to ask yourself how receptive you'd feel to 'advice' when the giver was being gracelessly offensive toward you. The receiver of the offensive comments then returns in kind. Ironically, this question demonstrates this in action. Perceiving anti-Americanism (quite possibly so, there is a depressing amount of it around), the questioner responds by talking of "unwanted" and "ignorant" opinions. Such a dialogue is destined for nowhere.

It's worth repeating this: the key to effective dialogue is to keep a level head and ignore offensive remarks. Do not respond in kind. To do so actually lets your interlocuter 'off the hook', since it allows him to divert attention away from a potentially difficult topic and on to a series of recrimination and counter-recrimination. Far better to keep 'on topic', regardless of the temptation to fire all your rounds on the first volley.

Nonetheless, the asker does have a legitimate point to make -- there is a great deal of pointless and distracting anti-Americanism around.

Answer 4

When the US does something, it affects everyone.
When you bomb someone, it kills people, creates refugees, drives up the price of oil, makes the world a less stable place, etc.
When you jack up your national debt it scares your trading partners, and weakens the confidence people have in the US greenback as an international currency.
When you ignore or get all cutesey with the Geneva Conventions, it makes rule of law look like a joke. If the freedom loving people of the US do not follow the rules, why should anybody?
Feel free to research British, Canadian, Australian,Japanese politics and do the same to those questions.
Then you might realize that "anti-Americanism" is nothing of the sort, merely self interest.
Hopefully, you will learn something.

Answer 5

Oddly, I always click on the United Kingdom country selection at the bottom of the page and this question is listed there.

I do it to TRY and weed out the ignorant and unwanted (not to mention ill-informed) US citizens' answers.

You know the sort of thing - calling themselves American when, in fact, American refers to anyone from South or North America.

Oops - sorry - you have done that.

It also annoys me how so many US citizens have appalling spelling. Not being able to spell non-Americans, answer (NOT answers), I've, foreigners, especially, British Islands, hatefully, anti-American, their (NOT there) unwanted and ignorant, for instance. Making 13 mistakes in two sentences only adding up to a total of 40 words.

Oops - sorry - that will be you again.

And we are ingorant? Sorry - ignorant.

I THINK you will find that that is YOU.

Answer 6

The original Voltaire would probably have thought so. Like it or not we live in a global society with the means of instant communication all over the planet. Even Americans no longer live in a world where living in splendid isolation in a little house on the prairie is possible and, perhaps, not even desirable.

Answer 7

I have no problem with any nationality speaking and passing views on our politics, providing they know what they are talking about.

Neither have a problem with we Brits commenting on other countries politics, again as long as they know what they are talking about.

Unfortunately some Brits make hateful and unwarranted comments about other countries and their politics also.

This has and will always happen, especially on sites like Yahoo Answers.

I certainly accept that YA and other Q&A sites promote freedom of speech and welcome it, provided the posts and comments are well thought out and not abusive.

It is perfectly possible for those posting their comments to disagree with other posts and topics without having to resort to abuse, innuendo and foul language etc, whether it be politics, religion or any other topic.

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Answer 9

Why not? Who says it's an "American only" site? Lots of Americans feel free to give their input to questions that are clearly British in origin. At least the Brits usually spell correctly . . .

Answer 10

It depends. I think global discussion is interesting and useful but if the answers are just rude then that's pointless. I disagree with a lot of your government's policies (I am a Brit) but I'm prepared to hear other people's opinions. If the comments are just not what you want to hear then you need to toughen up or stop participating. There's a line somewhere but it's a bit faint!