Non-Americans: How do you view us?

[banksy122]

I always say I am American at heart (I am from Australia btw). I lived in USA for 3 months and noticed less asshats there and the nicest people. I hope to live there one day. That should give you a fair idea of what I think about America.

 

[Cyrax987]

all the history books will mention that the US started shipping War material in late october early November 1939. Thanks again for playing.

Since when is war profiting same as military involvement?

Answers to that what you call history.
1. The USA started doing something once they were attacked directly. They did not go to war because they are good but because they had to fucking defend them self.
2. Japan was ready to capitulate withing some reasonable conditions. The USA said "all your base are belong to us or die bastard!!!!!" and nuked 2 fucking HUGE cities which were not important in any military aspect. You trow 2 fucking nukes on almost nothing but civilians. And the casualties are MUCH MORE than just those who were killed in the initial blase. All those died after the explosion thanks to radiation, all caused by your ignorance.
3. Financing terrorists, late having problems with them, that's not called helping the rest of the world. That's called karma. You fuck someone else up, be prepared to be fucked even harder. Also, killing innocent children still isn't helping, unless you're an average US citizen.

Fun fact. Scientists who developed nuclear technology were working for Hitler at first. Once they discovered the devastating power of it, they didn't gave the results to Hitler because they knew it wouldn't end good. Well, to bad they were naive enough to think that the USA is any better than the Third Reich.

P.S.
I do NOT hate Americans. I hate the average Joe and the image that the USA is making out of them. I feel sorry for those of you who are normal, but have to live in such a fucked up place.

I find it funny that in every thread that is created on this forum about America it always ends up "You guys think you're better then everyone else"

Name when we actually all do that, seriously the only people that say that would be some crazy politician(Which every country has so don't even lie about that) and trolls on the internet. Stop putting every American in the same category as some gut toting cowboy that hates every other country because it comes off almost as ignorant as a racist redneck.

Your politicians are elected by the votes of the majority. They REPRESENT your country. If you don't want that the rest of the world thinks you have the (obvious) superiority complex, than stop voting for idiots who will represent you as such. Stop changing history, stop forcing your beliefs on others.
If your country think that they are the global police, than you obviously think you're better than the rest.

Because elections are entirely truthful of the majority of the country. Come on man, America has one of the most corrupted governments in the world(which is also a BIG talking point that other countries like to talk about us with) and you're going to tell me that its just us Americans voting them all in just like that?

A lot of people out here in the United States aren't even registered to vote because of how corrupt and looney our government is. Yes I know that is making the problem worse and letting these clowns get elected(I am a registered voter by the way and do not vote them in.)

But you can't sit there and say that its only the United States that has a corrupt government and all this scandalous stuff going on. It has happened throughout history with every major country that was given the power to do so. By the way those last two sentences are NOT implying that we are the best country at the moment but that we have been given a lot of freedom to abuse the world for our gain.

I don't mind if you dislike our country's beliefs but please stop including all of us other normal Americans that just live here and work every day and do everything you probably do in your country. Every country has done something to force on other countries since the dawn of history too so saying only the United States does this is pretty ignorant sounding. What if we bring up the imperialism that the British set forth throughout the world. I'm pretty sure a lot of the countries in Africa didn't like the British at all. We have a lot of douchebags here and a lot of great people also and I'm sure its like that in your country and all I'm pretty much asking for is to stop jumping the gun on us and labeling all of us idiots.

The stuff that angers me the most is the people without a real concrete reason to hate us and just seem to hate us because its cool and popular. I like my country because yeah it has a lot of bad things wrong with it but also a lot of great things and my life is going good for me. I like other countries and would love to visit others. I'm rambling now so I'll leave at please stop mashing us all into one big category.

 

[sinterklaas]

i am canadian and currently i am sad for the usa. you guys are doomed.

you have a fairly ignorant, sheep like population that will always hold you back. about half of americans dont accept evolution. the greatest threat to your national security is the republican party and your broken congressional and especially senatorial system. you imprison more people (in terms of percent of population and absolute figures) that anyone else in the world and do so for borderline insane reasons (there are people in us prisons serving life sentences because they shoplifted some dvds and were convicted under your three strikes law). i heard that more than half of your population believes that jesus christ will actually return to earth in thier lifetime and raise them all to heaven in a rapture.

seriously, on my better days i feel sorry for you. on the rest of them i debate whether it would be more humane for the rest of the world to quietly press a pillow over your face while you are sleeping one night.

Basically this and a whole lot more, oh and also because of people like this:

WOW......Im amazed at the short memory of peoples in other countries. How much american blood has been spilled since the 1940's for the liberation of nations in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the middle east. We were asked because we were the only ones who could help or had the power to. When the world asks you ont ***** to be the cops, or cries upon you to say you have the power therefore you have the responsibility to help dwhen we do take action because were not helping your favorite cause. Step up and take charge yourself or sit down and shut up.

ROFL

I don't 'hate' America, but I view it as a very fucked up country.

 

[Spineyguy]

In my opinion, the vast majority of Americans are perfectly respectable people who hold moderate views on religion, politics, race, gender equality and a whole host of other things generally associated with western prejudice, they are a thoroughly normal and unremarkable population with the only exceptions being a slightly exaggerated average body weight, due to the relative affluence of society, and a quite irritating inability to use the English language properly, due to their ancestors being gutter-mouthed English sailors.

However, there are those in America who let the side down, just as there are in every country. Therefore the stereotype commonly slapped on the face of Americans overseas is of ignorant, self-congratulating, overweight, lazy, loud-mouthed, over-patriotic, ill-educated, racist, sexist, far-right, warmongering, gun-toting, mega-religious, sociopathic nut-jobs with too much money and an annoying propensity to tell everyone else that they should be the same.

It's not fair, but that's how it is, and stereotypes are not born without progeny.

The main problem is poor education, you are taught from an early age of all the times your country has saved the world throughout history, because you have such overwhelming military power that you can't help but win every war you drop into and thus get the job of writing the history books, that coupled with the prominence of your films and music culture makes you seem like the sort of country that no-one should like.

My advice is that you should, as a country, wake the fuck up, realise you are not the centre of the universe, stop interfering in other people's wars, get a clue about cultures other than your own, stop eating as much, drop the 9.11 sob-story and let the normal, moderate, everyday American run the country instead of the wankers you currently elect.

And start spelling things right.

 

[kael013]

i am canadian and currently i am sad for the usa. you guys are doomed.

you have a fairly ignorant, sheep like population that will always hold you back. about half of americans dont accept evolution. the greatest threat to your national security is the republican party and your broken congressional and especially senatorial system. you imprison more people (in terms of percent of population and absolute figures) that anyone else in the world and do so for borderline insane reasons (there are people in us prisons serving life sentences because they shoplifted some dvds and were convicted under your three strikes law). i heard that more than half of your population believes that jesus christ will actually return to earth in thier lifetime and raise them all to heaven in a rapture.

seriously, on my better days i feel sorry for you. on the rest of them i debate whether it would be more humane for the rest of the world to quietly press a pillow over your face while you are sleeping one night.

I got this impression of the Americans too.

It's sad really, you used to have such great potential.
But it's not too late though.

Stop having all these costly wars, stop fucking around in other countries affairs and for the love of science stop teaching unscientific religions propaganda in schools!

As an American I can agree with all of those statements except the religious one. I mean, sure, we have some bat-shit [b/]insane[/b] vocal fanatics over here, but they don't stand for us all. Most Christians I know are pretty mellow about all that. Really though, how do your disagreements with others over metaphysical quandries add anything to this thread?

We teach religious ideas at school out of "fairness" because evolution hasn't been completely proven (scientists haven't been able to create life out of nothing either, so the "creation myth" is still in). Once that "propaganda" has been proven 100% wrong I can guarantee it'll be thrown out (Not like it matters. My teacher spent all of 1 minute going over it compared to the 2 weeks we took to talk about evolution.)

OT: I think it's because the people that other nations see more often have more national pride than is normal or are massive dicks trying to assert dominance, which in my social experiences, is the bloody norm. Most people don't like others saying that sort of stuff, so they grow to hate them. Thus, the "problem" of America vs. the World. In the long run, it doesn't matter. Nations rise and fall, regimes change, but this kind of mindless classification never goes away. It has been an underlying factor in countless wars in our species past and it will have the same role for countless more in the future.

 

[kotorfan04]

I think the thing is that anyone who chooses to can get on a soapbox and rant about what irks them, but the people who get the most attention are the ones who are vocal and kind of insane. So yeah we have ourselves pretty misrepresented.

 

[erto101]

I don't really like you. Mostly because most of you americans think you are superior to everyone else, which irritates me. I also hate you for the word "soccer". It usually sends me into a homicidal rage which I can't explain to the police.

Id say its human nature to feel superior to others regardless of what nationality they come from.

No it's not. In Scandinavia there?s a mentality called "janteloven". It tells you there's always someone better than you, you are not the best and so on.

Here is the actual thing
The ten rules state:
Don't think you're anything special.
Don't think you're as good as us.
Don't think you're smarter than us.
Don't convince yourself that you're better than us.
Don't think you know more than us.
Don't think you are more important than us.
Don't think you are good at anything.
Don't laugh at us.
Don't think anyone cares about you.
Don't think you can teach us anything

It's part of our culture and most of us are heavily influenced by this

 

[Insideout Ink Demon]

i dunno, from what i see in forums;
- self obsessed enough to start a thread asking what the world thinks of you.
- opinionated about everything, yet dismissive of others opinions. I remember a thread about American health care and in response to opinions from non-Americans an American claimed no foreigner was going to tell them how teir country should be run (this is a world wide forum, is it not?). sums up what I think is the typical American mentality.

from being on holiday and seeing Americans; LOUD, annoying, and totally unaware of their surroundings.

These opinions are derived from checking the profiles of the peoiple who get my back up to see they are American and from a few small groups on holiday. i know they do not represent the whole nation, but I'm yet to see something to shift my initial opinions.
not that it's anyones job to have to change my opinion, but you did ask.

 

[AmosMoses]

I've only had one personal experience with America and it was overwhelmingly positive. I attended a music festival on a boat in the Caribbean. So not an accurate cross section of society. Other than that all I see is those people like Glenn sodding Beck who shout the loudest. I refuse to believe that is representative of ALL of the US either.

Regardless, you should not be concerned with what people think of your country. If a large part of your personality is your "national identity"then you need to get some more meaning in your life, seriously.

 

[priestswearseatbelts]

Non-Americans: How do you view us?

Through the forth wall. Like most of the world.

 

[dementis]

Any American I've been forced to speak to has been online and the majority of them acted like racist, homophobic nut cases.

 

[monkey jesus]

You get it one way or another and it seems like when the shit hits the fan everyone looks to us.

This is entirely true, and we say "stop throwing shit at fans"

 

[ChupathingyX]

I refuse to give an opinion until you change that annoying date format.

 

[willofbob]

America sucks. I mean, I'm fine with Americans as sigular people, many of them are quite pleasant, and life would be far worse without JoCo and others, but the government, the south,and quite alot of the nation as a whole annoys me. They're just smug.

also, you have FOX news (I call it FAUX news), which means that you have an entire team of Hitlers over there.

 

[The Offenbug]

i dont hate americans its just that american stupid people are at least 3x more stupid than any other countries stupid people, and this irritates me

 

[Shirokurou]

I'm Russian, but I grew up on American pop-cultre and am fluent in English.

I view America as very uneven. The Americans I personally know range from great people to complete idiots.

I love/hate your pop-culture.

And let's not get into politics...

 

[Hugga_Bear]

You're annoying, narcissistic, foolish little children who have just left the crib of life and decided that kicking everyone's toys is a really good idea and sometimes I feel like my country has to act as your social worker?

Okay in fairness you're a bipolar country, as in you seem to rush to the extremes of things, you have possibly the dumbest population I've ever known with an incompetence that is shocking and a lack of general knowledge that makes me question whether or not you actually have schools. On the flip side you also have a lot of highly intelligent individuals who shine just as bright as anyone else. You have some of the unhealthiest shit I've ever seen, my god the stuff you sell in supermarkets...just...what are they thinking?! It's like how to get yaself a heart attack 101.

Okay, cruel, but that is what I see and the supermarket thing is genuinely a concern of mine, when I was there fresh food was obscenely expensive and fruit/veg was...well, frozen or bust, everything else was chocolate pancake sausage on a stick.
I like a lot of americans, in fairness of the few dozen that I know I'm probably friends with over 3/4 and don't mind the rest too much. I just find as a country you seem to be extremely ignorant of the world, not just where stuff is and the fact that other cultures exist (and that that's okay) but that you're not the best, the world's been around a while now and no not everyone who isn't american lives in a third world country.

I blame the tourists. and Fox News. I wish Fox News would just die in a hole.

 

[BoTTeNBReKeR]

I don't really like you. Mostly because most of you americans think you are superior to everyone else, which irritates me.

We do? That's news to me. And I have another question: Do you consider yourself superior to Americans?

A lot of Americans definately have a superiority complex. Online this is extremely obvious. Everytime I play with Americans they tend to be complete douchebags to anyone who isn't from the US. Hell, I even remember a bunch of Americans coming on a BFBC2 server for Dutch-speaking people (Server rules were: English or Dutch only) and they started trashtalking players because they were talking Dutch to eachother.

I haven't really come across all that many Americans in real life, but those I did tend to be "friendly", however 90% of that is just pure smoothtalking and they seem to always be drawing attention to themselves, I don't know if that's on purpose or just your culture, but it's kinda frowned upon around here.

 

[Moeez]

Politics wise, it looks like a complete joke when I watch The Daily Show. Michelle Bachman's creepy eyes, Rick Santorum is now a sex act, all the news networks parrot each other's inflammatory headlines. At first I'm laughing, then I get sad. Obviously, the show is generalising the politics that goes on there, but man is America trolling.

I've lived there, and the people are great. Never met such friendly people, and even for being Pakistani, never had any racial abuse.

 

[y1fella]

Actually I quite like America. Sure it's anoying that they can't understand what I'm saying half the time.
Also side note:
Canada Is a waaayyyyy better country.