Poll: do you hate Americans?
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yeah i hate americans...
normally id say most but unfortunately, ive never once met a decent american.
i play PSU and well... ive met thousands on that by now... hundreds on soul calibur...
and every single one of them is the same... arrogant, self centred... they even all use the same insults...
their media they seem so intent on forcing on the UK is practically completely ignorant that other countries exist... and god if there is any forgeigners... theyre the most ridiculous over exagerated stereotype they can think of... played by an american.
i get tired of it...
normally id say most but unfortunately, ive never once met a decent american.
i play PSU and well... ive met thousands on that by now... hundreds on soul calibur...
and every single one of them is the same... arrogant, self centred... they even all use the same insults...
their media they seem so intent on forcing on the UK is practically completely ignorant that other countries exist... and god if there is any forgeigners... theyre the most ridiculous over exagerated stereotype they can think of... played by an american.
i get tired of it...
Tell me. The main body of your post there. Where did you learn all that stuff about America? I'm guessing news, and movies. Movies are fiction, and even the non-fiction ones are influenced by the people who made them. If the movies aren't American movies, then they are probably going to be biased against Americans, and portray them based on the stereotype that they know. News in itself is impossible to be unbiased as well. Stuff happens, and when it does, people make their own opinion of it, often influenced by the opinions of the majority of the people around them, and when they share that story, they pass on that opinion on to the people they tell that story to. When it's somebody on television passing on the story, people tend to subconsciously believe them more than if somebody on the street would have told them.stridsvagnen said:
"12,000" murders a year out of 303,824,640 (according to Google) isn't making too big of a dent, and 4,138,349 people were born in 2005, with the birthrate climbing each year. The bigger a country is, the more murders there's going to be. Also from Google, you are 32 times more likely to die from heart disease than be murdered. If you live in places with high crime rates, of course you need to be careful, but I live in a suburb in Minnesota, and there is nothing wrong with going out at night here. It's calm, and beautiful actually.
On your guns thing. I used to live in Idaho. People aren't as eccentric there as in Texas, granted, but there were a lot of people with guns. They were also some of the nicest people I've met. As far as I know, people don't generally go shooting at people who accidentally enter their lawn, unless they are either unstable, or just have a certain personality type, and that personality type is just as likely to pop up anywhere you go, but again, the more people you put in one place, the more of a chance that more people will have a certain personality type.
For the record, I'm not one of those overly-patriotic people that will get in a dick-waving contest over the littlest thing country-related. I personally want to move to Australia. That makes me think that I have a slightly less biased view on America than a lot of Americans do. Also, being American, and having experienced over half of America (I've been to half of the continental U.S.), I think myself less biased against America than most foreigners. That's just my (not-so) humble opinion.
The atheist "movement"? I hope you're talking about insane people like Richard Dawkins, and not just anyone who has simply made the cognitive decision to not believe in an invisible man in the sky. Most atheists think the idea of a "movement" is hypocritical. And what has PETA ever done to earn your ire also? Sure, they're egotistical crybabies but last time I checked that's not much of a reason to hate someone. At least they're trying to do something positive, which is more than I can say for most Americans. Apathy is something I personally hate in America so anyone trying to make a positive change, or what they perceive to be a positive change, without hurting others gets kudos from me.Lyiat said:
Scientology, however, actually hurts people and does deserve to be hated so I'm down with that.
Seems like a strange question; the reasons were all laid out in Yahtzee's HAWK review. It's because of half a century of continuous aggressive warmongering and replacing democratically elected governments who didn't do what you wanted, with ruthless dictators who did.US Crash Fire said:
Also [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gTFJZgU0_M] these [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkbPjean9aA] things [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7IZku88zgU] here [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB2BKc4iqZI]. There are too many reasons to list, but if you have to ask then you're displaying the stereotypical American naivety which is itself one of the reasons.
I don't hate Americans, but I fear and pity them in equal measure.
And I envy you your Constitution; too bad it's ignored these days. But the arrogance that leads you to believe that crimes are excused by ostensibly righteous intent, is I feel the main reason. There's a kind of semi-religious cult of personality built up around the idea of America the Great, that seemingly blinds people to all its many, many wrongs.
But the thing that upsets me the most is Fox News. Only Fox News feel the need to draw attention to fairness and balance as some of their selling points, where for any other media outlet those are implicit in the journalistic method. It upsets me to know how many Americans watch it. And how many Americans voted for George Dubya - not once, but twice - thought he was a good President, even after seeing how well Iraq and Afghanistan had done. But I suppose it's not the people's fault, it's how history is taught by your education system, as run by your government. And 95% of your media owned by just three people.
Hi, I'm Jacob. I'm a nice American. Nice to meet you. *Shakes hand* If you are interested in talking to a nice American, then I'd be happy to give you my MSN, or Yahoo, although I feel I should warn you, I am sarcastic and cynical.garjian said:
Edit: Explanation- I have a serious hatred for stereotypes, and do everything I can to dispel them when I can (snake owner with no tattoos? You're looking at something one's typed.).
This is far too broad a question for any one word answer. I voted "some of them" simply because statisitcally speaking, I would probably end up hating some of them if I had chance to meet them all. I've been on Holiday to America twice and found the people I encounted to be warm, charming, and helpful. I think America's Foreign Policy is letting it's global popularity down, as the reasons for which people seem to hate America all stem from the actions of politicians and businessmen, not the majority by any means.
The number of uneducated, even bigoted, answers in this thread pisses me off.
It pisses me off in the same way that I get pissed off when people within the United States rag on the southern states in the same manner, who form biases based on a complete lack of information about the region and furthermore refuse to travel the southern states to learn about the people there before making their unqualified statements.
It pisses me off in the same way I get pissed off when American individuals hate on Mexico, Central and South America, and European nations in exactly the same way some of them unjustly hate on us.
Do you hate Americans? The answer is no, you don't. You hate a collection of individuals who happen to be American, and you probably hate those Americans for the same reasons you hate certain members of your own nationality. Living as I do in a location in the US that is populated in large part by people from India, southeast Asia, and Central and South America, I inevitably encounter people who I cannot stand (this is bolstered by the fact that I work in retail, so I encounter lots of people). But do I draw the conclusion that this man who appears to be from India is representative of his entire culture, a culture staffed by over a billion people, itself made up of hundreds of smaller sub-cultures? Of course not.
Let me put this another way -- imagine if the question had been "Poll: Do You Hate Black People?" There are still people in the United States, and assuredly elsewhere, who would answer "Yes." "I cannot stand those negroes and their fried-chicken-eating, tv-stealing ways," they would say. "Look at how they congregate together on street corners, selling drugs, generally being a nuisance, and producing nothing," they finish, as, without any irony whatsoever, they meet up with their friends to congregate in bars, consume large quantities of alcohol, and produce nothing.
So, for anyone who responded in the fashion I'm complaining about, stop it. You're pissing off a sleeping giant. :3
It pisses me off in the same way that I get pissed off when people within the United States rag on the southern states in the same manner, who form biases based on a complete lack of information about the region and furthermore refuse to travel the southern states to learn about the people there before making their unqualified statements.
It pisses me off in the same way I get pissed off when American individuals hate on Mexico, Central and South America, and European nations in exactly the same way some of them unjustly hate on us.
Do you hate Americans? The answer is no, you don't. You hate a collection of individuals who happen to be American, and you probably hate those Americans for the same reasons you hate certain members of your own nationality. Living as I do in a location in the US that is populated in large part by people from India, southeast Asia, and Central and South America, I inevitably encounter people who I cannot stand (this is bolstered by the fact that I work in retail, so I encounter lots of people). But do I draw the conclusion that this man who appears to be from India is representative of his entire culture, a culture staffed by over a billion people, itself made up of hundreds of smaller sub-cultures? Of course not.
Let me put this another way -- imagine if the question had been "Poll: Do You Hate Black People?" There are still people in the United States, and assuredly elsewhere, who would answer "Yes." "I cannot stand those negroes and their fried-chicken-eating, tv-stealing ways," they would say. "Look at how they congregate together on street corners, selling drugs, generally being a nuisance, and producing nothing," they finish, as, without any irony whatsoever, they meet up with their friends to congregate in bars, consume large quantities of alcohol, and produce nothing.
So, for anyone who responded in the fashion I'm complaining about, stop it. You're pissing off a sleeping giant. :3
Thank you for judging my entire country based upon your online interactions with Xbox Live, because everyone knows that is the best possible pool of American culture you could have drawn experience from.garjian said:
I am American, and no, I'm not self-hating. I will say, though, that I hate some people here. This has nothing to do with their nationality; I'm just not going to "click" with every person I meet.
I think Americans tend to confuse disagreement with hate. That is actually one of the problems I have with the US. because when you think someone hate you dont have to listen to the person. no normal person would. when I tell my friend that i dont like his views on something it doesnt mean i hate him. but if he takes it personal and thinks I hate him we wont be friends anymore and nothing is achieved.
If you confuse disagreement with Hate you wont have many friends and maybe thats what has happened with the US.
If you confuse disagreement with Hate you wont have many friends and maybe thats what has happened with the US.
This is definitely an issue in America. Rush Limbaugh and other talk radio hosts just reinforce this attitude.eritsukukun said: