Poll: What do other country think of america

[dyre]

China - Don't... Even... Fucking... Go there. Serious malice against Americans there.

Really? I've been to China three times, and from my impression of people there, most people dislike their own government more than they dislike the American government (despite newspaper rhetoric and the government-employed forum users), and think that the US is generally alright, if a bit full of itself.

 

[TaintedSaint]

I'm from the USA and I love my county. But sadly out government no longer fights for us its all about big mega corporations, oh and not to mention my congress now trying to take our rights away. I am getting the hell out of here as soon as I can. I have always loved British culture so I'm heading there, Not to mention I'm directly related to the York's from the war of the roses, so finding out more about my family history is important to me.


Time to get off the sinking ship

 

[ImmortalDrifter]

Well here in Canada we don't really hate Americans, even if we do consider them to be an inferior culture in general.

And why is that exactly?

A lot of us do take issue with America's portrayal of WW2 though, how they ignore every other country's contributions and even take credit for famous battles they didn't win. Also quite rich when you consider most of the world still looks down upon America for joining the war two years late.

Even more hilarious because historically the British commander Montgomery was the one disliked for hogging the spotlight. Also speaking as someone who just passed through the rectum of public education (lol) every combatant in the war was mentioned. Even the extremely small amount of non german/italian/japanese axis forces. We only take the spotlight for the pacific theater; Where it was around 95% U.S. 3% Austrailian 2% British with scant forces from France and the Dutch.

We tended to focus on America's contributions, but we're in America. Did you learn more about George Patton or Henry Crerar? Yes I do know who that was.

About joing the war late... Well at that point we wanted to stay the hell out of everyone's business. (Hilariously large amount of irony)

 

[Pegghead]

You're alright in my eyes. I think the problem with a lot of this perceived hatred is that people take something like your government or aspects of your culture and use it judge you entirely, which is just stupid (like how everything about my country of Australia is dropped in favour of upholding the stereotype that our wildlife wants you dead). I can no less judge America than I can collectively judge a race.

Besides, most of the criticism I see regarding the US comes from proud Americans, which brings to mind this quote I've never forgotten from James Arthur Baldwin.

 

[Whitewillow]

My biggest problem is the American (and this is a generalisation) assumption that their way of life is the best and everyone else should have the same economic system, governance system, cultural content, and cultural values as America.

However, I deeply admire the vision and principals that the nation was founded on. The world could be revolutionised if any country, especially the United States, had the guts to actually try it.

 

[krection]

I'm from the U.S. and I don't mind how everyone thinks that we're just a bunch of redneck idiots. Since I live in the U.S. I know that only MOST of us are redneck retards. Truth be told, I'd rather be Irish but I'm proud to be who I am. I don't really hate other countries but I do hate people who hate us without reason. I know a few British people who stayed in the U.S. and they thought that it was a pretty decent place. Although I do hate most people here for giving us a bad name. So if you stay here, try to stay as far away from the inner states as you possibly can. That is where the stereotypes come to life.

 

[BNguyen]

While I admit that there are plenty of faults with this country that need to be fixed, I don't hate this country because of my freedoms and hos hard my father worked to come here and start a family. What I don't get is why other countries turn down their noses at this place and mostly look the other way at their own country's faults. Americans are not the worst people in the world, history has proved time and again that people everywhere are capable of truly terrible things, heck, the U.S. wasn't even the biggest slave holder, the Arabs had control over that before the Europeans stepped in and turned it into a business.
Political backstabbing and poor leadership - Nazi Germany and Stalin's Russia anybody?
While we're at it, even parts of India undertake child marriage and parts of Africa are more war torn than any other place on the planet. - I understand this is all common knowledge by now.
The point is, the people of the world need to fix their own mistakes and that of their country's before they can point fingers.

 

[rissr]

when i was younger an old cow used to come to England and rent the house next to my grandparents, I hated her and I think that i just got the impression that most Americans are fat, homophobic, morons but I learned that was just a minority.

 

[El Dwarfio]

Charge em to be born, charge em for their education, charge em to fill out tax forms, charge them the actual taxes, charge them for the license needed to get a gun license, charge em for the gun license, charge em for the gun, charge em when they shoot each other, charge em to get their bullet holes patched up, charge em for dying.

I'm sure it's a good system.

OT: In all seriousness I love americans and the physical country itself, but like many countries an awful lot of things are fucked up.

 

[Luca72]

Sounds like a lot of people are generally okay with individual US Americans, but skeptical of their government. Which is cool, because that seems how most of us feel in the US.

I honestly see my country as a ticking time bomb. It started with some beautiful ideas, and as is usually the case in history, power got accumulated by a small few. Now we have a country politically split over the direction we should be moving in (but that seems to be careening toward the same destination regardless) and completely inept politicians who can't or won't do anything to correct it.

I've got a question for the rest of you though. Are you aware of how much religion rules our politics? From what I understand, in most first world countries religion isn't a factor. How odd does that seem to you that in the US we still have arguments about God in the political theater?

 

[DirtyJunkieScum]

I've got a question for the rest of you though. Are you aware of how much religion rules our politics? From what I understand, in most first world countries religion isn't a factor. How odd does that seem to you that in the US we still have arguments about God in the political theater?

I've heard it is a big factor but have no idea what it is actually like. It doesn't seem "odd" exactly, I understand that people who are religious are going to do what they believe their religion calls for. For me it's just a case of "glad that doesn't happen over here".

UK is the opposite. For example the Labour party basically hid the fact that Tony Blair was a Christian as it was shown that the public didn't see that as a good thing, "we don't do god" as Alistair Campbell once said. It was only in his second term when he started getting unpopular that the fact that he was religious became widely known, the UK and most of Europe are very secular although the church does have some power in the House of Lords and Italy. Also on a related note he converted to Catholicism after he left office as it is still illegal for a Catholic to hold the position of PM.

 

[RedDeadFred]

I wouldn't say you are all idiots, just the South and some of the North.

There are of course exceptions to everyone in the South being dumb but well... ya.

 

[Evil Smurf]

I hate the all people, just the stupid, ignorant, bigots. *cough* *republicans!*

 

[Sexy Devil]

Eh, I don't really see any difference between Americans and the rest of the world. I find that the people who rag on them for having no concept of global geography (because we all know if the Chasers did a piece on it then it must be true) don't have any concept of global geography themselves.

 

[OneOfTheMichael's]

Well my opinion of america is already stated as the highest option chosen in the pole. I know not all americans are idiots but by golly there are quite a bit who are.

 

[Chalacachaca]

I voted for "ok" since I don't hate americans, but I really don't like em' either.

...

I love canadians though.

 

[TheVioletBandit]

I think it's funny when the naive nationalists hate on other countries than theirs. I've been around the world, and while I favor my home of South Africa, I love America.

People are the same.

Your awesome, thanks for being so rational.

 

[Rabid Chipmunk]

From my experience, no ones seems to hate us Americans more than other Americans, which is odd when you consider how self-righteous we tend to think other countries think Americans are.

 

[DirtyJunkieScum]

We only take the spotlight for the pacific theater; Where it was around 95% U.S. 3% Austrailian 2% British with scant forces from France and the Dutch.

You forget the Chinese, there were about 5 million of them.

I should also mention that most of the "America hatred" was due to Bush Jnr. era politics. 3 years into the Obama administration and it has all calmed down a lot.

 

[Erttheking]

I had a feeling that I would regret reading this thread. You know some of us don't give two fucks about politics and just want to get on with our lives. No I'm not trying to kiss up to you, I really don't care about politics, mainly because my life under bush and my life under Obama has pretty much been the same. I admire what other countries did in WWII (espically the polish) and I'll be the first to admit that we're spoiled when it comes to war.. BUT! Don't expect me to just nod my head and say "yup everything about America sucks". People say we're too divided, yeah outside of America all politicians say please and thank you, always agree and cuddle under the sun, once you cross the Atlantic it's paradise. I would like to think that the fact that Americans and non Americans can get along just fine on these forums would be a sign that nationality doesn't matter but nooooooooooo, we have to keep coming back to which flag you live under and classify you under that. Would what I say on this website matter if I was British? Polish? Russian? Japanese? The day we put such petty things behind us and look at one another for who we are and what we do instead of which country we live in is the day we move forward as a species. "whew". Sorry about that, you can only have your country and your nationality insulted so many times before you snap. I admit that America is flawed, but point out a country that is perfect. People that get haughty just anger me is all, other countries aren't below America, but they sure as fuck aren't above us.