There are many contributing factors but the main reason why many across the world have a severe dislike for Americans is because of past tendencies of abusement and the destruction of nations: aka overthrowing a democratically elected President and then installing a regime that oppresses the poor in which US corporations benefit while exploiting the regions resources. It has been well known that the best interests of a minnow nation is for the US to control their resources, and not be in the hands of nationalists; which is a great explanation to the removal of many leaders in Latin America(Chile, Honduras, Haiti, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Grenada, etc.); and also Indonesia with Suharto, Iraq with Hussein and the Palenstinian/Israel confrontation. Basically, the US foreign policy is what angers; not necessarily Americans themselves. But the victims of such vindictive crimes by American hostility makes the distinction of person from government difficult, especially when you have American military operatives slaughtering millions of innocent civilians in their quest for Imperialism.
Thus also, American governments in past and present have vetoed every authority that has a conflicting view or political stance, whether it be the International Criminal Court or the Security Council or even the UN. While the rest of the world attempts to be diplomatic and use the authorities which were put in place for matters of high importance between nations(war crimes, crimes against humanity), the US simply does not involve themselves within this procedure. Example, when the 9/11 attacks happened, the US immediately ordered the Taliban to surrender bin Laden to them, and it was 'not negotiable'. The Taliban simply asked for evidence, which the US could not provide, so thus did not obey. But the US simply did not want to show evidence, as it was 'not negotiable'. All the while the US harbours Emmanuel Constant, the leader of the Haitian paramilitary forces that were responsible for thousands of brutal killings in the early 1990s under the military junta, which Washington officially opposed but tacitly supported. Constant was sentenced in absentia by the Haitian court. The US refuses to extradite Constant, possibly for fear that he has information that the US does not wish to see the light of day.
Such truisms apply to everyone, but the US it would appear. The world pays a price for 9/11, while many other nations suffer their own 9/11's and yet they remain in turmoil, and still under the gun by the US.
Originally posted by eggmayo
We invented the language
That happened centuries ago... so now if in the UK anybody invents a new word it will be a correct word just because the person who inented it was british??? no...
and u mean that in the UK u say "aerplanes" or that in america they say "aerplane" ??
Originally posted by A4E
That happened centuries ago... so now if in the UK anybody invents a new word it will be a correct word just because the person who inented it was british??? no...
and u mean that in the UK u say "aerplanes" or that in america they say "aerplane" ??