"so, where are you from?"
"Scotland"
"Isn't that part of England?"
"Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr."
Policing the world is bad enough, but knowing next to nothing of the world you intend to police is shocking. Also, the only reason America wants to police the world is to protect itself. As long as we're alright screw the rest. Crap attitude for the only superpower to have.
The whole bastardisation of the name of the beautiful game has been mentioned. As well as the rest of the word stuff.
The way that America seems very down on immigration seems stupid to me. No American I've asked has been only an American, they are Irish/German/African/Cuban/Scottish American (delete as appropriate). So, they all want do appear diverse and different yet aren't keen on different people joining their country - the irony!
The whole bizarreness of complete hostility and shock at nudity/bad language, yet total acceptance of guns.
George "Whatonearthisheplayingat!" Bush.
Basically the incredibly insular attitude of the country. Everyone else realises that they have to be friends and respect the countries of the world, apart from America. What America wants, America gets....NOW dammit! Screw the future, screw the past, now, now, now, now, now!
Originally posted by pr1983
which part feceman?how much sony do you have in your house? or mitsubishi? all japanese... japan is so far ahead technologically of everyone else...
Bar (I cannot spell your name at all 🙂) is absolutely correct in his post. And, PVS, you are incorrect. They may dislike Bush, but that is not the reason that they hate America. That whole Israeli-Palestine conflict bit really did it...
ireland's economy not so long ago received a massive boom, and for a long while people were living the high life...
recently it has gone downhill though...
irelands unemployment is a lot better than it has been for years, our public health system is better (if only slightly), ireland is on par with most eu countries for standard of living, though recently has become extremely expensive to live in...
Originally posted by Afro Cheese
I don't think Bush is the reason the rest of the world hates America cause they hated us before Bush ever stepped foot in the oval office, but I think that he's at the very least increased the hatred towards America.
i don't believe that its been as prominent since before bush... i mean in europe clinton was a lot more well liked than bush ever was...
Well saying "get over it" is rather ironic since one of the problems people seem to have with Americans is that a lot of us don't even care that the rest of the world hates us. I can say personally I don't really care all that much. Maybe I would if I had to travel out of the country alot and I kept getting shit for being an American but I've never been out of the country so it really hasn't effected me.
The question of why the rest of the world hates/resents the US. isn'tone that can be answered in a single post. It isn't JUST the backing we give to Israel. It isn't just that many of us are too ignorant to ask a question like 'Is Scotland part of England'. And it isn't even because we have people like Bush running our country. The reason is all of these and more. If this country didn't spend most of it's time saying one thing and doing another, then we would have a much easier time in this world. On top of that, this isn't the fifties anymore...or the forties. The baby boomer generation and all that have followed are typically walking around on thier hands and knees while talking out of their ass. Take the French for example....I'm sure they would have more respect for an American from those generations that came to their country, fought and died for their freedom, than they would for someone of the '90's generation. The difference is integrity. And integrity shouldn't be confused with morals! Then again, morals shouldn't be confused with right and wrong either.