It is a very easy thing to hate the United States of America right now. But why? We stormed the beaches at Normandy, saved Europe from economic ruin with the Marshall plan (thanks for paying off the loan, Norway. Anybody else? Anybody? Bueller?), invented the Internet, uprooted tyrants, and give foreign aid away like it was candy. We want to be the good guys and thought we were. Yet we just can’t seem to get any love these days. How’d we get here? Well… [JFrater: as the representative of Listverse, I would like to say that we don't hate America - in fact, I had one of my greatest holidays there. This list will no doubt cause a storm - be calm and debate nicely!]
The first reason: we act like the world revolves around us. America presumes much for a country generously dated at 300 years old. China has latrines ten times older than that. A quick example: many countries play baseball, but only we have the “World Series”. We’re getting better about our egocentrism, but it’s been a loooong time coming. And don’t get me started about our tourists. Just smile and take the money- they’re loud, but they’ll be gone in a week.
Okay, I’ll concede Vietnam, tennis (but we don’t care) and Kenyan marathon runners. But we win damn near everything else, eventually. The Space Race. The Cold War. Tour de France. The list goes on and on. Even we hate the Olympics now that our professionals are allowed to participate straight up with the underaged/doping communist nations. It’s boring for us, but as a Red Sox/Bolton Wanderers fan, I know the angst that chronic losing against bigger and better funded opponents generates. And if we don’t have the best athletes/scientists/entertainers, we’ll make sure they get a chance to immigrate while others wait in line. That’s gotta sting. Oh, Yao Ming and Ichiro say “Hi”.
Why? Because we can. Americans are the second fattest industrialized nation per capita (sorry, Australia). But as always, we make up for it in volume. We can afford automobiles so we don’t ride bikes or walk anywhere except for fun, and thanks to abundant agricultural surpluses, ANYTHING we want to eat is readily available from takeaway restaurants and convenience stores. Some of our refrigerators could hide an entire human body. And we like the fatty stuff, because fat tastes good. This is NOT a good thing, and our global franchises (KFC, McDonald’s) are already infecting nations that traditionally had healthier diets (are you listening, Japan?)
The United States is the inventor and only wartime practitioner of nuclear weapons (never mind that using them prevented an invasion that would make the Iraqi insurgency look like a blowjob. “Operation Downfall”, the now-declassified US plan to invade Japan, estimated 1 Million American casualties alone). Lax security protocols (and clever spying) spread the secret to the USSR and after that the genie got out of the bottle. Many countries now have atomic weapons, and with no clear Cold War counterpart to US supremacy, the balance has shifted, and the peace dividend has not been kind post 9/11.
Though accounting for only 5 percent of the world’s population, Americans consume 26 percent of the world’s energy. (American Almanac), and we are the world’s largest single emitter of carbon dioxide, accounting for 23 percent of energy-related carbon emissions worldwide. (U.S. Department of Energy). This, while worldwide, some 2 billion people are currently without electricity. (U.S. Department of Energy). The good news is that among industrialized and developing countries, Canada consumes per capita the most energy in the world, and the United Sates is only second. Italy consumes the least among industrialized countries (that’s because they still drive Fiats, which “conserve” energy by breaking every other day).
The United States has the most advanced army in the world. We station our military in other countries at their “request”, which is a source of much seething and hurt national pride. From Banana Republics, to the Cold War, to the War on Terror, we routinely interfere in the business of other countries to make the world safe for our interests, whether anybody asked for it or not. Even if the intentions are both right and good, many countries resent our involvement in their affairs on sheer principle: they’d rather f*** it up themselves. Are you listening, North Korea?
A thriving market economy and near total freedom of expression liberate Americans to pursue almost every endeavor imaginable, resulting in some of the greatest discoveries and inventions in the history of man, from the first practical light bulb to powered flight, polio vaccines, radio and TV, space exploration, the Internet, and unfortunately, everything in between. So that means ubercrap like Jerry Springer and Britney Spears gets exported worldwide. No, I’m being too kind there– “force fed” worldwide. Other cultures despise this with a mix of dread, envy, and loathing. They can’t figure out how to cull the good from the bad out of this torrent (neither can we, btw)—but once it takes hold, it won’t let go. This what the Islamic world fears most. Tanks, they understand. An educated, employed woman horny and clubbing on Friday night they simply can’t fathom. And it scares the crap out of them.
Despite the hyperbole bandied online, strong political opinions won’t get your door kicked in at 3 AM like in the Gulag Archipelago. There are no Stalinist purges or killing fields here. And the FBI/CIA/ATF/DEA/PTA will not shoot you on sight simply because you speak against The Surge or march against the Economic Stimulus Plan. But it’s certainly fun to claim a fear of it! You become an instant radical and feel intellectually enlightened to boot– patriotism is an uncritical, reflexive act, right?– only a deep thinker would hate his country (yet stay on to enjoy its privileges). And don’t worry about proof, because all that matters is the accusation. Volume and conviction win the day, so toss that bibliography—grab half the story and make the rest up. If you get caught in a logic box, claim satire. Other countries see this lack of consequences and pile on.
From Vietnam to Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinski to “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq to finding Osama Bin Laden, we seem to do most of the work, but keep a lot of things hanging on, never quite finished. Eventually the answer makes itself known, but it usually takes time, and involves help from others after a lot of (necessary) heated discussions. Maybe we should try this as as a first course of action more often…
We are a nation of doers, and our errors (when they occur) will be from acts of commission, not omission (Hypocrisy Alert: Darfur). Sometimes that’s a great thing, like sending Kruschev’s missiles back home, breaking Gaddafi’s/Qaddafi’s/Kaddafi’s nuclear ambitions (his nukes are now safely tucked away in Oak Ridge, Tennessee), or winning the Cold War. Other times, it blows up in our (and often, YOUR) face. Our attempts to spread democracy worldwide, intended to let others enjoy the same freedoms and advantages that we have, sometimes result in innocent people dying. We must stop to remember the Somalia embassy, Madrid and Fiji and Lockerbie 101 bombings, along with the millions of nameless others who suffered and died in countries that are not free. The US is the biggest face opposing these things that actually does anything (not just talk, FRANCE. You railed about Guantanamo but when it came time to release prisoners you took ONE.), but our allies often bear the brunt of our “foreign” wars, because the enemy cannot reach us. That has changed recently, and while it has altered our perspective, it has not altered our resolve.
I dont hate America but you did lose the space race to the russians, however you won the race to the moon. I also hate how we (Canadians) have to call you Americans even though mexicans and canadians and the rest of latin america can also be considered american.
Interesting though all of Latin America, Mexico, and Canada have their own respective title. What would you propose we call people of the United States of America?
united stateians?
Usonians, Franklin Lloyd Wright’s term, has a nice ring.
I have the perfect generic term for USA citizens, how about A***holes, fat w***ers. I could go on by the point is made.
And as the loud mouthed yanks would “HAVE A NICE DAY YALL”.
or retardians
Na, that sucks.
How about “Greatians”?
Yeah that fits cause we are the best.
united statian* ^^
How about U.S Americans – not too difficult really!
I don’t hate the United States of America, I just think their arrogant and a little bit dumber than the rest of the world. my friend went their (We live and come from Australia) thought he was English despite the Australian accent. another person I know went their and was asked if we ride kangaroos she replied “No we still ride horses and carriages” in a sarcastic manner the American actually believed this and it ended up taking her 30 min’s to explain that we have electricity and cars.
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No there
We can spell, though
At least we don’t all own kangaroos. And unlike australians were not the most racist people on earth. And the term Yankee only refers to people from new england. And were not fat, in fact I know very few fat people and we don’t talk like hillbillies we use proper grammar.
we’re
Yes, GOGOZMAN, we’re racist because we’re sick and tired of lefty-liberal PC do-gooder scum filth like you. You and your kind aren’t welcome here, so f–k off and take your stinking pathetic self-hating PC ideology with you, and don’t let the door hit you on the way out, f–k*****.
Dude, take a goddamn joke, I’m sure most of the people there were joking anyways.
Don’t get your panties in a bunch man.
The Term Yanky was made up by the English….. so its no for Yanks to say who they can and can use it on. We call Yanks Sepos
You have to understand that not all americans are ignorant or stupid. SOME are and I think those people shouldn’t speak their mind until they understand or grasp common sense. Now have I followed what I just said at all times no, but I regret when I have done that and apologized for it. None of these cases have dealt with racism.
the person who wrote this article clearly is
I guess this is because we as Americans are so into ourselves that we don’t pay attention to much else. The author here stated above that other countries have all our American culture forced on you guys, but we don’t have that. Most of us are very nationalist and don’t even think about other places.
I don’t think it means we’re dumber by any means – just less informed as the rest of the world.
I would doubt very many outside of Australia could determine the difference between an Aussie accent and a British English, so how can you even complain about that? Also, if you’re going to call Americans “a bit dumb”, you might want to make sure you know how to spell and use proper grammar. Obviously, you’ve been kicked in the head by too many kangaroos.
I am a US citizen and I say that I actually half way agree with you. Though not all of us are arrogant and dumb, there are a lot that are. It really *****es me off how dumbed down and retarded this country has become, I mean WE are the ones who have Jersey Shore.
I’m from The United States and from what you wrote I honestly don’t think that when that person asked if you ride kangaroos they were being serious. Americans definitely have a huge and warped sense of humor and unless you were born American you won’t be able to understand it. When your friend said “No we still ride horses and carriages” I doubt that they actually believed you, they were probably just offended by how rude her comment was. It’s actually kind of hysterical how you believe that Americans are arrogant and dumb… for your information the majority of Americans are the nicest people you could ever meet. This stereotype that we are all rich is not true in the least bit! 99% of Americans are regular working class people and only 1% is rich. We have the best University’s in the World, and we have created most of the greatest inventions in the world… we are not the least bit dumb! If you don’t like America then please don’t come and visit anymore! You don’t see many Americans going on the internet and trashing Australia do you? If we are all arrogant and dumb then why is our country the most sought after country to live in and the biggest tourist attraction? We seem to be doing something right if you keep coming back for more. Have a nice day, Courtney
You mam, just examplified US arrogance.
Funny how the loudest person to post isn’t an “***** yank”. Anyway… we did win the space race. It’s the tortoise and the hare. Russia beat us to launching into orbit and launching a satalite but we crossed the finish line first (the moon).
America’s military is only as large as it is, because after 10 years of isolationism after world war one, world war two proved that we can’t rely on the rest of the world to keep their ***** together. Sorry to say it but Brittain just wasnt getting the job done. You can even see the same stagnant military tactics used in the latest conflict in Iraq.
I am an american living abroad (Australia, New Zealand) and have realised that most of the hate I recieve from others is mostly because we find an easier way to do things. Drive-thru ATM machines, or anything that saves time or works more efficiently means we are “lazy”.
The biggest insult is the idea that if anything bad happens to the USA (9/11) is because we brought it on ourselves. I work in retail and you know what a common response to “we dont have that item in stock yet” is when they notice my accent? ” Well if it came from America a plane must have crashed into a building.” I’ve never heard an American say anything as disgusting to a foreigner. Comedy I can understand and I can take a 9/11 joke but I don’t see how the rest of the world can give a lesser value to human life just because they were born in a richer country.
We don’t like capitalism
For the record I’m poor. I don’t agree with everything that the US does nor do I live there because of they way the poor are treated by the rich. I am however extremely proud of where I am from because of the will of the American people. America is the only first world country that is actively protesting the imbalance of wealth in the world. Australia tried. Occupy Perth was a valiant attempt but most of the protesters had no idea why they were there. If the rest of the world stopped hating the American people and maybe even supported us then the rest of the world might change with us.
In the end I really don’t think the rest of the world hates Americans as much as they hate rich, selfish people. The sad part of that is most of the rich selfish people live in America because thats where a lot of luxuries are at your fingertips. What I find funny about this is everyone seems to be so impressed with Dubai, even though it is just a playground for the rich. Dubai imbodies everything that is wrong with American culture and middle eastern culture combined, yet the rest of the world seems to be in awe of it.
The american people are only as ignorant about the rest of the world as the rest of the world is about the american people. We don’t want to ruin your culture or destroy your land. Sometimes mistakes are made with the best of intentions (vietnam) sometimes we are led astray by our leaders (desert storm 2) but our resolve does not waver. We will allways stand up for what we believe is right and those who don’t; those who play the system for their own gain are not real americans. Mitt Romney is not an american. Dick Cheyney is not an american. Those who stand in the face of adversity for the greater good are. Those like, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roseveldt, Bill Clinton, and Barrack Obama are americans.
We aren’t the only country that makes mistakes or elects the wrong leaders. We just happen to be the most influential so it gets noticed more. Imagine haveing that weight on your shoulders when you vote. I know I felt it when applying for my absentee ballot.
In the end ther are stupid americans but there are stupid people from all over the globe.
america funded those everyone else was fighting against then took the money back with interest, that is how it has such a large military, america has not invented the most in the world and the space race means exactly what it says, a SPACE race, the Russians could say the same when they reach another planet in the future.
You are the stereotype, you are the arrogance, you are the stupidity.
I like how you expressed your opinion so thoroughly, I agree with you on many points especially the last part about the weight voters carry when they vote.
If you think the Vietnam war was started by the Americans with “With the best of intentions” you need to go back o histgory class. Most preferable a non-American one.
This list is a joke, America is not the best country which us said in a lot of the quotes here, all country’s have accomplished our expectancy to live and create a new generation. The person who wrote it is either stupid or wanted to start a fight by the which of means has been accomplished below these infantile answers.
Ego sum Alpha et Omega primus et novissimus
what on earth are you talking about
Latin duh. You mean you don’t speak it?
It’s ridiculous to see how wrong I was. I always thought America’s arrogance and ignorance was just a joke. But here I am after reading a pageful of ignorant arrogant comments by mostly Americans. You people really need to stop with this whole ” you owe us ” bull*****. You’ve done a lot, sure. But you also owe a lot more than imaginable. Top of the contribution list? Good for you, contribute that money to the IMS. 17 trillion sounds like that’d put you high on the contribute list. Not to mention how backstabbing and secretive the USA is, many of your ” victorious ” moments should actually be ” disgraced ” moments. Great peacekeeping? Don’t even joke, take a 101 in politics and history. Then you’ll realize how badly managed peacekeepers were, none the less acted. Be an ignorant arrogant American all you want, but don’t expect a simple ” i *****ed your mother ” response.
Take your own History 101 lesson, the trash talking you’re doing on America applies to pretty much every government in the world.
I actually think this article was written by someone who WASN’T American pretending they were just so they so could invoke heated responses such as yours.
I mean this article was just asking for a flame war.
In spanish is Estadounidenses, translate it.
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To be honest if it wasn’t for Great Britain and the Industrial Revolution started there, the USA would never have become as big as it is today.
Remember when Great Britain invented the Airplane??
me either.
Funny, I do remember when Great Britain invented/discovered:
THE WORLD WIDE WEB, BAGLESS VACUUM CLEANER,
WIND-UP RADIO, iPod, iMac, MacBook, iPhone,
CAMERA, PHOTOGRAPHY, COMPUTER, STEAM ENGINE,
TRAINS, RAILWAYS, TRACTORS, JET ENGINE, BATTLE TANK,
PENICILLIN, ANTISEPTIC, ANASTHETICS, CAT’S EYES,
SPLITTING THE ATOM, CLONING, TELEVISION, TELEPHONE,
RADAR, HOVERCRAFT, VACCINATION, VERTICAL TAKE-OFF AIRCRAFT
SUPERSONIC AIRLINERS, MATCHES, PISTON ENGINE,
ELECTRIC GENERATOR, BICYCLE, CHRONOMETER,
UNDERGROUND RAILWAYS, BUSSES, SHIPS PROPELLOR,
GLIDER, STEEL PRODUCTION, LOUDSPEAKER, MODERN BOTONY,
VACCUM CLEANER, LAWNMOWER, GEIGER COUNTER, STAINLESS STEEL,
DECOMPRESSION CHAMBER, INTEGRATED CIRCUITS,
THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION, ENCYCLOPAEDIAS, DICTIONARIES,
GOLF, RUGBY, FOOTBALL, CRICKET, BASEBALL, SNOOKER,
MODERN BOXING, DARTS, SQUASH AND BADMINGTON!
Good job! Now we know you can copy and paste cmomo!
there was an industrial revolution in Great Britain as well
forgot that you are ignorant… time to learn about other cultures other than yours, the language you speak is english not american, canada is not your hat and not all canadians speak french or are covered in snow, not all mexicans are poor border jumpers, i could go on and on but this was a funny list
Canada? Really? What good has Canada brought the world, besides Pamela Anderson? I don't know where you're from, but I'm willing to bet your home country owes us big in some way ***** dick. Whether it be us saving your ass in at least one world war, or giving your ***** hole country aid in some natural disaster.
If it came down to a fist fight for the world Canada would whoooooooooooop the US…just simply whipe the floor with them. U could take 10 Americans vs Just 1 Canadian and he would fuk them all up…Americans don’t know this and that’s their big mistake…Canadians are fighters!! Which is why we promote peace and politeness cause u don’t want to see what’ll happen when u ***** one of us off.
Really? I’ve fought Canadians before, and crushed them with little difficulty ( I box in the military, and my opponents are frequently from the Canadian military).
It’s an odd experience going to a place like Victoria or Vancouver and noting while gazing down the street at all the people that 1.) As an American, you’re obviously the Alpha-male as far as you can see 2.) A nation full of Ned Flanders, wow! 3.) How can anyone dislike a Canadian? They’re so friendly!
Canada is a fine place; if there was anything to dislike about Canada, watch “Canadian Bacon”. That movie pretty much covers WHY Americans sometimes look sideways at our northern neighbor.
You know that movie wasn’t a doc, right retard? I bet all you’re butt buddies in the millitary would laugh if they knew you were a Michael Moore fan.
lol ill take you up on that. 1vs 1
Don't forget William Shatner. Of course, he emigrated to where? The U.S. of A! The greatest country on earth and the country around which the rest of the world revolves!! By the way, we are ^first* at *everything* and we speak American here.
Saying america is the greatest counrty in the world should be added to the list.
Facts are facts Pierre.
2bad, novak djokovic is the world’s 1st tennis player now
http://www.vexen.co.uk/countries/best.html
you are a great example of why the world hates you.
Keep speaking crap, nobody cares that you can’t grasp English, or geography..
They probably don’t know what’s geography.
@ ad
You should have said he is a great example of an *****/idiot American not an American in general, because then that would mean that all of us would be *****s/idiots and I doubt that because I live here.
@ Che guevara
You meant “They probably don’t know what geography is” because what you said was slightly illiterate. No offense.
@Che guevara You obviously don’t know what grammar is.
actually, shat is actually-SURPRISE-Canadian.
And super nice.
are you retarded most of the united states doesn’t know where Canada is or find their country on the world map plus you voted George bush in twice. I am Australian as well so I’ve already beat you in the best country in the world (Free wealth care, low crime,lots of job opportunities, beaches, forests, modern cities, friendly people)
You have free “wealth care”? That sounds nice! (Just in case you couldn’t tell, that was sarcasm, I’ve heard it’s an American thing)…And you don’t sound very friendly to me, you kind of disproved that point earlier in your sentence when you did exactly what you complain about Americans for doing. For example, “I am Australian so I already beat you in the best country in the world” sounds a lot like, “I am Australian therefore I’m better than you! You’re arrogant if you think you’re from the best country! That is just impossible because I am! And this statement doesn’t make me look like an arrogant hypocrite at all!”…I believe my point is proven.
P.S.: America also has beaches, forests, and modern cities, and most likely in a much greater quantity!
What good has Canada brought to the world??? Hummm…. what about the idea of an army who's whole purpose is to preserve PEACE !!!! A Canadian politician (Lester B. Pearson), won the Nobel Price of Peace for the creation of the Blue Helmets !!!! I say that's not bad !!!
And for the record, people hate u.s.a. because of it's arrogance. The U.S. only acts in IT'S own interests. And when their actions are profitable to somebody else; they'll say they made him a favor !!!! So now we owe you ???? …. Yeah… whatever. It's not like YOU personally had anything to do with it !!!!!!
I agree, but i don't hate america, at least i have my freedom of speech(which is slowly being deprived) though yes, but isn't everyone like that? proud of their country,and like the u.s.a, act because of it's own interest? i don't hate america, i hate the ignorant, arrogant people but those are everywhere. america just has more of them.(canada has the best comic creators which is epic!)
I believe that this blog has proved that the real ignorant and arrogant people in the world are those who blindly follow the herd; simply hating americans based on misconceptions and stereotypes they hear through the media and random people’s hot air!
lol Nobel peace prize is a joke Obama has won one for what he was going to do and for the record the m1 steel helmet saved many more lifes than those blue helmets. also America has the right to be arrogant we have earned it. Don't you even imply that America isn't a peace keeping force because it is one of the biggest peace keeping forces in the world through the U.N. i will leave you on this with out war who could really appreciate peace?
buddy… the UN stands for unites nations… this means that it isnt USA but actually a number of “nations united” if you can fathom that. idiot
And, thusly, you have defined yourself as a Nazi.
lol… yeah… right…
btw… has anyone else here seen the Loose Ends documentary?
it gives good insight into the “terrorrist acts”… cough cough… of 9/11..
Which country doesn’t act in its own interest?
The UN receives 22% of funding from the United States. United what?!
they liberated my country in ww 2 and bravely fought the germans in ww 1 they are one of the strongest armies i have ever seen and they are just proud to be canadian but you are arrogant and ignorant
You guys talk all this ***** like what the American gov’t does somehow relates to all Americans as a whole. That’s total bs. You think we really have control over our gov’t? No, not any more than you have control over yours. Blame the small few that “run” our country, not everyone that lives in it.
You kidding me bro? We give billions to any ***** hole counry that asks us for help. I dont care what country you’re from, but odds are the u.s has baled you out of a war at least once. You can pound your fists and cry all you want, but it wont change the fact that no one gives a crap about your country and they never will.
Wow. I think this proves his point. And I'm American and a vet also. But I know that no matter how "bad ass" America is supposed to be it couldn't stand alone (I mean alone 100% without support) on the world's stage. I love my country yes but I cannot lie for it and disrespect others for it. I know this is an old thread but I must get this off my chest. As I have stated I love America but I also have noticed that there are a LOT of HYPOCRITES in America. The military goes over seas and fights for "freedom","liberty" and "democracy" in other countries. But think about World War I&II. How many Black soldiers fought killed and died for country that acted like they were animals? Only to come home to get beaten,insulted and sometimes murdered. Do think that the world doesn't know this? We are all for religious freedom. We see on TV Sunni and Shiate Muslims killing each other and say: "See Billy? They don't have freedom of religion there" But some Muslims can't erect a mosque?
Well said. A mature and thoughtful comment. I agree whole-heartedly with you thoughts.
There’s a lot of hypocrites in the world…so what’s your point?
What a well-rounded and magnanimous comment. You’re a true gentleman.
You personally have done *****all for the world, don’t take pride in things other people did. You are a sad, sad person. You start swearing like a child when somebody offends your country, that’s why people hate america, because of people like you. Ignorant nationalists who act on knee jerk reactions of “patriotism”. To quote george carlin, national pride is bull*****. Pride should be reserved for something you achieved on your own, not by accident of birth. You don’t even know where the guy is from and you already say the most arrogant things, like america saved his country and they owe you. That very attitude, is why people hate america and its inhabitants. You and everyone like you is to blame for your country’s bad reputation. I think its reasonable to say im speaking for a large portion of the rest of the world, when I say, ***** you and everybody like you.
Totaly agreed!!!
People(non Americans) hate America because, deep inside, they’re jealous. Thats it. End of story. No one’ll admit to this, but everyone know it. Don’t you?
Why should we be jealous on America? Because of the Burger King? Because of the invasion of Iraq (they say Saddam had Nukes but why they actually attack was CHEAP OIL)? A long history of apartheid?
America always needs a new enemy. First it was the Sovjet-Union but when the SU collapsed America didn’t had a real threath left. So they searched for a new enemy and suddenly on an “unexpected” moment two plains flew in the Twin Towers. That attack was “planned by terrorists” while Bush had an good excuse to invade more country’s.
I’m from holland and I know whe are the inventors of slavery, and i’m not proud of that. I just wanna say this: Why do you Americans believe everything what your government says?
Yes, we are truly jealous of a bunch of dumb Inbreds like you
I honestly doubt jealousy is the reason that people hate America. I question the reason why you had to say “People (NON AMERICAN)” I’m an American (regretfully) and even I hate this country.
Not at all. I am a duel citizen of America and Australia.. grew up in Australia and I’ve been living in America for the past 2 years, and have travelled to america 20 or more time before moving here. I can’t wait to get out of here and back home. I’m not jealous. I believe the american’s that all think the rest of the world are jealous do so because it makes them feel good about themselves. America is just a bad country with ignorant people, horrible politics and no-one has their own opinions that aren’t formed off of the news channels that they choose to watch. They regurgitate what other people say as fact when they have no idea what they are saying. America believes they are the best but won’t look at the statistics for healthcare, political stability, economic growth, environmental quality and education to see that they are far from the top on anything. If you average all those factors together their top city is ranked 29th. America is going to continue sinking until they realise maybe they aren’t perfect and the best at everything and start learning from other countries. I want to get out of here before all hell breaks loose. If they don’t sink themselves through the economic problems the people that they have *****ed off through going to war with them will.
Rhi; that is bull *****. You say things about America that are not even true in the slightest. In a poll, Australia is about twice more proud of their own nation than the US is. Also you say that everyone blindly trusts their government and news channels yet polls show the majority of the US distrusts both it’s governments and news channels.
Hell, Kenya has a higher approval rating of the US than the US does. Either you live in Texas or you are lying.
LOL yes were jealous of an economy with 15 trillion dollars in debt stupid hillbilly your a perfect example of the us’s arrogance and i admit my country arrogant too but this this is just retarded
Anger is caused by a sub conscious feeling of jealousy.
Well said that man or woman. I live here and I am blown away daily by the ignorance, stupidity, arrogance and just plain pathetic attitude of these fools who are truly brainwashed from birth. Just go onlie and google ‘dumb americans and you’ll see exactly why the world detests these idiots.
agreed
hey guy ! and what the f*** U.S brouth the world soo good? the world war?
well, i don’t know if your pride teachers teach you that but, the grand reason why the nazist lost the war was when tryng to attack URSS and than, start to loose force…..
And also.. U.S don’t did any sacryfice, it was just ( one more time) a way to get money whit the war, because while the european countryes get bombs in theyr factories, U.S get producing resource to then, doing it, you get more rich whyle the another countryes was f*****, so, you AREN’T A F**** HERO!
and the rest that you brouth was better did’nt do it….
( sorry by the english)
What??? Even in your broken English your comment doesn’t make any sense at all. Tal vez si lo escribe en español? Anyway buddy, post some facts not just unintelligible rubbish…
Your Spanish sucks huevos
you know, canada is the largest exporter of crude oil to the united states. just a thought. oh, how about the phone? Hockey? insulin? hell, even basketball was invented by a canadian. canada has is one of the most multicultural country in the world, where we accept all people, where bigotry is a criminal offense. not a single canadian has served in any war against there will, we have fought bravely over the fields of france, the raging north atlantic, and the skies above england. canada, a country of 11 million people during WWII, had the 3rd largest fleet, behind the United States and England. During the Korean War, the canadians would complain about american soldiers running all the time. canada, a country of peace and prosperity. also, don’t forget about the white house being burnt down.
and besides, America is a *****en continent, and every person who lives in it is an American, idiot.
The term “American” comes from the name of the country you *****dick pussy *****. United States of ‘America’. Canada and Mexico do not include America in their name.
YES YES YES YES!!!!!! You took the words right out of my mouth
And the entirety of South America?
No, the continents would be North and South America. America standing alone generally means the United States OF…
sorry dude, im a north american who lived in south america for 3 years and everytime i said I was “american” they assumed I was from chile or argentina… had to say i was from the USA (estados unidos) for them to understand.
true
a nation that did not come into this world until the late 1800s to the early 1900s can not take credit in the the results of a war fought in 1812…and if you do its ok because dont forget we got Montreal and Quebec…and at least we know how not to light TNT in or harbors…had fun repairing windows?
A scot invented the phone and the tv and the English the internet. Just think
Ok I am an American, but I live close enough to Mexico to drive there in less than an hour. Not that I would do that due to all the drug related violence. And I also am a 3rd generation Hispanic American with Spanish, German, and hints of Native American blood.
You are right about the Scottish Alexander Graham Bell inventing the telephone but a scot inventing the tv is off. Vladimir Zworykin, a Russian came up with the concept but an American named Philo Farnsworth actually got it to work. And about the Internet… well nobody is really totally responsible for creating it but an American named Leonard Kleinrock came up with the intial idea. If you meant English in a sense of ancestry than that’s ok, but if not then I believe you were mistaken.
My view on the country that I was born in and lived in for a measly 18 years of life is a content one. I really do not see why some people (not all merely some) have to hate on us all the time just because of a percentage of people here that are jerks or idiots. I along with many other Americans don’t like them either.
YES FINALLY…….Tim Berners Lee an english man in CERN invented it…..just google CERN and see wat it is….
john logie baird invented the t.v. and he was scottish…
John logie baird invented the tv and he was scottish…
Lol, you do realize that America is a country not a continent, and where the stupid ones…
I don’t want to fight but…it’s ‘we’re’ not ‘where’.
American grammar naIs on the loose!!! Get that punctuation and spelling right or we will argue with you over the Internet!!!!
And this person who replied to you is right… It’s we are or we’re.
*****… Nazis, not nals… What are nals anyway? Stupid iPod…
“[Canada] where we accept all people” as you quoted yourself. Honestly, do you accept all people? You’re describing your country as an amazing place. Then why do you feel that you have to offend it?
Every country has it’s downsides. You have just proved to be one of them.
Devinejoh states “[Canada] where we accept all people”. Honestly, do you accept all people? You say that Canada is an amazing place. If you think it is so great, why do you feel you need to defend it?
Every country has its downsides, and you have just proved to be one.
You state “[Canada] where we accept all people”. Do you accept all people? You describe Canada as an amazing country. If you think it so great, why do you need to defend it?
Every country has its downsides, and you have just proved to be one of them.
Devinejoh quotes, “[Canada] where we accept all people.” Do you accept all people? You describe Canada as an amazing place. If you think it is so great, why do you have to defend it?
Every country has its downsides, and you have just proved to be one of them.
Yet even with all of that millions of people become U.S citizens everyday. I mean if we are honest, on paper Canada would be the ideal place to live, yet from early on people have died just to get to the US, to become an American. They could have easily settled for Canada, but risked their lives to go just a little further. You canadians complain that we are arogant, that it is unfair that we soley own the title of American when we all share the same continents, well if you guys up north had done more maybe you would have had the title- alas when one thinks of America they do not think of red maple leaves but of stars and stripes (which you can really only blame on yourselves…really a leaf that was the best you guys could come up with?)
“They easily could have settled for Canada, but risked their lives to get a little further” ?????
In order for Canada to be closer destination for immigrants than the U.S., they’d have to be coming from f*cking Greenland !!!
You do realise that the vast majority of immigrants to the U.S. are Mexican, and the Mexican border is one side of the U.S. and the Canadian border is thousands of kilometres away on the opposite side of the U.S. mainland?
Actually, you probably don’t, as you’ve never looked at a map of the real world.
Ignorant American and the fact that your small country has crap education.
Americas education is not “crap”, immigrants from other countries trying to get a better education, because America’s education system of the top systems is what brings it down. Not to mention the fact that America is not small either, it is the 3rd largest country in the world.
But compared to Canada it’s still small, so don’t complain about the size and leave this just out. It has nothing to do with it.
NO, just no. America’s education system is, in fact, utter crap. Now, why do some people go to the trouble of going to America to get a so-called “better” education?
Well, for the simple reason that it will look good on their resume. See, some Asian countries prefer people who are from American schools. It does not matter if the person who applied is brain-dead, it only matters because he studied in America.
Now, I studied in America last year ( 7th grade, i’m young). Let me tell you, it does not compare to Asian schools. Students disrespect teachers, bring drugs (happened 5 times i’ve been there), they do not focus on studying and they still ask why they get bad grades??!! I even got culture-shocked because of openly kissing and touching while outside the classrooms.
I dare you to try an Asian school. No, not American Asian schools, the ones that are actually in Asia. The students are disciplined. Everyday there is a bag search to look for items that are not allowed, and everyday nothing has turned up. It does not mean we don’t have fun, it just means that our schools are more disciplined than yours.
If only Asia has more money, I wonder what will happened
China , Russia, Canada are all bigger than America so you’re wrong .
Stupid American you know you can used google to find these things out before, you show how really stupid you really are .
i would get angry, but then i remember ur american. i think most ppl should give concessions to americans who talk like this, their most probably part of the retarted population who live on that fat assed piece of land.
We’re fat because we can. Sorry that your skank ass country doesn’t have the luxury to eat fattening meals. So at what period did the German army occupy whatever country your from? You know, when some German soldier made your grandma suck his *****before we gave currency to Britain for them to sustain and then invaded the western front? Or are you from the mighty USSR? Oh wait, I forgot, the USSR fell afterward.
We either saved a country or was the country that didn’t fall after ww2. And you wonder why we are cocky. We have are right to be after liberating all the countries in the PACIFIC from the Japanese empire by ourselves.
I dont think australia or NZ was saved or fell during ww2. and australians are fatter than you, does that make them better? And if a really fat person is walking down the street and you are only mildly fat are they then better than you since they can “afford fatty meals” or worse than you as they can afford a gym membership and access to better educaion. Please explain oh wise north american…
Yup that’s right.
You are fat because you can. Really! That doesnt change anything. And bringing up ww2 again. Americans!
its our not are
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“your home country owes us big in some way ***** dick. Whether it be us saving your ass in at least one world war, or giving your ***** hole country aid in some natural disaster.” Owe you? wow, that just says it all really doesn’t it! America is NOT the only country to give aid to other people and plenty of other countries help in wars too! You clearly have your morals all wrong here – If a country’s in trouble and needs help, you should help them because it’s the right thing to do, not for your personal benefit! And you CERTAINLY shouldn’t treat help like a loan to be paid back later on in life – did other countries charge you after all the help we gave after Hurricane Katrina? NO. So what makes you think that the rest of the world owes the U.S a favour? Giving money and aid is a great thing to do for another country but helping each other is part of our basic moral standards – it’s about being a decent person so stop lording it above other countries because guess what America? Other countries help each other too! And what’s more, we dont treat it like a debt to be paid off, we do it because it’s the right thing to do. I don’t hate the U.S, but they need to stop acting like they’re above everyone else because after a comment like that, America has no right to take the moral high ground here.
I admit, America isn’t high on the moral list or whatever. But what country really is? When it comes down to it, people (and countries) are out for themselves. You should help a country because it’s the right thing to do? Don’t make me laugh. That’s not how the world works. I bet you crap flowers and throw up rainbows. A nation is not a charity. I’m not surprised you have such high moral standards of people though. Since three fourths of Europe are liberal/socialists that for the most part are naive and love to share the wealth and not give anyone a choice in it. One step away from Communism. U.S.A should start becoming isolationists and let the rest of the world screw around with each other. Big surprise, I’m American.
Bolivia hates Chile, and when the earthquake hit us, they, along with Argentina and Peru were the first countries to help, even tough we waged a war agansit Peru and Bolivia and we (ok, a dictator that US funded and impossed on us) were seconds away of a war with Argentina and we (again, a dictator) helped the British in the Falkland war. That’s clearly not “everyone for themselves”. And guess what… if you became isolationist we wouldn’t have to deal with carzy right wings dictators and their nazi friends thatUSA helped to escape from Europe.
I wouldn’t describe myself as patriotic, but the U.S. does rank first in the world in charitable giving. So maybe the government is out for itself, but there are a lot of really caring people here. It’s hard to deny that.
Yeah you guys become isolationists without cultural influence or trade with other countries and end up reverting to anarchism… Let us know how that works out for ya’
I agree with this. But I think you might be forgetting something. A lot of American’s (or at least the ones that I have seen) don’t have a normal sense of what is morally right and wrong. If you ask me, a lot of kids grow up watching a lot of violent crap on T.V. and seeing things they shouldn’t at a young age. Children turn to roll models they see on T.V. (for example, celebrities) and maybe these roll models aren’t appropriate for a kid. Therefore kids would grow up thinking that something which is wrong is actually right (for instance, perhaps domestic violence). I think Americans have a warped sense of morals partially due to the huge freedom given to the Media.
Also, I would like to point out that a lot of American’s that I have seen, don’t tend to think before they act. They tend to follow the crowd, trying to become what society has set as being “cool”, and don’t really think about the consequences. They get involved in gangs, violence, drugs, etc. because people pressure them into things like this. Maybe it’s like this in other countries too, but I don’t know. Probably to some degree, but I bet it’s a bigger issue in America.
I agree with nearly everything you said, except for a couple words. If I recall (sorry I’m starting to forget what you posted, the response box is right over your comment) didn’t you say that you don’t hate this country? I on the other hand do. That was the only part I disagreed with in your comment.
Watch this and repost it .
hey fack you buddy, we take care of our land and we don’t owe america nothing.
Your nothing but a spineless douchebag who thinks his country is all mighty and powerful, although your probably NOT willing to die for it. So Fack you and the horse you rode in on!!!!!!
What the hell do you have against Canada!? I can think of tons of things Canada has done for the world! (examples… the telephone, hockey, awesome food, like back bacon and poutine and beers, washing machines, television and so much more! We don’t owe you anything!
scotland invented the television and telephone you absolute idiot
You couldn’t be more wrong…
Philo Farnsworth invented Television, and he was born in Utah.
Alexander Graham Bell, among others, were credited with the invention of the Telephone.
I don’t mean to post on the same day, but this was utterly ridiculous.
I apologize, American text books don’t seem to mention Alexander was born in Scotland, that’s something I never knew before.
In all fairness though, it wasn’t just him.
“John Logie Baird FRSE (1888-1946)[1] was a Scottish[2] engineer and inventor of the world’s first practical, publicly demonstrated television system, and also the world’s first fully electronic colour television tube. Although Baird’s electromechanical system was eventually displaced by purely electronic systems (such as those of Philo Farnsworth), his early successes demonstrating working television broadcasts and his colour and cinema television work earn him a prominent place in television’s invention. ”
Americans are going to get nukes by Iraq one day. If they keep up the bull***** with killing people who didn’t even do anything
“the victim has a rpg” it was just a news camera! Stupid Americans your country is going to hell
They don’t have nay nukes
are you retarted buddy? world war 2? where do you think you get most of your oil and soft wood from, and don’t forget electricty too, not the far east either stupid. your country sucks you can’t even take care of your sick and injured. you have a fake democracy that is bought by lobbyists and special interest groups. your probably a republican aren’t you? the saddest part is that you’re too ignorant to see the fact that your polititcal system is corrupt, your country is bankrupt ( you’ll all be chinese someday anyway since they own all your governments debt. translation: they own your currency)and your politicians are in the back pocket or whoever has the most money. try doing so reading about your own country before you think you have knowledge about someone else’s. but shame on me i should know by now that that’s the american way. in closing i think we should close the boarders today, and by tomorrow half of you country will be in the dark with no gas
Lol owe? Did you know that the American economy is in debt with 100 billion dollars. Sorry for writhing my other opinions but my eyes usually stop at fanatic bull*****, for explain rednecks. Where the mony comes, thats a hard question, but beside the depth the american way of life is quite rich, thats what make everyone immigrate there, and thats what keeps the whole ***** maschine running, smart, lucky immigrants, for explain, nuclear bomb wasn’t invented by america, the research team was made up by 5 men, 4 of them was hungarian. The second thing is propagand, communists dont hide their intentions, thats why they crashed by their own nations. America is a peace of ***** dressed in Armani, and thats why ppl immigrate, cuz america looks cool. The last is the money hunger, you help only who can pay, national resources? You sold the hungaryan revolt for suez, *****es! But you gladly accepted the immigrants again, a few of them started the famous “america” research againts cancer. Oh and Russia has 2 times bigger army, and the AK47 is better in aim and fire rate. Thats all for now.
Last I heard, the debt was around $14 trillion, not 100 billion.
Canada gave you hockey, basketball, cable t.v., telephone, James Cameron, Brian Adams, Avril Lavigne, Celine Dion, Mike Myers better special effects for big movies (they even made the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park!), maple syrup (not that fake thing), a lot of your electricity, insulin, they invented refining >_>
And most important… In the war of 1912, the Americans thought they could invade Canada. So Canada sneaking in and burned the White House. They haven’t tried again ever since.
Ahahaha you are the exact stereotype of an annoying American, if anyone wasn’t hating America after reading this list they do now after reading your comment.
Have fun trololololling
You are one stupid mother f***! USA wouldent exist today whiteout alle the money they get from the Scandinavian countries!
First of all im sure USA owes China something like hmmm lets see maybe 1 trilllion dollars…. thats a *****load of money for a corrupt government to dig out … how will USA get rid of this debt?
You represent exactly what he is talking about you prick!
LOL… you are a complete and utter fool .. well then again your are probably the typical american
how can you even fathom comparing the (as the below idiot said) “US of A” to Canada ..lol.. i do honestly find your ignorance entertaining.
Canada as a population is smarter than the “US of A”… and as a matter of fact the “US of A” owes canada at least 90 billion dollars.. it prob could of been more but canadians being smart and seeing the failing state of the “US of A” realized that the “US of A” is most likely gonna default on all its debt…
Never the less let me lay some facts for your overly patriotic militaristic ignorant being
Canada is rated as being and having:
-The world’s best advanced economy.
-The world’s soundest banking system.
-The only G7 nation fully recovered from the global financial crisis & recession.
-The world leader in educational attainment.
-The world’s most tolerant country.
-The world’s friendliest nation.
-The world’s most welcoming country.
Canadians have the world’s 2nd highest Quality of Life.
(Australia’s currently #1.)
Canada has three of the world’s top five cities: Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary.
(The other two are Australian.)
Canada’s also rated as being:
-One of the world’s 10 safest countries.
-One of the world’s 10 most peaceful nations.
-One of the world’s 10 happiest countries.
-One of the world’s 10 least corrupt nations.
-One of the world’s 10 freest countries.
-One of the world’s Triple A credit rating nations.
And Canada rates better than the “US of A” in all those categories.
if you want to you can stop reading here i know this is probably a lot to comprehend..
Canadians in comparison to Americans:
-Canadians are healthier and live years long. (due to Canada’s universal healthcare system.)
-Canadians pay fewer taxes per person.
-Canadians are wealthier. (Canada has a higher median net worth per capita than the US.)
-Canadians have lower-cost but equal-quality higher education.
Canada’s more economically, politically and societally stable than the US.
Canada’s a kingdom: a constitutional monarchy & parliamentary democracy.
That system of governance has additional checks and balances on political power & abuse that the US lacks, with the result that Canada’s less politically polarized/radicalized than the US.
Canada also has 3 main political parties and multiple smaller ones so there’s more choice than just US-style Democrat or Republican limitations.
Canada’s a universal healthcare nation where care is prepaid by taxation.
(Meaning no co-pays, deductibles, doctor’s bills, paperwork to fill out, or any of the other hassles US patients endure.)
Canadians are covered everywhere both in or outside of Canada too, by the way.
(Meaning no being restricted to “authorized providers” like US health insurers do to Americans.)
And Canadians are covered – by law – for all medically-necessary care: pre-natal, preventive, primary, diagnotic and follow-up without limit or limitation.
With medical necessity determined solely by doctors & hospitals, not government.
by now you most probably have tears of joy knowing that such a eutopia exist …lol
never the less if you would like me to continue to bury the “US of A” with facts showing Canada is WAY superior than the “US of A” please feel free to reply.. and i shall lay your doubts to rest .
Oh and by the way yes Canadians are living the “American Dream” while you all still strive for it …
I live in Canada, and im American.
1. Your fast food is ridiculous in cost.
2. Canada has more drop outs per a capita than the US and at a lower grade (9th)
3. Your free health care is slow, and cost you almost 57% of total gross pay every year.
4. The U.S is in almost a depression and our money is worth more on a daily basis still.
5. Your Lower crime/Higher Intelligence/Ect. is not a good comparison considering you have a total population of like 36 million and i think canada is larger than the US, and most Population are on the border of US.
6. 70% of your country is a frozen wasteland, who wants to commit a murder there.
7. in the US you cannot be refused health care, unlike in Canada if you dont carry your province Health card, 1. you cant get care, and 2. It is extremely hard to get care out of your native province.
8. Your medical career workers are trained way less than an American. For ex. the american EMT (emergency medical technician) is a 6 month course, the equivalent, the Canadian EMA (emergency medical attendant) is a 4 week course, and they are expected to do the same job.
Your Utopia starts to look like are hat once again.
I love the US, and i can tolerate Canada, i mean, i did meat my beautiful girl here.
You know that Canada is America’s largest foreign provider of oil right?
F*** YOU A******, WE GIVE U UR F****** URANIUM!
well Celine Dion is canadian…
What exactly do you owe me? Budwieser?
(that was sarcasm. I thought you might need it explaining to you)
Sounds like you live by that list. I don't know where you might be from, but I know this: at some point we have helped you when you needed it. And now, when we could use some help, your mighty, highly-educated and snobbish nation has not even sent us a towel to wipe oil off a pelican. Thanks for that. Feel free to keep insulting us–we've probably helped pay for your freedom at some point. And we don't need your towels. But next time a typhoon or earthquake strikes near you, I hope we laugh and let you handle it yourselves. Good luck with that–you've never seemed to manage it without us before.
Yeah, we don't send towels because Americans milk the publicity and film the poor dying animals instead of helping them.
It sounds harsh but you Americans deserve this Oil Spill, trying to play the VICTIM of all environmental disasters. ATOMIC BOMB, dumping toxic waste, and all the rest of the world's oil spills. Man, you guys just love it you have someone to blame now. Why not get off your lard arses and actually contribute ideas on how to help oil stop spilling instead of complaining.
Karma bites even if it is 65 years later. Unfortunately doesn't bite hard enough.
Hell, once you've forced BP out you'll probably be drinking the oil out the Gulf of Mexico cause you love oil consumption SO MUCH.
America has brought nothing but corruption to this world (Extreme Capitalism, Selfishness, McDonalds), the only reason why countries keep you close is your money. If you were a poor country, no one would bat an eye if Russia ended up nuking you.
If you are referring to England in your post, you have to understand we aren't 'textbook' English 'snobbish' blah blah, we are just a normal European country and tbh we're pretty poor because of your war and your brilliant capitalist ideas [/sarcasm].
Whilst you're laughing at poorer countries getting hit by 'acts of god' I'll at least be safe knowing that I have free health care. Which is more than your people can say when they are injured by acts of god.
No wonder you brits (small "b") have such rotten teeth. You're too busy ranting incoherently. Go practice some good dental hygiene. Oh yeah, don't ever, ever forget how we Americans kicked you brits out of your own damn colonies. HAHAHAHA!!!
Haha, this is going to be fun.
Read this: http://www.cracked.com/article_18409_the-5-most-s…
The best quote:
"A study performed by OECD, an international economic organization, on the state of dental hygiene in developed countries has concluded that the British have the very best teeth in the entire world, with an average of just 0.6 of a tooth decaying per citizen. Not just "not the worst"–the absolute *****ing best! That's like routinely mocking the feminine lisp of a guy-pal and finding out he's boned every single girl you know, including your mother (especially your mother)."
PWNED, yank. PWNED. And I am loving this moment. Thanks.
we do have good teeth look at all your incest loving hillbilly ***** of a family then tell me who's got the worst teeth
OMG, Mike, get off you butt and come to America before making that statement. Those type of people are on T.V., they are acting. Do you think i turn on Harry Potter and think that all British people go around all day casting spells. You need to step into reality and get off the TV, no one is really like that… it is acting.
Funny how the English, inventors of the English language, have terrible English grammar and spelling.
Stereotypical generalisation much?
*generalization
Generalization is the American spelling of Generalisation (Generalisation is the correct spelling)
Please don’t criticise the English with their grammar, considering the majority of Americans use the word ‘gotten’, as in, ‘it had gotten to the point that s.o. . .’ when in fact gotten is an adjective. This isn’t a criticism of Americans or a defense of the English as such – I’m just pointing out that most people in the world regardless of nationality who speak English don’t use the language correctly.
wow there are some extremely ignorant and pompous people on here. AMerican and Foreign. Im american and can definitly say we know we didn’t win ww2 single handedly, but also know we contributed to victory and that fact was supported by other world leaders ( Stalin). We know our gov is currupt and money driven, but with nothing short of a revolution will change that. Whats the name if that country that isn’t run by money or always struggling for it? oh right it doesn’t exist. We dont care that we’ve adapted our own english and dont think anyone shoud give a dam anyway. It just gives brits one more thing to brag about anyway right? Does that honestly really bother Foreigners? Reading all the generalizing and just plain argumentative driven stereotypes shows the ignorance from here (US) and abroad. I mean i just read that we’re only tolerated because of our money yet the next one says we’re broke. Contradictory BS. As usual this has become a page of insults from both sides with extremely loose “facts”. We may say brits have bad teeth but do you honestly think we believe the whole country does? Or do you really think that all Americans are fat? I for one hate MCdonalds and budweiser. Newcastle anyone!?
Oh and we film animals instead of cleaning them??? How far was ur head up ur a** when u wrote that? Thats almost as laughable as some dude saying america has given aid to every country on earth, or that We laugh at other counties when hit by natural disasters. Its these self proclaimed einsteins with opnions that make Americans look arrogant and foreigners come off as “no it alls” Not to mention how they rub anything they can in Americans faces which is apparently an American trait so go figure. After reading peoples comments its clear that the rest of the world has just as many is ignorant inhabitats as America. In closing All amercans dont think that other countries are jealous of us.thats just a retarded statement 
Saying dumb ***** like that is why people hate america. You americans generally have such an arrogant attitude like you displayed just now. You have no *****ing idea who this guy is and where he’s from, but you assume your country is better, has helped his, and they owe you. “And now, when we could use some help, your mighty, highly-educated and snobbish nation has not even sent us a towel to wipe oil off a pelican” How the ***** can you know that if you just said you dont know where he’s from, you idiot? You’re displaying what’s known in the rest of the world as typical american arrogance, and you wonder why people hate you.
I’m American but I agree with you completely. It makes me sick and embarrassed when Americans say stuff like that. Most Americans are this arrogant and don’t even know the difference between the UK, Great Britain and England. It’s pretty sad. Luckily I’ve learned not to be one of these people and I can’t wait to get out of this country. I just can’t leave yet because I’m still living under my parents roof. I think if we were more educated about what’s going on in our country and the world we would be a little less self centered and ignorant
But how can we ever get better when the great ambassadors to our humble country (like you) keep leaving?!
Wow, you must not be self confident in your nation. No one should be listening to you dumbass, you live with your parents. Haha.
We would LOOOVVEE for you to get out. You obviously have no contributions for our country, you’re useless, you insult your own, which other countries would spit at if their citizens were as disrespectful.
If anyone is ignorant, it’s you. This is coming from a 14 year old boy in California.
As fellow teens will say, GTFO.
You are such a moron, along with almost everone that has made comment on this page. Just because you have the ability to think and throw together an opinion, does not mean that your semi-retarded brain is correct, or even resonalble. Try to not let emotion and popular opinion from the teeming dim-witted masses drive your thoughts. Instead use your reason and common sense to understand that: there are a great deal of flaws among the people and leadership of the United States, but fortunatly; there are some of the brightest thinkers and kindest selfless, non-judgemental in this country as well. The reason for this paradox is a word used way to often, but freedom. If someone wants to be a fat moron, go for it. If he wants to challenge himself to become the best person he can be, thats ok too.
So lighten up, most of the ridiculous things you belive about my country, are a form of manipulation by mass media and political intrests. And therefore either greatly eggagerated or just false. This is true for some of the great things you have heard. None of your opinions are well informed, or mis informed. So go on if you want, but just remember: ;you really are just a puppet with someone smarters hand up your ass, telling you what and how to think.
Honestly you two who were rude to my comment are exactly what I’m talking about. You are ignorant and do you think I’m going to listen to a 14 year old. I’m stating what I know and my opinion and if you did not have to be rude about it. It’s a fact that most Americans don’t even know what’s going on in this damn country. We have a president who out of all 44 presidents has spent the most and brought us to a debt of 14 trillion and a national deficit of 1.65 trillion. That’s ridiculous! And you should think so too. When Obama was elected the national unemployment rate was only 6% and in 2010 went up to almost 10%. now that he resigned the bush tax cuts (which he said he would get rid of when elected) and the unemployment has started to drop. Our government almost shut down Friday at midnight and our troops aren’t even getting paid what they should be. He has gone against his word in so many things saying he would get rid of guantanamo bay (which he didn’t), get our troops out of Iraq ( instead he sent more) and so much more. I think it’s absolutely ridiculous that we have gotten into this situation and that’s why I don’t want to live here. Also because it’s my dream to live in and travel in Europe where all my family lives and is from so don’t you dare call me a dumbass because unlike most Americans I know what’s going on in our government. I could honestly keep going but I’m not even going to waste my time on a 14 year old boy who probably hasn’t even reached puberty yet or the others who have made rude comments. But thanks to the nice comments. I honestly love the united states of America and what it stands for, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But I’m disappointed that Americans don’t pay attention because if thy really understood they would be outraged and would take action. After all our government was designed for the people to have power over the government.
Russia and australia sent crews over during last years california fires, japan sent crews after katrina, after 9-11 almost every western country (plus a lot of eastern ones) pledged to support you with your war on terror. In vietnam troops from all over the world supported your troops, with the cuban embargo countries backed you up and also refused to trade with cuba (resulting in thousands of cubans dieing of starvation). England colonised you. The native indians helped you until you stabbed them in the back. Swiss banks support youre regimes… Pretty sure you have had a fair bit of help…
Buddy, you just made yourself out to be a really huge @$$ hole, you know that? That is precisely why people hate America.
you don't actually think all Americans believe that, do you?
Americans are not all a bunch of fat lazy moronic slobs that live off of McDonald's and Budweiser. We know what language we speak, and we are aware that Canadians and Mexicans do not always fit their stereotypes. Actually, you probably insulted half of the populations of both Mexico and Canada by perpetuating the stereotypes.
Thanks, ass.
We are not ignorant, thank you very much. God, sounds like your entire base of American cultural knowledge came from late-night adult-oriented cartoon shows. Stop watching so much goddamn TV.
Thank you, you took the words out of my mouth. I am an American and i can say that i have never had Budweiser and I rarely ever eat McDonalds. People from other countries complain about how we sterotype Mexicans and Canadians in such horrible way and they call us hypocrites, but they are doing the same thing… they have thousands of comments on this website showing that. I can tell you that i’m not always proud to be an American, but Americans mess up just as much as other countries. Americans are in the limelight so people notice us messing up more often thats all.
Most Americans I met were arrogant and ignorant and the few that weren’t had the national pride everyone does. Unfortunatley, there has been only 2 Americans in total I have met that tried not to be selfish. And I have met quite a lot of Americans. I don’t hate all of you but I will admit that most of the Americans I have met do give an impression that all Americans are arrogant selfish ignorant people even if it isn’t true.
Please ignore all these idiots… Not all us Americans are ignorant, self-centered, arrogant morons… Please don't hate all of us.
dbrownl is right…. the problem you have america is your SO ignorant
no your not taking 'pride' in your country
but hey while we ARE on the subject of history lets go waaaaay back to the start of the 13th century (1400s)…. oh yea i forgot america wasn't discoverd it was only discoverd in October 12th 1492 by Christopher Columbus who was ITALIAN
then other buggers from different countries came and settled in america while they drived the natives into extinction
so basicly you people who are stating 'we love america! we are proud to be american' the truth is
….like you maury would say 'the DNA results are in and you are'… NOT AMERICAN! unless somewhere down your family tree theres a native american relative, you come from somewhere else!
haha how do you like that?! so for example you might rant about how you hate british, well mostly likly you came from a british herratige!
and just another little tip for you; you might say how you love jerry springer but the host… is brittish, go wiki it
Lol, every country has ignorant people who blindly have pride in their country american hater. America became a country after the revolutionary war with the British. We started out as the 13 colonies.
My lord. You realize what you just said? First of all, nobody has ranted about hating the British or any other country. This whole idiotic debacle has been nothing but militant liberals (morons) talking trash and perpetuating stereotypes about a country for the sake of trying to get under our skin. I would bet money that if I confronted any of them about their comments in real life they would back down and stammer incoherently for 45 seconds trying to come up with an explanation like the thoughtless, cowardly toads that they are.
And the fact that you would explain that the 13th century encompassed the 1400s (the 13th century would be the 1200s) says more about your ignorance than even your implication that we don't all know we came here from Europe (as if we're so unfathomably ignorant as to believe we're the native people of this land). Not that it matters, as our cultural ties have long since deteriorated and most white Americans no longer care about, or in some cases even know about, their European heritage.
As for your "final thoughts" about Jerry Springer: as he was used as an example of the very WORST of American culture, I don't see why you feel it necessary to bring up the fact that he was born in the UK, as it serves only to deflate your argument, but I thank you nonetheless.
well if you wanna get technical with it america was actually discovered by vikings in 1000 AD
For one Columbus discovered the Bahamas but that doesn’t really matter anyways because the Vikings were here first. History my misguided friend, history.
And you think Brits just started out on that island like in a game of Age of Empires? I’m relatively sure that if you go back far enough, using your brand of logic, you should have no British pride either, because we’re all from Mesopotamia.
lol, u think americans hate other cultures, u think we speak "american", and think canadians are covered in snow? I'm a vietnamese immigrant that came to the USA because of cummunism and I follow vietnamese tradition in the USA. The United States doesn't care what culture u practice, as long as it doesn't bring violence.
As an American, I DO NOT CARE ABOUT OTHER CULTURES!! Why should we? We ARE ALL "cultures". The word doesn't even mean anything in the US of A, we can call hate rap "hip hop culture"
– the word is a punchline here.
We are not your mommy, your daddy or moral compass. Douche
Grow a pair.
I agree with everything you said except one thing, dbrownl. The dialect of English we speak in the US is so different from Queen's English that it may well qualify as an entirely different language, and thus may actually deserve the title "American". Just a thought. Personally, I still call it English, because until somebody declares otherwise, that's what it is. Just another dialect.
Why does everyone think that we think we speak "American" and not English. Maybe a small child thinks that, but by the time we get to age 11 or 12, it would become pretty clear to us that we speak English, because our language study class would go from a generic "Language Arts" to instead "English." That is, that our required courses from about 6th grade on, consist of English, Math, Science, and History. Meaning that the average American 11-year-old takes English class, meaning that they should realize that the language that most Americans speak is English.
” ‘scuse me sir, but I think your cruzin for a bruisin!” Personally I have no objections to what you say but I must inform you that, just like every other nation, the United States of America has its own cultures of people. Not all of these cultures are educated to an extent and with the dawn of the internet and media, people can believe whatever they want to. France, england, mexico, and many other countries have the same problems with ignorant people, and all of those you names were simply stereotypes held by those in ignorance to the rest of the world. The U.S has always spearheaded forward in technology and industry, remember that in those 300 short years, the U.S overtook Britain, the supposed “Super Empire” of the day, and that overtake didn’t take long, I believe that it was shortly before the civil war.
Keep quiet you. You sound ignorant just making a comment like that.
I didn´t know they had Culture…
Oh wow, you’re speaking like all Americans(That’s with a capital A) are ignorant to other countries culture. Stop stereotyping all Americans because one or two stupid people did something wrong. Also, its like your country doesn’t have its pros and cons? Its the best country ever? i doubt it.
What we have learned from dbrownl
English was made from scratch and owes some one propitiatory rights.
Canada is not on an american continent.
Everyone on north, south and central america is stupid.
Please actually visit a place or at least not get all your info from 10 year old entertainment television just streamed to your tv such as jerry springer
I don’t care.
Some of the people I love the most in the world are American. Some aren’t.
I hate all corrupted governments…which is kind of repetitive isn’t it? All governments are corrupted, universally, in different ways in varying degrees.
Now stop hating each other. Most likely the person you’re arguing with is not the one who created the nuke, and you’re not the reason that your country is sooo great.
The only people I don’t like are the ignorant ones who spread hate…
“Canada is not your hat,” is a hilarious line. It, like the entire list above, gave me a good chuckle.
I doubt people differ that much solely based on nationality. I’m American and married a Brit. One of my friend’s married a Canadian and another a Swede. Obviously, I think my husband’s brilliant and the Canadian is one of the nicest guys I’ve ever met. The anti-semitism and racism of the Swede frankly shocked me. Yet, I’ve visited Sweden (I was there for Nobel week) and everyone I met was extremely charming. Every country has its mix of good and bad citizens.
I think SOME (read that again, it says SOME not ALL) people hate America 'cause they're jealous. I'm not trying to be a jerk, but it's true.
NO ONE (read that again, it says NO ONE) is jealous of america. No one admires or covets ignorance and arrogance wrapped in fat. I'm not trying to be a jerk, but it's true.
Airbag has personally queried EVERY person in the world, and determined that NO ONE is jealous of America.
Seriously, Airbag, your claim is born of your own biases rather than any actual knowledge.
The one and only downfall to living in america, the most powerful country is having haters lol. They’re so unhappy in their own countries they have to hate on us. Don’t worry you can always come to the good ol US of A and we will forgive you. I’ll even give you a job mowing my lawn.
I’m not unhappy in my own country. I love it! Yet I still find Americans arrogant, stupid people who think the world revolves around them and that everyone wants to be American and that America is saving the world by bringing here American **** everywhere. Mind you, I’m not saying all Americans are like this, but a good percentage of you aren’t making America look to nice.
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India is…but hey most dont try because its not possible
Well I'm an American, and I lived and worked in Europe for 4 years. Europeans hate America because they don't understand us. We say, we live in the Land of opportunity, and that's true. But from a European's perspective they think we are being arrogant–that's not true.
Its a whole other world out there. They do not have our same freedoms.
Excuse me? NOT YOUR SAME FREEDOMS? Which world are you living in?
Possibly the most retarded statement on here, we dont enjoy the same freedoms? We have exactly the same freedoms as you, you complete ***** tard. Considering the amount of countries in europe it might be an idea to stop generalising so much on peoples opinions from an entire continent, theres a ***** of a lot of countries in europe all with seperate views..
i dont get how you can imagine that anyone would ever be jealous of america… jealous of what ? funny joke tho
Jesus Christ, why the ***** are you idiots allowed to live? I *****ing hope you die and everyone related to you…."cause they're jealous"…god, you sound like a 7th grader…dumb ass politically and intellectually illiterate idiot – not uncommon for any American.
Why do you hate us so much? Seriously we try to help and ***** happens. I’m sure your country helps out too but everyone labels Americans as stupid and fat. But every country has their own fat stupid people. (on a side not in parts of Africa the fatter a woman is the more beautiful she is considered and the larger her dowery will be.) Not all Americans are stupid we have just as many geniuses as any other country. And not everyone talks like George Bush, who in all honestly was in a position none of us would ever want to be in. Imagine 5000 of your countrymen were just murdered now you either have to do nothing and be labeled unpatriotic and let 5000 people die for nothing or declare war and be labeled a warmonger.
yeh, your country tries to help out… IN THE ***** STORMS YOU COUNTRY CREATES…. and its the people who come on here who are americans who are just arrogant piees of ***** acting like their country is the best and unstoppable and thinking the entire world revolves around them… it takes a non american to actually relize government sets up events like the 9/11 bombings… dont hating me saying it was the muslems and ***** because islam is one of the most peaceful religions… fanatics of every religion will go to such an extent.. how about you read the koran though and youll understand ?… the point of your government setting up such things is to get every arrogant piece of ***** out there waving american flags and hating on other places so your country is free to invade anyone they want… so anyway, basically we all hate your country because of your government and we hate the people because you keep voting war mongering mother *****ing *****s in… and we have the people who r the same as your presidents.. war mongering arrogant flag waving pieces of *****…
What a pathetic, hating, genocidal idiot you are. You are the perfect rebuttal to those who claim Americans are uniquely idiotic, or intolerant, or hateful. Everything that people claim to hate about America turns up in their own speech or their own culture.
"You are without excuse, you who judge, because in whatever way you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge pratice the same things."
-Romans 2:1
Better_than_you ,
Your own words hang you, you idiotic *****.
Please don't hate all of us. Not all Americans are ignorant arrogant morons… I'm so sick of people like this giving the impression all of us are as dumb as them.
You just put the name Jesus Christ next 3 swear words… were the politcially incorrect ones ya. Your rant sounds like a 7th graders comeback and the title “Better_than_you” really isnt helping your cause. You politically and intellectually illerate idiot- not uncommon for a non- American
*illiterate, sorry *blushes*
For you information… ALL THE WORLD HATES U.S.A.
Actually, not everyone hates the U.S.A. Personally, I don't. But that doesn't mean there aren't several things about it I don't like. But hey, I don't like everything about my own country (Holland) either.
I guess what bugs me about the US is that a lot of US citizens seem to think that the US is the best country in the world and that is why the US always tries to 'help' other countries, even though what's best for the US may not be best for whatever country you're trying to help, even though your intentions are good.
Oh, and I'm definitely not jealous of the US. We've got just as much freedom in Holland, so don't worry about us. ^^
Having lived in both Holland and the US, I can catagorically state that there is more freedom in Holland. Americans are some of the most brainwashed people I've ever met. People in Europe just take it for granted that they're free without even thinking about it, while in the US the media bombards you with it on a daily basis. They're no more free than any other Western country.
You’d have to be a complete idiot to listen to our media. No one really watches our TMZ and fox news, except for maybe outside folk who use that has a border for making biases.
-14 year old kid.
Fox news isn’t biased. It’s other news stations that are take NBC for instance who is owned by GE. GE lost so much business in the middle east after the war started so they never have said anything positive about the war only negative. Not saying fox is 100% true but it’s one of the better US stations. But as you stated you are 14 years old which proves your immaturity and inability to understand the who’s lying to you and who isn’t. Don’t pretend you know exactly what you’re talking about. You have a long way to go in life and a lot to learn.
Well said mate !
Jim, too, has personally polled EVERYBODY in the world. What a dope for making such a claim.
Destiny, of course they're jealous. Little bunch of ankle biters can't figure out how our *great* country came out of nowhere in only a couple hundred years to dominate the world. We save their asses again and again and they slap our faces in return. Don't sweat it, Destiny. We will always be the best ansd they will always be nipping at our heels.
im sorry, who won 1812 and burned down your whitehouse?
I’m sorry, but that was the British ^_~ I think it’s funny how Canadians use this “comeback” when this happened over 200 years ago, because they as a country have not done anything of real significance since then. Also, the whitehouse was slightly razed and still stood tall, and shortly afterwards, Americans invaded York (present day Toronto) and burned, looted and spit on your “military”… oh wait i’m mistaken, it was the brits again, because all the Canadians were, were the lackeys that shined the shoes and tended to the horses of the British… peasants. Canadians that believe their country to have such an impact, and believe it as a savior of some sort, are entirely laughable. I pity you’re blind love for a country that has done nothing more important than maybe export a medicine and two sports. Canuckistan is a joke.
If you could count (which you cannot) you would know that it was 199 years which is not over 200 years
actually in 1812 it wasn’t the White House, it was just the presidents house until 1901 when it was finally called the White House… just saying
You came out of nowhere? really? as I recall it you came from Europe.
Jealous of what? Inbreds like you?
I´ve been to the USA. Every nation has history and past.
But its all about people.
You live completely different life than we do here in Europe. I am not jelous, what you have there. I am happy here at home, in Europe.
I like to come to the US for a vacation. But thats all. And I dont hate US, why should I?
You are welcome for a vacation. We really don’t hate anyone. That’s just a prejudice
which country in Europe do you come from?
Ha, ha, ha… I can name a looong list explaining about what you´re saying, but there´s not use now.
To really understand why you think "people outside USA hates USA" you must reborn in any other country.
It´s so simple, you never understand it completely but it´s not envy or so.
I can only presume you were smoking crack when you wrote that..
should anyone be jealous of the fact that our country has the biggest carbon dioxide emmissions? I mean it used to show you are a 1st world country but now with all the envirolmentally friendly stuff it just means your country is oblivious to the fact that (leave other humans and countries) animals and the echosystems you need to survive suffer because of this. Junk tv is freedom of expression, but at least I'm not jealous of being free to show off how much idiocy I can sell, if I were you, I'd be happy to show off that part of your television that is actually worth watching. Most researchers in your country are foreign geniuses who happen to need your money for research and your facilities, but they are not americans, just like the guy who invented the TV was not american, he was mexican (feel free to check). So I dont hate you guys, I actually enjoy some of your stuff, but being ignorant, a bully and a show off for achievements which are not from americans but inmigrants of some sort is not something anyone should be proud of. the bottomline is "just because you can, doesn't mean you should" and the fact that you guys are responsible for the biggest economical failure world wide, because of your irresponsible use of a credit card, is a living proof of that.
the US are not the country with the biggest co2 emissions (China is) and it's spelt ecosystem, not "echosystem".
Also, the “the United states of america are” was changed to “the United States of America is” from my memory as soon as the constitution was signed and the federal government was formed, just a bit of history, we are one nation, not 50 divided nations under one banner. States give up their soverignty and a few rights (ie. state currency, state army and complete freedom to set laws etc..) to be a part of a larger nation.
Just a correction. It was the War Between the States, when the “are” was changed to “is.”
oh yeah. Fools with nuclear weapons and an army that think they own the world. You guys managed to get the best parts of the world all for yourselves and you also managed to screw it up. Jealous indeed, jerk.
im not jealous to cheeseburger americans.
Oh my goodness, do you pay attention to anything… you are sterotyping Americans again… no one sits on there butt all day eating cheeseburgers, McDonalds and icream… or drinking beer. You need to come to America before you can speak to us like that.
Well, let´s talk only about the first point: AMERICA is a CONTINENT, not a COUNTRY!!!! The United States of America are the "United States of America": a country and not the whole continent!!!! USA!!!
Please note that you and me are "american" (but I´m "south-american" and "brazilian" too; how about you?).
Still having problems guessing why so many people in other countries deslikes "America"?
By the way: I ldon´t like Brazil: many brazilian people are too much arrogant, emotional, hypocrite and uncivilized!
Patriotism is an open door for wars: we´re all human beings, we´re all equals.
Sorry about my trash grammar: I´m not habituated talking or writing in english (and the language is "english", not "american"!)
Number one, everyone else calls the USA “america” so we just go with it.
Number two, don’t bash your own country… that’s beyond low.
THat’s it. For brainwashed USA people it’s low. For the rest of the world, critizicing your country and opening your eyes to its deffects is being *****ytic.
Everybody else dislikes this kind of blind faith and love for your country, no matter what it does. The USA may be awesome in many ways, but other countries are also awesome, no country is “the best”. Think of the comparison between a succesful banker and a political activist. Both are interesting, educated people, they just have different values and make different choices. In an ideal world they would balance up and tolerate each other.
A-N-A-Lytic
Okay… tick tick tick…. BOOM!
I just wanna say that okay, some of these things make me frown but America has soooo much more to be proud of than they do to be ashamed of. I have shoes older than America but the country kicks ass man, look at all they've achieved! And the people are the proudest in the world and for that I think you all rock. You are the good guys, you do get bad press but so what? I'd have a cold one with any of you at anytime! World would be a very boring place without ya'll!
From an Irish girl who''s never stepped foot in the Land of the Free!
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from an american to a cool irish chick, no you rock hunny! But thanks. Yeah our leaders are kinda douchebags sometimes, but hell, whose countries leaders aren't?
Finlands leaders aren't
and Sweden
But Australia’s are!
Are you serious? Your leaders effectively gave your country away with their lax asylum policy, allowing hoards of Middle Easterners to flock to your welfare state for a free ride. Many of these “asylum seekers” vacation in their home countries from what I hear. Add in the facts that they allow non-nationals suffrage rights and that they have more kids than you do. I wager that by 2050 it’ll be a Muslim state and be renamed to Swedenistan. Malmo is now a cesspit, and the rest of the country will soon fall with it. Judging from your other comments I’m going to go ahead and say that you’re either a radical leftist, or a Muslim asylum seeker in Sweden.
Donna,
Come on over, babe! I'll have that beer with you. We love Ireland, you guys rock too and we're always happy to welcome another beautiful Irish lass to our shores!
I would hoist a pint Guinness with you anytime Donna:) And just for the record, Britain can have Springer back lol.
"From an Irish girl who''s never stepped foot in the Land of the Free!" IT IS NOTICEABLE THAT YOU NEVER BEEN THERE! IT'S IRONIC!
THATS WHY YOU DONT KNOW THE REAL *****
And just when I was starting to feel hated on…. I don't feel so bad now though! …Just…alert me if anyone attempts to blow up our country. Some of these comments scare me a little.
If i am ever in Ireland i'd be happy to have a drink with you, plus it would give me a chance to see a different culture ^…….^
Your awesome. I love people like you. Though you may have never been here, you don’t scream out and bash this country for whats on the TV like most of the commenters here do. From an American that loves foreigners and his own country.
its not our fault that ur country cant manage to put good publicity out there for the rest of the world to see. we only know what we see. and its nogood telling us all to hike it up there and go to america to see what it looks like coz its too bloody expensive anyway.
Donna, thank you for giving me another reason to be proud of the people who populate the nation of half of my ancestry. Come on over. I’ll personally pay for several “cold ones”.
There's no excuses to hate america there's only facts and if you have doubts to the research.
Funny how the illegals coming into the us don't mind taking a hand-out to start up a business, or go to college, or eat, live, etc… There is a long list of benefits that the US gives to immigrants, makes me sick!!!!
maybe but you need the inmigrants the three times i have been there nearly all of the public services and people working there were inmigrants and they have something most U.S nationals ( I prefer this term cause americans are all the people born in america not just you) lack wich is the will to work hard, they lack a lot of services you have just for being born there but they work twice as hard and just imagine who will do all of that work if they don´t do it you will? i don´t see many U.S nationals doing the works they do
What he means is, he hates “illegal immigrants”. Not the cool ones that come here to be citizens and leaders like my dad, just the ones who live for practically free.
You mean people whose countries’ resources were completely depleted by American economic policy and then, because of the resulting poverty, decided to leave their families and their country to live as second class individuals?
You just confirmed everything I believed about American people.
Um… no, we don’t need the immigrants, the immigrants work for less money then the Americans to be able to stay in the country, so less Americans are employed. If there were not immigrants we’d be fine… the immigrant jobs would go to the citizens
Than, not then, honey. Learn your own language.
I’m an immigrant by the way.
Also, you could practise some reading comprehension, as you said “No”, but then went away and confirmed everything I said about your country.
I’m sorry, but what was your ethnicity again? Unless you can honestly state that you are a “Native American” (A generalized term used to umbrella a large number of unique peoples with varied cultures, tribes, languages, etc., the term itself I do not agree with), you have no room to complain about immigration into this country. With the very small number of “Native Americans” as the exception, every individual in this country, who is proud to have been born in and continue to live here, needs to be grateful for immigration as without it, you would not be here and thus lose what seems to be your main point of pride. I myself am proud to be the son of not only a full-blooded Cherokee, but also a third generation Irish American. The last time I checked, the plaque on the Statue of Liberty (or to use its proper name “Liberty Enlightening the World) did not read “NO VACANCIES”. Yes people do hate this country, as people can hate any nation, but to be fair, we as a nation do provide a lot of the cannon fodder used against us.
And Mena, just to clarify, the above comment was directed at Katie, not you. I personally welcome the idea of immigration into this country. Particularly if it causes the close-minded folks who live here to experience a culture they know nothing of, which I hope engenders education in the ways of people they can learn a great deal from.
The US didn't invent the internet.. that's why we in Europe don't like the US.. being arrogant isn't a good thing. In the name of 'peace' invading a country isn't a good thing too..
So we should just sit back and try and talk it out with these Muslim extremists while they bomb our *****? Sound plan you got there. Is that how your country became so awesome? Taking it up the ass because a couple of goons who don't understand that ***** just isn't handed to you didn't like the idea of taking peace for themselves? If you were getting your ass beat everyday at school, work, home, whatever, are you just gonna let it happen or be a man and stand up for yourself and make the *****er stop?
Im with you Ебем ти матер пичко
The US did invent the Internet. It started out as a connection between different databases to help secure information in the event of an attack that would result in the loss of communication with other posts. Ohh that’s right the Internet is just a bunch of connected databases. And the US didn’t keep the ideas or technology very long becuase we shared it with our allies, like Britian (though from this website you would think we are sworn enemies)
You should really learn to read your homework. The internet we use today is founded by Microsoft, yes. But the internet as a whole was invented by CERN. Noone had thought about connecting computers before they actually did it.
You are confusing the WWW with the internet. The internet was invented by the Americans. The World Wide Web, which is only a part of the internet, was invented by CERN.
You are so stupid!!! We are invaded by terrorists in the us every day!! Are we supposed to bend over and take it?
The UK is also attacked by terrorist often too. Just some Brits are so full of ***** they deny everything so don't pay attention to them. There are after all a lot of mentally ill people around the world and my experiences tell me that most anti-Americans do suffer from mental illnesses and have far lower intelligence.
@Nighthawk: ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have seen a number of stupid posts in this list…but this one takes the first place by a looooooooooooooooooooong way. So those who hate the US "suffer from mental illnesses and have far lower intelligence"??? Last time i checked, i saw that US was a country…not a miracle drug that prevents mental illness and increases our intelligence. According to your "experiences"??? You know buddy…reading your comments on this list has proved one thing to me…your so called "experience" is not even wide enough so that i can write the 10 letters it requires to complete the word.
So Nighthawk…tell me…are you some part of the PR office of the White House??? will you use your "vast experience" and tell me the total number of terrorist attacks carried out by foreign nations inside the United States??? Let me tell you..a grand total of ONE. Even Britain has experienced more terrorist attacks that your country did. Do you know the number of terrorist attacks carried out in Palestine, Indonesia, India??? The number of terror attacks that they experience in a year is more than the total number of terrorist attacks carried out in US since its formation.
It is necessary to invade other countries to keep the "peace"??? Peace for whom?? Peace for the stockholders of US military hardware companies??? Peace for the stockholders of US oil companies??? Because there is no peace for Iraqis..or even Afghans…maybe you should go there and help them understand that the deaths of their children, wives, husbands, fathers and mothers is very very very important to maintain peace. 10 years in Afghanistan and 7 years in Iraq and there is still no peace…so what peace are you taking about???
Mentaly ill,eh?A study researched by the world showed that 25% of India is as smart as the whole U.S.A.Man,India!You got *****ed slaped by India?HAHAHHAHAHHAH
Yeah. TIm Berners Lee, the MIT engineer largely credited for inventing the Internet, was British.
Tim Berners Lee invented the protocol for the WWW (World Wide Web), not the internet. The internet has been around a lot longer than the WWW which included other protocols for accessing information.
Fatasses, hey dumb dumb. Tim Berners Lee invented the WWW, not the internet. The US Dept of Defense invented the internet. the WWW is part of the internet, just like email. Get your information striaght.
Spell straight correctly
@DaVega, too bad you made a total fool of yourself. The US did invent the internet. What you are think of is the World Wide Web, which was invented by Brit Tim Berners Lee. Talk about being ignorant. Oh and yeah sometime it is necessary to go into other countries or even exterminate people to establish peace. Not everything is rainbows and unicorns my friend. But, then again Europe created 2 World Wars, in which both the US had to come in to save Europe's ass so I guess you guys don't have a clue to anything really.
what the hell? I don't remember ammies saving my ass in WW1!
And the thing about winning cold war? where did this come from? And winning space race? what about sputnik? Laika? And Gagarin? Those were ammies? lol
Hey Jackass, stop with the whole "we saved your ass in 2 world wars" *****. You saved NO ONE. You entered the war BECAUSE JAPAN ATTACKED YOU. And to my knowledge, there was no american help in WWI so get your facts straight. It was Russia who held the nazis at bay, it was Russia who won the war for Europe, not you. The fact that you people think that you saved anything but your scrawny asses amazes me to this day. THERE WERE MORE CANADIANS AND BRITS IN NORMANDY THEN AMERICANS. So suck it and gfy.
japan was world war 2, not WW1. The Nazi regime did not come into power (or existence) until 21 years AFTER world war 1. THAT is when hitler came to rise and start world war 2. Please read up a little more or listen more in your history class, your grammar indicates to me you are probably middle/high school (being generous). WW1 and WW2 are separated by over 21 years! There was ALOT of american involvement in world war 1 just read wikipedia if your that lazy!! Also you speak of Russia like they stuck with one side, but in WW2 Stalin flip flopped so many times that he basically sold his people out and eventually allowed hitler to occupy their own country for "breathing room" as hitler put it. It seems like you need to get your facts straight more than anyone else. I listened in school and had enough critical thinking to research things for myself. Now please debunk what i just said, so i can debunk you again! i enjoy foolish children like you who spout what their parents tell them when they are drunk and accept it as written in stone.
europe was hardly reponsble, america knew just as much about what hitler was doing in germany as the british but we were the ones that bothered to do something about it
we did invent the internet, England invented the actual web/web-browser/http-connection though.
In 1969 ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) goes online in December, connecting four major U.S. universities. Designed for research, education, and government organizations, it provides a communications network linking the country in the event that a military attack destroys conventional communications systems. In1972 Electronic mail is introduced by Ray Tomlinson, a Cambridge, Mass., computer scientist. He uses the @ to distinguish between the sender’s name and network name in the email address.
yeah you invented nuclear weapons and won the space race after taking german war criminals who were responsible for the deaths of thousands of people into american to create your rockets which were fired into my country, your country is all about the fast buck and wooo america f*ck yeah!!!! ignorant dumb people who create lists like this which incites more hatred at your pure arrogance even though your country is a bastard nation which created by us the europeans, you guys killed your own native peoples once you started breeding, yeah real nice, and to say sorry you give the few natives left land to build casinos on, typical americans, throw money at it, nothing but a country of bullies and die hard patriotic idiots for a bastard nation, you have nothing to be proud of at all, you only entered world war 2 because pearl harbour got bombed, you joined the last year after ACTUALLY brave men had been fighting tyranny for years unlike your present day presence in iraq which is all about oil, im going to write a list of reasons people hate americans and why they are right!!!!
First not all Germans were war criminals a large part of Hitlers army hated him including some of his highest ranking officers and generals. And if we didn’t bring Von Braun over here you would of done the same thing. (my grandfather worked with him at NASA and said he was an exceptional man and not an anti-semetic).
Next what do you have to be proud of? we have proved ourselves and in 300 years we have become a world power. Where is your country fighting injustice right now? Or do you think we should have let Saddam gas some more Kurds?
"Where is your country fighting injustice right now? "
- anything you are firghting for is profit and a hamburger on sale"
Even if you were right and we do have bad motives, that wouldn’t change the fact that we are fighting injustice. “anything you are firghting for is profit and a hamburger on sale” I’m pretty sure that soldiers don’t sign up to make a profit.
btw it’s spelled fighting.
any way you are awarded inventions that did not. and yes, few Germans were anti-Semitic; and.. "united states fight for injustice?" if you have killed as many people as the Nazis anti-Semitic, in the name of democracy and peace. Just for his arrogance and greed you kill people, of that you should be proud. therefore you disgust me.
actually i think you need to research more because we entered the war because of a catastrophe brought by one of Germany allies not because of any payment the payment you speak of is the loan we made to Britain so it could rebuild rather than just let you do it on your own. so after that you wouldn't think that you have some responsibility to help stop terrorist groups that harm people from all over the world and set up a stronger government to make sure people that do stuff like they dont come into power any more even if it may mean that oil is more available even if that the real objective of are government that still will probably happen
Yes you are right , I been all over the world and am well aware of the evils my country has commited. No one is innocent though. Ive noticed that most countries that have common traits with the US, it is the worst ones that prevail, i.e., materialisim, arrogance, apathy, isolationisim, xenophobia, so on. No one even comes close to Americas unity. Americans are by far the most dangerous people on earth. I know the real reason that you and others hate U.S. …..FEAR. And rightfully so. Americas unity is a scary force. It is easy to control and fickle. You did say that America comes from you Europeans and thats right, so your the bad parents then? Whose really to blame for a childs actions? America is made up of everyone in the world who wanted to get away from where they were. So really your hatred is really self-hatred? Well I used to care. I tried to be an ambassador to you all being humble and quiet, trying to learn about you and build a freindship. Nobody wants it froms us unless its money. Im not visiting other countries anymore and I will encourage other Americans to do the same. AND STAY THE ***** OUTTA AMERICA!
so ***** you then. who cares
American unity? more like American stupidity that others are afraid of.
We hate America because of dumb Inbreds like you
Dude. Just…take a deep breath. Take it in…and let it out. It's not everyones f-ing fault, remember that. Stop assuming everybody is one thing in this country. Does everyone act the same where you live? 'Cause right now I'm apparently an arrogant bully that entered WWII after Pearl Harbor, and when I came over to this country I almost annihalated the indians. And yeah, I can see the logic behind what you are saying, but the blind hate laced in with it makes me angry. Write something that not only other american haters will read and maybe I'll try it again.
IM WITH YOU
Good one, davross. Never mind that it was a group of (mostly) European scientists who wrote FDR a letter begging him to spend billions on the R&D that turned THEIR ideas into the weapon which THEY felt might be urgently needed to free Europe from the aggressor. In part, because they knew that other European scientists were busily at work developing said weapons for Hitler.
You wrote: " …to create your rockets which were fired into my country… " Yet you also write: " …us the Europeans…" Precisely what sort of exotic creature are you?
As for the "ACTUALLY brave men (who) had been fighting tyranny for years," the average Brit was no more for war than the average Yank until the Hun moved against British troops in the Lowlands and France. Where were you lot in Poland and Czechoslovakia? Exactly where we were, albeit without the false illusion of safety provided by an ocean–and without tens of millions of sons and daughters of the Fatherland within your borders.
Every country has good people and bad people. I'm american and I'm not some idiot who believes we're better then other countries. I actully want to live in Europe one day, because it's the land of my ancestors with a wonderful history. Though the main people you hear about ARE idoits who sadly get handed the mic or a seat of power and told to say or do whatever, then they end up getting America hated on. We aren't bad people, well most of us aren't anyways, please don't be so quick to judge. Yes, I agree that people who have made decisions for my country in the past were wrong, but that is not something I, or really most Americans, can fix. Most of us just try hard to get through the day. I'm sorry if you hate us, but if you are going to judge and hate then you are the idiot that you accuse all Americans of being. Trust me were all very frustrated over here. Though I love my country, I am certainly ashamed of many things past and present people have done, but I can't change that. It's the same in every country. I am just as human as you are. No better and certainly no worse.
ya just like the british enslaved almost all of india so they could have a more easily accessible "Tea Time" while allowing the british east india company to choke out competition through monopolies and exemptions that was truly admirable. Or how about the centuries of occupation and constant face *****ing of Ireland ? No country is truly innocent of ANYTHING and you are either delusional or ill-educated to think otherwise. Every country has blood on its hands, some more so than others. So step down from your soap box and start punching yourself in the face for crimes you did not even exist to commit, or were never even involved in and did not agree with.
**very mild, polite tone** Excuse me, but not ALL Americans are redneck jingoistic bastard hillbillies like you seem to believe. Some of us are smart enough to be highly displeased with what's been and is being done in the name of "the people", and are willing to do whatever we can to CHANGE it. Unfortunately, we're a minority, so the rest of the world DOES get that image of NASCAR-loving, flag-waving, idiotic *****heads who don't even know that we had hardly anything to do with WWII. PLEASE keep that in mind the next time you post inflammatory comments. Thank you.
A US Citizen who is NOT Ignorant.
You have great communiction skills, and your opinions are well formed, however; you need to understand one thing. Just because you are a very confident(arrogantly so) American, and you passed you classes, does not mean that you are correct. Sadly, you are just another puppet of smarter people with an agenda to change this country fundimentally. One day when you grow up and start thinking for yourself, hopefuly you will make an accurate fact check, review your endoctrination, and see that you are at this time totally ignorant to the true state of the world and history. I pity you in a way, because you are so sure of yourself(nobody wants to be so clueless) that you are getting angryer and more enraged that you wont even entertain the idea that you are wrong.
People like you are the reason that with evey passing generation in this world, the quality of like for people will decline. I dont just mean America, listen to and really look for any substance from any of the hate this country sheep from around the world. Just like you the only info they have is not info at all just parroting what they heard on some nonsensical entertainment program, or likely a misleading and agenda driven professor. The rest of the “argument” is adolecent, I hate everything, nonsense.
@ blitz17 ok so you have terrosit group in afghanistan and you invade iraq? yeah…………. war on terror, not war on a country which nothin, who did iraq invade? they were only guilty of killing there own people, if that is why american invade why arent they in somalia? or any of the other countries practising genocide? you have a gung ho culture which is brainwashed by your very calculating media, id say the majority of americans are clapping seals which go along with whatever company has the most money to spend on advertsing, you can win a u.s presidential election if you have 400 million dollars, anybody could do it, all about money.
And you're a band wagon ***** jumping on with all the other kids who think its cool to "hate" America, despite us saving most of the worlds ass in both world wars. Why hasn't your country done anything in Somalia? Or Darfur? Or any of the other countries practicing genocide? Don't speak about ***** your own country isn't willing to do. And if you are doing something, why should we be there to hold your hand? Can't do ***** on your own? Need even more help from us in America?
why do you think that you should intervene in Somalia, Darfur, or any of the other countries practicing genocide? the world has the UN for that. what gives you the right to intervene in other countries' business?
The UN is a joke for future reference dont use it
lol
gaius: you are wrong – the Internet was "invented" so to speak by Americans. You are confusing the Internet with the World Wide Web which WAS invented at CERN by an Englishman Tim Berners-Lee.
The fathers of the Internet are: Vinton Cerf, and Lawrence Roberts – both from Connecticut, Leonard Kleinrock (from New York), and Robert Kahn (also from the US).
Cerf, Kleinrock and Kahn being U.S. names, of course… the arrogance overwhelms me sometimes.
Please, elaborate. I'd very much like to know what constitutes a "U.S. name" given that it is a nation of European immigrants.
nice
I still say the *****ty beer is the reason most people hate americans.
Our big three (Coors, Miller, Budweiser) are generally pretty "meh," but there are a ton of great microbreweries and smaller operations all over the country that produce very fine beers to suit anyone's tastes.
To generalize an entire country is pretty ignorant. This list was a bad idea because it stereotypes people who stereotype Americans. To say that all Americans are stupid, arrogant, self-centered, wasteful, hypocritical mouth-breathers would be like saying all Germans are war-mongers, or all Italians are in the mob, or all Canadians wear flannel and eat ham, or all Russians are dirty and drunk, or whatever else about whoever else. There are *****ty people in America the same as there are *****ty people in any country. But there are also a lot of really great people here who don't fit any of the criteria that people claim is fundamentally "American." If you look for the best in people and have a positive attitude, you will surely find great things. Call it naive, but in my travels all over the US and abroad, I've found nothing but kind people who go out of their way to help a stranger.
Can't we just try to get along?
Can't we just try to get along? tell that to the nation that invade other's
Seriously. If any other country had the arms, and political clout they'd be just as likely to be World Police as any other.
As a country we fought for what was ours, and we kept fighting, and we kept fighting. Every single citizen of this country is here for a better life, or a descendant of someone who wanted the same.
You are controlled by media as much as we are. You say we are the worst, but you don't seem to remember that Bush's approval rating tanked when we left Afghanistan to move into Iraq.
We, as a nation, should have a bigger voice but we do tend to be a bit lazy. We do want change, and we have the hardest damn time admitting we make mistakes.
But we are a fat, slovenly, stupid, arrogant, unread people. Apparently.
And, if I remember correctly… we were all… well… you at one point.
American beer is like making love in a canoe… *****ing close to water.
I don't know about that. American beer is pretty popular around the world so I guess you're suggesting that people around the world have bad taste then, right?
american beer IS preatty popular around the world… as the best thing to water your flowers.
OHHHHH ZING!
american beer is absolute *****e! its watered down and weak…if you want proper alcohol go tp Germany, france or the UK
Americans really are not that bad, its just the stereotype thats seen bad, but what race isn't seen as bad from a stereotype?
really. These are your heroes? watch this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeWkdoG0Mkc&fe…
no they aren’t my heroes. You didn’t prove or disprove his comment at all. He said that most races are seen as bad from a stereotype. It had nothing to do with war crimes committed by soldiers in Iraq. Every country has committed war crimes or abused their authority in some way, the US is no different.
I think the real reason people hate Americans is because we genuinely do not give a ***** that you hate us.
Seriously.
I smile every time someone bashes America, which just infuriates them more. It isn't because they don't make valid points. This list proves that there are valid reasons to hate the country.
It's because YOU care so much. It just comes off as an inferiority complex. Are you actually inferior? Not necessarily. But damn, you sure act like it, and until you stop, we'll always be able to dangle that "best country in the world" claim over your heads.
I live in California and foreigners come all the time stating stereotypes. Of course, most don't but it's those few who do that ***** me off, those ones who don't understand that Californians don't say "Cali," aren't stoners, and most don't live on the coast and surf all day like they believe. Also that since San Fransisco is in California, they expect to see flamboyantly gay men wherever they go, except what they don't realize is that California is mostly a conservative state, especially in the valley, and usually it becomes a blue state by two or three percent. Blame the stereotype, not the people.
Just out of curiosity, by valley, do you mean San Fernando? Because, of course, this is the Valley, most people in the rest of the Country think about, when valley is mentioned in relation to California.
>I think the real reason people hate Americans is because we genuinely do not give a ***** that you hate us.
Logicfail. Please have your tubes tied stat.
> Logicfail. Please have your tubes tied stat.
Corey isn't necessarily a girl's name. Makes just as much sense to suggest this person get a vasectomy. Just saying.
Lol you have hit the nail on the head, I couldn't have said it better, and nobody wants to hear it,
there are literally thousands of posts on here and all over the Internet (from Europeans mostly) complaining about America and the very arrogant Americans who do nothing but brag and keep down the rest of the world, and yet almost none from Americans bragging and putting down Europeans. Look it up on google and YouTube there is no comparison. Hell the few Americans who respond on here do so apologetically, and in a non confrontational "were better than you" manner. And the sad thing is that most Americans are are really kind and generous people who would gladly give any of the people on here who hate them the shirt off their backs if they needed it
Huh711…Do you realize that there are nearly 3000 comments in this list? Check just above the comments start and you will find numbers which when clicked on will take you to another page full of comments. Or do you already know it and you are loyally following the blueprint of your government by selecting just those comments which will benefit you the most?
Check out each and every comment and you will find at least one for every 10 comments in which Americans do brag and put down the Europeans….and there is nothing "apologetic" abt it. It is just that they have been rightly ridiculed and sent packing off this post only for a fresh batch of chest thumpers like you coming on to spew how kind how saintly America really is (of course there are an equal number who admit that America is not as great as it projects itself to be)
Have you considered that that's the problem? You should care. The people who can't find fault with their country is a nationalist douchebag that needs to be taken down a peg. True, not all Americans are jerks but people like you are. As for 'best country in the world'? Seriously. If anyone in the world thinks that, they need a serious reality check. There isn't a single country in the world who can exist completely isolated from the world and still be a world power. Every country depends on others. Its just that America here thinks that it is a notch above everyone else.
@Lux
Exactly where did Corey say that America has no faults? America has many faults, it's just that we don't proclaim them as loudly as people like you do. Also, WHY exactly should we care about what some America-bashers think or say? Should we grovel and apologize about every single mistake we make? Should we linger on our every fault endlessly? 'Cause that sure sounds like what you're suggesting. Get real.
lol Canadians are hated in america, australians are seen as surfy dumbarse and porteguese are apprently sketcky
And I guess "sketcky" means "not knowing what sketcky" means, because I´m PORTUGUESE and I didnt understand a single word of your gibberish.
o WOW. no we don't, i love all those countries. I'm not racist unlike some people, funkhouse.
Those aren’t even words here in the united states atleast…
yeah i agree bltz but why did you join the war?
cos millions of jew were being slaughtered? russians? polish? french? any of those?
becuase a country invaded another country and it wasnt right?
any other reason that wasnt selfish?
NOPE
you joined becuase japan premptively attacked you in a move which threatned YOUR trading shipping lanes.
I'm not here to start an argument, but you ***** about the US not getting into the war for all of those reasons, but in the same breath you will ***** about us policing the world and invading Korea, Somalia, Iraq, Vietnam. There were atrocities being committed in every one of those places that we tried to put an end to. We tried the isolationism approach, and the rest of you *****ed and moaned about it, so we tried the World Police approach and you ***** and moan about that, too.
The moral of the story is that people ***** entirely too much about what Americans do, and in return Americans ***** entirely too much back. People everywhere ***** too much. Stop worrying about what somebody in another country is doing all the time, and live a satisfying and fulfilling life that pleases you.
Forgive me but as far as my "limited" English goes, i understood that he or she is not "*****ing" about US not entering the WWII sooner, but entering the war just before its end and then claiming all the credit for the victory. Also he, or she, is "*****ing" about that fact that almost all US citizens believe that they entered the war in order to "save the asses" of countries such as UK and France from Nazis (the small matter of Germany and Japan looking to dominate the whole world including US did not matter. It was a great philanthropic gesture by the US in entering the war).
Was just reading another list here about censorship and propaganda by governments and your comment is a perfect example of the type of propaganda being spread by the US government. There were no "atrocities" being committed in Korea and Vietnam to warrant a foreign intervention. US entered Vietnam because the country was on the verge of embracing communism while had North Korea managed to capture South Korea, US would have lost the entire mainland east Asia to communism. And the atrocities being committed in Iraq seven years after the US invasion makes the atrocities being committed by Saddam seem as a gentle pat on the back for the Iraqis.
no one gets mad at switzerland staying neutral!!! we were trying to be peaceful because it was none of our business, your mad at us because we meddle with other countries business, and your mad because we tried to stay out of it, make up your minds people! also pearl harbor made things personal, it was because they attacked us, and might i remind you we dropped that bomb on hiroshima, thus officially taking down Japan!!!!!!!!!!!!
He didn't join the war and neither did you so shut up and stop fighting over something you two both DID NOT DO!
Davross,
Check your history. The US became involved in WWII before the attack on Pearl Harbor by supplying England with material through the Lend-Lease program. The attack on Pearl Harbor (with a quick declaration of war AGAINST the US by Germany) only brought about the involvement of US troops. Furthermore, thousands of Americans (during both World Wars) went to Canada to enlist, prior to the US entering, because it was the right thing to do!
You uneducated *****-wit. The U.S. did not supply England with anything. They supplied Great Britain! I’ll bet you’re one of those dumb Yanks who talk of the ‘Queen of England’ when there hasn’t been on for over 300 years. take a history lesson numbnuts.
Scotland!!!!!!
We Americans, If i recall correctly Germany had already started to lose the war by the time Pearl Harbour happened. They may have spread up the process but they are in no way the nation that saved Europe from Nazism. I believ that was good ole communist Russia
Actually Jeremy, you need to go into more specific details. It was Russia, but Russia wouldn't have been able to help if it wasn't for Hitler dropping out of school before he took the class about Napoleon losing the war to Russia in the middle of winter. History can be an ass that way
And the Russians beat [Hitler] with the EXACT same strategy. That’s what always makes me laugh, where Hitler is concerned. I mean, the idiot didn’t see THAT coming. LOL
I'm a native american and I can't stand a lot of americans. Well the stupid ones who hold grudges against any other country or race for sh*t that happened a long ass time ago. I hate racist people. I've had to deal with rascist people all my life. There are dumb americans and they're are the not so dumb ones but I think as a whole, Americans are so full of themselves. I'm Yakama Indian. I live in Wapato, WA and this is my opinion…
I'm a native American too, having been born in South Texas, as were my parents. Their parents were from West Virginia and Mississippi. Approximately 15 generations previously, my ancestors came from Europe, primarily England, Scotland and Ireland. Since we know that North America isn't the cradle of mankind, how many generations are there between you and your forebears' immigration from Asia via the Bering land bridge? Is there a certain number of generations one must exist in a place before one can claim "native" status?
i never heard of native Americans ever partaking in some sort of horrific even that makes no sense who ever they are and that stuiped to hold grunges on diffrent groups
I, too, am part native (Cherokee). You should know well that many natives (Cherokee and otherwise) are still upset about the "white man's" treatment. That ***** happened a long ass time ago. Keeping each other apart is only going to worsen the enmity in the long run. There are better things we can be doing right now.
"That *****" is still happening, so I can understand their position.
Seriously stop. You really like to troll don’t you? @Strabismus made a valid point about how to solve the situation he is a part of. Even if it is happening now it’s definitely on a much smaller scale. Honestly you are contributing more to the problem by insisting that the atrocities committed in the past still occur today. I’m pretty sure that their haven’t been many recorded events of mass murder and pillaging recently.
Amen Davross – Blitz 17 – you're an idiot. Your forces won the war IN THE PACIFIC – but AFTER the japs had already been stopped cold in New Guinea by Australian (and Kiwi) soldiers – and we were fighting far superior numbers with less resources.
However – as for Europe, y June 1944, Germany was already on the back foot – they'd been driven out of Africa (without American help) and Frence and Italy were already shaky thanks to the Resistance fighters in each country. Germany itself was already falling apart – thanks to bombing by the BRITISH – RAF:
America, as usual, came in late, threw a few bucks toward the cause and then claimed THEY had won the war – just like they did in 1918 when their soldiers arrived in France for the last few months of the war – again AFTER the tide had already turned!!!
YOU are a classic case of why most of the rest of the world can't stand you: that and the fact that you know ***** about countries outside your own borders" I have lost count of the number of friends, famiy and acquaintances who have been to the US and been asked "Where are you from?" When they answer "Australia" the reply is usually (about 90% of the time) "What State is that in?"
Americans are nice: at least all the ones I know are – as individuals they're great people – pity you can't repeat the attitude as a nation and a people!
"Americans are nice: at least all the ones I know are – as individuals they're great people – pity you can't repeat the attitude as a nation and a people!"
That is patently illogical…
Actually it isn't. On the National level the less personal Americans get the more unpleasant they become. Education Policy Makers are responsible for Americans, in general, not knowing the following examples: Australia is not in America, and the Americans did NOT win WW2 for everyone else. An individual American, if they have things carefully explained to them and appropriate evidence produced, will be disappointed but accepting (unless they're republicans. Unfortunately this is actually true of my experience, and not a generalization born of dislike).
That’s not true I’m American and I’ve always been taught that Australia was another country and that America did not win WWII (that would be the Allied Powers since those countries working together won the war) but joined the Allies and helped win the war. I was taught this is public school, so I’m not a special case, I am an Independent voter and could be considered a Republican at certain times. So yes, you did make a generalization and were incorrect.
I think you hit the nail on the head. The Americans I know are good people too. Its just that the bastard Americans on the internet, Government, and army are so *****ing annoying with their "***** yea America" attitude are so loud that they seem to make up a large portion of the USA population.
I have not met a single American who is that stupid.
nvm previous was @Shagrat
We must admit despite the arrogance, Americans are very smart! Just take a look: a new country who was populated by unwanted europeans, who in 300 years controled and dominated the world faster than any other superpower in history, who make up wars so their citizens can pay less for fuel, they brainwash the world with their culture… and guess what? we all love it!! I bet 7 out of 10 of your favourite movies or music is american, the clothes you wear, the styles, everything… America just put it out there… its not their fault that the whole world swollows their crap with no replies!!
technically the world does reply, its just that a lot of americans are too stupid too a: notice b: care or c: listen and care but have absolutely no *****ing way to change that
[citation needed]
Bah… I'm mostly European and I abhor the pusillanimity and adherence to complete falsehood that almost all anti-Americans exhibit.
Technically it wasn't populated by unwanted Europeans. It was populated by any and everyone. There were a few prison colonies but so what? The offenses were so simple and so justifiable for the most part that it doesn't really matter ("I stole bread to feed my family". Literally).
“Technically” it wasn’t populated by “everyone” since the whole world doesn’t live in the U.S. Also the Pilgrims inMassachusetts or the Quakers in Pennsylvania would be “unwanted Europeans” since at the time they were persecuted in England because they weren’t Catholic. They came to America seeking a place where they could be free to practice their own religion.
Actually fuel prices skyrocketed with the war so the citizens actually paid three times as much for a while. We are still paying more than twice what we were before 9/11.
So much disgusting generalization in here.
Anyone who thinks "All Americans are _____" or "All Europeans are _____" is a goddamn *****ing moron.
Oh, and the reason why "Portugal" and "Canada" aren't globally criticized is because THEY'RE NOT WORLD SUPERPOWERS. Why do you think the world doesn't hate Hawaii? Wisconsin? Massachusetts? Because it's the United States' face as a global superpower that's so easy and trendy to hate. The world doesn't hate New Yorkers or Californians, but it hates Americans. If the United States consisted of 50 different countries (and thus no powerful federal government to meddle in international affairs), the individual states wouldn't be any more hated than your typical European country.
Oh, and davross, you're *****ing annoying.
To sum up, people need to realize the difference between:
1. PART of a population and the ENTIRE population
-and-
2. A government and the civilian population.
These things are not one in the same. Learn to distinguish among them, and the world will be a far better place.
thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I second that, calm_incense. Too many netizens take trolling too far and too serious… :'(
WTF is a typical european country? Do u even know all the countries in europe? If u do then u should know there are aloot of different cultures..There's no such thing as a typical European country.
@calm_incense: Let me go the Rafa Benitez way and state some facts to you:
1) US is a democracy not a dictatorship. All of your government heads are voted by the populations of New York, California, Wisconsin, Massachusetts etc etc (not saying just abt Bush)
2) For a country where in time and again people are defending that the majority of the population was against the Iraq war and Bush, he was voted in a second time even though he was making noises about launching an invasion of North Korea and Iran
3) Surveys conducted by US research firms showed that majority of the population SUPPORTED Iraq war initially. It was only when the general population began to realize that the Iraqis and insurgents were not going to give up and the body count began rising that the voices speaking against the war started to gain momentum.
4) People do not criticize US because it is a so-called "superpower". People hate US because it is *****ing meddlesome. Portugal got its fair share of hate from its colonial populations but now it is more than happy to mind its own business rather than interfere into the affairs of other countries. Britain too got its share of hate and is continuing to be hated in places where it does interfere. The reason why US is hated/criticized globally because its interfere is global…Mexico, South America, Middle East, Russia, France, Germany, Italy, Indian Subcontinent, China, Taiwan, Japan…the only place where i dont think US interferes is around Australia so it is of no surprise that the country is one of your staunch supporters.
Yes we are a democracy, however that does not mean that every single person in America wanted Bush to be president. Also, because of the Electoral colleges, the majority of the nation is not always recognized. Bush had a lower percentage in the Polls but eventually became president. Was his opposition that much better anyways? I feel the war on Terror was justified as retaliation of the 9/11 attacks, which killed almost 3,000 people and threatened the security of our president and country, which happened to extend into Iraq. Although it is true what you say about the pop. opposing the war when the death tolls began to rise, it was also because we weren’t making much progress and didn’t want more people to die for a lost cause. People are people first and part of a country second, I feel it is a good thing to intervene in a countries affairs when they threaten other nations of people as well as the nation’s own citizens. To remain a downstander allows more people to be harmed and at least doing something about it is the first step towards solving a problem.
Davross, did you really just try to compare WWII and the Iraq War? As for the whole "Russia defeated Germany" argument, Did Russia help defeat Germany? Yes, but it was at the cost of over TEN MILLION of their soldiers and ELEVEN MILLION civilians, their whole tactic was to just keep sending soldiers to their deaths until the German Forces were out of ammuntion, not very smart European thinking if you ask me. Russia just played the numbers game, they had more, but they sure as hell lost a lot more than any other nation that was involved in WWII.
Like I said, not very smart thinking by you Europeans.
Ummm…. Sorry to disappoint you, but Russia isn't a part of Europe :/
Ummm…. yes i is actually. While the Eastern majority is in Asia, a good portion of the west is in Europe. Check a map of Europe, Google, or wikipedia if you don’t believe me.
Alsol, Russia didn't sell arms to the Germans. I wonder who did that? Let me think….
OMG,,,how can you be sofa king retarded and still alive,,,,I feel like im listening to a jr high debate in the hallway……most of the “facts” both sides of this cluster of morons are only what you are led to think by smarter people…..I pity all of you,,and tremble when I come to see that,,,,,YOU PEOPLE ACTUALLY THINK YOU KNOW THE FACTS” none are accurate…..your opinons are emotionally driven by low self esteem,,,,natural selection would have taken you out in the stone age….but now complete retards with no means to form an origonal idea just keep on breeding,,,,oh well,,,,,,cant fix stupid
Gotta say, I think this list is hilarious! Maybe that's coz I'm British and apparently people hate us coz we have bad teeth and drink nothing but tea and warm beer. (I am drinking tea right now though…. delicious English breakfast tea. Aaaah.)
Gotta say though…. Corey – 'It’s because YOU care so much. It just comes off as an inferiority complex.' No.
Whilst I don't want to sound like an ass here, this is entirely not the way it is. The reason people care SO much is because America is one of (if not the) most prominent global power and in the last 8 years or so America has f*cked sh*t up.
I care so much because I understand that America is a vast and powerful nation and thus want to see it run well. I also understand though that America is a relatively 'young' country and, well hey, we all makes mistakes when we're teenagers.
PS – Other commonly cited reasons for disliking America
- ***** poor beer.
- The Bush's. All of them.
- The fact that your politicians are celebrities and your celebrities politicians.
- Rednecks.
-Republicans.
I like this guy. But are beer isnt that bad. We have good ones like Samuel Adams. But i do agree Republicans or jack asses. And can you explain to me how our politicians or celebrity.
lordrosco 2 words: Arnold Schwarzenagger – former movie star and current governor of California. although i must agree that republicans are ass holes i should know – im the sole liberal in a school of retarded republicans
sorry but its u libs that are retarded.
Dude. Ronald Regan.
The mass produced beer is TERRIBLE. Absolutly DIRE. Disgusting. OMFG bad.
Like everyone, you have some nice local breweries. If you know where to go, or from whom to order. I don't go to any American bars that don't sell Captain Morgan – I just can't handle the beer. However, long live the Rum.
Mmmmmm tea…
Actually, that could be another reason us Brits finds America a bit aggrovating, they sell sh*t tea
tea? we have every tea in the world here
Sure you do. If someone knows how to find it. The tea in American supermarkets is pretty damn ***** – I should know, I'm British and living in America. Mail order tea is never as good. It also goes funny quicker because it's not as fresh. Sometimes (most of the time) Americans just DON'T have the best ***** (Just the most mass produced *****). You learn to live with it.
If America sucks so much then don’t live here. Seriously, if you actually live in America and you don’t like it… LEAVE! It’s not just America it applies to all countries. If you hate where you live, stop complaining about it and go somewhere else.
@sigh, it’s actually pretty hard to go to another country due to visas and whatnot.
what's your favorite tea? My favorite is earl grey.
Hmm but the British ran for a long time, and they got worse and worse…
I think its funny americans can brag about being "american" however the usa is almost completely made up of immigrants (apart from nativve americans) that have populated the country in the last 300 years.
I see nothing funny about it. What else would we call ourselves? I can't call myself German or English or Irish because I'm a mix of all three, plus Native American….And apparently it *****es foreigners off when someone claims to be Irish or whatever just because their grandparents or even their parents are from that country and immigrated to America.
You're statement makes no sense to me.
You can be Irish if your parents were Irish – as long as you've seen Ireland once in your life. What *****es people off is having never seen the country whom you claim affiliation with. I personally have no issues with people calling themselves "American". It *does* annoy me when people claim "I'm xyz" and have never even seen that country from an airplane as they flew over it.
You are confusing nationality with genealogy. When someone from the US or Canada says they are, say, Irish, they are speaking of their ancestry. They aren’t saying they are an Irish citizen, or that they have been there, or that they know anything about Ireland.
Nationality and citizenship can change. Ancestry (or genealogy) cannot.
Get it?
You should call urself the WORST of all 3? Coz the pure fact of the fookin yanks thing they are the best. Hope north Korea nukes you pricks
Agreed
Plus, don't people living in England and Germany have to come from somewhere? Scientists have proven that human life started in the middle east, so are we not all middle easterners if your statement is correct? I think what makes Americans, Americans, is that we all live here. We are all different races here but we all seem to speak English the same. Immigrants nowadays sound Mexican, or Cuban, or whatever, but in the years to come, these accents all blend.
Life didn't start in the middle east, it started in the sea. Humanity started in Africa. Most Europeans are related to Neanderthals (That was discovered this year). So they genuinely do have ancestors from the northern regions.
that’s why he said “human life started in the Middle East”. You’re statement only proved he was right.
Last time I checked, the Middle East isn’t in Europe.
People who call themselves Americans, have lived here there whole life or for generations. Immigrants dont usually refer to themselves as Americans.
the way I see it is you are the nationality of the country you were born in, unless granted citizenship in another country.
I think America is ready to become a place of hope again. I know that sounds idealistic and perhaps even a little soppy, but Obama is beloved by almost every non-American who doesn't hate America. That can only be a good thing. Bush on the other hand? We hated him. And Sarah *****ing Palin?? What were you people thinking? -shudder-
Actually, my hypothesis is that, McCain was trying to cash in on the fact that Hillary lost the Democratic Primary and was courting the female vote.
What scares me about Palin is, she’s now upheld as a hero of the Common People, and that she’s brainwashed the Tea Party Movement from its original Libertarian Ideology to her Populist way of thinking…
i agree with clarkee, they are the worlds biggest bullies, to quote a brilliant british comedian:
There’s this one celebrity, Rosie O’Donnell, a talk show host, and she said this: “I don’t know anything about Afghanistan, but I know it’s full of terrorists, speaking as a mother.” So what is this "speaking as a mother" then? Is that a euphemism for "talking out of my arse"? "Suspending rational thought for a moment"? As a rational human being, Al-Qaeda are a loose association of psychopathic zealots who could be rounded up with a sustained police investigation. But speaking as a parent, they’re all eight foot tall, they’ve got lasers under their moustaches, a huge eye in their foreheads and the only way to kill them is to NUKE every country that hasn’t sent us a Christmas card in the the last 20 years!! Speaking as a mother.
ha ha typical american attitude
speaking as a mother
Rosie was always speaking out her ass. *sigh*
168.
CatChick1964… its that very display of the fake notion that you have the right to absolute freedom of speech that makes the rest of the world 'hate' Americans, and that you want to meddle with the rest of the world's affairs without even knowing about it.
If America were a person, it probably wouldn't be too proud of you.
In America we DO have freedom of speech…that's why you hate us? Sounds a bit like jealousy to me.
You need to start reading the complete comment before passing on your opinion about what is being or not being said. archangel commented on the FAKE NOTION that there is freedom of speech in the US. By freedom of speech if you mean talking, then yes, everyone does so. But recent event have proven that you dont have much freedom about what you say. And i am not talking about your "freedom" of speech among friends. Even some North Koreans will be critical of their president among their friends…try to air your opinion on a public podium and see how much of a freedom your country really has
I wish this wasn’t the case. But for those of us who, rightfully, accused Bush of demagoguery…
Jeremy, once again, that was a ***** up on the leaders, if he saw ***** was going down with Germany and Poland and it never occurred to them that they may be next, then thats just plain stupidity, and it ended up costing them lives. At the same time, why is everyone acting like Russia was a saint during the war, they had in fact entered into a pact with Germany and was allied with the Nazis in the beginning. Somehow everyone seems to be ignoring that little fact, how curious.
Er… Blitz… Remember, Roosevelt signed a pact with Hitler too… As did Churchill… There’s photo evidence. So, let’s not open THAT can of worms… Shhh…. lol
those loans were donated from the federal reserve to place countries in debt, giving the federal reserve the power to call in the loans at any time, therefore creating a depression and allowing them to buy up chunks of the world economy.
There not excuses but i think more vaild reasons.
Destiny its arrogance and big headedness like that is just the reason why people dont like america. Full of idiots who believe themselves to be better than other people. Im not trying to be a jerk, but it’s true.
Jamie_Mac, you're not being a jerk, you're just an "idiot who believes him/herself better than other people" — at least, better than Americans whom you stereotype mindlessly.
Read Romans 2:1.
Hear, hear!
Read "go screw yourself" you religious fanatic douche.
What a joke, You're ignorant if you actually think its full of idiots. I think the only idiot here is you. You're entitled to your opinion but mine says you're a bigot that picks up what everyone else says and repeats it without recollection of what you said.
@4. Jamie_Mac
Agreed, I forgot to mention that, they are reasons, the argument of whether they’re valid or not will no doubt bog this page down to troll levels within hours though
I don’t hate America. I’ve liked most Americans I’ve ever met. But this list can be summed up with the real reason America may be despised: you’re so insufferably sanctimonious. This site is fast going to hell with crap like this.
Thank You! Somebody said it! America's patriotism is an insecurity not something to be proud of… the english are patriotic but we don't have to embed St George's cross in every film we've ever made and cry about it. It's like an attention seeking little girl trying to get her way all the time, in fact the world Spoiled comes to mind. America is a spoiled child.
Having said that, i haven't met a single american i don't like and i can assure you that their hospital system is brilliant.
Chris,the worst invective on this site comes from America-haters; yet you blame it on Americans! It's never your own sort who do wrong, is it? Europe was soaking in sanctimony long before America was even founded.
Witness your millenium-long love affair with war and massacre, as well as your centuries-long career of colonialism — yet so many Europeans blame AMERICA for the mess the world is in?
the only reason why american haters exist are because they've had enough of people being so big headed about the US being the best and the saviour just gloating about how amazing they're and how better they're than every countrie online, so can you see how these sorts of arguments start they're are just in defence of being trod on by US fanatics online saying they're better and save everyone. I know this is not the case with the US themselves but more people who sit behind a pc trying to enlarge their own ego's.
Wow, Peace_out, are you really that *****ing retarded?
That's what bloody well happens when the rest of you lot can't be bothered to dip your own oars into the water, isn't it, then?! Europe prospers, but Heaven forfend they should tell us 'Thanks for the treasure and the lives you've spent helping clean up our mess. We're ready to carry our share of the burden now, so's why don't you return home to a well-deserved R&R, lads.' No, it's much, much easier to let us keep the sealanes open and the Bear from your doors. Just as it's easier for the South Koreans and the Japanese to let us carry their weight.
We withdrew from the Phillippines in 1991, at their request. We withdrew from the Panama C***** Zone on 12/31/1999, pursuant to treaty modifications made at Panama's request. We anxiously await YOUR request.
You've a point, Chris, though ya'll need to pay closer attention to exactly WHO among us Yanks most commonly exhibits that sanctimony. To wit, our Progressives, professing their love for everything NOT American, and our Religious Right, presuming themselves the vanguard of the Second Coming. Each, the bas*ard child of Europe's persecuted sects, intermingling and morphing, two strains emerging after our Civil War. The one, Puritan, born in the prosperous North, finding itself in the Chappaqua Movement, finding universal truth in whatever faddish gibberish is current among its fashion forward. The other, a volatile mix of fundamentalism and evangelism, born in the vanquished South, reinventing itself in the tents of the Revivalist Movement, finding ITS universal truth in whatever half-baked 'theology' its loudest mouth-breather imagines in a syphilitic sweat or an epileptic fit. ____Think of Jimmy Carter, with his curious mix of Evangelical certainty and Progressive arrogance. Then, blame YOURSELVES for feeding the man's giant ego with the Noble Peace Prize at the very same time that those Americans who AREN'T captive to either ideology were vowing to vomit him out.
So…like…99% of the country, but not the whole country, right?
You have a large lexicon, however; your thoughts have no real substance. Only well used words and a great deal of unrelated thoughts that are mostly an attempt to appear intelligent to morons. By the way , euro-trash is the word we use for angry, coveting, dim witted wannabe, arrogant, waste of skin genetic waste like some on here.
Jamie_Mac
It’s judgmenta attitudes like YOURS that makes Americans hate foreigners. I’m not trying to be a jerk but it’s true. Think before you speak…… or write in this instance. Lol.
well put, if they don't like it then I would be more than happy to help them pack!!!!
….or type : ]
Wow, Americans hate foreigners? Isn't that a bit of a generalization?
…Why does Stu seem to think it's immigrants, not just people outside if the U.S…?
Man, I can already feel the ***** starting to hit the fan.
America didnt invent the net it was invented and concieved at C.E.R.N on the swiss border. got your facts wrong before you even started the list dude
That’s the WWW. Which is a part of the internet, which was already created by the US. Stop hating.
Biltz17
Like terrorists of the Muslim community a Tiny amount make the whole lot look bad.
DaVega, How would you rather the U.S. invade a country? In the name of Aryan Supremacy perhaps, the way that Nazi Germany took over part of Europe?
Woohoo!
I’m a Bolton Wanderers fan, i go watch them every week!
And yes, we do lose most games
Correct me if I’m wrong, but most people hate Americans, just the Gov, ect.
Good list none the less
Ehhh, no, its really the U.S we hate, not just your government. And stop calling yourselves "Americans", America is a CONTINENT not a country.
seriously kid, look up what a country and what a continent is. America is a country composed of states, and america is not an entire continent on its own. We share the same landmass (continent) as canada as well as mexico and south america (the artificial c***** in panama does not disconnect our continents as far as i am concerned). You really need to stop trying to engage in debates when all you can do is display your lack of the ability to debate intelligently.
Nooooo silly goose.
North America is a continent.
That’s about as dumb as saying the British shouldn’t call themselves such because Great Britain is the name of an island, not a country. “American” is a demonym derived from the name of our country (the United States of America), just like words like “Briton” and “British” come from the name of their country (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland).
I think it’s more a conflict of education. People in many parts of the world consider American to be the joint masses of South, Central and North America, and the country to be the United States of America.
In American (ha) school, they teach you that The continent’s names are North America and South America, not America.
People really should agree on this, I’ve seen so many get offended by this.
finally somone making some sense!
HAHAHA Yessss
it would be a good list if written by somebody objective, it was quite clealry written by an american with the type of attitude which everybody hates.
If you hate the united states I'll help you pack up and go home to the place that you think is great!!
jack: nice to see the good old diversity you have in your country. This is the one way, if you are a critic, get the hell out! Your way or die, good to know.
Exactly! I am not an American, nor do I live there, but this article clearly demonstrates the bone-headed arrogance of an American. The biggest reason why we hate you is because you believe your own lies and you perpetuate this ignorance as if it's the truth- and that's not even on this list. Republicans are the embodiment of this sentiment. The whole anti-intellectual celebration of stupidity wouldn't be a problem except that you are writing the narrative of the world, and it's a very dumb narrative indeed. It's suicidal as a matter of fact. The sooner your nation becomes irrelevant the better. Thankfully this is already happening.
Yeah, actually… the entire time I read this, I was looking at some of the things and going, "Er…that wasn't Amercian made…"
I don't know, just the way it was written…It's just kinda like the entire time the guy was writing it he was sneering at his keyboard or something… But I personally like Americans
Jack's totally a troll, amirite? X)
Americans are so self-centred, they think everyone hates them! (ha ha)
The thing I hate most about America; the fact that the default spell checker on most computers is American English means that I´m constantly having to inform my computer that it´s centre not center, organise not organize, labour not labor etc etc etc.
And even if I change the settings to English English, it reverts. How´s that for cultural imperialism.
Here´s a funny link for all the USA bashers – http://www.cracked.com/article_17310_i-blame-england-everything-defense-america.html
If you're a Septic, there's no you in humour.
Are you being serious?? The Us let's people in this country every day and gives them money to start a business, health insurance, free housing, free education, ha what a joke, I know we are so self centered!!
@cass, maybe all the stuff around the world is in American English and not British English because Americans invented the internet and the computer! If you people finally start doing something good for the world instead of trying to enslave and colonize it like your British Empire was doing then you too could have your own language on the products. But, at language schools kids around the world are learning American English, not British English. They can tell what is significant and what is not. And don't be such a self-centered Brit pal, as about half of your English language is after all from French, as much as you may not like to admit it!
First of all Nighthawk, it was a German who mostly recognised as the inventor of the modern day computer.
Second of all, with all the wars America has been involved in within the last half century, you have a cheek to talk about being do-gooders.
Third of all, as an ESL teacher [English as a Second Language] I can tell you that different countries learn a different type of English due to their geographical location. In Latin America due to its close proximity to the U.S, American English is more desired. In Europe, British English is more desired. In Asia it varies, but the most desirable would actually probably be for Australian English.
Lastly, at the end of the day the Standard English that all native English speakers regardless of nationality can understand has around 40% of its vocabulary in French origins. This means that almost "half of your English language is after all from French, as much as you may not like to admit it! "
WRONG!The Balkans learn British English and OUR teacher constantly reminds us to Speak BRITISH ENGLISH NOT AMERICAN ENGLISH
no *****. america is on the other side of the world. why would you learn american english? the person above said it depends on your location and england is a few countries to the west.
That's not cultural imperialism. That's just you not knowing how to use your computer or having sloppily gotten a virus. If you properly set your OS and applications to whatever English dialect you want, it will stay that way. That's a nice one — blaming America because you can't figure out how to use your own computer.
I can say as an Italian that hypocrisy is the 1st reason to hate america. US create the prolems that they pretend then to fix: look at how US have *****ed up things in Iran, as an example. Same wemnt for Saddam Hussein or for Talibans.
US feed terrorists, train them, give them weapons and THEN pretend to save the world from their menace.
US have their best friend in dictatorships but still pretend to act in the name of freedom.
President Bush even swore US were acting in the name of god. This is frankly too much.
(and, yes, thanks, you “saved Italy from the nazis”. to bad you did it using the connections Mafia had in your country, giving our nation to them ever since)
So should we have let you been attacked by Germany? As far as that whole "US helping the terrorists" thing, well, how the ***** would you know? Did you blindly accept what daddy told you? Or you're cool friend at school because he heard it on the TV?
The ***** we know about US helping terrorists was through the mouth of your own Secretary of State…or are you calling the person who knows more about your country's policies than you as a liar??
Hey man it is in the history books. I mean you do know that the US trained Osama and his buddies because they were fighting Russia. So the US did arm and train them, but i mean the US is not the only country that does ***** like that, people forget that.
Yes we did help train Bin Laden. But back then he was fighting the Commies and we had no idea he would become a terrorist and try to wage an all out holy war. And we were helping him becuase he is ROYALTY, his family was extremely powerful, they were royalty, they were very trusted, and his father was a billionaire construction tycoon. He and George W Bush actually met while their fathers worked on oil deals and other middle east issues. ***** half his family lives in the US anyways today. So what we help train him then he turned on us, ohh wait history just repeated itself, we did the same thing to the British.
italy attacked by germany? what the hell? and i thought they were allies!
They were allies. As long as things were going well and easy, Italians were quite content to ride Hitler's coattails. When things got tough, though, they decided to bail. Unfortunately, when you make a deal with the devil, it isn't so easy to renege. The Germans took over Italy to prevent defection.
Actually, the Italian people staged a coup and kicked Mussolini out of power in 1943 and instated a new Prime Minister, also giving power back to their King. The new, non-fascist government switched sides in the war. The Nazis invaded Italy and killed a number of innocent people. I do agree, though, that Italy sort of became trapped in its relationship with Nazi Germany. Mussolini initially never wanted to enact things like race laws, bu he ended up doing so to make his more powerful buddy up North happy.
Actually, even the IRA (You know, the people who bombed London for years) are well known to have received american money – and that's without the stuff that's a matter of public record.
The Mafia started in Sicily as a reaction to the oppressiveness that Sicilians felt Italy was forcing upon them. So…yeah
Suskis, my my you are really ignorant. You obviously fell victim to some semi-popular internet myth that would have you believe the US gave terrorists weapons. Tell you what, why don't you use the internet to do a Google search and learn. The overwhelmingly majority of weapons used by Iraq were from the Soviets/Russians, not the US! My my it is sad to see how anti-Americans are really the dumbest people on Earth. No wonder they never could achieve anything like inventing something great and new or landing on the moon or sending spacecraft to all the other planets of the solar system. It is too much for these US-hating chimpanzees.
ehm… the thing about weapons… terrorists are armed with russian kalashnikov becasuse it is cheaper, affordable, more usefull in dessert, don't jam so often have higher cedence and uses commoner type of ammo than yours pew pew gunz
Nighthawk you remember me asking whether you went to school or not…i had done it in jest but i am beginning to think that i was right after all. I will suggest you follow your own advice, use the internet to do a Google search and learn. The CIA not only provided funding for the ISI (Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence) to train the mujahideen, it also sent American military advisors to train and equip Afghan rebels. The decisive weapon used in the war was Stinger missile which is not a Russian weapon but a US weapon. So once again i suggest you to follow your own advice, use the internet to do a Google search and learn. Going by your bizarre logic, the September 11 attacks were carried out by Americans then because the planes used were US commercial aircrafts.
nighthawk shut up your the kind of person who make the rest of us americans look stupid
dude very few people in america still like bush, he got selected through a freak accident with the voting. and if by dictatorships you mean china, ***** off because you don't know what your talking about, we dont like working with china we do it because a lot of our businessmen are greedy sons of a ***** (steve jobs im looking at you)and like to work there because they are CHEAP. and if we could somehow find the miracle that would get all american trade out of china, our economy would most likely collapse because we get so much stuff from china.
Hypocrisy? Holy *****balls. I'm part Italian and it is WE Italians who are hypocrites by nature. Grow a pair, asshat
@ blitz17
Your first sentance is why we don’t like the US either.. why should the US invade a country in the first place? In the name of trying to spread the ‘all-american’ culture? Anyway.. Europe is way more advanced in science than the USA..
And whilst the USA has the biggest and most technically advanced army in the world.. their bridges are collapsing due to poor maintenance in the past 30 years..
You've resorted to mocking our bridges? *****ing. Pathetic.
Actually he has a point – American engineering is consistently sub-par and tends to be done using cheaper materials and quicker methods. This was not always the case – look at the Brooklyn Bridge. That's a beauty. But it's old. The USA stopped building quality in the 1900s.
And certainly Europe makes America look like an amateur at invading other countries. I mean, European imperialism and colonialism lasted for CENTURIES and covered much of the planet, largely making the world the stable, peaceful place it is today. Right?
stable? what a joke
You forgot the most important one. They have very *****ty beer. Oh yeah and the illegal war they started that ended up killing millions of Iraqis…..
Millions of Iraqis? Why should anything you say have even the slightest of merit if your facts are so far off base as to be laughable. Of course beclowning yourself with completely exaggerated and false numbers is fun to read, so carry on.
I agree about the beer, but in all reality whether the US was right or wrong for invading Iraq Saddam was not a nice guy and the world is better without him.
Lets not forget who put the "not nice guy" in power and funded and trained his army so he could fight the Iranians for you.
That's NOT one you can pin on us. Saddam was a Ba'athist, brother in conspiracy to Assad of Syria. And he was always his own man. We did supply his army, but so did the Russians, Germans, Swiss, Swedish, and French.
That is not really true is it? Saddam came into prominence for his role in the assassination attempt on the then prime minister of Iraq, Qasim, during which he was a CIA agent. After seizing power, he was seen as a hardcore anti-communist with the result being the US, and of course other NATO countries, providing both financial and military assistance to Saddam who used weapons provided by the US on Kurds (who were incidently provided support by the US against Qasim). In fact Saddam was encouraged to attack Iran by the US who also turned a blind eye on the chemical warfare conducted during the Iran-Iraq war.
So attacking a country can be justified by saying the leader was not a nice guy? I hate your goverment and everything it represents. Your "democracy" is a joke, the politicians are paid by companies. Those with money are the true leaders. You spend too much money on your army what you could spend on education and SOCIALISTED health-care. Socialism is not a curse word you tend to think and I'm not a communist.
Yes, we do. Please ask us to leave Europe and take our $40 billion a year and more with us. So that you Euros can start carrying your part of the load, in treasue and blood. You don't truly imagine that any vacuum left by our absenting ourselves from the scene won't be filled, do you? If you do, then you're at least as ignorant as a California public schoolboy.
The job needed doing and you lot couldn't be bothered to step up like men. For decades. Did you expect that we would not grow tired of the burden with which you'd left us? Did you imagine that we would always be ruled by the best of men? Was Solon immortal? Was George III not mad? Put YOUR bloody shoulders to the wheel, shirkers!!!! We've long since tired of your perpetual back-benching.
actually, if you were going to get your facts straight, you'd realize that it's not an "illegal war," as you put it. America actually doesn't officially go to war unless Congress votes and says so. America has only been in two "official wars"- WWI and WWII. Other wars that aren't official include the Vietnam and Korean Wars. I forget what they are called instead.
They´re called "We are *****ing stupid and want your resources operations".
WeDo,
Iraq's oil goes to Europe, Japan, and China. About 1% of it goes to America.
jeremy, lad,
The UN pegged Iraq's population at 25,575,000 in 2003 and 31,476,000 in 2010. Precisely how did they accomplish that while "millions of Iraqis" were supposedly perishing in the war?
As to your claim that the war was "illegal," ballocks. The war was duly authorized by the UN. If hands are dirty, ours aren't the only ones. The fact that those other hands are attached to bodies that cower beneath their desks, whether from fear of standing and being counted or fear of actual combat, does them even less credit than any ignoble motives you may assume were ours.
Saying America has bad beer is like saying Britain has bad food. Both are statements made in ignorance because of old stereotypes that are based on how things were quite some time ago. Yeah, we still generate light carbonated-urine-like pilseners like Budweiser, Miller, Coors, etc. that people love to get at baseball games in the summer, but we have tons of fantastic microbreweries that brew some real quality beers.
Jamie_Mac, and even knowing how a small ammount of the population makes the rest look bad, you continue to judge us and call us a country with people with “arrogance and big headedness.”
Just to make things clear, I’m not one of those hardcore patriotic Americans who tend to take things too far. I am a first generation Mexican-American born from parents who were illegal immigrants, and even having Mexican roots I still identify myself as an American first and Mexican second. I do admit however that America has its flaws, as does any country, and I also recognize that it is my duty as an American citizen to question my government and its desicions and speak up if I do not like where things are going.
Davross, you are right, the U.S. had no business being in Iraq, that was a ***** up on behalf of our leaders and I disagreed with it from day one. Like I said, America isn’t perfect but its up to its citizens to speak up and try and change America and it’s policy for the better.
blitz17, I remember how the whole world was supporting America when the war started. Everyone agreed that Saddam Hussein is a bad person and must be removed. Just funny how hypocritical anti-Americans are. I guess that is what makes the USA the world leader – the USA has the stomach to take responsibility while others shy away from responsibility.
Oh and yes America does have its flaws like any country, but it has far more advantages than any other country as well. Can you tell me any other normal country where 1 in 70 people is a millionaire and where a huge majority of wealth is self-made?
Nighthawk, seriously, YOU ARE THE BIGGEST ***** I´ve ever seen. EVER. "the whole world was supporting America". Really? Really? You really think that? NO ONE was on your side besides the Brits, and they only went along with it because their ***** of a prime-minister was your lapdog. Things were so *****ing awful you created a "Coalition of the Willing" consisting of the U.S., the British and the *****ing UmpaLumpa Islands (of course thats not the real name, it was some *****ing attol in the middle of the pacific ocean and I cant remember its name due to its *extreme* importance in world politics. READ. GET INFORMED. And stop making an ass out of yourself. Even U.S. nationals are asking you to shut up from the embarrasment you are causing them.
"READ. GET INFORMED."
Seems you need to practice what you preach.
Hussein? The guy we put in power and kept in power for several decades? The guy we gave all the poison gas to? The guy we sold the helicopters to? Yeah, that's the one. Yeah, a lot of people agreed he should go decades earlier but the Americans kept him in power.
It was German poison gas, Jay. Just as it was the Russians who dug Insane's bunkers and manned his radar and SAM installations. I can't remember exactly what the Swedes and the Swiss and the French sold him, but they were all there as well.
millionaires with money and inventions stolen from others. ¡yes! you are the leaders to kill people. you had a bad day [9 / 11] but that does not compensate for the oppression that you have done for 234 years to smaller countries. beautiful freedom you give: death.
Hear Hear
Don’t hate americans i meant.
sure you stormed the beaches at normandy but did you forget so did multiple other nations, just because american movies don’t show other nations fighting on dday doesn’t mean it to be true, hell americans didn’t even get close to coming to their objective on d-day…doughboy
Yeah every other country there did though, huh? Operation D-Day was a huge ***** storm for everyone involved. Stop being so blinded to your own arrogance.
dbrownl, the other nations couldn't have stormed Normandy without our resources and our manpower. Yes, like it or not, the United States was the senior partner.
nottt true, canada is actually looked at as one of the head honchos of it.. not america.. weird..
Not true at all, infact.. I’m laughing at you’re blind love and sheer belief that Canada is the “savior”. Americans would go in, take care of the heavy mess, and Canadians would usually just come in to take care of the stragglers or some other crap and believe they did something useful. Americans were the backbone of D-Day, and thousands were killed getting on that beach. Honestly, It’s pointless to be full of Canadian pride when you’re nation has literally done next to nothing for the world in general, sure you invented some medicine, as well as basketball and hockey… but.. what the hell am i saying rofl. Canadians are sometimes wayy more arrogant than any American I’ve met.
Also might I add, the U.S. supplied your military equipment as well.
Canadian Patriotism is sort of like cheering on and supporting a rock, or something else just as useless.
Canada in 2011 is around 32 million people . The U.S.A is around 311 million it’s funny how are dollar is worth more they the U.S greenback . Americans are some of the most manipulated people in the world . The Federal reserve, look it up for yourself and see how manipulated you really are .
I do not hate America. I’ve got few friends who are American. NOT ! !
***** you.
I'm American and I thought your post was hilarious. Our mass produced beer is indeed crap.
Oh – and let’s not turn this into an American bashing comment session
Discuss the merits of the items listed!
@jfrater
And what excactly is the difference between the Internet and the WWW in your opinion..?
Not answering for jfrater, but if you don't know the difference, then you haven't explored much on the internet.
The short answer is that the Internet is hardware, a physical setup with some basic connectivity tools to allow computers to talk to each other. The World Wide Web is software, protocols, and all the data that gets shared with them. That's why you have to HAVE Internet service to ACCESS the World Wide Web. There are things on the Internet that aren't WWW. Look at any file requiring FTP protocols. You're not using the world wide web to download that.
@ blitz17 but do you not see that what keeps this going is absolutely idiotic americans who continue the above opinions which makes other countries believe that you are all like the guy who wrote this list?
You are an idiot!! We are defending ourselves. People wonder why american's become bigots. It is because we have to deal with millions of immigrants who invade our country every day and receive free benefits, then turn around and say they hate America and Americans.
Tell me bob, what did a 60 year old man who was struggling with unrest in his own country and did not even have the weapons needed to quell the potential protests pose a risk to one of the most militarily advanced nation on this planet. Also tell me what does a 70 year old almost senile leader of an Asian country who is unable to feed his own people present a danger to the US and in what way is Iran dangerous to a country which heads the most powerful alliance that this planet has ever seen???
Maybe they are/were tyrants and discriminated people on the basis of their *****/religion etc etc. Does that mean that the whole world had a legitimate reason to attack the US till the 1970s because they discriminated the population on the basis of color?? More importantly who the hell gave you the right to act as the "protector of the world against evil"…that exists only in fiction
And dont spool the BS about immigration…unless you have had no education whatsoever, immigration is a problem faced by all the countries since centuries. Dont forget that you wont be there unless it was for the immigrants who went to the US in the first place.
free benefits? I don't know what the hell you've been smoking but in case you haven't noticed America is a country that sucks even its own citizens' money. Immigrants aren't given a free ride by any means. In fact they're being used for cheap labor. I suppose that's what 'American justice' is, no?
Okay, now I'm getting *****ed off. I'm just saying that i think it's horrible that my friend has to be afraid when his dad goes over to a foreign country to do buisness, because he's not sure if he's going to come back alive or not. I just think it's taking it a little too far when someone said they're glad "the white yanks died in 9/11". I think they're ignoring the fact that the government and the people are two different things. I think they're forgetting that we're humans first, and then we're americans.
cmon on jfrater that is why you posted this list, to get debates and discussions, every comment thus far has been on the merits of the list, perhaps a few points missed or could have been adds but i think you knew exactly what would happen the minute this list was posted
Da Vega: WWW is what made Internet usable by common people. Gopher, FTP, Telnet, MIRC… The old Internet is now unknown to 99% of its users.
The "old" internet, as you put it, is the *****ing backbone of your precious WWW, so no matter how you spin it, it is still America that invented the internet and then graciously shared it with the rest of you, spo suck it up!
THE ONLY PROBLEM WITH AMERICA IS ITS FULL OF AMERICANS
Sorry I'll move to Europe…
DaVega, your third sentence is why a lot of Americans tend to dislike Europeans, or get the wrong impression about Europeans at least. Its because people like you are always trying to one-up America by saying “Well Europe is WAY more advanced in science than the USA” like if its some kind of contest, or who knows, maybe you just have a superiority complex.
Actually they do, statistics will show that European nations do have a superiority complex (AKA little dick syndrome). They rank high in assaults, especially in England..Dont try to argue about global crime trends since this my area of study and no the US is not on the top of list even compared to European nations, youd be surprised at the number
it has no merits, hence the american bashing, you have a responsiblity to post culturaly diverse topics, you have a multitude of visitiors from every country, then you go an stick a why america is better than everyone else list in and dont expect people to be unhappy?
i agree the internet was invented by americans but it was invented to keep communications going if there ever was cold war between underground bunkers, another war invention. all american achievments are made at times of war of near war, its the only thing that enthuses them to take any action, bullets!
i think Team AMerica:world police nailed american attitudes perfectly, come in blow ***** up bring a city to ruins and then wonder why people aren’t thanking you, crazy puppet ***** movie got it right
Davross, I fully see that problem and I recognize that the only way that I can fix it as an individual is by obtaining a good education and not acting like the other complete asses that make America look bad. I’m sorry, but try as hard as I can, I can’t change others, only myself. But next time I’m abroad, I’ll continue being nice so that you can see that not all Americans are self-centered trash.