# I don't CARE that you don't like Americans! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 14, 2005, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-care-that-you-dont-like-americans/321602 "2005-09-14T15:25:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Boggette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@Boggette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boggette)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-care-that-you-dont-like-americans/321602/21 "2005-09-14T19:12:42Z")
While living in Den Haag in 1988, I had someone walk up to me and ask, “Are you American? I HATE America!” I pressed for a why and was surprised to learn the answer. Because… “In America, you can buy a car in a supermarket.” Um? Nope. Can’t. But where’d you get this information? “I saw it on Dallas!” Then it must be true. Hate away, dude! :rolleyes: Pretty stupid reason to hate a country, I’d say. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-care-that-you-dont-like-americans/321602/22 "2005-09-14T19:14:21Z")
Well, we all know southern accent speakers are ill-bred ignorant hicks. “Ah sure loves me that NASCAR!” ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-care-that-you-dont-like-americans/321602/23 "2005-09-14T19:16:42Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > That’s poutine, you yank! [pronounced: poo-teen] (\*tastes better than it sounds) It’d almost have to, wouldn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-care-that-you-dont-like-americans/321602/24 "2005-09-14T19:20:39Z")
> [@Neurotik](#): > > Of course not. But then, most New Yorkers don’t realize their accent makes them sound like morons to civilized English-speaking society (which is pretty much everywhere else.) 🙂 This New Yorker says, “Fuck you, you fuckin’ guy!” ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-care-that-you-dont-like-americans/321602/25 "2005-09-14T19:29:09Z")
Why, bless your little ole heart! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-care-that-you-dont-like-americans/321602/26 "2005-09-14T19:36:18Z")
Seriously, what are these people’s problems with the U.S.? It’s the ass-kicking isn’t it. Everybody hates us 'cause we kick so much ass. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-care-that-you-dont-like-americans/321602/27 "2005-09-14T19:43:18Z")
> [@Snakescatlady](#): > > Why, bless your little ole heart! Well, I never! And people say New Yorkers aren’t civilized. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-care-that-you-dont-like-americans/321602/28 "2005-09-14T19:59:33Z")
Boy, I’m glad I don’t have an accent of any kind. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-care-that-you-dont-like-americans/321602/29 "2005-09-14T20:05:33Z")
> [@Larry Borgia](#): > > Seriously, what are these people’s problems with the U.S.? > > It’s the ass-kicking isn’t it. Everybody hates us 'cause we kick so much ass. No, it’s because our FREEDOM allows us to kick so much ass! They hate our freedom to kick ass! And our freedom from Poutaine (President of France or something?) ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-care-that-you-dont-like-americans/321602/30 "2005-09-14T20:20:49Z")
> [@CynicalGabe](#): > > See? See? > > See how crazy we are!!!?!?! We’re not crazy… But our prices are! ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-care-that-you-dont-like-americans/321602/31 "2005-09-14T20:22:20Z")
> [@](#): > > Because… “In America, you can buy a car in a supermarket.” > > Um? Nope. Can’t. But where’d you get this information? Actually you can buy a car in Sam’s club now. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-care-that-you-dont-like-americans/321602/32 "2005-09-14T20:28:05Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Boy, I’m glad I don’t have an accent of any kind. That’s because you’re not _from_ anywhere. If you were _from_ somewhere, you’d have an accent. And you’d list it in your “location,” naturally. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-care-that-you-dont-like-americans/321602/33 "2005-09-14T20:32:13Z")
> [@SlyFrog](#): > > Well, you should just be happy you’re not American. Because we’re a bunch of conservative, racist, rednecks who make snap judgments on people based on where they’re from. Nigel Powers: “There’s only two things I hate in this world: those who are intolerant of other peoples’ cultures…and the Dutch.” ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-care-that-you-dont-like-americans/321602/34 "2005-09-14T21:05:27Z")
I just alienated my brother in Canada (again). After not speaking to me for months over some perceived injustice I’ve committed, I e-mailed him happy birthday wishes. He wrote back, asking about our experience with Katrina. I wrote a short synopsis. He replied, saying how I ought to be ashamed of my government. They’re a bunch of racists and liars and they hate black people so much that they didn’t respond to the hurricane disaster as fast as if it had been all white people who were down there. I wrote back that he sounded exactly like another yokel, looking for another reason to hate Americans. #1: I do not do politics. #2: It’s not _my_ government. I am still Canadian. I have no say in what they do or don’t do, but it certainly has nothing to do with racism. #3: I do not do reactionary, xenophobic, uneducated, armchair criticism of situations I don’t know anything about. That said, nobody cares to hear my opinion, no matter how educated or informed it may be. If it was anything less, they’d want me to shut the fuck up until I knew what I was talking about (not _aboot_). He’ll probably not speak to me for years. Happy fuckin’ birthday, ya fuckin’ moron. ---
**Author:** ![SlyFrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@SlyFrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlyFrog)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-care-that-you-dont-like-americans/321602/35 "2005-09-14T21:12:05Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > No, it’s because our FREEDOM allows us to kick so much ass! They hate our freedom to kick ass! And our freedom from Poutaine (President of France or something?) Well, there’s that. They also can’t stand the fact that the only reason they even have the freedom to hate us today is because we bailed them out in Dubya Dubya Two. That’s why they all have the freedom to hate us in English, rather than being compelled to hate us in German and Japanese. ---
**Author:** ![fushj00mang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@fushj00mang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fushj00mang)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-care-that-you-dont-like-americans/321602/36 "2005-09-14T21:17:37Z")
Silentgoldfish, There is one true indication that Americans (and Canadians for that matter) are superior to Austrailians. [Vegemite](http://www.vegemite.com.au/). That’s right, Vegemite. If you wish to sample all the flavor of Satan’s ballsack, and don’t want to make that special trip to Hell, Vegemite is the snack-spread for you. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-care-that-you-dont-like-americans/321602/37 "2005-09-14T21:20:48Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > Eh. It was okay. Tasted like french fries with gravy and cheese. Philistine! It’s French Canadian _cuisine_. :mad: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-care-that-you-dont-like-americans/321602/38 "2005-09-14T21:23:58Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > It’d almost have to, wouldn’t it? This from a country that coined the term “freedom fries”! :rolleyes: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-care-that-you-dont-like-americans/321602/39 "2005-09-14T21:27:13Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > That’s poutine, you yank! [pronounced: poo-teen] (\*tastes better than it sounds) > > The way you spelled it, it sounds more like [p-eu-tain]. Which, in french, means “whore”. However, if that’s what you meant… 😉 Hey, it could be poon-tang, which is an entirely different thing. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-care-that-you-dont-like-americans/321602/40 "2005-09-14T21:43:40Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Boy, I’m glad I don’t have an accent of any kind. An ex of mine from near Seattle used to say this - _and believed it_! His reasoning? “Everyone on TV talks like us. That means we have no accent. _Ain’t nobody gonna tell me no different_.” (and he wasn’t kidding!) Cripes, I don’t think the guy’s ever left Federal Way. Maybe he only watches local “accentless” telelvision, too. 😃 However, this is also the same guy that asked me, after saying I’d like to visit England one day: “Do they speak English in England?” Dude, the answer’s in the question. :smack: (Where I’m from, some say poo-teen, others say poo-tin. But we’re Acadienne, a mutt mix if I ever saw one.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-care-that-you-dont-like-americans/321602.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-care-that-you-dont-like-americans/321602.md?page=3)