the way i see it, people are hypocrits.
in all countries of the world you’re gonna find uptight, ignorant, patriotic idiots. but because of americas’ scale and media influence, and word of mouth, the us’s reputation takes a downfall real quick.
although, when you look at all the tv shows and movies, and you see how sex and cursing is bad, but violence is somewhat ‘accepted’ (just watch texas ranger, what red blooded southie doesn’t love that show and scream “kick his ass!” to the tv every week, but when his kids say ‘fuck’ or even brings a girl into the house without permission, all hell is lose, i should know, my friend was an exchange student there for a year.)
this is not all about the military, and the operations the us have conducted abroad, it’s also about the general attitude it conveys through movies/tv/whatnot to other countries.
it’s also a well known ‘fact’, that ‘the american dream’ encaptures the ignorance and coldness of americans of which so many foreigners hate.
it’s not all about money, sex and fame. it’s about love, and caring and whatnot.
the all around shallowness of americans i think bother people, and on top of that, they think they’re the greatest country in the world.
so people generally think “oh my god, how can they be so fucked up”
of course, there are always exceptions, in all countries of the world, there are people who might like or even love, the us because of the american dream, they hate the poverty in their own country, so they move to northern europe because it seems like the us, with lots of money, etc.
i think most europeans are hypocrits though.
americas actions and opinions have no effect on europe as a whole, they just hate the us cause it’s fashionable and they think they’re so enlightened, and so more smarter than the avera american.
this is a load of horsecrap of course.
during the second world war, the us did considerable for the allies, and they got hit pretty hard at pearl harbour, and i think they have every right to make a movie about it, because it was tragic. like with wtc too.
people are far too cynical towards the us.
down in the middle east, people had fucked up opinions, and wars over religion, way before the us made any intervention down there. they have to look at their own contribution to the wars, the us didn’t start them, they did that themselves.
and even if the us stayed out of it, the war would;ve gone on for years to come. and as a previous poster said, the us should be given credits for freeing afghanistan from the taliban.
i believe that action did nothing but good for the people down there.
on the other hand, muslims might have completely different reasons for hating the us, purely based on how they helped israel etc.
which i won’t get into here.
the americans might have a shallow view on things, but that’s their problem. if they wanna be shallow, stupid and whatnot, let them, it doesn’t affect you and it doesn’t give you a right to hate them because of it. that’s prejudice.
but as far as the rest of europe goes, you can shut the fuck up about the us, cause you;re not doing too much about anything either.
