Non-Americans in the audience - Do you dislike the USA?

[Wildtree]

Rammstein are former East Germans? Here is their show, spraying urine on the audience. lol

I thought Gallager was bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_LVaHHNcP4

You know that's water, right? LOL

actually, on that note.... check youtube for the song Pussy
Compare the live performances from US concerts and others.
During the song he rides a giant ejaculating dick. At the US shows that looks significantly different.
No balls, no head. Just the pipe essentially.

[Deleted]

If it wasn't for the USA then Russia would still be riding my country and half a continent, so no, I don't hate it.

[Deleted]

Hehe no I don't hate you man.

Now, try makng this poll as a French. Only then will you know what it is to be hated on the internet

[Wildtree]

If it wasn't for the USA then Russia would still be riding my country and half a continent, so no, I don't hate it.

I believe the US deserves credit that the West remained safe during the cold war times.
But I also believe that you don't do your own people justice if you refuse to give them more credit in the freedom of your own country (now we don't know which one it is), and other former Soviet countries and satellite states.
It's nicely portrait with the example of East Germany.
It wasn't the US, it wasn't any force from the West that brought the wall down....
It was the people from East Germany doing that all by themselves.

[Ulmita]

I think people need to stop hating in this thread. I am one of the biggest critics of American policy in the Putin thread, however i don't hate, nor i conceive them as my "enemies", or the enemies of anyone.

The mater of the fact is that USA has been and still offering humanity great services through NASA, their educational institutes research, their break through in engineering, medicine etc.

I just believe that what people are trying to say here, is that you guys should be looking more inside and less outside your country because atm you portrait (sometimes) a public image as a regular bully in a school. Other than that, we all love you deep inside, we love hollywood, burgers, and zz top

[Jester Joe]

Quoted for truth +1

Except none of that is true and it's pretty uneducated to agree with it.

[May90]

I believe the US deserves credit that the West remained safe during the cold war times.
But I also believe that you don't do your own people justice if you refuse to give them more credit in the freedom of your own country (now we don't know which one it is), and other former Soviet countries and satellite states.
It's nicely portrait with the example of East Germany.
It wasn't the US, it wasn't any force from the West that brought the wall down....
It was the people from East Germany doing that all by themselves.

Actually, it was both. It was people from East Germany who crushed the wall, and it was the Western world, including the US, that supported them and helped them get to that point. In the modern world, it is the cooperation of multiple countries that does wonders. So, rather than praising Eastern Germans, I suggest instead praising humanity as a whole, for reaching the point when people across the planet can work together towards mutual goals! This is what is so amazing about the modern world. Countries are no longer separate entities as they were before World War 2 or so; in fact, the very term "country" slowly fades away, as economies intertwine, borders melt away, all kinds of alliances and cooperatives between countries are built up and so on.

[oxymoronic]

Main reason why i dislike The USA? Religion. I read american newspapers from time to time. And i came across an article about where atheists had to hide their atheist beliefs cus either they would get fired or heavily discriminated on their workplace. This and the NSA which is monitoring their own citizens is why i will also never understand your whole clinging to freedom-thing.

Also we had some swedish reporter in Las Vegas last summer, doing the whole casino-thing. She didnt want to go to the casinos in the end because she felt bad, homeless people all over the place, being hidden under the streets and what not. And the fake plastic smile of the guy that drove her around in the limo, selling her "Las Vegas" which was just a plastic makeover.

What started as excitement ended in tears.

ahh poor perfect swedish reporter got a taste of the real world. the freedom to fail is real. those people made their bed, now time to lie in it. dont believe the hype and bullshit, life is full of winners and losers.

and a resident of las vegas, i send a good fuck you to her. fuck you for not realizing this before you even came... amazing to me the ignorance of people and then they get upset...

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I believe the US deserves credit that the West remained safe during the cold war times.
But I also believe that you don't do your own people justice if you refuse to give them more credit in the freedom of your own country (now we don't know which one it is), and other former Soviet countries and satellite states.
It's nicely portrait with the example of East Germany.
It wasn't the US, it wasn't any force from the West that brought the wall down....
It was the people from East Germany doing that all by themselves.

its like when black people say they freed themselves - and cause i dont want to start a physical altercation i let them think that... but in reality it took white and black (mostly white people) to free blacks from slavery in america. but hey w/e gets you thru the night.

[Collegeguy]

Just from my experience with Euro's in vent. I've come to notice that the ones that have never sat down and talked to many people from the USA say the silliest things. While the ones that have been around the block tend to not get captured in much of the nonsense.

So I really think it's a fantasy alienation problem, or watching too much simpsons.

[Deleted]

I don't dislike them any more then other nations/countries or my own. I dislike the selfish attitude people from the USA have in general though, general opinion seems to be that a tax is only usefull when it's benefitial to the person paying rather then willing to pay for the wellbeing of everyone.

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Hehe no I don't hate you man.

Now, try makng this poll as a French. Only then will you know what it is to be hated on the internet

That's true, I hate the language French with a passion and kinda hate how they aren't willing to accept other "cultures", translating tv shows being a lame but valid example.

[cabyio]

Second poll for the Americans:

Do you give a damn if people in other countries don't like you?

1) No
2) Not even a little bit
3) It only bothers me if they're very attractive
4) People in other countries do not get an opinion
5) Careful what you say, or you may get bombed

I pick 3, 4 and 5.

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Well I think it would be OK if everyon is allowed to carry a gun. However there is always a certain amount of stupidity involved. Like that 2 year old child who shot itself cause the mommy had left the loaded gun on the bed next to that child.

I think stupidity and a lack of responsibility is more of a problem than the right to own a gun. I think instead of restricting the ownership of guns your government should start a campaign for awareness. Many american people seem to view a gun as a tool or some sort of toy and act too careless in my eyes. it is a difference if you leave your gun, your barbie doll or a spade on the table.

A gun is a tool. It need to be treated with respect just like any other tool.

[May90]

Just from my experience with Euro's in vent. I've come to notice that the ones that have never sat down and talked to many people from the USA say the silliest things. While the ones that have been around the block tend to not get captured in much of the nonsense.

So I really think it's a fantasy alienation problem, or watching too much simpsons.

This applies to any nation, by the way. For example, people talk about "weird Japanese" all the time, but I've been to Japan numerous times - they are not weird at all, you just need to get to know regular people, not that negligible percentage of weirdos we can see on Youtube.

[Zylos]

I don't dislike them any more then other nations/countries or my own. I dislike the selfish attitude people from the USA have in general though, general opinion seems to be that a tax is only usefull when it's benefitial to the person paying rather then willing to pay for the well being of everyone.

Because people work hard for their money and don't feel like helping people who refuse to help themselves.

[wonderlust]

Because people work hard for their money and don't feel like helping people who refuse to help themselves.

For every person out there who actually refuses to help themselves and chooses to spend all of their money on booze/drugs, there is someone else who works just as hard as you, but couldn't improve their life past a certain point anyway, either because they're denied opportunities left and right (for an assortment of reasons), or because they're actually physically/mentally/socially incapable of doing so.

[Spectral]

Second poll for the Americans:

Do you give a damn if people in other countries don't like you?

I'm generally amused by the scramble to identify a reason to dislike a whole country that isn't just nakedly xenophobic. Disliking our interventionist foreign policy is reasonable. If you're from one of the countries that our military has damaged, it's reasonable to dislike the US. But if you're from, say, Sweden, I can't really imagine what the point of getting real wound up about it would be.

[bufferunderrun]

Imho peoples always dislike or hate those in charge, those with power, the riches ecc, this kind of attitude is well represented even inside the usa when peoples blame Obama for stupid and petty reasons; the same kind of thing happen in europe, where there are a bunch of nations with inflated ego but no power to protect their interests, they first blame the EU then alternatively Usa or Russia, just wait a few years and they start hating China, India and Brazil the moment they start getting spotlight.
This not something to fuss over it always be like that the only reasonable thing to do is ignore it.