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why why why do people hate america?
We have got problems, like obesity, and illegal immigrants are flooding in each day. But what about the diversity? I wake up every day knowing I am free. Make the ignorant jokes but 8 out of ten of the best schools in the world are in America. And it doesn't block people from it due to gender or race. We also have the best food in the world and it's dirt cheap, too. Less people suffer here, and make your selfish greedy jokes but it just shows you are a dumbass because in 2012 we donated 37 billion dollars to OTHER countries,and people on welfare here are doing great with it. So why do people hate us? America is the best in my opinion.
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Who hates America?
Not many people really. The American media sure loves to pay attention to anyone who they can accuse of hating America, but really, the vast majority of people on this planet don't spend a lick of their time thinking about the States at all. The places where there is wide-spread American hate tend to be places where Americans have a history of dropping a lot of bombs and/or propping up violent dictators. No matter the reason these things are done - even if they are done for necessary or well-intentioned reasons - that'll tend to piss people off. When it's your neighbourhood that is being blown up, you really don't care how good of a reason the guy doing the blowing up has.
If you'd like to know what a lot of people don't like America much, a large reason, is the smug, self-righteous attitude that refuses to acknowledge that many, many other countries provide the same freedoms (and in some cases, more freedoms and greater privacy and protection!) than America does. It's the insistence that "America is the best" when in fact, America is one of many countries where it's a great place to live for a lot people - but not necessarily for everyone.
When non-Americans think about America, which is far less than many Americans seem to believe it is, and get annoyed or make fun of America, it's largely because most other nations don't go around saying their country is the best and find it's a bit absurd that Americans keep on crowing about how awesome they are. Like an insecure teenager who doesn't know how to take pride in their accomplishments without acting like a complete asshole and screaming about how great they are all the time. Most other nations have a healthy pride in their culture, achievements and history, but since most other nations are smaller, and less self obsessed, they also recognize the global context they exist in and are forced to be respectful of one another and collaborate far more often.
America is powerful enough, and wealthy enough to afford being ignorant of the world it exists is, and many Americans choose that kind of ignorance, some even take pride is knowing as little as possible about things that aren't American enough for them. Is it so strange to you that other might find that irritating?
If you take some real time to recognize that over 1 billion people who are NOT Americans live in first world countries where they enjoy a similar, and sometimes higher, standard of living than the average American, you might begin to understand why Americans don't have the best reputation as global citizens.
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I wasn't aware that everyone DOES hate America? There was a great deal of tension between the USSR/Communist Eastern Europe and America/The NATO alliance during the Cold War years. A matter of ideology. Communism and Captalism are never going to be easy bed-fellows. And since each were packing nuclear strike capabilities sufficient to destroy each other totally about 12 times over, things were likely to get a bit fraught, to say the least! Relations are much better now, and have been for quite a while. Although the recent Ukraine situation has been a step backwards. But we're not poised on the brink of nuclear war like were were during the Cold War years. Extreme Islamic fundamentalist groups HATE America. And the whole of wetsern culture (including the UK where I live)...and Israel. Especially Israel! Israel are very friendly with America (an enemy of my enemy is my friend, eh?). I'm afraid we're ALL 'The Infidel' and corrupt beyond hope as far as they're concerned. However they DO like American Dollars in return for oil. I wouldn't try to work this relationship out yourself if I were you. It's just the way things are. Korea don't like America. Or anybody else very much, probably! They're about the world's last true Communist state with any power. We've discussed the Communist/Capitalist thing already. China are technically Communist, but they're one on their own. Communists with a free market economy. They DON'T hate America. But there's a bit of rivalry about who is actually 'the boss' in trade and commerce terms. Nor do Japan hate America (anymore, they did during they second world war, but DEFINITELY friends now). The whole of Europe and the South East Asian countries get along fine. The Sub-Saharan African countries are not particularly hostile. Northern Africa (Sahara & above) is Islamic and will have it's extremists, who don't like America/The West. South Africa, fine. Australia & New Zealand...friendly. The former Soviet Eastern European countries (there are loads of them!) are no longer under the banner of Communism and get along fine. Most of the world don't hate America in the slightest as far as I can see. Strangely (because of the distance) the UK economy is more 'in step' with the US economy than it is with the European Union. A very wealthy, well-educated, civilised and highly industrialised country...as you point out.
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First of all everyone has the feeling that their native country is the best. In anthropology (the study of humans) there is actually a term for this, known as ethnocentrism.
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The rest of the world hates us because Americans are viewed as greedy, snobby, fat and lazy.
This site may enrage you as an ethnocentric individual, but it gives you an idea as to why America is not exactly well-liked: [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
Most of the world is also irritated with our lax gun laws, take the shooting death of Christopher Lane, a young man who was murdered while going for a run in his girlfriend's neighborhood. Many Australians were irritated with this incident, and blamed us because they feel that we need stricter gun control laws.
Not to mention that the United States becomes involved in foreign aid and often leaves countries in states of despair. This situation is one of the main motivations between terrorist group Al-Qaida's resentment towards us.
This article explains Osama Bin Laden's motives for the September 11th, 2001 attack: [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
I hope that this helps.
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