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2013-01-26 06:56 5405331 Anonymous (female captain america.jpg 480x720 83kB)
why do some places or groups hate America so much? I don't mean the people like "lol americlaps with their guns and muh freedomz", I mean like the people who REALLY hate America. Why?

1 min later 5405335 Anonymous
Like what, for example? The biggest group of people I know who 'hates America' is bored teenagers on the internet.

3 min later 5405362 Anonymous
because of threads like this.

4 min later 5405384 Anonymous
It's become cool to hate America, christianity. and anything post 90's pop culture.

4 min later 5405386 Anonymous
I could list all of the things I dislike about America, but I think you pretty much already know. And while I dislike all of those things, the thing that makes me HATE the US, is that you spread that shit to other nations through your cultural imperialism. Basically: you're terrible as you are, but to make it worse you spread that awfulness like a virus

6 min later 5405411 just plain eeyore
Lots of reasons. >rampant patriotism >world police >getting involved in every country's affairs >ran by an oligarchy (granted, that's the world really) >doesn't seem to give two shits about its own citizens but will spend more helping citizens of other countries >for-profit education Just some examples.

7 min later 5405414 Anonymous
>>5405384 This. It's just edgy teenage boys being edgy.

8 min later 5405438 Anonymous
>>5405414 >>5405384 It really isn't. It's cool to hate Justin Bieber or whatever. But the international hatred for the US is very much serious.

10 min later 5405452 Anonymous
Man, Alison Brie is so hot.

11 min later 5405471 Anonymous
The same reason colonial Britain was hated, all the 'liberation' murders.

15 min later 5405509 Anonymous (1353478227207.jpg 500x407 205kB)
>>5405452 I was wondering if that was her or not. Thank you, anon.

16 min later 5405515 Anonymous
>>5405414 >>5405384 People like this. If you try to have a serious discussion about America's faults and the other side says "hurr I've only been exposed to teenagers and I've never read the news and 9/11 happened cuz of MUH FREEDOM." You know that they're brainwashed scum and can't tolerate anything that deviates from their shallow suburban upbringing.

19 min later 5405538 Anonymous
>>5405515 There is a big group of Americans who hate on America because it's cool. "lol everywhere is better than America we're the scourge of the Earth!"

20 min later 5405548 Anonymous (1357357487468.gif 200x272 506kB)
>>5405452 She definitely has some.. ehm.. redeeming qualities

21 min later 5405555 Anonymous
>>5405538 But nobody cares about them. They don't matter.

22 min later 5405568 Anonymous
>>5405471 colonial britain is loved; countries are still trying to get into the common wealth

22 min later 5405576 Anonymous
>>5405438 There is no real 'international hatred' for the US. http://www.pewglobal.org/database/?indic ator=1&survey=14&response=Favorable&mode =chart The countries who dislike us the most are people who have harbored our military enemies. That's hardly 'international hatred.' It's more like butthurt. Out of a list of 21 countries, 12 are above 50%, and only 4 are below 20%. >>5405515 For a person complaining about how other people exaggerate and can't hold a serious discussion, you sure did the same thing.

23 min later 5405584 Anonymous (murrika love.jpg 910x768 136kB)
>>5405576 Man, I cannot believe I forgot my image. This is deeply upsetting.

23 min later 5405590 Pachacutec
They hate you because of your government, like they hate Jews because of Zionist leaders. Warmongers are not liked often.

24 min later 5405598 Anonymous (18814_308215195946239_1311344699_n.jpg 518x629 49kB)
Well OP, where shall I begin? Ah, I know! I'll start with some of this. (I'm American, by the way.)

24 min later 5405602 Anonymous
Because america meddles with their shit.

25 min later 5405610 Anonymous (1351710773740.jpg 958x503 144kB)
>>5405598 And some of this.

26 min later 5405615 Anonymous
Something to do with foreign oil/resources,fucking up the place and being allies with Israel. Whatever the US did in WW2 and in the Cold war and the effects after that's why.

26 min later 5405620 Anonymous
>>5405576 Those statistics are purely worthless without international comparisons.

26 min later 5405622 Anonymous
>>5405576 >>5405584 >21 countries >accurate representation of the world You can pick only one.

26 min later 5405625 Anonymous
Maybe it's the fatness? I certainly hate fat people..

26 min later 5405626 Anonymous
>>5405610 >isolated incident of some country's stupidity I hate when people do this shit.

27 min later 5405629 Anonymous
Britag here. I traveled to the US and had a blast. Everyone was nice as all hell (although people poking fun at my accent did get a little old after awhile) and I saw so many cool things. I'd have loved to explore more. Every country has its shitty parts. I know americlaps make fun of us just as we make fun of them, but when it comes down to it, we're pretty much the same.

27 min later 5405630 Anonymous (1353595566721.png 500x666 504kB)
>>5405610 Now we'll throw in something with a bit more zing.

28 min later 5405639 Anonymous
>>5405576 >>5405584 >90% of countries contain at least 1 out of 3 people who dislike us Wow.

28 min later 5405640 Anonymous
>>5405626 I've got many, MANY examples of my country's stupidity. More to come.

29 min later 5405649 Anonymous
>>5405626 >isolated incident If you weren't one of the socially maladjusted fuckheads from the anti-Facebook thread, you'd know that a good portion of friends and family members believe this shit.

30 min later 5405660 Anonymous
>>5405615 The US got only good will from WW2. Not even germany and japan hates the US that much. Cold war is a half truth. All the political involvement the US had during WW2 is much of the reason countries hate the US. Their involvement in Chile, Vietnam, Iran and many other conflicts truthfully gave those people the impression that the US were a bunch of dicks.

31 min later 5405667 Anonymous
>>5405660 Fuck. During the cold war, not during WW2. I'm not completely sober.

32 min later 5405680 Anonymous (murrika love 2 electric boogaloo.jpg 922x768 140kB)
>>5405622 If you went to the link and clicked the table link, you'd see the results for all the countries they've polled over the years. That was 2012's result. >accurate representation of the world It's an accurate representation of the countries listed, and it's about half the European countries (including some of the largest ones). >international hatred >more than half of them are favorable. The greyed out ones weren't polled, so I hope you can understand them not wanting to deal with tribal natives in Africa. The countries that don't like us the most are, big surprise, in the Middle East/Mediterranean area. That's all, everyone else polled is pretty cool with the US.

32 min later 5405681 Anonymous (1355360723616.jpg 960x685 113kB)
>>5405630 Now some more absolutely fucking retarded shit carried out by my government.

32 min later 5405684 Anonymous
>>5405660 >gave those people the impression that the US were a bunch of dicks Didnt just give the impression. They showed their true colors. They ARE a bunch of dicks.

32 min later 5405685 Anonymous
>>5405411 but why hate americans cause the people who run the government are fucking retarded

33 min later 5405697 Anonymous
>>5405680 Damn, I sure messed that up. Oh well, it's the same statistics from last time.

34 min later 5405701 Pachacutec
>>5405685 Because you picked them, probably.

35 min later 5405716 Anonymous
>>5405701 Yes and no. There's things like gerrymandering to account for.

36 min later 5405719 Anonymous (rafting.jpg 1023x752 181kB)
>>5405681 And a personal favorite of mine, directly from the Creation Museum, a hotspot for Christian tourists with small, easily brainwashed children.

36 min later 5405720 just plain eeyore
>>5405685 Because most Americans are shit and idiotic.

36 min later 5405723 Anonymous
>>5405684 yes, i said truthfully gave the impression. Funny thing is that not even americans like their government yet they are surprised when other nations don't.

37 min later 5405731 Anonymous
>>5405680 Most of them are between 40-60. Which is pretty bad. I wouldnt call it a good thing that a country like Germany only is 52% favorable towards the US. That's pretty fucking bad. Crazy development in Argentina by the way.

38 min later 5405739 Anonymous
>>5405680 >China at 43% That's a little surprising.

38 min later 5405741 Anonymous
>>5405719 lol so entire populations of animals just crossed oceans without any food or anything and lived and reproduced on a new continent.

38 min later 5405745 Anonymous
>>5405731 >That's pretty fucking bad. >It's pretty fucking bad for a country to more favorable towards a country than not. Also, yeah Argentina is not a big fan. 40-60 is not too bad either, the point isn't "HURR EVERYONE SUCKS OUR DICKS" (that's just Japan), it's that the idea of there being an 'international hatred' for the US is largely a myth relegated to butthurt teenagers on the internet.

39 min later 5405749 Pachacutec
>>5405716 True. I guess the unfavorable opinion of Murrica comes mostly of: >Politicians with expansionist policies, playing world police and invading country after country in the Middle East. >The portrayal of the "typical american" by the media. Jersey Shore and Honey Boo Boo don't exactly help the international opinion of you, amerifriends. It's sad, but true.

39 min later 5405758 Anonymous (CIA corruption.jpg 1645x1134 437kB)
I hold no hatred for the US, but if I did, it would probably be because of shit like this. People get mad if you mess with their country.

40 min later 5405764 Anonymous
Every society has their idiots, but since America is so in the face of the rest of the world everyone gets exposed to American stupidity much more than that of any other country.

40 min later 5405768 Typical Inhabitant of Great Britain
America is by far the worst "first" world country to live in. I don't hate you guys or your country however.

40 min later 5405771 Anonymous (1357081688122.png 1280x471 325kB)
Is it time for some /pol/ away from /pol/?

41 min later 5405777 Anonymous
America has meddled in the affairs of other countries for decades, with moral absolution, while continue to use torture and shit on everyone else. Thats the main reason.

41 min later 5405784 Anonymous
we're a fucking conservative country. we're douchebags, a lot of us are known for being full blown fucking retarded. for fucks sake, we're like the only country who still doesnt have universal health care or gay marriage.

42 min later 5405788 Anonymous
>>5405764 That's pretty much on the money. Pretty funny when you present foreigners with examples of stupidity of their own country.

42 min later 5405791 Anonymous
>>5405745 >Also, yeah Argentina is not a big fan Well they went from 16 to 42 in only 3 years. Makes me question this entire study because something like that is pretty fucking weird. From 1 in every 6 person liking the US to almost 1 in 2? I'd say if around 50% or 40% of the entire world is unfavorable towards the US, that it's an international hatred. Even 10% of the world hating the US is an international hatred. If you manage to piss of 1 in every 2 people that walk the face of the Earth, then you have done some clearly wrong.

42 min later 5405795 Pachacutec
>>5405784 Nobody minds "conservative" countries, really. If anything, Murrica is one of the most liberal places I know.

43 min later 5405796 Anonymous
>>5405741 Yep. Ever seen a Christian private school textbook? It's fucking ridiculous.

44 min later 5405809 Anonymous
>>5405749 It's not just that. It's everything. It's the way they pick their politicians, it's how they cover news. They are ALL a bunch of retards who are incredibly influenced by their propaganda machine. They campaign by fucking trashing each other, namecalling and having a bunch of corporations pumping money in their campaign by doing them a bunch of promises behind the scene. It fucking disgusts me. Every single one of them.

44 min later 5405811 Anonymous
>>5405795 >If anything, Murrica is one of the most liberal places I know. In some respects. People have to remember the US is really big, very populous, and the population is far from homogeneous.

45 min later 5405817 Anonymous (1355928315719.jpg 800x532 176kB)
>>5405768 I agree, but Britian is on the fast track to Third World.

46 min later 5405828 Anonymous
>>5405791 >Makes me question this entire study because something like that is pretty fucking weird. It's weird, but that doesn't mean it's not valid. Out of the countries polled, more than half were favorable of the US. >international hatred >more than half of the nations like the US Nope, not quite. > Even 10% of the world hating the US is an international hatred. Alright broseph.

49 min later 5405857 Pachacutec
>>5405809 Take it easy, friendo, not all of them are retards. I'd know, I've been talking to some smart murrican anons the last few months. But I do find kinda weird the level of adoration their politicians get. I also find it funny that most of them believe they only have two political parties and they have to choose one or the other and any other opinion is "dumb". And the level of blind fanaticism and patriotism you find in the South (or at least, that's what I've heard) is astounding. >>5405811 True, the South is conservative as fuck, while other places like San Fran and New York are as liberal as they come.

49 min later 5405861 Anonymous
>>5405828 If you count Germany with 52% favorable of the US as truly an ally than you are even stupider than I thought, American.

50 min later 5405866 Anonymous (todd akin.jpg 402x402 44kB)
Politicians.

51 min later 5405883 Anonymous
>>5405857 If they are still living in that piece of shit, then they arent smart. They had a fucking guy running for the highest office who did not even tell the public about ANY of the plans he had. He just kept repeating: 'Atleast Im not that nigger' and 'I believe in America'. And still a LARGE portion of the country voted on him. If you choose to live in a country like that you are even more blind than the ones who think he was actually a valid candidate.

51 min later 5405888 Anonymous
>>5405861 >52% favorable That means they don't hate the US, silly. You're going out of your way to change the discussion or goals to try and suit yourself. The point isn't to find out what countries are "our allies" or more casually put >>5405745 as "SUCKING OUR DICKS," it's to show that most countries don't hate the US. Which is true, they don't.

52 min later 5405901 Anonymous
No one "really" hates America, that's just US government propaganda to get people to support their wars, buy domestic, and not move to a better country.

53 min later 5405905 Pachacutec
>>5405883 I doubt most of them are rich enough to move to a first world country, and a large amount of people really don't care. Murrica ain't that bad tbh, and I'd probably love to live there, it's just not as great as other first world countries.

56 min later 5405944 yemaya
>2 Canadian guys in my class >They both hate America and hi-five over it and call eachother true Canadians >Ask why Canadians hate Amurrica so much >One says "Well, because America is always trying to make it look like Canada is the 'bad' guy." I don't really get it, but okay.

57 min later 5405955 Anonymous
>>5405888 You dont really get it, do you? It's still 48% of a country that really just hates your guts. To say you are 'unfavorable' towards something means you are definitely not indifferent towards them, but actually dislike them and would enjoy to see them failed. To say you are 'favorable' towards something, means you could just be indifferent towards it, couldnt really care less, shit like that. If you would do a study that asked about America as 'favorable', 'indifferent' or 'unfavorable', you'd get different answers. And even when the statistics are like this, you are missing a huge amount of countries that legitimately want to wage war against the US, yet it includes all the countries that are considered US' allies. And even among those supposed allies, a huge amount hates US' guts. inb4 lelelele im american u just try to change the data cuz u h8 us bcuz jelly

59 min later 5405976 Anonymous
>>5405739 FOX news aren't telling the truth when they say all chinese hate you and want to murder you?

1 hours later 5405989 Anonymous (1355919157142.png 317x293 38kB)
>>5405901 OY VEY! Do not say such things goyim! Bad goy, BAD GOY! Oh my, this is like another Shoah!

1 hours later 5406010 Anonymous
>>5405901 Oh but I do, anon. I very much hate America. I think the world would be infinitely better off if every other country in the world would fire all their nuclear missiles towards America and burn it to the ground. The only thing that's stopping the world from evolving is because America is so goddamn big and packed with retarded heavily individualistic pieces of shit.

1 hours later 5406015 Anonymous
>>5405955 Unfavorable =/= hatred, sorry bro. >If you're unfavorable it means you HATE IT >if you're favorable, that means you don't mind it but don't really care Also, the study in question did ask for unfavorable as well. Sorry dude. >majority of a country is favorable towards us >NO THEY HATE YOU Relax, you can't get everything. There will always be people who dislike you, but they're clearly outnumbered by the people who DO like the US, sorry. >yet it includes all the countries that are considered US' allies. >internationally hated >somehow has allies >more than half of Europe is cool with them Nope, sorry.

1 hours later 5406027 Anonymous
>>5405883 >If they are still living in that piece of shit, then they arent smart. lol, everyone gather round and look at this idiot. Just because someone lives in the US, they aren't smart, hm? Do you really expect every single person in the US to uproot their lives just because you've decided that "they're not smart" based on some arbitrary bullshit? You're forgetting a few things. There are still are and always will be people with great jobs in America. The best universities are still in America. I won't even get into what it actually takes to become a citizen of another country, food prices, family etc. you clearly don't think anything through before you speak.

1 hours later 5406040 Anonymous
>>5405749 people think jersey shore and honey boo boo are typical americans? do they realize that shit is popular BECAUSE they're not typical? are yuropoors actually this retarded?

1 hours later 5406050 Anonymous
They're the most powerful country in the world, and that breeds contempt. Also they've done some truly horrific shit over the years.

1 hours later 5406056 Pachacutec
>>5406040 Take it easy. It's all we see from Murrica, your media only displays the worst stuff of your country, what do you think is going to happen?

1 hours later 5406074 Anonymous
>>5405989 it was never funny, it still isn't take this to /pol/ where your cookie cutter posts are welcome

1 hours later 5406090 Anonymous
>>5406010 >I think the world would be infinitely better off if every other country in the world would fire all their nuclear missiles towards America and burn it to the ground. Do you even understand what happens when you nuke an area as large as the US? Nevermind, I don't know why I expected critical thinking from an emotional dumbass.

1 hours later 5406091 Anonymous
>>5406040 Chill out, man. The average american thinks all British people invariably have bad teeth, never progressed beyond the Victorian era and worship effigies of the Queen made of tea and crumpets. That's how stereotypes work.

1 hours later 5406107 Anonymous
>>5405331 >why do some places or groups hate America so much? scapegoating

1 hours later 5406114 Anonymous
>>5406090 I never said it's pragmatical or even good in the beginning. But should they succeed to burn America to the ground and all its people with it the world would be infinitely better off.

1 hours later 5406158 Anonymous
>>5406015 I wonder what would happen to the statistics if you would ask countries like Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Saoudi-Arabia, North Korea, India and such. But you only ask Europe and a few shit countries and pretend the world likes you. Ok.

1 hours later 5406200 Anonymous
>>5406158 India was asked, you weenie. Yes, those countries likely aren't big fans. They're also outnumbered by the countries who don't hate us. >international hatred >only hated by 6 countries Okay, if you say so.

1 hours later 5406270 Anonymous
>>5405331 >why do some places or groups hate America so much? You already summed it up in the first sentence. It seems like one can not express discontent with America's reaction to 9/11, its cultural hegemony, its rampant Christian fundie problem or its meddling with other countrie's affairs all over the world without HATING AMERICA SO MUCH. It should be obvious that all the countries you recently invaded are not really fond of you. The others don't hate America, but they may dislike certain aspects. It's the "with us or against us" policy that really pisses people off. Also, the more discontent people are with America, the more our own propaganda machines try to shove it down our throat. That also pisses people off real good. You should have seen the media reports on Obama's first election here in Germany, it was celebrated like the second coming of Christ.

1 hours later 5406285 Anonymous
>>5406114 How is that? How are "they" going to be better off with a barren wasteland of once fertile land, an unfathomable amount of resources and knowledge destroyed, and the climate change that will follow?

1 hours later 5406311 Anonymous
>>5406285 You imply that I plan on anyone taking refuge in America ever again. America should just be wiped from the map. It would mean there's no more one country who gets to dictate whatever everyone else does when they get into a temper tantrum. But the same should possibly happen to Russia and China if we want this to work.

1 hours later 5406351 Anonymous
>>5406311 And this is how MegaCity 1 came about. Good going, you thoughtless robot. Damn your eyes and your lack of foresight.

1 hours later 5406361 Anonymous
>people who hate the united states >arabs/pakistanis pick two

1 hours later 5406364 Anonymous
>>5405719 Holt shit thats awesome. I could just imagine oceans overflowing with logs and a bunch of elephants just walking across it, eating bark or whatever

1 hours later 5406407 Anonymous
>>5406311 >You imply that I plan on anyone taking refuge in America ever again. I don't care what you "plan on" because it's heads on pants retarded and relies on ignoring all rational thought. >a barren wasteland of once fertile land, an unfathomable amount of resources and knowledge destroyed, and the climate change that will follow? What, do you think the climate change would ONLY be in America? Oh boy, have I got news for you. >It would mean there's no more one country who gets to dictate whatever everyone else does when they get into a temper tantrum. lol, of course there would be. If America fell, someone else would take the throne. >But the same should possibly happen to Russia and China if we want this to work. ... Yeah, you're definitely an idiot that doesn't think this shit through.

1 hours later 5406467 Anonymous
>troops killing babies & innocent civilians >calling it "democracy" >killing leaders of other countries >what did Muammar Gaddafi do to you guys? >going to war with other countries to steal their resources >assuming the role as the world police every chance you get >letting a country infested with Jews dictate you guy's every decision >you all are extremely arrogant, but have no real reason to be >"WE GOT MORE GUNS AND AIRSHIPS TO KILL EVERYONE WE PROUD >:0" >literally, your nation is filled with soooo many dumb and ignorant people >OMG GUYS WHY TEH WORLD HAET US :(((

1 hours later 5406505 Anonymous
>tfw I would like to have a European friend but I'm afraid to talk to them because I think they'd automatically hate me because I'm American Whenever I use a mic on the vidya and some British guy asks if I'm American, I say that I'm Canadian. Then he goes on to make other Americans mad by mentioning 9/11 and being fat and I join him in a good laugh.

1 hours later 5406527 Anonymous
>I mean like the people who REALLY hate America I call it karma. And Irony. The US was founded off hatred and bigotry. I find it funny how you see the US as an angelic nation that deserves everyone's respect. Looks at what we're doing to the world. Just be lucky you aren't on the receiving end of our drone strikes bro.

1 hours later 5406540 Anonymous
>>5406467 >what did Muammar Gaddafi do to you guys? Last I checked, the US didn't kill him. The Libyans did. Everything else is right, though.

1 hours later 5406589 Anonymous
>>5406074 It's not supposed to be funny.

1 hours later 5406609 Anonymous
>>5406407 Russia wouldnt be able to take over the world, simply too undemocratic and unorganized to do it. China would be the lesser evil.

2 hours later 5407352 Anonymous
I just hate the "MURCA IS THE BEST COUNTRY EVER WOOO MUH FREEDUHMZ WE'RE SO MUCH BETTER THAN U LOLOL MUH JESUS MUH GUNZ". I swear it's an inferiority complex or something. I have nothing against the average American person or America itself.

2 hours later 5407402 Anonymous
>DEY JUS JELUS >EDGY TEEEEENS It's actually stuff like the following: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Irania n_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatem alan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat Also, covert interference in the postwar elections in France and Italy. This is a very very short list, by the way. Combine it with the attitude that America can do no wrong and that hate for it is solely based on teenage angst or jealousy, and you shouldn't be surprised when people hate the US. Take this thread, for instance. The ignorance of history depicted by many posters is pretty par for the course.

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