An interesting fact about the so-called "USA"...?

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Originally posted by barrk
You should sit on this side of the computer and feel the hatred, animosity and ill will washing over you first thing in the morning............then I don't think you'd take it so lightly.

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Er! I do sort of sit this side of the computer. Candians are very upset about the fact that the rest of the world assumes they are American.

Besides, I get loads of jip when I'm in Europe for being English. (Ya -see, to Europeans, Scotland = England), and nobody really likes them very much.

Anyway, I don't particularly hate anyone (apart from Datsun drivers with flat caps who drive at 30mph in a 70mph zone).

We've gone over this before, and my theory is that your countrymen (& women) take their country far to seriously.:) Maybe people out there do hate Americans, and I'm sure there are plenty of them. But I don't think any of them post to this forum. (Unless you can enlighten us with a few names;))

SD

I'm going to sit here and await your angry retort meekly:rolleyes:

Yes SD we have been over this before. I was just rather taken aback by the two extremely negative.....not at all joking or humourus posts by cyberwarp this morning.....sorry no angry retort.....just sick of the entire subject:rolleyes:

Well I sit here and think things like, "we are just successful, why is that a crime?"

Then I wonder if Microsoft says the same thing. We are not like Microsoft. We don't shove anything down anyone's throat.

And then again, that's not true. We have military bases all over the planet. Japan is a protected nation after the last World War, and we still concern ourselves with South Korea.

We also ignore world problems that don't concern us, and we get involved in stupid things that don't involve democracy, or freedom, or human rights, when we liberate an monarchy because we want cheap gasoline.

But you know what... all of this upsets American citizens, too. We aren't bad people, we are bothered by the same things, but... anyway....

The one thing that I do think we get a very bad rap for is tourism. We go overseas and there are people who are excited to see us, or people who hate us. I'm sorry, but if we have tourist here, we don't hate them. We as a collective do get a little indignant with people who naturalize as citizens but don't bother to learn English. English is not an official language, we just don't want to spend the money on hiring only multi-lingual police.

If anyone came to the States on vacation, I think they would (for the most part) feel welcome. But if we go overseas, we can't help but feel contempt.

Oh, anyway...

Fair enough!

If you ever need any positive will to wash over you, just give the ole Surf Demon a call! Tee Hee, that sounds a lot cruder then I intended.:D

SD

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If anyone came to the States on vacation, I think they would (for the most part) feel welcome. But if we go overseas, we can't help but feel contempt.

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I've met some extremely pleasant American tourists on my jaunts around this planet, but I've also met some not-so-pleasant ones. I'm sure Britain has good tourists and bad tourists (you know, the ones that go for the alternative sports relating to football :rolleyes:)

American tourists suffer contempt? Where?

I have experienced superior and patronising attitudes of American tourists in Britain and I wouldn'g be suprised if that wound some people up.

We here on the news that most American people view Britain as a 'diseased' country where the food hygene is poor and not safe to eat. I've also heard (and I appologise if this is incorrect) that many Americans do not distinguish between BSE and Foot & Mouth!

Just for the record, Britain has one of the strictest hygene regulations in place in the world when it comes to meat. OK, our meat isn't pumped full of antibiotics and hormones but it's still safe. BSE is not a hygene related disease and the recent outbreak of foot & mouth is down to (probably) one dodgy import of un-treated pig feed.

Things like this do not endear us to America but I should stress that I have met good American people and there is no excuse for racism.