This disorder needs to stop. Yes, America was built on racism and slavery. Yes, America was built over the bones of Native Americans. Yes, we've had some major setbacks and looking back on American history we see many many problems. BUT, America is the greatest Nation on earth. America is a spectacular achievement. 150 years ago Americans were beginning to move toward California on Horse Drawn Wagons and now we have the largest city in the world in California. America, within a few hundred years, has gone from being a land full of woods to the Greatest World Power ever. Now, we can view that as a bad thing. Or we can view it as something which is a great thing. It is all up to us how we perceive that. Of course our nation has an ugly history, but name one that doesn't. Name just one nation that has never had an ugly and dark side in its history . . . The whole world is looking to America for solutions. It's time we start solving problems, and not just for ourselves but for the whole world. I mean hell, 40 years ago blacks and whites were eating together for the first time in public, here in America. It was acceptable for the first time, just 40 years ago. We've come a long way, VERY swiftly. We've got a long way still to go but there is no nation on this earth who has a willpower like Americans did back in the 80's. We need to put a stop to the way our hijacked government is acting. We are all people, of all nations, religions and cultures. America represents the entire world and the entire world knows it.
It's not American people or America as a whole people have a problem with, it's the Admin. The majority of Americans are good, kind people. But what we don't agree with is...well Bush. The Bush Admin is to be honest very scary. We don't know if Bush is going to Attack Iran or not. America and it's people are good people and Congratulations on all the things you managed to do in 210 years. YOU ARE GOOD PEOPLE! WE HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH YOU, JUST YOUR PRESIDENT.
Hating America is based on a lack of knowledge and understanding about how things work in the world. The people who run this country have no allegience to America. They are internationalists with a globalist agenda. Most of the people we think are running the country are not really running it at all. They are just placemen for people further up the ladder.
People tend to pin their hatred on some symbol. it's much easier than hating some amorphous concept. for instance, people who hate the fact that their small town is dieing hate the new wal-mart, not because it is the cause of their town's demise, but because it represents the forces of capitalism that are causing it. people who hated communism hated the soviet union, and people who hate terrorism pin their hatred on anyone (or anything) that is operated by "terrorist-looking" people. now, a lot of people hate western colonialisation, western ammorality, western capitalism, western consumerism, and western occupation. they need a concrete object to pin this hatred on, so they choose the biggest contributor to those percieved western injustices...
America is my adopted country. I love it. There is some great things and great people. Media does not focus on these great parts. Just the negitive. That can give one a false idea of what a country is like. I may hate the government or the way it being run. I don't hate the people who keep it going!!!!
Hatred and national pride spoken with arrogance are both problems in my books. They each seem to feed off each other. The more people 'hate' America the more of the reactionary responses from Americans are given, which fuel the outsiders hatred because those responses are typically the kind of things that the outsiders hate hearing. A sense of national pride isn't too bad of a thing. It's just those rants where it seems like the rest of the world is summarily dismissed because America is the end all and be all of the universe - well that's usually what gets non-American goats. You are a great country. You have come along way. You've got some great things going on there. You've got beautiful land and some beautiful people. Definitely one of the better countries in the world. Be glad you live where you do. Wave your flag high but don't go rubbing it in peoples faces.
America has become complacent in the last twenty some years. People voted only to protect their assets, not for the better good. So we should not be shocked that currently we are being pitted against each other. Those that are benefitting monitarily from the current conflicts are not sacrificing their own children to cause.
I’ve always said that the US had and may possible still have, the potential to be a great force for good in the world the problem is that so often it hasn’t. It might seem convenient to forget its history but often it is that history that has shaped the way people think today. I mean the whole ‘manifest destiny’ idea of American values and ideas been superior to others lead to the belief that Americans interests should take precedence over others and what Americans thought should be what others think and these things could, if not should, be forced on others even against there will. This has been a theme running right through US history from the many interventions in Latin America, through involvements in South East Asia and now Iraq. That mentality is still prevalent and only if it changes will the US change. As to the wagon trains to California goes these it wasn’t so much about wholesome families moving west to seek a better life it was more about the greed of the gold rush, bringing theft, corruption and murder. That pattern was repeated time and again in the ‘winning of America’, the desire for money at whatever cost to others. It often lead to a strip and burn mentality, find a resource, use it up, move on. This mentality is still there in pollution, the exploitation of workers, in the disregard for global warming and the US’s brand of consumerist capitalism. Only if those attitudes changes will the US change. And these actions were often accompanied by staggering levels of hypocrisy, acts of gross greed or naked imperialism have been hidden behind walls of religious or secular justification which any sane observer would see for the rubbish they are, but which many Americans continue to base there view of the world on. The problem is that many Americans prefer myth to reality and they would happily see people suffer and die to uphold there myths. They need to open their eyes to reality if they are to change. Even today Americans dismiss actions of the pass not by learning about them and therefore learning from them but by claiming that those acts are common to every other nation and should therefore be forgotten. That is not a way of bringing about any changes. ** The problem to me with looking towards the US for solutions is that it seems to be one of the major problems. Many Americans feel that the US should lead the world but too often they don’t seem to want to lead by consensus but by dictate, they don’t seem to want to listen and when the opposing noises of other nations get loud enough they get huffy or threaten isolationism. The thing is what has US and the American people to offer the world? Their political system doesn’t seem to be working that well and seems rather corrupt and corrupting. I don’t think its form of slash and burn capitalism is at all healthy. And there belligerent form of individualism seems incredibly destructive. ** To me if Americans really want to help they need to give up all idea of US hegemony and put there weight toward a world parliament which fairly represents global views of which the US is just one part.
People always like to have something to blame then they can pretend they are not responsible in any way.
I am Canadian. Most of us do not hate you, but your loud, obnoxious and ignorant cousin is a jerkface.
As was the UK. As the UK was built over the bones of the slaughtered Celtic tribes of Albion. And when it comes to imperialism our history is a drop in the ocean. Yes. I'm pointing fingers, but I'm doing it to make a point. Most of the American-bashing on HF seems to come from the UK. Look at your own history before you engage your mouth. You have over 2000 years of written history. We have 230. You were badgered and maligned into returning sovereignty to over 100 nations. It's a bit hypocritical to do that to us. We're still evolving. Our political system was designed to circumvent corruption in the late 18th century. We need to have a valid, supported and LEGALLY ELECTED administration to get us out of this mess we're in and then put the nation back in the economic position we were in BEFORE Bush. Then we need to modernize our system of government. this will take 10-20 years of a continuous, uniform administration. Ain't gonna happen. So basically I'm saying, we're stuck with what we have. Just remember to blame the head asshole in charge, not the people who had nothing to do with his idiocy. We're not innocent, but we didn't cause this.
Cause they hate their own government and instead of bashing on it they decide to bash on America because we are in the news more often and are the target of bashing around the world.
I'm ashamed of what this country has become.........an Empire, and like all great empires it will fail..........probably sooner than later. I love my land and my people, coast to coast, but I fucking despise my government, I despise imperialism, and I despise plutocracies.
Don't hate your government, Rob. WE are supposed to be the governing body. THEY are supposed to be our elected representatives, bending to our will, doing what is right for us, for the earth and her people. WE have failed by losing sight of what is right, what is good and what is important in life. THEY have failed by not doing what they were elected to do. But you're right, the US will fall, more than likely from within.
I agree completely. However I must point out what's in bold Benjamin Franklin said "The price of liberty is eternal vigelance" well, we fucked up. Diebold took over the elections, and now our leaders are being elected by corporations, not the people, sure some of the people may vote, but the corporations tell them how to vote. No 31 flavors here...........only chocolate and vanilla.
America is very powerful but power only equates to potential. We have a long way to go towards a very obtainable but difficult objective of world peace but we can also fall into disaster. Our strength is a two edged sword. We can become the greatest nation in the last few thousand years or the biggest black mark in written history. It all depends on how well we can expand the conscious mind of as many people as possible.
