why are so many people willing to believe the most ridiculous lies about the United States.  If these people hate the US so much, why don't they just leave?
205091
because they want to believe the worst about us. i come from a Dutch family. when my grandpa still lived in Holland, he said they all hated Americans, but he said its a jealous hate. bc we have more. they want what we have
444753
sad to say the usa is hated everywhere and to those who dont think so get out and travel
139619
Don't worry about those people. I think that they're just scared to see that there are still people outside of the U.S. that support our president. They try to use the argument that Bush is making everyone else in the world hate us, so it takes away from that argument. They usually can't use facts to back up what they are saying, so they have to resort to name calling and attacking the opposition. Don't listen to them at all. As an American, I care what people from other countries think, so please keep posting your views!\n\nP.S. I've seen your answers and I think they're great!
622805
No.  The only "utter stupidity" is thinking we can insult the majority of the free world and still stay on good terms with them.  Also, interference with the affairs with other countries will not earn us any friends.  People don't like to feel like they have no say in their destiny and that goes for independent nations, too.
190710
I love this country too and I would never leave permanently. \n\nMostly I think people like to complain. Like you said, if they hated it that much, they'd leave.
666131
You are talking about the America before George Bush. Don't be so quick to jump on the "I hate America" bandwagon. Most people hate us simply because they do not enjoy the freedoms we have here and they are envious of that. Move here and change your attitude.
665694
coz americans are dumass and brainwashed...
312836
Good Lord! Another "attack" on Americans! If we are as awful as these people seem to think, than why do so many people want to immigrate here? People from other countries need to realize that they don't KNOW what Americans are like, they just hear media propaganda as to what we are really like. It is ignorant to believe everything you hear or read. Not everything is 100% truthful. It is also ignorant to assume that you know exactly what Americans or any other foreign person is like. My entire family has raised their children to treat ALL people with respect until they do something to lose that respect. I have always treated my parents with respect, and my parents treated their parents with respect etc. All the children in my family treat their parents with respect. I don't know where you got your ridiculous information from, but not ALL American kids treat their parents with disrespect. I am sure not ALL Muslim kids treat their parents with respect either. \n\nk.m.
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Does it ever occur to you that the media has portrayed the world and the events in it falsely, that your opinion is based on lies and garbled information geared to an insane agenda?  Do you really think that such a vast portion of the world's population hates US government because of propaganda by the so-called terrorists and not because of heinous acts of gross TERRORISM committed by the US government and its protectorate TERRORIST state of Israel?
631436
I would say that the current government is definitely not what the majority of American people want.  The American system is not looking much like a democracy these days.  I would say the people that do support the actions of the current administration are mostly those that are still eating up the propaganda that they are being fed by the monstrous corporate machine to which the administration caters.  The USA is almost certainly headed for deeper sh*t than it is already in because of Bush's policies.  The idea that destroying a country, and inflicting such massive suffering on its people is making the world and the US more secure is rediculous.  All you have to do to see this is ask yourself what you would want done in retaliation for your family being killed in a bomb dropped on your home by another country's military.  This administration's foreign policy is making more people angry at the US on a daily basis.
509420
It is truly sad how many believe the nonsense that passes for news in the US.\n\nlove and blessings Don
559290
Who told you that America is a great nation? Other than military power there is not a single aspect in which another country doesn't surpass America. It is a country of excesses, full of idiots and ruled by a few evil but intelligent people.\nIt is not surprising that those few smart (but still evil) people can easily make the fools believe whatever they want to.
188182
Americans can't seem to have an intelligent debate anymore. Our media-obsessed culture cuts everything up into 10 second sound-bytes. The easiest way to brainwash someone is to repeat the same phrase over and over. Every speech our president gives includes some reference to 9/11. How often have we heard things like "freedom is on the march", or "they hate us for our freedoms"?\n\n      “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” - Joseph Goebbels
593294
People really don't know what they think they do. THey believe what they are told, which is lies. We're getting all kinds of stories being told, it's tough to tell what is true.
395707
they're basically jealous.  america is powerful, for some reason the rest of the world cannot separate the people from the govt.  and they don't like our govt.
404688
Sadly, most of the people critical of the US don't understand that very few of us are as liberal or conservative as the extremeists they see on T.V.  And they also look at their country's reporting of the President, and assume what he things completely and absolutely reflects what the American people believe.\n\nNatually, this is 100% false.  First off, only 1/2 of the country votes for the President who wins, and then he can lose popularity over time.  Right now, only 32% (roughly) support the President, and also everybody disagrees with the President on at least one issue, and a slew of people don't argee with him on Iraq.\n\nUnfortunately, that's what almost everybody else is judging us on.  They look at the failures of Iraq, look at the President, then assume we're all JUST like him, when we're not.  In fact, most of the people who voted for him aren't even like him.  There are all different types of people in the U.S., but those critical can only go by what their eyes and ears recieve.\n\nI wish all these people would go to some of our news sites, as well as many of the political blogs found in this country, then come here and read the questions, beforew finally coming here and spending a week in the U.S., just to see how much we all differ from each other.\n\nI, nor anyone else, like to be stereotyped.  It's never a good thing, and can often hurt a country in it's world standing.\n\nSimple fact: those who aren't here, just don't know.
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Because we live in the age of the (undeclared) American Empire, and what the US says, even if it reeks of double standard, goes. \nIf people are pissed off it's only because they are inherently evil...