Are Americans Bullies?
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About 51% of them are either ignorant or arrogant or couldn't care less about the rest of the world. They go in to sell arms and broker oil deals, they call it liberation.\n\nThe other 49% are people worth worshipping. People who realize that America isn't the world. That there are people in other places. People who aren't terrorists. People who deserved not to have themselves and their families massacred and then called collateral damage.\n\nPower to these folks. The rest of the world loves you.
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Ill just remove my toungue from my cheek while is answer this.  Looking at the other answers i think you have proved your point.  Obvoisley no one has read the question properly, or understood the tone which you set it in!  Most people will either say "hell yeah!" or "im ameican and im not stupid" etc.  \nso i think that most americans on here have a degree of stupidty becuase they have no grasp of irony, and no humour when it comes to laughing at themselves.  Although they are nice people i agree, generally.
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i would say americans are
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God Bless the USA!!!!!! We as Americans answered this question during the Revolution, we answered this again on December 7th 1941 when Adolf Hitler threathen the World.\nAnd when people like Saddam Hussien threaten his neighbors and broke every promise under the UN Charter for peace.\n\nTHE ANSWER IS: WHATEVER IT TAKES TO FIGHT EVIL!!!!!\n    WE WILL NEVER GIVE INTO A BULLY!!!!!!!!!!
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Yes, girls can be bullies too.  I had a girl bullying me when I was in elementary/junior high school.  I'm not a fighter and did my best to avoid her.  However, I finally had it and hit her in the stomach with my lunch box.  She never bothered me again.\n\nBullies are basically cowards.  When I hit her, she stopped trying to bully me.
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To say that Americans act childlish is really a childish question.  Some do, of course.  But many do not.  But then, that holds true for peoiple living in France, England, Germany, Russia, China, Japan . . . etc.  It has absolutely nothing to do with the country you are from.
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I'm American and I don't think they do. I think some of us think that we are inferior though.
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The main reason Americans are such prime targets of stereotyping is becuase they are part of the most predominent country. No, I'm not saying they're the greatest. The truth is that America itself is a very hypocritical nation in that it was first organized against imperialism ,but now has bases on almost every country. You ask why America is stereotyped? Well, would you like one of the newest nations just strutting around as if they could do no wrong ,in your own backyard no less? Anyway aside from America's bad points you are absolutely correct. However, America does feed most of it's own bad press in statistics and the news. The question you should be asking is why all news reporters just happen to find the least literate, fattest, and most interesting characters to interview. Its simple, it sells. America, whether people want to admit it or not is a bussines and what is a bussiness if they're product doesn't sell? Its not a bussines at all. So in reality all the stereotypes and slander that plague your tv set is old fashioned American ingenuity at work. By the way, America is a diverse country. I guess you could say America is a little bit of every country so when people in other countries stereotype America they're just laughing at what they would be if they had freedom. I don't hate America ,but i do hate some of its characteristics. No country is perfect and at the moment America is as close to perfect as we can hope for.
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I don't like bullys. And it has been my experience that people usually attack others personally because they are unhappy about things in their own life. Picking on someone else distracts them from their own faults. Its not fair and sad but it is what we have to deal with. As for class clowns, the ones I went to school with were cool and usually made jokes at themselves.
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I have no problem with most of America.  There are some stereotypes...and some of them may be true.  \n\n1.  Centric (not knowing much about the world outside USA)\n2.  Boasters (biggest everything)\n3.  Bullies (current foreign policy)\n4.  Wasters/not environmentally friendly (not wanting to support biofuel production to its max...see Bush's comments on the use of corn for biodiesel)\n\nHaving said that, there are plenty, more than plenty of Americans who are concerned and friendly and humble and just like everyone else.  Unfortunately, we don't hear much from them, as the newscasts prefer stories that are shocking and awful.  So the world's view of the typical American is probably skewed.
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I must preface what I have to say just a bit...I love America, and what I say here is not a reflection on ALL Americans, but how we have gotten the reputation that we have!           I have traveled extensively and it is true Americans are VERY disliked! It because of a few different reasons. One being entitlement. Most American think they are due the best and fastest service, that they are entitled to tell other people how to live and what to believe. We are a nation that is very spoiled and really has no grasp on other peoples lives. Americans...I hate to say are a complacent people also, which leads to mis-understanding from other cultural groups. Finally there is our President...I think from what you wrote above I need not expound on this issue. Yes Americans ARE very dis-liked, but this is not all together unfounded.
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While many people believe bullies act tough in order to hide feelings of insecurity and self-loathing, in fact, bullies tend to be confident, with high self-esteem. They are generally physically aggressive, with pro-violence attitudes, and are typically hot-tempered, easily angered, and impulsive, with a low tolerance for frustration. Bullies have a strong need to dominate others and usually have little empathy for their targets. Male bullies are often physically bigger and stronger than their peers. Bullies tend to get in trouble more often, and to dislike and do more poorly in school than teens who do not bully others. They are also more likely to fight, drink, and smoke than their peers.\n\nTeens who come from homes where parents provide little emotional support for their children, fail to monitor their activities, or have little involvement in their lives, are at greater risk for engaging in bullying behavior. Parents' discipline styles are also related to bullying behavior: an extremely permissive or excessively harsh approach to discipline can increase the risk of teenage bullying.\n\nSurprisingly, bullies appear to have little difficulty in making friends. Their friends typically share their pro-violence attitudes and problem behaviors (such as drinking and smoking) and may be involved in bullying as well. These friends are often followers who do not initiate bullying, but participate in it.\n\nAs mentioned above, some teenagers not only bully others but are also the targets of bullies themselves. Like other bullies, they tend to do poorly in school and engage in a number of problem behaviors. They also tend to be socially isolated, with few friends and poor relationships with their classmates.
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America doesnt hate other countries. We just fight with them lol
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I don't think the majority of this country has a superiority complex. Government might... ha ha. Americans are self-involved and don't seem to care what goes on in other parts of the world. That might fuel the superior stereotype.
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HATE is a very strong word, but along such negative sentiments, perhaps it's because the U.S. has a very aggressive foreign policy that involves itself in the affairs of other nations, often times for its own interests above those of those countries. According to the President's last State of the Union address, this progressive and competitive edge is what affords Americans a certain lifestyle which, often times, is unavailable in those "hateful" countries. The U.S. comes across as "arrogance" at times and in many cases, just "ignorant' of other countries.\n\nOf course, there are religious assumptions as well. And what exactly you mean by "Americans"... in general?
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news flash folks...people thought this long before Bush was in the white house. lol Could blame Clinton too. Could blame the attitude people see among rude demanding people travelling in their countries. \nI have a good friend for years in Canada and he always used to grumble something about Americans then laugh and say "not you you're not like that". I'd always ask like what but he couldn't describe it. About 10-1/2 years ago I started working in an international hostel...and one night all of a sudden I got it. Americans come through the door demanding me me me me. Some others do too but not as much as Americans. They'll elbow in front of other guests. They are inconsiderate. Not all are like this but if that is all you see of someone it's easy to think everyone from there are like that. There were people travelling from UK or other countries that knew more about US geography than some Americans did.
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Let's simply face the facts\nsome Americans ARE terrorists\nwhen you get right down to the textbook definition of the term\nthere are a lot of Americans who conduct themselves in a manner as to terrorize others.......Terrorists are not only the people who strap bombs to their bodies and commit acts of mass murder in the name of a cause....they can be the dude that beats the hell out of his family in order to obtain dominance  over their every move.....it can be the gangsters that push people around and harm folks to get them to do their bidding.....An employer who dominates a workforce of people so dependent on the income they receive from a job and so in need of the job that they endure unbelievably harsh and inhumane treatment----so--- yes---there are some Americans who are extremely scary because they ARE terrorists-- just not seen in the same light as what we are being lead to believe is the ONLY form of terrorism !!