is america the stupidiest and fattest country ???
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What pig pen do you call home?
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i agree. American culture has such in influence on all other countries that they think they know us better than we no ourselves. Idiots oh and God bless America
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first of all, most of the answers on here are a joke.  most of the answers here from non-americans go into detail about how snobby, condescending, and judgemental americans are.  hmmmm.  that's really funny, considering the fact that your comments lead everyone to believe that you too are, well, snobby, condescending, and judgemental.\n\namerica was founded in certain principles and ideas that unfortunately have been compromised over the years.  this is rather sad, naturally.  however, it's pretty retarded to hate an entire nation of people based on the actions of the president or a handful of people who happen to be in power.  i dare anyone to name me a country with a perfect government.\nhmmmmmm...\nwell?\n\nalso, i see comments about americans liking fast food, and americans being fat, materialistic, wealthy, etc etc.\ni've had the excellent fortune to have the opportunity to travel all over the world.  i can't think of one single country i have been to, from europe to south america to asia that isn't covered with fast food joints... that doesn't have overweight people...\nas far as americans being materialistic, some are, sure.  i saw many more materialistic people in certain european countries, korea, argentina.  people who live in shacks but just HAVE to have that burberry shirt and those gucci sunglasses.\n\namerica has faults, but who doesn't?  america is better and worse than other countries in some aspects, and i'm 100% sure that can be said for all nations.  go to america and meet some americans before making ignorant comments... instead of watching whatever propaganda is on the news channels.  if i believed everything i read in the news about other countries, i'd be xenophobic too.  so get over yourself and move on with your lives.
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The USA is founded on of-the-people, for-the-people, by-the-people.\n\nIf you have some method to audit for these "almost-starved" types of people, - then let the rest of us know.\n\nMy grandparents did not come to America to have big brother peeking in windows to make sure I ate my broccoli!!
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Haha I am not fat or tall so thank you for saying the word "majority."  We live in fast food nation.  There are a lot of lazy people out there who eat horrible meals and too large of portions.  They don't exercise and drink 6 Cokes per day.  They drive everywhere and they don't go see the doctor.  It's cheaper to go to the Dollar Menu at McDonald's than buy fruits, veggies and fish to have for dinner... and it is quicker!
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America is fat because of the fact that we are so used to have convinience at our door step.  Seriously, drive down the street and you have what?  Sonic, Mcdonald's, Pizza Hut?  The list can go on and on, but that's one of the reasons.  Also, families now a days are so busy.  Not just the parents, but the children as well.  From soccer practice to school, they get home, and one of the parent's will be home, but they'll be too tired to cook.  So, instead of cooking a healthy meal and sitting together as a family, what do they do but drive to the nearest restauran/fast food place, and eat there.  As far as the youth of America being lazy..convinience again.  They have taken advantage of technoligies at their fingertips...to television from computers.  Instead of going outside riding a bike, they decide to sit on their butts and do one or the other--television or computer, or handheld games.
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I am American myself and I asked a similar question on this site, yet i may have phrased it offensively since many took offense. I asked who thought Americans were arrogant and dumb. Many foreigners thought that Americans are. What I think is: America is a very powerful country and with this comes big weights, people tend to be more arrogant and closed-minded since they think America is so great and other countries do tend to be jealous. I have experienced it being born and living here, some are that way, yet there are many who are not arrogant or dumb but open-minded, and they have to take the stereotypics.
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Did you really just ask this question?  and you think Americans are silly, I think its the UN that is "silly"
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I wouldn't say that all Americans are huge. However, that tends to be the stereotype. I haven't ate at McDonald's in at least a year, don't see the point in it. I can clearly cook my own food and enjoy doing and its cheaper. My husband and I like to eat a lot of rice and we also love potatoes, we eat a lot of salads. We only eat lean meat, mostly chicken and turkey breast, but some beef. we eat TONS of vegetables and fruits, all in all we eat really healthy. I wouldn't say Americans fault is the quality of food we eat, its the amount and the amount of exercise we get. We have a plentiful life and a lazy one at that, hard to stay healthy in that aspect.
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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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no in this case america takes the cake, literally. appromixately 60% of americans are overweight. i don't even think any other countries even come close to us.
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idk... i thought girls from everywhere were sl**s, wh****, and bi*****s.  you know, i never really thought that amercians were that way.  we have a bad reputation with every country... i just never heard that one before.  we're fat, lazy, rich, and now were sl**s.  isnt that great?  lol... it might be influence of the media or sumthin that they don't have in all the other countries, maybe because we do more drugs, maybe its because they kno if they dont give in they might be another statistic for teen rape... who knows? im american, but i cant speak for anyone but myself.
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Beacause Americans are too lazy to learn something interesting in a classroom and are always playing video games all day long and watching too much garbage on TV!!!! I for one was born here in the U.S. know what part of the world a country is located and I'm bilingual so that makes me smarter than the one-dimensional, one language American that wants to be ignorant and dumb. Most Americans don't even know how to read a gas gauge on a car when it runs out empty on them.
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since America is predomiately Christian & America is also incredibly FAT, with what, something like 2/3 of all adults being overweight...I think that answers your question!\n\nas for the stale taste...why do you think they serve them with wine? HAH!
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Wow. Lots of excuses to be fat, arn't there?\n\nFirst, fad diets don't work. They work against the way the human body is meant to work, which is never healthy in the long run. (for example: everyone who followed that no-carb diet for a full year or more is going to end up with kidney problems within the next decade)\n\nAmericans live in a culture where food is offered as quick comfort. Foods are high in grease, fat, salt, artifical colors and flavors, refined sugars and bleached flour. Diets consist mostly of fats, with a severe lack of fruits and vegetables. Even meats, which have healthy fat that humans need, are often fried in oils or covered in gravies or sauces. \n\nHumans were not meant to survive on empty calories.\n\nAdd to the nutrition problem the fact that Americans don't have steady exercise in their lives. Compared to most countries, Americans spend a lot of time indoors. We go from bed to a car to a chair at a desk to a car to a sofa and back to bed. \n\nIn much of the world, few people would take a car 5 blocks to run an errand. In America, few people would spend 20 minutes walking somewhere they could reach by car in 5 minutes, even if they don't have anything to do afterward.\n\nSpending an hour in a gym 3 times a week doesn't make up for a lack of physical exertion during the rest of the week - and few people even do that.\n\nI heard a joke that a woman was going to have bariatric surgery. It was the only thing she hadn't tried besides diet and exercise.\n\nThe scary part is, most people would rather have surgery than be accountable for their own health and wellness. And they have no one to blame but themselves: not stress or glands or McDonalds.\n\nBut I guess personal accountability isn't an american value anymore, either.
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Even Americans are mortified to see themselves and their neighbors be so huge. Check out WalMart sometime. Criminy. \n\nI think that people tend to do what they have seen done before them. Look at the impossibility of the 4 minute mile. Once the barrier was broken, there were many more that came right after. \n\nWhen one sees truly huge people, it is easy to think of ones self as "not too fat." I'm not as big as "that" person, so I am not so bad. \n\nAmericans don't all do things as a group. We live in an enormous country. We tend to do things that our families and neighbors do. There is very little true necessary activity in this nation anymore. Farming is done with machines, clothes are washed in machines, dishes are washed similarly, no ironing is truly necessary, food is microwavable and served up instantly in fast food restaurants. \n\nOur lifestyle, in general, seems to be one of needing more hours in the day. Most people are working couples, kids get second place to the parents' jobs. There isn't much time for family life, and for personal recreation, much let alone kayaking, cycling, mountain hiking, and volksmarching. \n\nThe hectic lives many Americans lead does not lend itself to healthful living. \n\nAnother thing to consider is that most Americans are not rich. Most Americans work very hard to try to "keep up with the Joneses." There are images of monied perfection that we try to attain, and it takes 2 jobs and not much time for anything else. The people who you see as jetsetters, ski bunnies, and driving great cars and living in fantastic homes are the top of the economic pile. Most of us are not as well heeled, and can't afford the gym, or even find time for a nice walk. \n\nYou talk about how the rest of the world views Americans. Sorry that the fat slobs here are ruining our world image. Sometimes it might be impossible, but a nice dream, to think that others might check in their own backyards before judging the rest of the world. \n\nI know that Americans are not the favorites of the world. But again, the great majority of us are decent, caring, well-balanced individuals, with open minds and hearts. Even the very fattest of us all might surprise the rest of the svelte world population with intelligence, dignity, inner grace, and kindness. \n\nSorry America doesn't present the best picture for you or the "rest of the world." Sorry about the starving folks in other countries. Truly I am. But to be angry with us because of a weight issue is to be small-minded and ignorant of the real factors facing transglobal relations. \n\nWe're fat because we have access to unhealthy foods, live an unhealthy lifestyle, and are caught in a rut of modern living. Habits are hard to break, and no one is eating extra calories to cause international hardship. Perhaps the next time I consider putting that second serving of Cheerios into my cereal bowl, I'll remember how it'll look to the rest of the world, and be ashamed.
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I disagree with the choise, but I wouldn't say it was 'stupid'.  For example, there are many people (especially Americans) who find putting down the fork to be just has difficult as putting down a cigarette, and that's just as unhealthy, so singling out one group and calling them 'stupid' doesn't make much sense.