Will someone kindly tell me why people judge a person's character on the reputation of her country?
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Some people can't get past the stereotypes. Gives you more reason to prove them wrong. Free speech rings true, say whatever you want, as long as you don't make death threats. Usually the people in black suits have tracked you down and are holding you at gunpoint if you even utter one word about 'killing' someone.
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Character is who you are as evidenced by the choices you make and the way you live your life and interact with people and situations.\n\nReputation is like a poll rating, a consensus of public opinion about you by people who know you or have heard of you or read about you.\n\nThey are not separate from each other, but they also are not a total picture of you as a person.  You can have a good character but have your reputation tarnished by a single mistake or rumor or accident of circumstances.  You can have a bad character, but build a good reputation by hiding your evil intentions and actions from publication.  Sometimes your motivations (linked to your character) are not considered, only your actions, so your reputation is not always accurate.\n\nYou need to decide which is more important to you - the easy way (making choices based on how your reputation will be affected), or the hard way (making choices based on what you think is right, no matter how your reputation may suffer).
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This is a place where you can spread so many good things about your country among the people all around the globe. Don’t give any bad impression to others about your own country. If you can see just one good thing about India, post here. Dont give any wrong perceptions.   Already people have so many wrong perceptions about us here.
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they think they can tell how a person is by just looking at them. I've misjudged people many times only to find out that they're really good people. Eventually, I stopped doing that because judging someone usually ends up to be wrong.
420031
Respecting others will earn respect for you in their eyes. People don't realize they need to put down their pride & understand that people are people, no one is better than anyone else!
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Your words are the only thing judged here...no one cares what country you come from...and if they do...who cares their opinion isn't worth much anyway....
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We can sometimes be spoiled brats.  Rightly or wrongly most of us grow up thinking we live in the greatest country in the world, not because of who we are as individuals but because of our institutions and our history.  We naively expect the entire world to feel the same way and for everyone to "love" us.  I suppose it is kind of an insecurity, possibly because we are this melting pot.  I think most countries with single strong ethnic identities probably don't suffer from this insecurity.  They are who they are and they just don't care what anyone thinks.  Americans get this attitude but in a different reactionary way.  Trying to give an example:  The French say might criticize America for something it's doing in the world...and it feels no embarrassment about doing so...they are perfectly justified in doing so.  However after this "affront" we become insulted...kind of get our "feelings hurt"....then respond with a kind of beligerant screw you attitude.  I suppose we come off kind of whiney at times like that.  On the other hand it seems that other countries aren't quite as "thin skinned".  So I don't think it's an inferiority complex...but I think it's a bit of over concern with image.  I think we should just do what we do and quit worrying about what people think.  Personally though I have to admit that i'm becoming weary of the weight of all the worlds problems and if the world wants us out of them maybe we should just get out of them...and let them deal with it all.  Seems to me like we are only having our entire economy destroyed by dealing with the rest of the world anyway..so shut the borders...bring all the troops home, cut off all foreign aid, no more trade, sit back, and carry a big big stick.  Maybe then the rest of the world will find us acceptable.\n\ntruthseeker...you are seeking anything but the truth or if you are it's to seek it out and destroy it wherever you find it.
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What is the English identity? Is it the same as it was a generation ago? A century ago? Surely a nation's character is in a continual state of flux and evolution? I don't think there is anything to worry about, this is business as usual for a healthy country.
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Someone that loves his country more then power , wants to see that every person living here gets a fair shake . Stands up for this country against our enemy's , looks out for the weak as well as the strong , is honest with the American People , has integrity , truthful and won't lie to us even if we don't want to hear it . The American people  should come first before Corporations . Have experts to advise him and listen to them
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Hey i'm from Nigeria, i'm not gonna tell not to do business there or something. but you should be carefull. That's all. Find someone you can trust\n\nAny hey DUDE that talks "s h i t" about my COUNTRY, just watch it. I don't think it wise talking about people like that, Is your country perfect?
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I know technically you cannot judge a persons character by their past record, but that's how it's done. Seems like your past has been haunting you for a while. Hope you can get past that in the future.
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Ah, a question after my own heart.  Miss Manners laments the "to each his own" mentality that dominates the way in which we behave in the presence of others and the lack of dignity we grant for ourselves.\n\n{Additional notes} When Miss Manners read this question she was not thinking of comparing Americans with people in other countries.  She was considering the present-day situation which pervades not only American culture, but also around the world.\n\nThe questioner gave a present-day example, and therefore Miss Manners had in mind present-day observances that compare to times past.
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I'm from Australia.\n\nI think that a lot of people in the USA don't know very much about countries outside of the USA (compared with people who live in other countries), so sometimes they appear to be misinformed (which is easily mistaken for arrogance).\nHowever, I have met many nice people from the USA who are not in the least arrogant.\n\nThe politics of the government of the USA are a different matter entirely.  I think the USA's foreign policy is very arrogant and patronising, and I think it gives the country a bad reputation that some parts of it at least do not deserve.
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There is no "best" country. Patriotism is not the belief of "my country is the best because I was born there", rather it is the knowledge of what you owe your country based upon what your country has given you. Those who are born in countries like American, Britain, and Australia (among others) certainly owe their countries a great deal of loyalty and civic participation, but no country is "better."
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I would guess from many factors in your post, that you are a foreigner.\n\nIf you lived here, and knew the history of this country, you would know that while the legacy of racism is not entirely gone, it is nothing like what you describe.\n\nMany nations have had a violent or biased past and have done things they are not proud of.\n\nThe USA at least admits most of our mistakes and attempts to correct them through the democratic process.  If you don't understand that, then you have my pity.
660571
Maybe because it's America?\nSometimes I watch BBC news or read foreign news online to see what others think of us.
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No such thing: every country is and should be unique. That gives a country it's identity. I think it depends on the mentality or personality as well as friendlyness. How boring it would be to see a satelite of countries acting the same!!