If you question American policy and the leaders behind it, are you anti-American?
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Criticism against Americans does not mean anti-American but enjoyment of freedom to express.
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The mind set that you're criticizing actually has a historical term called American Exceptionalism.  It roots all the way back to the beginning of the USA and it is the belief that America is truly unique and special in the world.  Americans operate off this assumption that is ingrained in them from birth that says America is superior.  It's naturally for someone to have pride in their country, but unfortunately, most of us Americans take it to a an extreme level.  This is why the Bush administration thinks that it's O.K. for America to ignore the Kyoto Protocols and that the Geneva Conventions don't apply to them.  And thus your problem, Americans on Yahoo are so ignorant that they just assume that well of course everyone on yahoo is an American.  It's an American company in English!  And they would be surprised to know that people from around the world use Yahoo.  I think you are right to take offense at Americans who do believe that the USA is everything and I agree that they are wrong.  One of the answers to the problem and what allowed me to see it in myself was to travel abroad.  And I don't mean go be a Ugly American tourist, but I went to Brasil and actually staying in someones house for two weeks and experienced what life is like for them and it forced me to realize that the American way of doing things is not the best and that the USA is really only a small part of the world.
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Bit of a harsh generalisation isn't it?  I'm English and I don't hate American's.  They've never done anything to me, I've been there twice and enjoyed it, and I'm not the sort of person to hate a country because of the politics that go with it.
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Hey, I don't like American politics and I AM American.\nGo figure!
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NO!!! And the ones who do hate America are ignorant and do not know that if the USA stopped all foreign aid, their\ncountries would go bankrupt in a heart beat.
948474
You don't understand being an American.
505624
Oh man. You just questioned the United States government. You are not ordinary.
157452
I think liberals have a valid point when they say that we have alienated some countries over Iraq, but most of those countries weren't really lining up to help us anyway. The prevailing attitude that you see with many liberals is that America's foreign policies are to blame for 9/11 and other terror attacks, and this is simply not true. The terrorists who attacked America on 9/11 were the same terrorist who attacked America several times during the Clinton administration, when Clinton went out of his way to be "the good guy" towards the islamic world. Foreign policy is not to blame. The terrorists simply hate the Israelis, and therefore, we are guilty by association.
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I never said that.  I love America.  Although Republican's lost, I am still hoping that we can stop fighting each other and ALL be proud to be Americans.  That is on BOTH sides.
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I think he was right... the U.S. has done a lot of good in the world...\n\nbut I also think that the reason why we have done so much good is that we take time and question our actions... I don't think you can "overthink" a situation when American lives are on the line..\n\nthere is a difference between being "anti-American" and questioning actions...
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I'm not interested in a candidates stances ("I believe in America; my opponent believes in selling babies to gay, drug dealing, communists").  I care about whether or not they're engaged in the problems of the world around them.  Do they care about peoples lives, are they thinking about solutions.  \n\nIt's easy to stand in opposition to what you don't like and say that's having convictions.  But what I want is someone who, instead of having all the answers, wants to work to solve the problems.  Someone creative, hardworking, insightful, and compassionate.  Only then am I even willing to listen to their ideas on free trade, or foreign relations, or social security, or education.  \n\nCan you imagine hiring someone at any office in America based on the beliefs and opinions they already hold.  No, you hire based on their ability to do the work, their practical ideas, their sense of themselves, but even more so their adaptability to new situations that could arise.  Sadly, this isn't how candidates are elected, and it's to the detriment of the nation.
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no I don't and I don't see why you would us especially when we really like your country.  Please don't hate all americans, I do not hate you.
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Yes.\nIf you say no you forgot the history of USA
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Is America not the UN?To me they are because if the UN says NO they (the Americans) gone on and do things the American way.
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I have learned that it is not the American people that the rest of the world doens't like, it's the politics and policies of the government.  Sometimes it comes across as anti-american.  I do wish that the ones who are saying these things would get to know some Americans as you have.  There are good and bad from everywhere.
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Great question, Alex.\n\nI think most Americana's would.  I know that I would, for sure.  But then I believe that if my country is at war, I need to stand behind the troops and my president.  It doesn't really matter if I agree or not, I still need to be supportive. \n\n\nopen4one---LMAO!
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Of course they do, and they want the U.N. at the helm!\n\nThe United Nations actively pursues anti-American policies and appeases America's enemies, while being largely funded by $3 billion worth of annual American dues. After revealing the depth of rampant corruption in the UN, it is time to recognize the changes in Old Europe and redesign America's alliances that line up with America's national interests. \n\nIf John Kerry and Hillary Clinton have their way, Kofi Annan and Jacques Chirac will gain veto power over American foreign policy. Scared? You should be. It could happen. And in Inside the Asylum, former deputy undersecretary of defense Jed Babbin shows just how it could happen and why the UN deserves the nickname "The Asylum." \n\nIn the Asylum... \n\n* the UN assists international terrorists. Babbin exposes the shocking links between the UN and terrorist organizations. \n\n* The money trail from the UN to Saddam Hussein. It is time to rip the veil from the outrageous Oil-for-Food program-proving that the UN sold its moral legitimacy for oil, stuffed its own pockets at the expense of the Iraqi people, and undermined American pressure on Saddam Hussein: the UN's cash cow. The UN's Oil-for-Food program, provided Saddam Hussein with the means to bribe politicians, to deprive his people of needed food and medicine, and to literally steal billions of dollars. There is even emerging evidence that money from the program might have gone to support al-Qaeda. \n\n• The UN's raid on the American Treasury: dominated by Third World staffers who consider the United States Treasury "the common heritage of mankind." Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, is an anti-American moral relativist who misses no opportunity to arrogate power from the United States to the UN. \n\n* The United Nations and the European Union are morally bankrupt-and open enemies of the United States. France and the United Nations have cost American lives in Iraq by their perverse delaying of American action in the Iraq War. American troops are fighting and dying today because of a terrorist strategy Saddam Hussein developed while France and the United Nations delayed Operation Iraqi Freedom. \n\nThe UN is more of an international criminal than a dispenser of legitimate international law. If America wants to retain its sovereignty and security, it's time to escape from the UN asylum and say goodbye to the false friends of Old Europe. We owe no tribute to the UN and the EU, We should not be ashamed and divided to look after our own defense." \n\nThe United Nations building in Manhattan is an international enclave, no longer American territory. Inside the Asylum is a powerful argument that it's time to reclaim that land for America.