LaRoacha from US - General Taste for America
Dear Global Community,
I'm posting as a middle aged American. I'm 45 years old and have had the experience of being in a US Marine in my youth and I am now just a simple construction worker. I've been all over the world and I've seen the attitudes of a lot of different cultures and nationalities. In my travels, I noticed that most French people I met had no use for Americans even though we bailed them out of a couple of wars....no biggie....we're used to being crapped on. The surprise I had was that most of the English I met overseas pretty much hated Americans as well. I've never been to England, but I ran into some in Asia and most I ran into were really anti- American, and this was in the cold war Reagan day's....not the "Bush is a dolt" day's..........My heritage is English and I really want to like people from the UK, but I have to admit that I kicked the shit outta one Brit who just twisted me the wrong way in Thailand. I went to Australia and even though there was a anti-nuclear welcoming party to our arrival, most Aussies really seemed to like having us around. I was in Italy, and I gotta say....they were nice and seemed to love us to the extreme. Most liberal people tend to think that everything America does is tied to some grand scheme to somehow mess over some weaker nation, and if that so,sorry. Most citizens of the US just want to freaking get along, and we don't perceive our leaders as evil people. I think you guy's are just seeing things from a standpoint that you are somehow not the alpha dog, which is really sad actually. Even if your country was in that position, you, as an individual really don't have any more power, it just that you perceive that your standing would be improved as a member of a stronger nation. Really, it's pretty sad...
About the Author:
Name: LaRoacha
Age: 45
Country: US
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Published on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 7:05 AM.
I'm posting as a middle aged American. I'm 45 years old and have had the experience of being in a US Marine in my youth and I am now just a simple construction worker. I've been all over the world and I've seen the attitudes of a lot of different cultures and nationalities. In my travels, I noticed that most French people I met had no use for Americans even though we bailed them out of a couple of wars....no biggie....we're used to being crapped on. The surprise I had was that most of the English I met overseas pretty much hated Americans as well. I've never been to England, but I ran into some in Asia and most I ran into were really anti- American, and this was in the cold war Reagan day's....not the "Bush is a dolt" day's..........My heritage is English and I really want to like people from the UK, but I have to admit that I kicked the shit outta one Brit who just twisted me the wrong way in Thailand. I went to Australia and even though there was a anti-nuclear welcoming party to our arrival, most Aussies really seemed to like having us around. I was in Italy, and I gotta say....they were nice and seemed to love us to the extreme. Most liberal people tend to think that everything America does is tied to some grand scheme to somehow mess over some weaker nation, and if that so,sorry. Most citizens of the US just want to freaking get along, and we don't perceive our leaders as evil people. I think you guy's are just seeing things from a standpoint that you are somehow not the alpha dog, which is really sad actually. Even if your country was in that position, you, as an individual really don't have any more power, it just that you perceive that your standing would be improved as a member of a stronger nation. Really, it's pretty sad...
About the Author:
Name: LaRoacha
Age: 45
Country: US
Labels: 40's, americans, anti-americanism, foreign policy, north america
