Newsweek reports United States is the 2nd most hated country in the world

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I've pondered about this one a lot ?? - just concentrate on your own country and its myriad of problems for is populace and get it better or keep spreading and spreading yourself to thinly financially and otherwise by helping the rest of the world which in some cases just doesn't seem to bother helping itself. Everyday I see smaller countries with corruption at the top end and no one attempting to aid them at all?? Shall we try to aid the rest of the world we live in or just fix our own backyard??
 

smiley said:
I've pondered about this one a lot ?? - just concentrate on your own country and its myriad of problems for is populace and get it better or keep spreading and spreading yourself to thinly financially and otherwise by helping the rest of the world which in some cases just doesn't seem to bother helping itself. Everyday I see smaller countries with corruption at the top end and no one attempting to aid them at all?? Shall we try to aid the rest of the world we live in or just fix our own backyard??
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I am for fixing our own backyard.
 

Timewise 60+ said:
Funny how much Brit's and Aussie's think they know about the USA...and its people! Of course they are wrong!
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Our media is not as insular as that of the USA. Also, since childhood we have been deluged with American popular culture - novels, movies and news media. Can you say the same about Australian culture and history where you live?

Also, I have travelled in the western states of US but that was back in the Reagan era. Much has changed since then.

A lifetime ago, when I was in Teachers College, we studied three forms of government, devoting one third of the year to the War of Independence and the US system that grew out of that, including the Constitution. In the other two thirds we looked at the Russian revolutions and the Soviet system, as well as the Westminster system and compared the three different models to our own.

I think I do have a working knowledge of US and what I don't know I can easily find using a search engine.
 
spectratg said:
I haven't read all of the comments so this may have been discussed, but after reading the summary of the article, apparently China comes in as the most hated country in the world. Very interesting!
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I've been to China as part of a tour. The Chinese people were quite lovely; friendly, courteous and helpful. That doesn't mean that I would want to live under their system of government. Their communist system is the direct result of their history, and the Australian system has its foundation in ours.

I don't hate China or its people. Hatred is a very destructive mindset.
 
I once lived in China albeit an annexed part - all our friends were mixed marriages except mine but we were gracefully welcomed ; wined and dined and cigared when they were once cheap.

We thought [hope] it would never end but of course it did and then I had other options. the hospitals then were "run" by old battleaxes of spinisters who all looked after our little family admirally. and as they retired after long service in the "colonies they gave is their bric a brac ; half drunken bottles of booze etc and we waved a sad farewell. Wife and I went back several times but it was never the same the magic ball had been shattered. Ned Kellys Last Stand Bar was one of my favorites - real trad jazz

Lessons we learned - always be generous and polite and never insult a Chinese you may never or not easily be forgiven - believe me they may be quiet atm but they won't forgot USA jibes
 
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I once lived in China albeit an annexed part - all our friends were mixed marriages except mine but we were gracefully welcomed ; wined and dined and cigared when they were once cheap.

We thought [hope] it would never end but of course it did and then I had other options. the hospitals then were "run" by old battleaxes of spinisters who all looked after our little family admirally. and as they retired after long service in the "colonies they gave is their bric a brac ; half drunken bottles of booze etc and we waved a sad farewell. Wife and I went back several times but it was never the same the magic ball had been shattered. Ned Kellys Last Stand Bar was one of my favorites - real trad jazz

Lessons we learned - always be generous and polite and never insult a Chinese you may never or not easily forgiven - believe me they may be quiet atm but they won't forgot USA jibes
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Reference to Ned Kelly's last stand is very interesting. I knew there had to be an Australian connection.

A report from 21 Dec 2022

Last one standing: 50 years of Ned Kelly’s, legendary Hong Kong bar and jazz venue, celebrated in style​

  • Hong Kong has changed hugely in 50 years, but not Ned Kelly’s Last Stand – still in its original location, with its original owner, even some original customers
  • ‘It’s like one big family,’ manager Mike Brown says at the bar’s 50th birthday party. For house band leader Colin Aitchison it’s a place to let your hair down
Among the partygoers is its owner, Tom Parker. “Look what I found today,” says Parker, pulling out an old HK$5 banknote. “It’s the note that was used to buy the first drink here.”

A lot has changed since December 1972: the HK$5 note was replaced by a coin in 1975 and the British returned Hong Kong to China in 1997. But it’s the things that have remained the same that makes this bar a sentimental favourite.

It’s still in the same location – in Ashley Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon – and even has the same decor, although much of it faded and stained brown with nicotine from the days when smoking in bars was legal.

Australian Ian Connell is among the crowd. He was 24 when he first visited the bar in the first week of its 1972 opening, and has been a regular customer ever since.

“In the early days it was mostly Western customers, lots of soldiers on R&R from the Vietnam war. Today there’s a lot of young Chinese customers,” says Connell.

Watching the house jazz band, Parker, 85, has every reason to feel proud. He’s been the owner since the start, realising a dream of combining the serving of food and beverages with show business.

He was in the entertainment industry for years, travelling the region as one half of the Australian comedy duo The Fabulous Flat Tops. He was in Hong Kong in 1972 to arrange a visa for Malaysia. He wanted to open a beach bar on the island of Penang. It didn’t happen.

He stayed in the city and that year opened Ned’s Kelly Last Stand, the name a nod to the Australian bush ranger who was captured and hanged in the city of Melbourne in 1880.

Last one standing: 50 years of Ned Kelly’s, Hong Kong bar and jazz venue​

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seadoug said:
I'll bet they know more about our Constitution and our past Presidents than most Americans do. And they certainly know more than most Americans know about the populations or political workings of other countries.

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You might be surprised. There are plenty of educated and travelled Americans and there are plenty of ignorant Aussies as well. I dealt with both work wise and now personally. Not all immigrants in Australia wanted to go there and plan to stay there. Housing, cost of living, retirement are not particularly userfriendly.
 
Twostep said:
You might be surprised. There are plenty of educated and travelled Americans and there are plenty of ignorant Aussies as well. I dealt with both work wise and now personally. Not all immigrants in Australia wanted to go there and plan to stay there. Housing, cost of living, retirement are not particularly userfriendly.
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Australia/NZ was part of my responsibility in sales at my former company so I guess I've only met the intelligent ones. I do give you props for spelling "travelled" in the British way so you are clearly well-traveled.
 
seadoug said:
I'll bet they know more about our Constitution and our past Presidents than most Americans do. And they certainly know more than most Americans know about the populations or political workings of other countries.

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The younger generations don't know much of what I have learned over time. On the other hand, they know a lot of things that are useful in the computer/information age we now live in.

I am not longer a source of information for my grandchildren but I am a wisdom figure to them. They help me with modern technology and I show them things I learned from a less technological age.
 
Makes no difference to me, most people hate us but would give anything to become an American! Second comment, I trust very little I read in News Week...
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I don't think most people hate Americans at all - but neither do they want to live there and neither are they jealous.
I certainly dont want to live there. Like most people in settled countries I prefer to stay in my own country.

I dislike the arrogance of thinking US is somehow the saviour of the world, everyone is jealous and silly comments about WW2 ( you do realise that was 80 years ago? ) reinforce that.
 
It's ok, I know 95% elected are just plain liars, not actual decent people, of the populating, 50% + are decent people in the USA.
Most all of us care about out neighbors but can give a shit about the POC's.

Not giving a crap about a POC happened so fast, DC is in so much real bad luck trouble now.

Take for instance semiconductor stuff. Smoke, Junk, lowest possible quality. VW's missing stuff ?

No way; I can't order anything from foreign suppliers, Politicians are part of the BS? Life is more dirrect now.

I wish all of you peace & prosperity.

I can't fix anything. Most of the World is Nutz;

I expect nukes; flying steadily back and forth in 2025 / 2026

It will most likely start out as a one, then 2, then 3, and 4 blast thing. Gradually over a couple of weeks, dust and Smoke, who wants to give up on total world domination, only a fool would not want that. Right?
 
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January said:
And vice versa - funny how some Americans think they know about other countries and their people - and how wrong they are.

Thinking we all want to live in USA, for example.
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Over all the USA has some real nice points, its the politics that sort of sux now. I been to all the USA points I wanted to go.
Chose to live where I am. Ask myself why and my answer to me is I miss this area the most. Gone from it 3 weeks and I yearn
to return to its natural beauty.
 
I agree with those who can appreciate why the US is hated but am not one to wish to leave. That isn’t because we have it so much better than other places. We don’t. But bring American like almost anything else one can be has things to love and others to be appalled by. But at my age I have desire to undergo the discomfort and nuisance involved.

I agree with Ann Patchett:

https://fb.watch/yYzKq5480G/?mibextid=0NULKw&fs=e&s=TIeQ9V
 
Knight said:
Here is info that doesn't agree with what you post.

Which Countries Provide and Receive the Most Foreign Aid?

Do you have a source showing something different?

I could agree that wanting & forcing other countries to use their resources can cause discontent. I'm in favor of that aid support being cut & used to help American's 1st.
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While the United States contributes the most in total foreign aid dollars, it actually gives far less relative to its national income. The U.S. spends about 0.08% of its Gross National Income (GNI) on official development assistance—well below the United Nations' recommended target of 0.7%.

By contrast, several smaller countries far exceed this benchmark. The top contributors as a percentage of GNI are:

Norway – 1.1%

Luxembourg – 1.0%

Sweden – 0.9%

Germany – 0.8%

Denmark – 0.7%

These countries may not lead in total dollars, but they clearly punch above their weight when you consider the size of their economies. It's a reminder that generosity isn’t always about who gives the most money—but who gives the most relative to what they have.
 
I have worked in mental health services all my working life in various capacities both in UK ; Oz and even Hk - I guess we all have minor to greater degrees of mental unrest that affects our views of the world but all our leaders do need to care of theirs doubly so - they have great burdens and truths and goodwill to share in compassionate and caring ways? They should carry the souls of our nations with them
 
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