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

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Tom52 said:
Of course, people can have criticisms or dislikes for any country, but don't you think this thread is really over the top with all the negative comments? Hated due to obsession with fast food, really?

Where are all the negative comments about Russia and China? How about looking at it another way? Do a poll and ask if you had to live in one of the 10 most hated countries which would it be? Would this group vote for North Korea, or Iran, or Syria, or Russia, or China over USA?
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well Russia did come second and third I believe? - and perhaps its easier to knock democracies they don't bit back so hard?
 

Tom52 said:
Where are all the negative comments about Russia and China? How about looking at it another way? Do a poll and ask if you had to live in one of the 10 most hated countries which would it be? Would this group vote for North Korea, or Iran, or Syria, or Russia, or China over USA?
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The reason you see more criticism directed at the United States isn’t because people think it’s worse than Russia, China, North Korea, or Iran, it’s because the United States is held to a much higher standard. After all, no one’s surprised when dictatorships act like dictatorships.
 
hahahahahah - that is the funniest current reasoning I have heard for a long time - don't you think perhaps there may be degrees of dictatorship or do they all have to be absolute 100% -
 

Tom52 said:
Of course, people can have criticisms or dislikes for any country, but don't you think this thread is really over the top with all the negative comments? Hated due to obsession with fast food, really?

Where are all the negative comments about Russia and China? How about looking at it another way? Do a poll and ask if you had to live in one of the 10 most hated countries which would it be? Would this group vote for North Korea, or Iran, or Syria, or Russia, or China over USA?
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No I don't think the topic is OTT, is a valid discussion topic.

I do think some of the defensiveness was OTT though

And sure, people probably have criticisms of other places too - but the thread topic isn't about them.
 
smiley said:
hahahahahah - that is the funniest current reasoning I have heard for a long time - don't you think perhaps there may be degrees of dictatorship or do they all have to be absolute 100% -
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Laughter doesn’t erase the logic. And, yes, of course there are degrees of dictatorship, but the core point stands. After all, no one expects transparency, civil liberties, or restraint from regimes like North Korea or Iran. They’re not held to the same standard because they don’t pretend to operate under the rule of law or uphold human rights. The United States, on the other hand, claims to be a beacon of freedom and constitutional governance. Therefore, when it falls short, people notice as they should. So it's not about moral equivalence, it’s about moral expectation.
 
oslooskar said:
Laughter doesn’t erase the logic. And, yes, of course there are degrees of dictatorship, but the core point stands. After all, no one expects transparency, civil liberties, or restraint from regimes like North Korea or Iran. They’re not held to the same standard because they don’t pretend to operate under the rule of law or uphold human rights. The United States, on the other hand, claims to be a beacon of freedom and constitutional governance. Therefore, when it falls short, people notice as they should. So it's not about moral equivalence, it’s about moral expectation.
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You definitely think it has in your own words " fallen short" - can you explain further??
 
smiley said:
You definitely think it has in your own words " fallen short" - can you explain further??
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Sure, how about government agencies caught lying to the public without consequences, or political opponents being targeted through the legal system, or warrantless surveillance, censorship, and indefinite detention? Things like that go against the idea of a government that is supposed to protect individual rights.
 
For so many years America was always looked up to. We were number one, in democracy, freedom, opportunity, and hope. We were the promised generation. Since then our reputation has had many serious blows, and the world has taken note.
The hatred is because we force our way of life on other countries. Our banking, infrastructure, food supply, etc...We don't adapt to other environments, we force the environment to be our way. People around the world are modern now, and want to live free of American influence.
 
Paco Dennis said:
For so many years America was always looked up to. We were number one, in democracy, freedom, opportunity, and hope. We were the promised generation. Since then our reputation has had many serious blows, and the world has taken note.
The hatred is because we force our way of life on other countries. Our banking, infrastructure, food supply, etc...We don't adapt to other environments, we force the environment to be our way. People around the world are modern now, and want to live free of American influence.
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with all due respect..NOT your banking... it is in fact way behind all of other western countries....
 
hollydolly said:
explain...
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Africa: colonization, slave trade, market exploitation.
Middle East: colonization, market exploitation, T. E. Lawrence:
According to numerous historians, the Sykes-Picot agreement is one of the main reasons behind multiple conflicts in the Middle East today​
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SE Asia: Colonization, exploitation, subjugation. Right after WWI (Paris Peace Conference) Ho Chi Minh tried to petition for Vietnamese civil rights, and England and France laughed him off.

Do we really have to talk about South Asia? Central and South America? North America? Australia?

By the time my folks got here the indigenous populations had all but been killed or driven West, and the British institution of plantation and personal slavery was over. Even the remnants of tribes remaining here were from closer to the East coast originally.
 
dilettante said:
Africa: colonization, slave trade, market exploitation.
Middle East: colonization, market exploitation, T. E. Lawrence:

SE Asia: Colonization, exploitation, subjugation. Right after WWI (Paris Peace Conference) Ho Chi Minh tried to petition for Vietnamese civil rights, and England and France laughed him off.

Do we really have to talk about South Asia? Central and South America? North America? Australia?

By the time my folks got here the indigenous populations had all but been killed or driven West, and the British institution of plantation and personal slavery was over. Even the remnants of tribes remaining here were from closer to the East coast originally.
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you're talking 100 years ago and more ... which is pretty much where Americas' banking is stuck..lol
 
dilettante said:
Africa: colonization, slave trade, market exploitation.
Middle East: colonization, market exploitation, T. E. Lawrence:

SE Asia: Colonization, exploitation, subjugation. Right after WWI (Paris Peace Conference) Ho Chi Minh tried to petition for Vietnamese civil rights, and England and France laughed him off.

Do we really have to talk about South Asia? Central and South America? North America? Australia?

By the time my folks got here the indigenous populations had all but been killed or driven West, and the British institution of plantation and personal slavery was over. Even the remnants of tribes remaining here were from closer to the East coast originally.
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You are overlooking some specifics. Peace in our time... Neville Chamberlain. Britain and France invaded Egypt with Israel in 1956. France gave Israel the bomb, just as the U.S. and U.S.S.R. were wrapping up the NPT. U.S. guaranteed to furnish Israel weapons, if they wouldn't use the bomb in 1973. Voila, the U.S. was hit with the Arab oil embargo. Guyana in 1953. Kenya, Malaya, Aden and Cyprus. Singapore (1950), Bermuda (1968), New Hebrides (now Vanuatu, 1980), Hong Kong (1967), Mauritius (1965 and 1967) and the Maldives (1959) - and to break strikes - such as in the Bahamas (1958) and Swaziland (1963). Don't forget Northern Ireland.
 
Harry Le Hermit said:
You are overlooking some specifics. Peace in our time... Neville Chamberlain. Britain and France invaded Egypt with Israel in 1956. France gave Israel the bomb, just as the U.S. and U.S.S.R. were wrapping up the NPT. U.S. guaranteed to furnish Israel weapons, if they wouldn't use the bomb in 1973. Voila, the U.S. was hit with the Arab oil embargo. Guyana in 1953. Kenya, Malaya, Aden and Cyprus. Singapore (1950), Bermuda (1968), New Hebrides (now Vanuatu, 1980), Hong Kong (1967), Mauritius (1965 and 1967) and the Maldives (1959) - and to break strikes - such as in the Bahamas (1958) and Swaziland (1963). Don't forget Northern Ireland.
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whaaaaaat - so now ya wanna say it was everyone else fault - I used to try that one on with mom when i got home from school in a mess!
 
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