Why all the hate for us Americans?

i just have to add in this bit of "news" from the recent miss teen usa.
perhaps a lot of the world should be even more worried about the next
generation of leaders -

"miss teen south carolina lauren caitlin upton chose judge aimee teegarden, an
actress from nbc

though i think i've heard statistics like that before, it still is quite
astonishing.
i'd have thought it would be 1 in 1,000 not 1 in 5, meanwhile it seems that
girl has george bush's speech writer.

to those who criticize the us for their involvement in world war 1 and world war
2, you need to get some of your logistical facts straight. the shear manpower
and material power that the us was able to bring to bear in those two wars
helped tip the balance of power and in the later, win the war. so easy we forget
that america was not bound by any treaty to go to war for europe in either
instance and yes, the main factor that drew them in was direct attack (isn

i admit my ignorance. can you please clarify this statement. how are they not
americans?
(i'm not being sarcastic. i'd just like to know)

maybe it is you that need check your facts my friend. at the time the war
started the neutrality act was in place in america, preventing them from
shipping any arms to a combatant nation (unless paid for in cash).

they only provided the uk with 50 destroyers when we agreed to lease you land
for air and naval bases on many uk settlements. (thanks guys, so charitable)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/destroyers_for_bases_agreement

also, it is agreed, you sufferred immense loses to your merchant vessels
during 1942, in 8 months over 600 ships were sunk, compared with only 22 u-
boats. however this would not have been the case had the us prepared better
with anti-submarine measures, and taken british advice!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/second_happy_time

anyway, we could bat wwii arguements around all day, thanks for giving us a
hand guys, even if it did take germany declaring war on you and churchill
reminding you that if the nazi's did defeat the uk, they'd have access to some
islands and bases uncomfortably near the us.

see you at the next global conflict?

i don't have a problem with all americans just the self rightous wannabies who
think that america is the best country in the world. i am all for being proud
of your country i'm australian and i think as a nation we rock but i also
admit we have downfalls and it's these downfalls that are the punchline of
many a joke.as the saying goes noone ever notices what i do until i do it
wrong. i think your just taking this a little to personally which is sad for
you because negetivity breeds on itself. i say lighten up and smile alot of
these jokes are bloody funny so chill.
i do see your point of this is ment to be a tv forum but with all that aside
does it really matter what we're talking about the point is that the world is
talking...not bombing or invading or destroying but talking discussing and
enjoying, should it matter where their doing it? i think not, and besides
least if they are here it means they are watching shows that if you look
closely are mostly made in usa, so cheers to you for helping bring a lil
happiness into the world,now theres something to smile about ;-p

now as the totally true aussie i am i'm off in me thongs to ride me roo an
enjoy a beer with duncan while watchin the prawns on the barbie... *here skip
skip skippy!! where the bloody hell are ya?**

on a canadian note though... canada was the only country to successfully
complete all if its d-day objectives.

you guys rocked the nazi scum 🙂

no wonder there is so much violence in the world when you read through these
posts and see all the nasty words being thrown around....everyone seems to be
desencitised <excuse spelling> to what really matters here....
why can't we all just get along

muahahaha

canadians are cool
americans are cool
radical islam is cool

you just got to understand the differences to release your inner hatred of that
which you do not understand.

let go of your fear and embrace the differences between all of us.

lol canada.. they're so silly =)

you gotta think about people being constant pixelhero's online. there is also
comment's like: we invented the internet. or we are rich and influential and
other people are jealous. that tend to piss people from any other country off.
there is no problem in thinking the best of your country or even being a little
patriotistic (or however you spell it) and proud of what your country may have
reached. there is also the fact that. even tho america might be rich. they have
huge crime rate's and poor people. their adjucation isn't as good as it seems.
and i'm pretty sure they have the most fat people also. + there is the thing we
should focus on here, the distribution of tvshow's (or any other copyrighted
shit) isn't allowed. so next time you people who feel offended by some random
american think about that. and next time an american feels like he needs to
brag. think about the crap you got over there. commenting about the war that i
am pretty sure non of you fought in, is not needed and not contributing to the
fact that european people didn't invite hitler to there country. also german
people got mislead by someone with rather extreme thought.

now at last my own oppinion: i feel that american's have a strong need to show
that they are from america. but have by no means the words to describe how they
feel about their country without involving/comparing other country's. this does
not bother me at all. the problem is that it does to some people. since
americans do generally take part of new's articles in everyday new's people get
americanized and go about harassing other country's. and since america is in the
new's so much, they go and harras america. it is childish and unnecesary.

no go focus on the tvshows!!!!! since that is what brought us all here!!!

<3 eztv ❤️

i have been coming here to eztv for quite a few months now and i love it!

this is the first time that i am the forum, reading and writing. i have been
on other forums where they always have something to say but not necessarily
about us americans. i don\'t get into politics because if i did i would get
really po\'d and cause trouble. i am not happy that the gov\'t is doing what
it
is doing one bit and wish that i could change it, but i don\'t think that
anything is gonna change until we get the warmonger out of the office. thank
goodness his term is up soon. i just hope that we can get someone in there
who is going to be a better representative of our united states than this
jackass. that is why people don\'t like us americans. we are judged by the
idiots that are in the white house, not for us as individuals. when i was
younger, living in nj in the 60\'s, i had like 15 penpals all over the world.
neither i, nor my penpals judged each other because of where we came from. we
just accepted each other for being unique, yet similar. i know, young naive
children, not knowing any better, but sometimes that is the way it should be.
accepting people for who they are and accepting that they are different. that
is what makes us all unique. yes, you can say that i am idealistic, but i
genuinely like people and enjoy learning from others from around the world.
personally, i don\'t care who invented the internet. i am just happy that i
have this oppurtunity in this day and age to be able to communicate to so many
different people via the internet...

peace to all,
sapph

hey! quit with the shouting!

it's probably got something to do with america's imperial ambitions, its
disregard for international law when it doesn't get its own way, its arming of
tyrants who promote their interests, its support for israel etc. far from
being a 'fair society,' america has one of the largest disparities between
rich and poor amongst developed nations; most americans are oblivious to world
events, thanks to the limited and biased news coverage they receive. i don't
condone such jingositic attitides, but the actions of the us government has
fostered widespread anti-americanism.

america a-ok!! =)