Why do Americans hate France? Is it because they have culture and class? Someting non-existant in the USA.?
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Of course the writer understands that her statement is an exaggeration and a blanket statement.Its meant to be understood in that light.What it is specifically,is an indictment of American arrogance and even more so the American mentality that our way is the only way.Your either with us or against us thinking.Read your tocqueville,our need to conform,to see that all around us conform as well.We glorify in the means,and not the ends of a good purpose.Were not cognizent of the existence of multiple paths to reach said good purpose,in other words tremendously narrow minded,judgemental about others ways and behaviours that dont coincide with our way of looking at things.Were trememdously materialistic to the point that we have become a nation of robotic convenience oriented worker consumers,as the process has meant for it to be.Were apathetic when it comes to our politics,our libertys.We leave these things to our policy makers,who believe me know what their best interest are.And they on the other hand know what their purpose is and believe the means always justify the ends.want a few more things, how about our education level compared to that of europe, (on the whole)how about this lovely trend of political correctness weve engendered throughout the world (to some degree)and american sensibilities that seem almost effemine,oh theyre heavy smokers ,oh my god,be a man.oh and as far as class goes partner ill bet that little lady has more class and probably more guts than a lot of people,who are afraid to disagree with the status quo.
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As an American I speak only for myself but, IMO our country has done a VERY BAD job of dealing with situations involving extremist recently "last 5 years", "terrorist is a stupid word so I will lean away from it". Different sets of extremist hate us on many different levels for many different reasons. They hate us for any / one or all of the following.\n\n(1) Democracy & Freedom\nSome people live in societies where for hundreds of years oppression, stereotyping, and women being of a lower class are normal. This has been the way for so long "thousands of years" that "they" think it is the right and final way. We as americans seek to stop this way of thinking and open things up. Although mostly in America this is done for open market trade, moreoverly money; under the guise of freedom, "HAHA to think we are free, we as americans no more have freedom than the chinese have free speach." Democracy is a joke we are not a democracy we are a capatialistic totalitarian dictatorship in the dress of a democracy. But our leaders have managed to make it look pretty good. This openness of religion, speech, etc makes some secular groups very angry. We have also in years past mistreated many others from some groups over and over again. As we continue to do at abu graib or guantanamo or any of the secret cia camps "watch road to guantanamo", this info is shielded from us americans but not from others and this is also fuel to the extremist fire.\n\n(2) Capitalism (encouraging personal hardwork, productivity & reward)\nI am a lazy american bastard cant speak for us all but most I know are also. lol no offense \n\n(3) Free market economy\nWe use our free markey economy as a political tool, being the power that america is we can break a country if we cut off trade and make markets flounder just by raising an import tax etc. We are soon to use this against iran by threatening countrys that still trade with them; saying that we will cut them off, since we personally do not trade with iran.\n\n(4) Technology\nDont really think pong makes anyone too pissed lol. But our massive monetary wealth puts a larger portion of americans above the poverty line and makes americans looks like unconcerned yuppies, who do whatever the good BUSH tells us.\n\n(5) Aesthetic value\nProbably hate us for this along with the rest\n\n(6) Order & Accountability\nWe cover everything we do up and try to not even admit it when caught. We are the king of pawning off problems on others. Shoot we invented it.\n\n(7) Love for Mankind (America meaning "lovely"\nWhere you been bubba Bush is trying to milk oil from our nature preserves right now. We have hospitals in new york that throw old people in alleys so they can die with the homeless cause they cant pay.  America seems to hate mankind IMO.\n\n(8) Support for Israel\nYes they hate us for this but you would have to hate many others than just us if it was for this alone.\n\n(9) Superiority of war arsenal\nIt pisses everyone off thats why we have it and why its so superior lol\n\n(10) Others\nThink of something about america something stereotypical   chances are that it is in at least some way true. Those things you just thought of those are more reasons they hate us.
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I like your question, I think that the Europeans and the world for that matter hate the American because they see us as big bullies!  We are not bullies but since we are the world super military power we have our hands in all the worlds little quarrels (fights/wars) so we seem to always be involved in some type of world conflict or another.  Look at Iran that wants to remove Israel of the map of the earth....Iran's weapons can't reach us here in the US but the world little nations look at us to do something!  The United Nations is so corrupt that will have meetings in the most luxurious resorts to discuss what to do for years at taxpayers expense and all they keep talking about is where to have the next meting!
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America is an amazing country and the rest of the world hates us for it. We have more guns than people, every race, religion and language spoken in the world right here in one spot and we don't have the problems these other countries have (think about that). We have the capability to completely destroy each other and we don't. Somehow Americans get along much better with each other then the rest of the world. Sure we have racism and disagreements but no civil war/massive riots(France). Why? Other countries speak the same language and have the same religion yet they are blowing up markets, burning each other and cutting of heads (notice no guns are used in those crimes). I'm not sure why we are different but we are and I wish the rest of the world would give us some credit for how we (the citizens-not our government) conduct ourselves.
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Hi, Eva! Welcome to the U.S.!\n\nYou will be amazed at how many more people are interested in knowing what folks in France think of the U.S. than there are people who are interested in sharing their views of the French. For the most part, Americans do a pretty good job separating France (the country and its government) from French people.\n\nThat said, somebody will probably say something relatively stupid to you at some time. Also, you will probably catch some flack if someone who is inconsiderate or impatient has a problem understanding your accent. For the most part, your experience in the U.S. will be the same as any American visiting or moving to France. \n\nMy wife is from France and has lived in the U.S. for 10 years. She has never once had someone treat her rudely specifically because she is French. Don't get me wrong....she has had issues with people who don't like foriegners in general, but only a few times in 10 years and never anything she couldn't roll her eyes and laugh at. She truly loves living in the U.S. and wouldn't leave for anything.\n\nIf you would like to ask my wife some questions about her experiences, contact me through the Yahoo Answers personal page contact portion and I will have her contact you in the same manner.
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Depends... if you're talking about America the country and it's foreign policy... If that is what you hate.. no. I despise all of the nation states between Turkey and the Japan, but I'm not racist because I have friends from many of those counries and like them.  But, if it means to hate Americans themselves, then you hate ALL races. Everyone has the potential to be an American. But, you can't move to Italy and be Italian. Or France to be French. And you certainly can't Indian or Arabic unless you were born that way. Americans are bound by ethnicity. \n\nYou're stupid to be Anti-American. The world without America would be rubble. We KEEP the peace.
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Many don't like Americans but I don't think that it is fair to ask them that question.  In reality they have limited exposure and can only go by what they get in the media.  Many countries have state-controlled media and others are just very liberal and only present them with what the media bigwigs think is important.\n\nAlso, many people outside the country erroneously believe that Americans are like what they see on TV shows.  It's easy to see how that can happen but in reality 99.99% of the people are nothing like that.\n\nDon't forget that most of our media is based out of Los Angeles and New York.  Although those areas dominate the media that are absolutely not representative of the rest of the country.  That gives people from out of the country a skewed sense of our culture.\n\nAs for being rude I am really sick about hearing this.  I really don't understand why Americans are so quick to spew out this stereotype.  Rudeness is really a cultural thing.  What is rude in one culture isn't in another.  Living in Southern California we get more than our fair share of tourists.  I have seen so many European tourists that are "rude" simply because they don't understand our culture.  I'm sure that many of the things that they are doing are perfectly acceptable in theirs.  How about Asia?  Ever try riding public transit without being beaten?  Hell half the stuff they do there would land an American in jail but it is perfectly acceptable in their culture.
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I love your country, regardless to what other folks might say. My time in France taught me a lot about your people and culture, and it showed me that people can be different. Some people cannot tolerate difference, so they hate. Yeah, your country is a lot like ours, and those who say otherwise either have a seperate opinion, or they have never truly seen France.\nOne must see the entire country in order to begin a major opinion upon the country's differences.\nBTW, your English is good, keep it up.
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The French hate everything. It has nothing to do with America.
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Why they hate Americans is beyond me. You ask good questions and I find it offensive that idiots like to limit others opinions.. I know yours are always on the right track. Keep asking them and ignore them. I do at least while I laugh my silly bum off... See how easy that is.. I gave you a thumbs up too.. when I happen upon you.. Take care..
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Americans that are Europhobic are so because they are ignorant.  However, I do not believe being "europhobic" is the case most of the time.  I think it has to do with the many difference between the different cultures.  If you have relatives who immigrated not too long ago from Europe then you are more likely to be accepting and fit in with the European differences in our two clutures.
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i am a iranian living in tehran.\nwe like america very much.\nbut many arabs and europians hate america.\ni was in this disco in slovakia and people hated americans and also i saw it in russian capital moscow,there they just hate america and in their stand up comedies portray americans as stupid.\nin france people like america but in england they just very angry with america.(but still like americans)\nin iran i never saw somebody hate america but people go to demosntratoion against america becasue america treaed us very bad many times.\nsimetimes i just feel that america should apologize to iran and shake hands with our people ,then we can face all those nations that hate america.\nmay be you saw that our president said something bad about israel,there are political reasons behind that.our nation is hated by arabs and we are under threat from amreica and europe.\nhe chose to start a policy in which we can have some allies in the region,that is why he said that and that policy is actually working fantastic.\niran is not america's problem.many nations hate america strongly.\ni have a friend from south korea ,he strongly hate america becasue he belives that america caused the separation of two koreas.\njapanese hate america and i almost lovd this japanese girl called " norie" she told me america changed the religion of japan after WWII and they are very demoralized because of this and still angry with this.\nin mnay nations that their heads are smiling at americans poeple becoem more angry as they want to amrica know that they are upset.\nand remember that people that did atrocities in america in 9/11 were saudi young men.\nyou know i am not religioius at all but i like that iran is religious,in our family nobody even smoke.\nbut there are many **** iraanian families,many without culture and many others are very nice.i just like my close friends .with them i feel so good even beter than all my foreign friends.\ni was in many countries,i guess every country is just different and nice, iran is one of them ,you will see many bad and good things there.\ni can say in iran people very warm,iranian food are very nice.and girls are very romantic.\nour new president is very humble man.he drives a 1971 peugeot and speaks to people as his own children.\nmay be one day i come america,but before that i want go other countries.specially i want go brazil ,cuba and venezuela.i am told that they are very nice people.\nalso i have jewish friends and i know many jewish songs by heart.\nspecially i love this song: adon olam and we sing it with them.\nin synogoge i sing:\nwa aftahet adanai ala hekha.(means: put te name of god above your doors).\nmegadethuk@yahoo.com please do not spam me as many of documnts are in my inbox.\n\nsorry for long letter.\nthese are things in my mind as a 26 year old (young!)in iran.\ni just wanted to share them.
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Ignore the people who decided to attack you for asking a good question.  I have often wondered that myself.  I don't understand why Americans are considered racist or stupid because they want to hold onto their culture but Mexicans, French, German, etc. are good for wanting to hold onto theirs.  I too have been to Germany and it is expected that you speak their language when you live there.  It's that way in Mexico too.  I guess it's the price we have to pay for being a rich country and a dominant superpower.  People can't take us down militarily so they try to do it from the inside out by desecrating our culture.  They are going to find that Americans are more resilient than they thought.\n\nTo Jingle above me: France is not composed of only French people.  In fact they have a large number of African and Middle Eastern immigrants.  Haven't you heard of the riots that they had this year?  Also, France has ruled that Muslim girls cannot wear their hijabs in the public schools.  A big part of this is to protect French culture.
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I don't hate americans, but i really hate american's government. Reasons :\nI can't type it, there is too much reasons why i hate us gov. I just hope that one day, one country send a nuclear bomb that can destroy the whole USA. They deserved it for what they've done to Iraq, Afganishtan, and for all conspiracy that they planned to be the ruler of the world from a long time ago.
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and the french have had to be bailed out of every war since world war 1 because every one knows that they are cowards and won't fight even to save their lives or country. the reason it is so nice in france is that a lot of good American and British men died so you can sip your wine and insult America.\nyou are an a$$
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I was in France and was approached to defend the actions of our "monkey president".  For every jab they made I parried with Chirac and his genocide of the elderly during the european heat wave, and overt hatred for immigrants.\n\nThe french guy got all... well french on me and sneered... "You're just a patriot."  To which I responded that of course I was.\n\nApparently being a patriot is bad in france because if implies that you love your country to the point of being blinded by it.  The same can be said of race, culture or whatever, when you love your identity so much it can make you feel threatened by others who want to celebrate their culture.
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i have no problem with americans, im english by the way, we are all the same, i dont care much for the bush administration especially on foreign policy but hey blair aint no better thats just politics, i judge people on who they are not where they come from, the world is only a small place and we are the same. i like the way you mention how we think americans are disrespectful i dont know about all americans but john s seems to be, not just disrespectful but ignorant also, we fought in those wars aswell john, and you were only our allies, allies that played a small part only in the war against hitler, we dont blame america for our misfortunes, we blame ourselves and colonialism where we exhausted ourselves giving the world "freedom" the same sort of "freedom" mr bush and mz rice are handing out now to the middle east, and we did that round about the same time that your ancestors john moved over to america from one of our (probably britain) nations, but anyway back to the question i dont dislike americans at all, i find myself disliking john s but thats just one american