Question to Non-Americans:  What do you think of Americans?
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I am an American citizen but I was not born here.  Americans are people, just like people from Palestine, from France, from China, from Africa, and from other places all over the world.  Some are good, some are bad.  Some I love, some I hate.  It doesn't matter where somebody is from, but what's in their heart.  About the government, yes it is a bad government.  But nobody has a right to judge Americans because of the government.  The same goes for people of other parts of the world.
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yes, i am a Canadian. We are better than Americans. but we dont gloat about it.
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Yes, I like y'all pretty well.  Americans find it almost impossible to think of Canada as a foreign country. . . we even have some of your money circulating around down here and people spend it just like ours.  We think the same thing about Australia and New Zealand and Britain, though.  Just family members who happen to live in different houses.
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You shouldn't be nice to Americans, they're mostly stupid rude and lazy. Clever insults are more fun to read anyway. PS I'm American.
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I cannot answer for MOST Americans.  I don't really care where someone is from, just how honorable, nice, dependable, and honest they are.
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American people isn't an ethnic group, the American people consist of multiple ethnic groups.If you're referring to other nationalities, England, France, Spain, etc.. then we're not exactly responsible for how they feel about us. Some of their outlook may be justified and some may not be. It's the same with a personal relationship, one person can't make for a good relationship it takes both individuals involved to do this.
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As an American born Canadian, I can tell you that I met equally nice Americans as well as Canadians.  I don't think we're any nicer. \n\nAs for Canadians being snobs about Americans, I actually believe it's true.  I love being Canadian but (and I admit it's a generalization) we define our national identity as being "not" American. I can only imagine that New Zealander's feel the same way about Australians.
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I don´t know many Americans personally but in our minds there is the picture of Bush (if a people vote for a president like this...?), \nthe picture of hamburger-eating, milk-shake drinking, fanatically christian patriots who live in a house with garden in a suburb of a small town in the middle west, and all the girls wanna be a cheerleader and marry the captain of the football team.\nThat´s what first comes up to my mind when I think of an American. I don´t know why...\nAlthough I know that the majority of Americans isn´t that way...\nPerhaps it comes from TV...
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Firstly we do not hate Americans and you do not threaten our values.\n\n(although you may get some hateful answers now)
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I am American myself and I asked a similar question on this site, yet i may have phrased it offensively since many took offense. I asked who thought Americans were arrogant and dumb. Many foreigners thought that Americans are. What I think is: America is a very powerful country and with this comes big weights, people tend to be more arrogant and closed-minded since they think America is so great and other countries do tend to be jealous. I have experienced it being born and living here, some are that way, yet there are many who are not arrogant or dumb but open-minded, and they have to take the stereotypics.
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I guess that depends who answers it.  I'm an American, so I answer from an American point of view.  Just because of the sheer number of Americans I think that a large number of the people on this site are from the US.
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i would say americans are
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I wasn't aware that's what people thought.... I've always quite liked Americans, provided they don't display the same arrogance as you....
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You are American, aren't you?...
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I would not say most but some and they are entitled to their opinion.I really don't care who likes or dislikes the Americans.That is their problem if they don't like us.Not ours.
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hmm, thats interesting. when i tihnk of americans i begin to think of a few types of people:\n\n- firstly i tihnk of an American business women going around New York.\n- Also of a large person eating an equally big hot dog in a food court.\n- I think of an exercise addict and a clean-freak who has to have everything perfect in their house.\n- Then of a kind of 30-yr-old guy who makes videos and stuff and it generally really nice.\n- Then I think of George Bush and hope that no one else in America is that annoying.\n\nI know my answer sounds really wierd but those are a few "typical" Americans that i picture in my head.\nHope this helps and what do you think a "typical" British person is like?
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i'm sorry, but...don't you think that WE are their enemy in THEIR book? And that they must think the same things about us??\n\nto the asker: i sure am not American, when it comes to people like you! i mean, can't you look at their side of the story for once? I think we have caused more dammage to them in the space of a couple of years than they have to us\n\nDo i dare say it? or is there a sliver of selfishness here?