What the world really thinks of America

Tonight the BBC is showing a program entitled What the world really thinks of America

They polled 1100 people from 11 countries (Australia, Canada, Brazil, France, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Russia, South Korea, UK, and USA

Asked who is the more dangerous to world peace and stability, the United States was rated higher than al-Qaeda by respondents in both Jordan (71percent) and Indonesia (66percent).

It was rated more dangerous than Iran, by people in Jordan, Indonesia, Russia, South Korea and Brazil, and more dangerous than Syria by respondents of all the countries, except for Australia, Israel and the United States.

Attitudes towards America as a whole, however, were a lot more favourable, with 50% expressing fairly or very favourable views, as opposed to 40% of unfavourable views. That figure excludes Americans polled.

Just wondered what peoples thoughts were on this?

Originally posted by mmanuel
Tonight the BBC is showing a program entitled What the world really thinks of America

They polled 1100 people from 11 countries (Australia, Canada, Brazil, France, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Russia, South Korea, UK, and USA

Asked who is the more dangerous to world peace and stability, the United States was rated higher than al-Qaeda by respondents in b ...[text shortened]... ews. That figure excludes Americans polled.

Just wondered what peoples thoughts were on this?

As a citizen of US...
We know that we are absolutely the worst place on earth, and feel bad each day when thousands of cubans, vienamese, chinese,russians and mexicans die trying to escape this horrible place, and we reject millions of exit visas each year because we love to torture the innocent visitors who we trap here; we know they all would love to leave, but we need somebody to give a bad time so we can't let them escape. We regret forcing the world into coming to NYC to participate in the UN. We just can't help it. And though Japan and Korea are begging us to get out of Asia, we can't stand the thought of not having a few thousand of our troops killed each year, so we leave them in harms way because we are so darned stupid. And though Germany is begging us to get our troops out of europe, we insist on separating thousands of military families just because we want to destabilize the continent. Lets see... in the last hundred years we have invaded Philipines, Cuba, Mexico, several countries in africa, asia, and europe. We have levied terrible taxes on each country we conquored and have millions of troops occupying each country and if they ask us to leave, we nuke them into submission. Geez! We are just such a terrible influence on the world. Makes us shudder to think that we could just let france and russia, who's hearts are pure as snow, police the world. Eastern europe, southeast asia and Algiers certainly can attest to their wonderful attitudes of neighborly occupation.

As an american... we get so disgusted... why in the hell can't the world just leave us alone. We have been dragged kicking and screaming into the position where we could care less if the damned world just genocides itself to death. Big bad Police State. That's us, i guess. Crap! Go Away World!

'K then, Mike 😉. I have a few particularly unfavorable opinions about the government, but most of the diatribe I could hit you with has more to do with large society itself, which can't vary hugely from place to place in any fundamental way. Oh well.

Originally posted by royalchicken
'K then, Mike 😉. I have a few particularly unfavorable opinions about the government, but most of the diatribe I could hit you with has more to do with large society itself, which can't vary hugely from place to place in any fundamental way. Oh well.

I agree. They are, however, charged with the onerous task of maintaining some structure among nearly millions of basically uneducated, self-interested, Darwinistically inclined apes. It is essentially impossible for governments to do a good job-many of them include very capable people, and this makes little diference.

What a pair of crazed malcontents we have going here 😛.

Originally posted by StarValleyWy
As a citizen of US...
We know that we are absolutely the worst place on earth, and feel bad each day when thousands of cubans, vienamese, chinese,russians and mexicans die trying to escape this horrible place, and we reject millions of exit visas each year because we love to torture the innocent visitors who we trap here; we know they all would love to ...[text shortened]... just genocides itself to death. Big bad Police State. That's us, i guess. Crap! Go Away World!

Great country.Great people.

Terrible foreign policy.Economic policy keeps flip flopping.

There are great people everywhere. America has great people and real garbage, like anywhere else. Ergo one cannot judge a country by its people. The country, as a political entity, is defined by its politics. While you may favor or like the people of America, which I'm not necessarily arguing right now, your last two statements (which are astute and with which I agree) indicate distaste for the US.

p.s. Have you heard about the new french flag.....[/b]

Har har. I don't diss the French. While they possibly have not made as great contributions to warfare as other cultures (which isn't even true really), so much of modern Western art, science, and philosophy is due to the French that they must be doing something right. (The French people, that is, not France. I have nothing to say about the political entity 'France'. Apparently you do.)

Clever joke though.

Originally posted by royalchicken
I agree. They are, however, charged with the onerous task of maintaining some structure among nearly millions of basically uneducated, self-interested, Darwinistically inclined apes. It is essentially impossible for governments to do a good job-many of them include very capable people, and this makes little diference.

What a pair of crazed malcontents we have going here 😛.

Originally posted by royalchicken
Har har. I don't diss the French. While they possibly have not made as great contributions to warfare as other cultures (which isn't even true really), so much of modern Western art, science, and philosophy is due to the French tha ...[text shortened]... cal entity 'France'. Apparently you do.)

Clever joke though.

Hey, I agree with Chirac in one sense: war is a failure at averting war. Peace is a failure of fighting. SO 😉?

What's your theis on?

glad to see that even some americans have realised how crap and hated their country is, its not just dubyaw, the "american dream", the government, the fact you cant speak English but claim you do, and patriotic rednecks. But the thing that realy, seriously, gets right on my tits, is that you are proud of your history. I am british and i can be proud of the majority of my history because we have learnt from it and we didnt try genocide. I am sorry if this may be confusing some of the more patriotic of americans, but what you proudly did to the Native Americans was genocide and the discrimination still doesnt stop!
Britain too once policed the world and this was on the seas, we can prouly say we stoped most of the slave trade, we were also the first country to abolish slavery.

you might want to read this
http://www.freewebs.com/mikedir/americanrant1.html
and the second page
http://www.freewebs.com/mikedir/americanrant2.html
not totaly proud of this now (especially all the swearing) but I was very angry when i wrote it.

As yet i have not met an american I can safely say i have liked (or not bitterly hated) due to the many reasons, the main one being their undying love for their country, ok I know i said i was proud of my country, but, i do object to some of my goverments actions (past and present), i dont like the way it is run at present, and i do recognise the monarchy (thats the queen) bit mainly as part of our history.
i am glad to see how long this thread has lasted i was expecting some redneck to allert the administrator the moment we started to tell the truth about their dear country.😠