Some of you are really going to hate what I have to say hear but I don’t care. I want to point out from the start that I have no resist feelings towards Americans and I do not doubt the good they have brought to the international table particularly in the last 100 years or so.
That’s were the nice stuff stops. There are a number of American attitudes that really annoy me the first one is this “do as we say, not as we do” mentality allot of American politicians (including Obama) seem to have. For example why is it ok for America and her allays to have nuclear weapons but not north Korea, Syria, Jordan and Iran. Personally I would like a world with no nuclear weapons and support any attempts to curb the number of countries with nuclear weapons. I also recognise that we live in a time of nuclear weapons and it’s always better to have a bigger gun than the other guy. But who give the USA the right to dictate to other countries what weapons they can and cannot have?
Another similar example is Israel. America supply’s Israel with arms and finance but it’s not ok for Iran to supply Hezbollah with similar support. How can America seriously expect countries such as Iran to stop supplying arms to Hezbollah and to continue its search for the “bomb” when America supplies Israel and has the “bomb” themselves, it’s all very hypocritical.
Political attitudes are an additional way of thinking that really irritates me. Allot of Americans on this site seem to have the point of view that if you’re not a capitalist, you’re a communist or a liberal. Then they will force down your throat about how you must be wrong and there all right. I have found that most of the time when they start arguing with me about Socialism they start to describe Communism and have all sorts of outrageous claims, one even thought that because I am a Socialist I was pro abortion how he came to such a conclusion I will never know
I have to say I really admire the number Americans who follow the teachings of the bible. But I don’t get why everything has to be about God. It really annoyed me when I heard Bush saying that God told him to invade Iraq .when I see all of these evangelicals who from the prospective of an outsider they just look nuts! Religion and politics should never be mixed full stop!
Economically and socially I hate how Americans think they are bigger and better than everyone else it’s just not true. Arguably America is no longer the dominant world superpower it once was and American goods are not always better for example cars and computers.
I don’t know about the prospective that people in the USA have I admire all of your patriotism but form the outside you do come across sometimes as arrogant imperialists. I get the feeling that you often forget that you are a young inexperienced nation
