AMERICAN PATRIOTISM – OBAMA/BIDEN 2008 (Eight IS enough!)

Watch this entire piece if you haven’t seen it yet. Watch it in full screen, even. Many liberal Americans including myself tire often from trying to explain what is patriotism to no avail. People in America and all over the world just don’t get it. Obama, during the middle of his acceptance speech explains American patriotism.

Additionally, many forget that it was American patriots that fought tooth and nail for freedom and independence from the unfair and often brutal British dominance long ago. Black people are where they are today because of their independent fight for freedom. Women are where they are today because of their fight for freedom. The list goes on. We are a nation of people who (most of us, generally) realize what’s wrong, and are a nation of fighters. We are still far from being perfect, but we continue to fight – even if the odds are against us – even though our Electoral Voting System is corrupt and unfair – even if we’re called “unAmerican” in the process, and even if the Anti-Americans STILL mindlessly lump us in with the “Uncouth Americans”. A true American never gives up. Why? Because we’re proud to be an American. It’s okay to be ashamed to be an American when things are rough, so long as we pick ourselves off the ground, kick the sand behind us and and continue to fight for what is right.

As you can see, none of these people I mention above fled north of America because “they felt persecuted”. They stayed to CHANGE it. This is what being American is all about. What’s broken? Let’s join together and FIX it.

You can’t do that if you don’t vote. You can’t do that unless you put your foot down and say, “no more”.

My own personal definition of what it means to be patriotic:

Most Anti-Americans will tell you that Patriotism is defined as unconditionally accepting its leader and every crooked thing that a government may do. But I beg to differ. Patriotism for me is being able to say that you’re proud of where you were born and have the willingness to defend your country from verbal slander or violent attacks. True Patriotism also believes in free speech in that if we disagree with what our government is doing, we will question it. Patriots don’t always approve blindly of every decision made by our administration. Patriotism also believes that you can be a progressive-minded liberal and still be a patriot. Patriotism is ALWAYS optimistic, believes in change, and sees room for improvement when needed. If Patriotism doesn’t speak up and try to make changes, then our ancestors that died for this freedom, died for nothing.

OBAMA / BIDEN 2008

And last but not least, eight IS enough.

What Good Is America in the World, Anyway?

Besides being a nation of backwards nationalistic, paranoid, arrogant, fat, lazy, greedy, racist, spoiled-rich, slutty, ignorant, stupid, humorless, loud, obnoxious, gum-chewing, carbon-emitting, gun-toting, bible-thumping, baby-killing, flag-waving and self-centered rednecked Neanderthals living in the most disgusting chunk of the globe, have we done ANY good? Any good at all?

Could backwards nationalistic, paranoid, arrogant, fat, lazy, greedy, racist, spoiled-rich, slutty, ignorant, stupid, humorless, loud, obnoxious, gum-chewing, carbon-emitting, gun-toting, bible-thumping, baby-killing, flag-waving and self-centered rednecked Neanderthals be capable of anything deemed worthy or noble?

NEED HELP FROM BOOGIE MAN! I lock my doors at night! Is there a medication for this???

I am finally beginning to understand Canadian Americanophobia. All I had to do was watch the movie, “Bowling for Columbine”. All of my answers as to how the AA Canadian public got their information was getting increasingly obvious. I used to blame it all on the education, child rearing in the homes, the CBC and the BBC. But there’s another element to consider:

Had I underestimated the power of Snake Oil Salesman, Michael Moore?

“The Culture of Fear” was tossed into my lap several times from so called “experts” on American culture. So, I thought about it and realized that this label is both accurate and inaccurate at the same time. Let me explain. But before we continue, it’s necessary for me to point out that there are two different definitions of the word, “fearful”.

• Fearful: being afraid
• The Americanophobic definition of “fearful”: Also known as Paranoid Schizophrenia or just simply being afraid of something that’s not there and/or having delusions that something fearful is there when it is not.

My main point with this blog entry is to explain the reasoning behind people owning guns (aside from hobbyists), why Americans look or act paranoid, and possible reasoning as to why Americans are more homicidal than those from other developed nations. Also as a disclaimer, please keep in mind while you’re reading this that I am *not* defending criminals. That’s the job of the Americanophobes – not me.

My opinions as to how we got so violent and out of control:

(1) First off, I don’t think many are aware of how most Americans are raised. Forget about history and past wars. If Americans walk around feeling “fearful” all their lives, there’s got to be a reason for it, no? One must look no further than how we are raised. Most Americans learn the difference between right and wrong via very violent and painful punishments in the home as toddlers, kids, and as adolescents. And many of our ancestors used to get their ass kicked in school by the nuns. There are gray areas when it comes to child discipline, and I’m confident to say that many forms of discipline over here are actually child abuse just veiled under the term, “discipline” to make the offenders feel better about what they do. Violent discipline varies from family to family and can happen on several different levels. We learn to fear our parents. If we are good boys and girls, we are only doing so to avoid a “can-o-whoop-ass” from our parents. We are not behaving because we have “learned” or because “we want to”. We don’t know the answers or why we do what we do, but for the most part, we’ll do anything to please our parents (until the end) and to avoid as much pain as possible in the process. We go out into the world as an “independent” adult carrying that same fear – although irrational. (Please keep in mind that I am generalizing here. If you want specifics on how I feel about violent discipline, read this.)

But wait. This way of being brought up isn’t specific to Americans. This “doing things to avoid an irrational or rational fear of getting spanked” isn’t specific to American culture either. I would like to bet, however, that there is more domestic violence (especially of the torturous kind i.e. tying kids to bed etc) in the US compared to any other developed nation. Or is it just that America talks about her violent problems more? Australia being similarly jaded, I’d be curious of what their crime rate is in comparison to America’s.

One in three Americans girls and one in 5/6 American boys are sexually abused in the US, and these are just the stats that are reported. There are symptoms of being sexually abused and those include hyper-vigilance, watchfulness, and the inability to trust like the unabused are capable of doing. This is to be expected. Even those victims who claim that they are over the rape still possess a somewhat paranoid nature to them that is to be expected. Another name for this is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Add this in with the mixture of violent attacks on innocent Americans (whether it be coming from the home, school, or in the big wide open spaces) and you get a lovely cocktail of jaded Americans. Because that’s what we are.

Americans are jaded. This is a more accurate way of describing us. By calling us fearful (in the form of schoolyard bullying) is actually belittling and mocking all the victims of crimes here. It’s a condescending and pretentious way of spitting on people that have been hurt. Let’s see you do any better considering the circumstances. The fact of the matter is that one’s place of birth does *not* dictate how one deals with a traumatic experience. Unless you’ve been there yourself under the very same circumstances and past, you have no right to get on your high-horses and preach how someone is to feel their feelings – especially when you don’t even live here in a less than modest neighborhood to know what the hell you’re talking about. Now, this is no excuse for people to wave their guns at every suspicion, but that’s not what we’re talking about here. We’re talking about paranoid and fearful Americans, right? Americanophobes aren’t angry at the criminals here because they mourn their death when they get the death penalty. Americanophobes are mad at the peaceful gun-holders and non-gun-holders in America. Even though I don’t own a gun myself, I defend the responsible and peaceful law abiding citizens living here who are being unnecessarily attacked. Anyway, after reading this, I grew confused. It shows that Australian and Canadian rapes far outweigh American rapes. Hmm…. I am positive there is a connection between rape and jaded behavior, but am not convinced it causes violent behavior leading to one’s death.

(2) If you look at other developed countries, America is the only country where one must look after himself. We do have social services and welfare programs here, but compared to the rest of the world, the US stands alone and its people stand alone and must fend for themselves. It’s about the “I” not the “we”. This is very stressful for everybody living in the states except for those people who GENUINELY love their jobs (which are the minority). There’s much contempt here for others that don’t work as hard regardless of their excuse. (Who woulda thunk it?) There’s also much contempt for those countries that have more free time, work less, live longer, and enjoy life more. Superfrenchie displays very good examples of this here and here. There are many in the US who pretend that they love to work long and hard hours at stressful jobs, but deep down inside they are bitter, jealous, angry, and resentful and take out these frustrations on other people – namely those who are defenseless (their kids) and not working as hard.

(3) Putting the blacks through slavery has much to do with our violent beginning as well. Not that the evil whities weren’t already violent to begin with (hey, weren’t the British who were powering the world for 300 years with THEIR blazing firearms white too? Oops!?!? ), but it doesn’t help that the Blacks fought back very violently (and justifiably so!). Has not anyone ever heard the term, “violence begets more violence”? It doesn’t matter who’s the perpetrator or who’s the victim. Violence simply begets more violence. Now, whites beat/kill each other up, blacks beat/kill each other up and so on. Many countries (both past and present) have been guilty of keeping slaves (both black, white, and other races). And Americans held on to slaves the longest.

(4) Poverty: There is more unemployment in Canada and other socialized countries compared to the US. But this doesn’t mean that they are poverty stricken. My bet is that there’s more poverty in the states. My bet is that this contributes significantly to our crime rates.

(5) Could it also have something to do with the fact that we don’t have proper institutions for the mentally ill here as other countries have? Most of our severely mentally ill are the homeless that you see when you come here. Thanks to our “compassionate” government, this may be just another of several reasons why there is more crime here.

(6) More examples of bad parenting in America: Read from 1-4 in this article written by “Mohammed”. It is an opinion, but I concur with all that he says because I see this too much over here. It is hard to live in America, in my opinion. Don’t be fooled by the sunshiny smiley faces. Some of us pretend that we are happy just to keep our sanity. Life is very stressful here compared to other developed nations. Some Americans make bad decisions to have too many kids that are shoved into daycare centers while mom and dad work all day. They trust day care as the kids’s virtual parents more than they trust themselves. Parents don’t pay attention to the signs when their kids come home from school or the day care depressed or acting funny. If America has shown anything, it has shown that kids living here are not important. They are too little to worry about as adults are struggling for survival and have their own “adult problems” to worry about daughter and son. All of these bad choices and stressful living conditions that we are subjected to and subject ourselves to is bound to show on the people…somehow…someway, wouldn’t you think? Kids are treated here with no more respect than dust particles, so in the end they act the way they are treated: no self-esteem and running on auto-pilot until they crack. This is not a rocket science.

It’s not that uneducated and stressed-out people hump more than others. It’s that they don’t use birth control and want to make more kids so that they can feel in control and have others to powerhouse. These reckless parents come out of abusive homes too, and the cycle continues from one generation to the next. Where one feels powerless in their lives due to past abuses, they feel the need to establish power through making babies – or by making babies to have someone love them unconditionally, for once. It’s sad. And it’s a continuous cycle in America which begs that each of you reading this watch the movie, IDIOCRACY. Once seeing that, everything I’m typing here will make more sense.

With that said, those suffering from severe cases of PTSD and/or (REAL!) Paranoia will more than likely be purchasing a gun. Or not? PTSD is not just for vets and is more complex than what people make it out to be. Let’s look at the symptoms:

* sleep problems including nightmares and waking early
* flashbacks and replays which you are unable to switch off
* impaired memory, forgetfulness, inability to recall names, facts and dates that are well known to you
* impaired concentration
* impaired learning ability (eg through poor memory and inability to concentrate)
* hypervigilance (feels like but is not paranoia)
* exaggerated startle response
* irritability, sudden intense anger, occasional violent outbursts
* panic attacks
* hypersensitivity, whereby every remark is perceived as critical
* obsessiveness – the experience takes over your life, you can’t get it out of your mind
* joint and muscle pains which have no obvious cause
* feelings of nervousness, anxiety
* reactive depression (not endogenous depression)
* excessive levels of shame, embarrassment
* survivor guilt for having survived when others perished or for not having done more to help or save others
* a feeling of having been given a second chance at life
* undue fear
* low self-esteem and shattered self-confidence
* emotional numbness, anhedonia (inability to feel love or joy)
* feelings of detachment
* avoidance of anything that reminds you of the experience
* physical and mental paralysis at any reminder of the experience

This is not something to laugh at, by the way, as Canadians and people all over the world suffer from PTSD too. Even animals suffer from this.

All I’m trying to say is to dig behind and beyond the simplicity of just thinking all white Americans are born evil, non-human, and inherently violent, nuts, and paranoid. This is yet another case of the Americanophobes taking a COMPLEX subject and looking at it with a narrow black and white view. What else is new in Anti-America?

Can people be born evil? Or are the Americanophobes claiming that all white Americans are born evil? Most of us? Only the white people? Or just the white people BORN in America? If you say that people aren’t born evil, than you’ll be forced into a more complex route of admitting that the Americans that ARE criminal are under environmental duress and past abuse. Whichever the case, both answers show criminals to be victims as well. Criminals: victims or not should be treated as such: not with sympathy, not with empathy, but with punishment, in my opinion. However, the people the Americanophobes yell at are the non-criminal gun holders and non-gun holders which is very curious. Does anyone have any answers for THAT?

If you’re talking about those who possess guns and leave them lying around loaded for any kid to pick up and start shooting, then you’ve got an argument. We are then talking about irresponsible gun holders. If the access to guns decline in the US, so will the accidents. This is a HUGE problem here. I still stand by the 2nd amendment, but what I don’t stand by is how easily obtainable they are (just like in Canada and Switzerland) as background checks are a joke. There should be a more formal process in which the person trying to buy a gun is examined mentally with a fine tooth comb.

I am no arm-chair psychologist or anything. I, just like other curious people, wonder why we kill people so easily as we know it’s not so much to do with firearm possession as it is to do with the gun owners themselves! Suffice it to say, there are plenty of stabbings, stranglings, and other forms of homicide here that don’t involve guns.

One Brit flaunts his expertise on Guns in America.

(sic) Sorry, do americans not have fists like the rest of the world?

Since when was shooting a acceptable method of self defence? As for killing food, that can be done with other means.

He goes on to explain his point further:

(sic) My point is, it isnt exactly an acceptable reason to have a gun. If someone is armed with a knife, then its only right then that you defend yourself in the same way.

What would be better, getting rid of guns and decreasing the amount of deaths or keeping it for self defence and having those deaths at the same level?

Theres a reason, besides the huge population that USA has such high crime/homicide rate.. Its because the majority of the rest of the world dont let you own a gun for no reason. Just seems stupid that they continue to have it for self defence, when their are so many alternatives.

What are we debating here? Criminals (who kill PEOPLE as a sport) or gun holders (who are responsible and using it for defense or other hobbies not relating to murder)? You can’t conveniently blur these two together. There IS a difference. Irresponsible people with guns ARE the minority.

Do the Anti’s not realize that there are very nice law abiding citizens who have guns that only use them for defense and not offense? Do the Anti’s not realize that most of the people in the US who commit homicide out of OFFENSE are holding ILLEGALLY OBTAINED or stolen firearms? Do the Anti’s not realize that even though we own guns here, that British people have found the US to be a more peaceful place to live? Do the Anti’s not realize how EASILY accessible firearms are in Switzerland and how most males have them (and the same with Holy Canada)? As you can see here, simply HAVING a gun is VERY different than having urges to kill innocent people for fun. Is this concept too hard to grasp? If it is not just holding a gun that automatically makes one a criminal, then what is it? This just simply proves that we must look deeper to find the answers as to why Americans are more violent. And we ***shouldn’t*** just limit our research to gun crime, it should be ALL crime! It’s most curious how the Americanophobes talk more about gun control in America than they do about crime where a gun wasn’t used. Those crimes are completely blacked out. It seems more likely that they just want guns prohibited than wanting crime to decrease. I don’t think that the Far Left really care about innocents getting killed at all as their agenda to flex their supremest muscles at the yanks are more important than anything else. This is what the “morally superior” Far Left is all about: their agenda (not human lives).

Michael Moore was comparing the violence in the US with Canada. You’d have to be retarded *not* to understand why Americans are more fearful. The stupid Americanophobic Leftists are thinking that Americans live day in and day out thinking that some Black or Arab “boogie-man” is hiding in the bushes waiting to kill us whether we’re in our own countries or abroad. Naturally folks, where violence is MORE prevalent, the normal response to lock your doors and not walk alone at night in some areas of town is NOT “racially motivated” nor is it “unique” to Americans. I feel almost retarded myself for having to explain the obvious.

I was amused. One Canadian woman was interviewed by Micheal Moore in this movie (Bowling for Columbine) and she stated that her home was broken into AND vandalized while she was sleeping at night. She stated that the incident didn’t scare her , and that she continues to *not* lock her doors at night because that would be, yanno, too American she doesn’t want to disconnect herself from the rest of the world. I think she’d feel very comfortable over here in the US as we harbor the most mentally ill people in the civilized world, so she’d feel right at home. Welcome, drunk Blondie!

*sighs*

You know, it’s these people like HER that deserve to be vandalized and robbed! As a matter of fact, I could use some things as money is a little tight where I am. I wonder if she’d give me her address in Canada, and then I can come over and take what I like while she’s sleeping? She seems very generous to me. And hey, aren’t the AA Canadians all about sharing their money with the less fortunate? She should have gone one step further and just gave her address out publicly considering how “open to visitors” she is. One question, though: Do Canadians lock their door when they have sex? Hmm… OK, I know I’m getting hammy here, but if you had watched the film, you’d see what I mean. We UHHMERICANS are considered anti-social and again, insular, for locking our doors as well. After all, that’s not friendly behavior, right?

Surely, Americans are painfully and clinically “guilty” of locking their doors more than Canadians, but Michael Moore gives this impression that none of us over here leave our doors unlocked. And as a matter of fact, there are certain towns and neighborhoods where people feel comfortable keeping their doors unlocked in the US – just as there are town, cities, neighborhoods in CANADA where people LOCK their doors. How stupid does Michael Moore and Co. think Americans are??? And I don’t believe that ditsy Canuck who said that she wasn’t scared after the break-in. She was TERRIFIED. She’s just trying to make Canada out to be something that it’s not. I don’t care what country one is living in. At the end of the day, we are all people just trying to get by in the world. We all bleed the same blood and cry the same tears and feel the same feelings. I am not convinced, otherwise.

It’s funny how Americans are looked down upon for locking their doors, yet that was also the case in Japan when I was living there. I also had never heard of a girl living living in an apartment alone in Japan that kept her doors unlocked. (I’m sure they leave their doors open in the country areas, though.) My Japanese friends even told me to avoid certain areas as they were deemed “dangerous”. Hmm…. (are they ‘fraid of the blacks too?) Has any research taken place in other developed countries regarding this “issue”? Naw. It’s just got to be America, right? Well, of course!! Let’s not defeat the purpose of Americanophobia!

To move on, the perceived uniqueness of learning by “cause and effect” is not a phenomenon peculiar to the “American Culture”, either. Once again, look at the violence here in proportion to people “acting careful” to prevent such things happening to them.

Another question comes to mind. Should our media not cover crime news or perhaps not cover it as much? We know for a fact that it is real. It does happen. And anybody with 1/4th of a brain should realize that crime news is hardly covered in Canada because it DOESN’T HAPPEN ANYWHERE NEAR AS MUCH IN CANADA. So, what ARE the benefits of covering crime news? Is it just there to cater to the gore-loving, blood-thirsty audience? Is it there to make Americans realize what’s going on out there so as to take precaution and promote safety? What if there’s someone in the neighborhood that is a sniper killer? You know, it is so easy for a Canadian living in Peaceful Canada to lecture Americans on what and what not do do regarding safety. Don’t you think? What about the black people in the US that have guns and lock THEIR doors? Have you a fitting label for them? Paranoid? Fearful? Mentally Ill? Republican? They need to take measurements because they’re defending against the evil whities? Which is it?

Here’s my answer: I think that people all over the world should never be over-confident in thinking it’s not going to happen to them. I also think that people all over should never live in fear, either. What ever happened to this concept we call, “balance”?

Can we not learn anything from crime? I think we can. No. When I say “learn from crime”, I’m not talking about (after watching the news) running around waving your pistol because you heard that Jane Doe was brutally raped and murdered and the perpetrator’s on the loose. What I mean is that without crime news, we’d be a very naive and over-confident society leading to people trusting everyone thereby putting innocents in harm’s way. We don’t want THAT, do we? Learning from crime, makes intelligent people look for why these things take place to begin with as what was done here. My belief is that if we know what makes a killer, we someday will know how to prevent a killer. But you don’t figure these things out by having the reality of the world cut off from you. It may very well be the case that American local news is too centered on crime, and I can only guess it is there to raise people’s eyebrows. However, thanks to Michael Mooreisms, other countries are now successfully brainwashed to believe that the US media reports homicide only to make white people hate black people. Never mind the high number of crimes committed everyday between the Black and Mexican communities (gangs). Never mind the fact that most serial killers and sexual predators are WHITE!!!! Yes, that’s on our television channels too, people!

WE CAN SEE VERY CLEARLY THAT WHITE PEOPLE COMMIT CRIMES TOO! WHITE CRIMES, BLACK CRIMES, BROWN CRIMES, YELLOW CRIMES, PURPLE CRIMES, GREEN CRIMES, AND ORANGE CRIMES ARE ALL REPORTED E-Q-U-A-L-L-Y! But you clowns wouldn’t know that unless you lived over here! Or are living here with your eyes OPEN and not living in grandma’s basement.

At the end of the day folks, what does TOO MUCH CRIME NEWS do? It makes people numb and desensitized. Yes, you heard that correctly. Crimes news does *not* make the average American “paranoid”, or “fearful” nor is that why we “search the bushes for the boogie man”. Hearing on the news about another homicide for us is like hearing a commercial for Crest toothpaste. The reaction is the same, really. Some stories touch us and make us cry or shout at the TV, but generally speaking the surprise revolved around crime just isn’t there anymore. And in America, if we don’t want to watch about violence in the news, a remote control and cable television was invented for that very purpose.

I am furious with Michael Moore making this “unique” “culture of fear” to be about RACE… when it’s not. It was “Bowling for Columbine” and “Stupid White Men” that got lemmings both in Europe and in Canada to believe that if you have if you have African roots that you are innocent and holy by default, that if you have immigrated from another country, you are innocent and holy by default, but if you are white and born in America, you are guilty and inherently evil by default.

Additionally, it was absolutely deplorable to hear Michael belittle the victim’s families of 9-11 calling them and anyone else affected “a culture of fear”. If you don’t think that a terrorist attack has a effect on its people, you are callous and have just as much blood on your hands as the terrorists themselves. Interestingly enough, it is those countries living peaceful lives taking for granted what they have, that are the ones mocking the reactions of trauma survivors. You will always see the Americanophobic Canadians and Brits cry for those at the hands of our Capital Punishment system in America. But you won’t get that same “understanding” and “sympathy” from the Americanophobic scumbags regarding those “victims” that WERE ACTUALLY INNOCENT. There’s the blatant hypocrisy right there. Anti-America says that 3,000 innocent Americans from all over the world deserved the Death Penalty on 9-11 (even though 24 Canadians died in the towers as well). As the saying now goes:

“As someone who takes human rights seriously, I’m appalled by the lack of sympathy the left feels toward the victims of any regime other than the Bush administration. Let’s shout it to prisoners everywhere: If you’re not harmed by an American, your suffering doesn’t count.” –Erik Svane

When Americans watch “Bowling for Columbine”, they do so with a grain of salt (for the most part). Even liberal Americans do and even some leftists. We live here. We see what happens in our country. We know “Bowling for Columbine” is for entertainment’s sake and not to be taken too seriously. We are also well aware that Michael has lied and fabricated stories in his past pieces. We are aware of the manipulative tricks that he does with his footage to make people believe things that aren’t true. We know. We’re Americans.

BUT…

Those living elsewhere will take “Bowling for Columbine” to heart and because they hate Americans as well, will hang on to Michael’s e-v-e-r-y word. That is where Americanophobic Canadians and Brits go for their comfort food: The Michael Moore library.

And we know it’s not just UHHMERICANS that are vigilant after major disasters. Take 9-11 for example. Do some research on how following that day, people traveling coming from other countries took a downward spiral…for years. I was working at the airlines during that time and flight routes were canceled to and from other countries for years. Only in the last couple of years has travel from abroad increased since the attacks. Uh. Could it actually be that tourism declined because those from elsewhere were afraid of the Muslim that could be hiding in the bush to behead them? Hmm… Why, after 9-11, did the Japanese government begin fingerprinting all foreigners coming into the country if it is only Americans that are “taking precautions” against further attacks. In all actuality, nothing too drastic a change in the US has happened post 9-11 to show that we are seriously preventing further terrorism. The Iraqi war (creating more terror, in my opinion) and the Patriot Act are laughable. Airport security is a joke as it’s always been. Innocents from other countries as well as American citizens are unnecessarily being detained and abused too often while people board the planes with all sorts of weaponry. America is still a place where you can standby for a flight check in your luggage, miss the flight, and have your luggage travel alone (if that doesn’t say anything). What I’m trying to say is our “paranoid” measures to be a more secure country are about other things – NOT about being “fearful”. Please! And before you Anti’s get into your diatribe about “stupid Americans’, read this first and learn how you’re just as dumb if not more.

Right-wing Americans are always talking about “the war on terror” and how it’s “protecting us”. Propaganda is put out so that we do fear terrorists and submit to silly wars out of pure greed. But I’m also going to say that Americans are no more fearful than your average Canadian is about America turning on its side and squishing Canada. All this fear that the AA’s perceive is rather hype; it’s about following the crowd, the leader, the authority, it’s about the desire to belong and the inability for one to take responsibility for his own shortcomings. Weak people are seduced by power. This is the same way Americanophobia works. And it’s not too different from Nazi propaganda.

If you really want to explore racism in America, here might be a good start.

You want to pin an “Ugly American”? How about your beloved and millionaire Michael Moore himself?

MOORE MANIPULATES VICTIMS:
Moore held a screening of Bowling for Columbine in Littleton and charged admission the families of the victims.
• Columbine victim mother Anne Hechter: “It’s laughable that Moore attempts to portray himself as an anti-establishment liberal who is the voice of the common folk, when in fact he is no better than the greedy capitalists he shuns. Maybe now that he has made millions of dollars off the blood of our children he could toss a DVD or two our way to view.”
• Mark Taylor, one of the victims that Moore took to K-Mart headquarters, on Moore: “I am completely against him. He screwed me over. I had no idea what Moore’s agenda was. And he had an agenda. He had it all planned out, completely. I believe that every American has the right to have a gun. We should have the right to protect ourselves.”

Read more here about how “Bowling for Columbine” was a FICTION documentary along with the rest of his work. Credits to Mike, however. He is brilliant at what he does. His work is also very entertaining.

Lastly, when we examine the word, “fearful”, we must ask ourselves:

• Are all 300+ million Americans feeling this fear or just the gun-holders and the evil whities?
• What percentage of these people are fearing something real?
• Is it irrational fear brought on by a degree of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Is this fear really just Paranoid Schizophrenia that is being experienced?

Something interesting to note. The Americanophobes frequently call us “paranoid” and “fearful” by having invaded Iraq. But those same Anti’s said that we went to Iraq for oil and money for Bush’s rich buddies. Which is it? You can’t have your cake and eat it too. You don’t want to sound like an opportunist, do you? So, pick one and stick with it.

Secondly, in the beginning of “Bowling for Columbine”, Michael shows how Americans weren’t reactive enough when suspicious noises from crimes being committed were happening nearby. But then later, he accuses us for not being suspicious enough. He needs to take a pick too.

For all I know, everything I write in this blog may be a fallacy. So, take me with a grain of salt as well. All I’m trying to say here is to not always take to heart everything you read and see in the media. If you Americanophobic Canadians and Britons are truly the smarter and superior ones, question and challenge the literature you come across and make sound and balanced arguments in the public forums you use to communicate. Only then can you say that you’re better than Americans. The Americanophobes are so obsessed with Anti-American news that the concept that there are other ideas out there is unknown or thrown out immediately without properly looking at all the angles in its complexity.

If you truly want to learn about American culture, take courses or read books about Anthropology, Sociology, and Criminology. Actually live in the US and move around while you are here with an open and curious mind. If you don’t know why these three subjects are important to understand groups of people, culture, sub-cultures, and society, than you are part of the dumbing down of the world.

To say that Americans are just simply fearful for the sake of fearing alone is to deny that America is a violent country. And you don’t want to deny such if you are Americanophobic.

Canada is afraid of America. Now, how’s that for a blanket statement? Sleeping with the elephant, right?

Isolationism Americans Insularism Americans Inwardism Americans

Ha! I was just doing a little searching on the web for the Olympic basketball game information between China and the US since I had missed it on TV. I stumbled across this page and stopped in my tracks when I saw the following:

(Keep in mind, the above is *not* N. Korea, but S. Korea.)

Anybody ever been to Japan before… to live?

Hmm… To the Western Americanopbes, are you sure you want to keep Americans pinned to the “It’s all about meeeee” stereotype?

Could it possibly be that the Americanophobes are insular, isolationists, and inward-thinking? Nah… wait. They are supposed to be smarter and better than that, no? Because after all, they are leading Americans by example, right?

But then again, we can see from here, that the Anti’s just after all may be the ones who need to realize that the world is bigger than their own perception of it. The world is THAT big. One hundred and ninety four countries make it quite the big. But I guess to the small-minded individuals who have a narrow overly-simplistic black and white view of the world (one with no shades of gray), the labels they glue on Americans come to no surprise. Their little world is them and us.

I’ve been to Seoul and lived in Japan for 6.5 years and S. Koreans and the Japanese are anything BUT Americanophobes, so I’m not talking about these two countries. It’s just very telling how all-things-imperfect are conveniently an “American phenomenon”.

Oh, and as always, it’s not just the Anti’s in other countries who perceive the world so small. America has her own home grown versions as exemplified here:

Television? Admittedly, you need to have cable television in the US to be able to have permission to say that you watch TV. It’s true. I think you just get 3 stations on a snowy screen without it. Now, let’s look at basic cable in the US, shall we? We’ve got…

• The History Channel
• The Learning Channel
• Court Television
• The Animal Channel
• The National Geographic Channel
• The Discovery Channel
• The Discovery Health Channel
• Fox, Cnn, Cspan, and loads of other news channels
• Comedy Central (where you can hear about how horrible the US is and laugh at the same time!)

Harmlessness, no? When people think of TV, they only think of “Sex in the City”, “Celebrities Uncensored” Reality TV, and/or other “trashy” programming. Never do people think of those channels I listed could possibly be used as a tool to LEARN. Hmm…

As far as “what is funny” and “what is humor” is concerned, everyone has their own taste. I’d like to think that Seinfeld, Everyone Loves Raymond, The Simpsons, The Daily Show, The Colbert Show, and Carlos Mencia, are pretty damned funny. But maybe that’s just me? And yes, I have also watched “The Young Ones” (even have their videos), “Benny Hill”, “Monty Python” and other British comedy in the states as well as Japanese comedy from having lived in Japan. I love to laugh.

And trash TV? Meh. It’s just as popular in Europe, Canada, and actually…. ALL OVER THE WORLD. (Seriously, go to Japan and watch their variety shows, and you’ll see what I mean!) Admitting that you are addicted to “Desperate Housewives” or “American Idol” is a toughy. It is my opinion that Americans are more likely to admit they sin watching such trash, though (we have been bullied into calling them “guilty pleasures” something akin to masturbation and the like). And I am positive that Americans, Europeans, Canadians, Asians, etc all watch trash TV for the same reasons: it’s entertainment – especially when you can laugh at how stupid people act while the cameras are rolling. Makes ya feel better about yourselves and your own humdrum yogurt bland life.

Speaking of restaurants in the US, to be fair, the person who wrote the above quote was only 19. How much can you really see from age 1-19, generally speaking? When I was 19, I was only aware of my neighborhood – let alone the actual city, state, and country I was living in. To perceive the depth of any country this huge (yes, I know Russia and Canada have a larger landmass…), one must have many experiences in it – and not just in their little comfortable neck of the woods. Americans are guilty everyday of taking the diversity and size of the US for granted. This doesn’t mean that the US is “better” than anyone else. It’s just that coming to the conclusion that E-V-E-R-Y restaurant in the US contains “loud and obnoxious” individuals who just want to yell vulgar obscenities for no reason and gobble down food as fast as possible causing heartburn and indigestion while ignoring their friends and family ….is silly, and not something I’ve ran into, actually and I’ve got 40 years under my belt! And no! Chuck E Cheese is NOT my idea of a “restaurant”. If you want peace and quiet, you don’t go to a restaurant with that is popular for children or even where the elderly hang out because they’re all deaf!

If you want to get into semantics, then we’d have to define “what is a restaurant”. Hmm… there is variety in that too.

To add to this, I’ve actually heard the “loud and obnoxious” theme to be used on the British as well.

My guess is that when you’re pissed, you want everything neatly organized into directories and sub-directories where you categorize groups of people as such. It helps the anger/contempt/frustrations come out better with more intensity and strength. I am just as guilty at times. Nobody’s an angel. But you Anti’s must admit that you are rarely correct with your assumptions on the American people as a whole in a world where even Americans cannot claim to be “experts” on America. In other words, you cannot take a subject matter so complex and simplify it while expecting to look intelligent or more “superior”.

Only in America…

…:::America: the Honest, the Brave, the Free, but Far from Perfect says our media:::…

America’s Self-Critical Nature in the Media Goes Unnoticed All Too Often

One Americanophobic rant that is particularly annoying is where we are collectively accused of

• patriotism
• overboard patriotism
• blind patriotism
• arrogant patriotism
• nationalism
• jingoism
• being a constant flag waver
• thinking that America is the center of the universe
• having mostly a red, white, and blue wardrobe
• not realizing that other countries exist

What we are, actually, and what we are accused of is really THE OPPOSITE! Across the pond and past our borders, the media gives their audience a picture of the “average American”. And it’s distorted. Well, I am here today to tell you the other side of the story to broaden your perspective on American culture aside from the few flag-waving-Joe-the-Plumbers you met in your travels.

The media in the USA is the most self-critical/honest on earth. Why? How? We have the freest press, by far.

Give me a chance to explain myself.

While we do have our fair share of jingoists living over here, on a per capita basis, I have found no evidence that supports the theory that America contains more blind and arrogant nationalists than any other country. At the end of the day, it probably equals out to about the same.

Next. One of the most identifiable aspects of American humility, honesty, and courage lies in THE AMERICAN MEDIA as a whole, itself. Unashamedly all of our networks publicly broadcast to its own people and the rest of the world our dirty laundry, our weaknesses, our screw ups, and all things grossly embarrassing.

Where else in the world can you find a media and TV personalities that do the following: (Please pay close attention to the BELOW examples.)….

(1) Can you find a show similar to “To Catch a Predator” in another country?

(2) truTV: This is a television station devoted to catching American scum on tape doing the most unmentionable ridiculously stupid things that even Americans themselves cannot comprehend. Similar shows such as “Cops” and “Forensic Files” are also popular over here. On truTV.com’s website, they even have a section dedicated to dumb Americans called, “Dumb as a Blog: A Daily Digest of the Dumbest Stuff People Do”. Check out their video section as well and join in with millions of Americans poking fun.

(3) American investigative reports by their very nature, show Americans looking at their worst.

(4) Noam Chomsky

(5) A very famous Mexican American comedian, “Carlos Mencia” sings the “Dee Dee Dee” song making fun of stupid Americans.

(6) The “Loose Change” producers (that say 9-11 was an “inside job”) and cohorts are widely accepted in mostly America and in other countries as well. Yes, “Loose Change” was created by those nationalist Americans you speak of.

(7) America also allows its people to protest wildly against the Iraq War. So long as the protesters don’t commit vandalism or get violent, it is legal. If you’re still not convinced, take a look at and click on these links. And there’s always more where that came from.

ALASKANS AGAINST SARAH PALIN:

Just type into Youtube, “anti-war protests”, and you’ll get thousands of results of American protests.

( 8 ) Jeremiah Wright? No problem.

(9) American Academia

(10) Americans not only enjoy laughing at other Americans, but we laugh at ourselves as well. We don’t take ourselves all too seriously, and our best comedians practice self-deprecating humor. (May they RIP) George Carlin, Rodney Dangerfield, and Chris Farley, just to name a few, exhibited this very well. Americans love this kind of humor. And we Americans, just like our dearest neighbors to the North and across the pond, generally dislike arrogant behavior too.

(11) Bill Maher

(12) American media is LIBERAL (and at times considered to be “middle of the road”) – not “right-wing-biased” as the Americanophobes claim.

(13) Our media is self-critical on ALL levels: Local, State, and Federal. Because of our aggressive media coverage during the time Nixon was in office, Nixon knowing in advance he was going to be impeached, stepped down and surrendered. Now, you’re going to ask me why that hasn’t happened with Bush. The reason why is because what Nixon did was a clear-cut crime (within American political law) whereas Bush waging an illegal war (while impeachment-worthy) was not a clear-cut crime. The Senate AND the House both gave their go-ahead to invade Iraq. Please try and understand the difference. I sympathize with the Anti-Americans here as I am against Bush and Iraq, myself. But there’s a difference between Bush and Nixon (even though Bush is worse, in my opinion).

Our media spent weeks and months blasting Bush, FEMA, and governments on every level for the lack of immediate assistance following Hurricane Katrina. What the Americanophobes who accuse Americans for being self-absorbed and isolationists don’t realize, is how quickly we arrived in Thailand and other S. East Asian countries following the Tsunami a few years back. And of course, this as well. Oh, how easy it is to be ignorant with the Americans!

The American media jumps on anything and everything once it gets its paws on it — all-things-American-shame. It comes from America first. Who knows? Maybe America herself started the Anti-American movement.

(14) Our mid-day and late-night talk show industry takes pot shots at the same “ugly Americans” that YOU spend your lives obsessed with. Let’s take “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” for example, shall we? If you watch (and you don’t even have to watch carefully), you’ll notice that these people are FREQUENTLY bashed:

• Stupid celebrities such as Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie
• Bush (they even have a Bush impersonator that appears on the show often, that looks and acts just like Bush)
• Cheney, The Clintons (blow-jobs and Hillary), and other fools in American politics
• Fat Americans and how we are getting fatter by the day (just not as fast as Australia)
• Lazy Americans and products that we use to keep us sedentary and fat
• Stupid Americans (i.e. American headlines, dumb criminals, Jaywalking with Jay Leno, and he also has dumb Americans appear on the show to further expose American ignorance) We don’t know how much is scripted or manipulated – nor do we care, but it’s still exposed and Americans love to watch this stuff!!
• Inbred Hillbillies and American Southernisms
• Fast Food
• LA superficiality (i.e. fake boobs and other fake body parts, bad drivers, ditsy blonds driving while talking on cell phones, eating, and putting on make-up while operating a vehicle)
• How Americans take the voting in an American Idol more seriously than voting in a president

Only in America can you find this kind of honesty. What other countries make fun of themselves like this?

(15) Even if Americans look stupid on game shows, we still air them instead of covering them up to paste a false image on a viewers screen.

(16) American Blue-collar comedy pokes fun at rednecks. Basically, all non-rednecks make fun of rednecks.

(17) After 9-11, America got VERY critical and became very aware that the terrorist attacks were preventable if you look at all the clues leading to 9-11 that weren’t taken seriously. The terrorists were the last to be blamed following that day. We were angry as hell at our leaders, the FBI, the CIA, the cheapskate TSA, and all others that turned a blind eye to the evidence that we were as vulnerable as we were. At least half of us are aware that our government is corrupt. Just look at our electoral voting system and how Al Gore really won the 2000 election. If we have less liberals and lefties in the US nowadays, it’s only because millions of them have moved to Canada and Europe. This is true. The same thing happened right after we got our independence from Britain. There are still millions of Americans loyalists honoring the British Crown and the way of life over here.

( 18 ) Our blatant display of STUPID AMERICANS IS a precious $$$$ lucrative $$$$ industry $$$$. (Cha Ching!) Yes, my friends, in America. No. No. No. No. Not just YOUR country. In America.

Right.

Here.

In.

America.

Yes, you heard that right. In fact, it is so popular OVER HERE IN THE US OF A, that other countries (our bestest friends Britain and Canada) have copied us and are starting to interview Americans in the street as well. LOL. Notice, how we NEVER see any other country’s people being interviewed? I find this very telling. It speaks volumes that America is in no way sweeping its flaws under the carpet. And ironically what the Americanophobes don’t realize is that Americans ♥♥♥LOVE♥♥♥ watching these videos too. Hello? Anti-America? Hello? Yes, you’ve heard that correctly.

Americans.

Love.

Laughing.

At.

Other.

Americans.

(19) The Jerry Springer Show: What the Americanophobes don’t know, though, is that 99% of those preforming are actors. As always, these people are willing to act and make a buck at the expense of more mindless Americanophobia simultaneously entertaining Americans and those all over the world. Mexico has been the only other country to emulate. Now, you can find a Mexican version of Jerry Springer on Mexican television in Spanish preformed by Mexicans, themselves.

(20) If you read the bottom of this post, you’ll see that many Americans out there are complying with the demands of the Americanophobes to stop calling themselves, “Americans” and to stop saying that they were born in “America”. Americans are now calling themselves by other terms. We may look tough toting our guns on the outside, but some of us really enjoy being pussy-whipped whether it be by our own government or by the Anti-American Elitist Left.

(21) Americans REALLY DO move to Canada. Their talk is not cheap. You’d be surprised how many Americans have genuinely escaped this country. And within the last five years, the numbers have increased!

(22) Facebook, Google, Youtube, WordPress.com. Need I say more?

(23) Americans hate each other!

(24) SOUTH PARK (All their themes make fun of Americans and America… yes – even the “Blame Canada” theme!)

(25) The Daily Show, The Colbert Show? Saturday Night Live, MadTV… (these shows mercilessly bash the hell out of our leaders, government, the American people, our TV shows, and you name it.) Or how about most of what’s shown on Comedy Central? Here’s an example of Jon Stewart taking pot shots at the silliness that can come from American news. So, even the “news” makes fun of the “news”.

(26) The movie, “Idiocracy”.

(27) The book, “The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America” and “American Deception” by Charlotte Iserbyt Thomson (an American).

( 28 ) Doug Soderstrom from Texas published several articles about what is wrong with America and Americans:
A Letter to My Son Regarding the Problem of War
The Day America Died
Why I am Ashamed to be an American
Behind The Mask of Evil
The Crisis and Challenge of the Christian Faith
On Coming to Terms with Society
A Fundamental Evil
Progress Mans Greatest Mistake
A Prescription for Peace
If Only George Bush Had Been Amish
Impeachment: An Apology the World Will No Doubt Understand
Untying the Gordian Knot of The Christian Faith
Young People of America Rise Up and Rebel
Arrogant Nation
The Dumbing Down Of The American Mind
The Most Evil People in the World
Why I Cannot Support The Troops In Iraq
The Only Hope For the World
The Morality of Neoconservatism
Some Thoughts about Jesus, The Church, My Country, and The War
If Teachers Were Congressmen
Advice From An Old Man
The Mindless American: A Tragedy In The Making

(29) I wonder if this can happen on any other country’s turf? On Mexican Independence Day, hundreds upon hundreds of Mexicans living in the US wave their Mexican flags wildly to the beat of their chants and songs as the march down the streets simultaneously burning American flags. It is perfectly legal. The very fact that Americans allow these kinds of things to occur on our own turf says a lot.

(30) NPR (National Public Radio) The American right wing hates this radio show as it is too liberal for them. NPR is also international as well and doesn’t stop at touting how well and better off people are living in other countries such as this example. On iTunes, you can subscribe to one of their radio shows. And as you can tell by the current menu, they have made mention of different parts of Europe where the health care is much more humane and civilized. I bet that you wouldn’t expect America to praise other countries letting us know that Europe does some things better!

(31) 2008 Financial Crisis, anyone? You betcha. Americans have mercilessly criticized ourselves there too. Here are just a few of never-ending examples:

—> Hey U.S., welcome to the Third World!

—> How We Became the United States of France

(32) Sarah Palin – She is one staunch Anti-American.

Sure there’s patriotic brainwashing in the US, but we have just as much media that goes in reverse! Balance, people. It’s all about balance. And that’s what America has. I don’t see Americans anymore inclined to accept without question their government than any other country in the world.

In a Vancouver Sun article on Canadian Anti-Americanism, a Canadian that truly sees America said the following regarding the way people feel about Bush:

Of course the Canadians, Europeans, and South Americans etc. are not alone in feeling ill treated. Many Democrats have a visceral dislike of the Bush administration and their feelings are reflected in American population as a whole. Literally millions upon millions upon millions of Americans simply loath the man; one result of this is that Bush bashing is a billion dollar industry in the States. Another result of this is that while Bush bashing is international in scope it has a distinctly American face to it. Michael Moore is arguably its most recognizable figure and a good number of critiques have a Chomskyian like flavor to them. Of course, South Korea’s Roh Moo-hyun and German’s Schroeder are not the only politicians to capitalize on the phenomena either. Howard Dean was the first American politician to capitalize on it and his doing so set the tone for the Democratic primaries.

In an article titled, “Stupid Americans”, a blogger found some research on the subject:

Although the way other nations encourage this stereotype of Americans seems atrocious, the worst enforcers of all are other Americans. Not, however, those stereotyped, but those who are “different.”  Everyone, it seems, is trying to separate himself or herself from the rest of the country.  “Oh, yes, they are idiots, but I’m different.”  People seem determined to prove that they are not idiots by pointing out that they are able to tell the brainless from the brained: “Look, I am so special that I can point of the idiots out for you right now!  Oh, we, the extremely vocal minority, are so oppressed by our obese fellow man.”  Instead of trying to correct the cultural faux pas of their brothers and sisters, they distance themselves from them, and laugh at them, along with the rest of the world.

Rich states in the comment section of this blog:

One of the reasons that some Americans are reluctant to travel is that statistically anti-Americanism is growing, interestingly enough nowhere more so than in the US itself.

But, the most successful anti-Americas, like Michael Moore, are home grown. Asked recently whether Americans were “greedy” 64% of Brits agreed. But 70% of Americans were in agreement. Some 26% of Brits believe that Americans are “immoral” but 39% of Americans agreed.

Additionally, I came across this blog post written by an Indonesian that rang true for me. He describes the same America that I’ve been living in for most of my life.

American society is the most open and, at the same time, most intensely and continually self-critical in the world. Any country that was founded on ideals, as the United States was, and that declares them openly and defines itself through them, will constantly have to measure the distance between where it is and where it should be. The distance between the reality of life and the hope for a better one is also the basis of the American Dream. It is has been hotly argued not only by Americans, but by the rest of the world as well. This debate about America is at the center of what it means to be an American and the strength of the argument reflect the view that America is different or should be. The literature of America has also demonstrated this tradition of self-criticism.

Many Americans feel that such continuing self-tradition, the terrible attention by the media, the publishing of the things best keep secret, the hunts for scandals, has gone too far. They point out that in few other western societies can political cartoonists so openly ridicule their leader.

You can read the rest of his post here.

One of my Japanese Canadian commenters made mention of some aspects of the American culture that I think people need to keep in mind:

…But I think that hard-core existential anti-Americanism–the idea that the USA is by its very nature, and from its conception, an evil nation–is more common in the US than in Canada, even accounting for the 10:1 population ratio.

For example, consider Noam Chomsky.

If he were Canadian, and said about Canada the things he says about the US, he’d be tarred and feathered and laughed out of public life.

I guess this is mixed up with the matter of Canadians being excessively patriotic, even in the face of reality (”We have the best health care in the world! We have the best education system.” “Everybody loves Canada.”), to the point of irrationally hating the US. On the other hand, MANY Americans whom I have no problem identifying as traitors are quite successful in the US, in the media [Dan Rather], Hollywood [Jane Fonda], Academia [The Professors], Politics [Gore], etc. And of course if they are criticized, instead of responding rationally, they always say that is “proof” that the “dissent” is not tolerated in “Amerikkka”….

I find this most interesting as the Anti-Americans IN America whine, moan, and groan ALL-THE-TIME about how we don’t have free speech… which is a farce! EVERYONE here (including myself at times) CONVENIENTLY FORGETS what free speech is and how it IS free over here. Let’s remember the following:

The 1st Amendment addresses what the government cannot do:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

I explained more about America’s 1st Amendment in this post in much more detail. Sometimes there is a threat to free speech, but we always win in the end.

More from Akira:

The US is a great place to be anti-American

By Gerard Baker, The Times, October 19, 2007

Anti-Americanism is on the wane at last. All over the world, Americans are being fêted once again as farsighted, liberating heroes.

Al Gore has won a Nobel Peace Prize, an Oscar and an Emmy, the triple crown of recognition from the self-adoring keepers of bien-pensant, elite liberal, global orthodoxy. Michael Moore is treated like a prophet in Cannes and Venice, as he peddles his tales of an America that poisons its poor, sends its blacks off to war and shoots itself. Whenever a loquacious Dixie Chick or a contumacious Sean Penn utters some excoriating remark about the depravity of his or her own country, audiences around the world nod their heads in sympathetic agreement. Bill Clinton, of course, is a god. Though protocol dictates that he may not say things that are too unkind about the country he once led, a nod and a wink will suffice.

It has always amused me that the same people who denounce America as a seething cesspit of blind obscurantist bigotry can’t see the irony that America itself produces its own best critics. When there’s a scab to be picked on the American body politic, no one does it with more loving attention, more rigorous focus on the detail, than Americans themselves.

It has always been this way. The fiercest and most effective opponents of US foreign policy in the 1960s were not the students in Paris or the Politburo in North Vietnam. They were Jane Fonda, Bobby Kennedy and Marvin Gaye.
Background

* The inconvenient truth about Al Gore

* A Stormy Climate

* Michael Moore’s healthy skepticism

* A convenient Nobel prize for politics

Today I can only laugh when I see the popular portrayal of George Bush’s America in much of the international media. Supposedly serious commentators will say, without evident irony, that free speech is under attack, that Bush’s wiretapping, Guantanamo-building, tourist-fingerprinting regime is terrifying Americans into quiet, desperate acquiescence in the country’s proliferating crimes.

The truth is that America not only harbours the most eloquent and noisy anti-Americans in its own breast, it provides a safe haven for people to come from all over the world to condemn it.

Take a stroll through almost any American university campus and you will hear a cacophony of voices in a hundred different languages, slamming everything America does, from fast food to hedge-fund capitalism. For years one of America’s most celebrated academics was Edward Said, the Palestinian agitator-cum-professor, who lived high on the hog at Columbia University, near the pinnacle of the American intellectual establishment, dispensing his wisdom about US wrongs in the Middle East.

Hollywood is the global mecca for angry denouncers of everything American. From all over they come, forcing themselves to live in their green-lawned mansions carefully tended by cheap migrant labour from south of the Border. This autumn, unsuspecting Americans (and everyone else, of course) will be treated to an especially unsettling stream of antiwar, anti-American propaganda, much of it produced in Hollywood by foreigners – such as this weekend’s likely box-office hit, Rendition.

I can only laugh at the last paragraph up above because the Americanophobic Left are hysterical when they condemn Hollywood (AKA Hellywood). Yet… Hellywood is the same place that they all went to see…

• The Corporation
• Bowling for Columbine
• The Big One
• The Awful Truth
• Sicko
• Captain Mike Across America
• Fahrenheit 9-11
• An Inconvenient Truth
• Talking to Americans

And read these books created by Hellywoodian authors…

• Stupid White Men
• Will They Ever Trust us Again?
• Dude, Where’s my Country?
• Downsize This!
• Adventures in a TV Nation
• TV Nation
• The Assault on Reason
• American Earth
• Earth in Balance

The Anti-American Left also cheered Madonna when she gave a free concert to the French to thank them for not supporting the Iraqi War. The Anti-American Left also cheered the Dixie Chicks for apologizing to the English for the Iraq War while they were over in England on tour. The Anti-American Left also cheered Rosie O’Donnell for telling off Elizabeth Hasselback on “The View”. The Anti-American Left also cheered when Jane Fonda went to Vietnam to apologize. The Anti-American Left also cheered when Mel Gibson made Anti-Semitic remarks.

Wait a minute. Do I really need to continue? For crying out loud, most Hellywood celebrities belong to the staunch Left in the US. Yes, right here in the US. The list of celebrities that have loudly cried against the Iraq War, Gitmo, Abu Ghraib, Bush, Global Warming and the hellhole that is the USA is an endless list, my friends. It is endless. The Left only condemn Hellywood because and only because it sounds “intellectual” and “elite” and “smert” to be against Hellywood. But when nobody’s watching, they are jacking-off to Leftist entertainment provided by the very people they claim to hate.

It’s true that self-criticism is always more effective than an outsider’s observations. Let’s be honest, how much real moral weight do Vladimir Putin or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad carry when they decry American motives and actions? All but the most unhinged of America’s critics know, deep down, in a part of the brain they try not to consult, that whatever they may think of the Bushitler in Washington, they don’t feel comfortable agreeing with the ex-KGB hatchet man of the Kremlin or the Holocaust-denying Dr Strangelove sitting astride his Islamist bomb. It sounds so much better when Al Gore or Michael Moore says it.

Feel free to read more from Akira here.

Akira is correct. In which other country can you find those people speaking against their leaders and government like this or this? And there are many more pundits out there that won’t stop at anything to get their voices heard. Anti-American Americans are also making mini-celebrities out of themselves on Youtube. Dear Anti-America, please feast yourselves with her and her. And there are more of us that think the US is a shithole.

But I think we put the Brits and the Canucks to shame with our own passionate anti-Bush/war protests.

Nobody hates America like Americans, my sweets.

So, as you can see, Americans don’t hide their dirt. Americans don’t hide how stupid they are. Unlike other countries, Americans are more likely to admit when they don’t know something and ask questions. There is never a shortage of American arrogance. However, when it comes to ignorance and curiosity, America wins hands down in the humility department as we don’t suffer from short man syndrome, we don’t have anything to prove consequently not hiding the fact that we want to learn, say the words, “I don’t know”, and ask questions. Americans don’t kick things under the rug like other countries do in an attempt to look perfect for the sake of making “blind patriots” out of their own citizens and for the sake of showing how great they are to the rest of the world. I take pride that America shows almost everything both domestically and internationally – even though it frustrates me at times in the sense that we take our clothes off for other countries yet they don’t do that themselves. Other countries try to paint their stinky shit pretty. America shows her shit and may even blow it up more to ooh and aaah its audience. America doesn’t care who’s watching. America makes money off of this shit, but doesn’t care if it is at the expense of creating mindless Americanophobia abroad and even on her own turf. Americans support, join in, and embrace Canadian and British Americanophobia more than the foreign Americanophobes allow themselves to believe.

Give us Americans more credit than that.

Americanophobia is irritating to those who are proud of where they were born and to those whom are fully aware how self-critical and self-reflective American culture is. It is obvious everyday when you turn on your computer, radio, or TV in search of news or comedy. There is some indication of America showing its ugly face for the world to see. And then when the same aware-people listen to Americanophobic rants, we are confused as the purpose of rampant Americanophobia is to shed light and awareness to the home front of America. But nobody is more aware of what’s wrong with America than America herself.

Here’s where America is obviously ignorant. Most Americans have never even heard of Americanophobia! If it has been heard of, it is more likely that an American will vehemently deny the existence of Americanophobia. Regardless of what political leaning one has, these are the same over-confident Americans that thought America was invincible and were surprised by 9-11. I reckon that this is the American insularism that Canada and Europe talks about. But by foreigners creating websites, forums, threads, topics, groups, cults, clubs, and blogs to spread awareness in hopes to make America change is a waste of time, in my opinion. At least over the last few centuries, the Anti-American Crusade hasn’t proven productive. America has never been good enough for the Americanophobes. This will not change.

Back to the subject!

Our self-critical coverage in the mainstream media (be it comedy, sitcoms, talk shows, investigative reports, or the news itself), is what causes many Americans to believe that we are the only ones in the world who are guilty of committing wrongs. Americans are (like Americanophobes living in other countries) brainwashed to believe in American clichés and that America is the anti-Christ. There are just as many Americans that are brainwashed the other way around, of course. But we can always find that stuff, anywhere. Today’s post is specifically made to show that America is not as one-dimensional as it appears to be due to imbalanced agenda-ridden (although very entertaining) media systems that exists throughout the world.

I also write this post because most people think that these kinds of things only happen in America. No. The difference between America and other countries lies in the fact that some other countries are too ashamed to show their dirty laundry.

Perhaps if America successfully kicked their problems under the rug, our NATO friends wouldn’t have anywhere near the ammunition they have to tell us off with.

Most of my commenters confuse me for being a member of the Right-Wing. “Whaaaat?”, I think to myself. I see no evidence of such anywhere in my blog. In fact, a good 75% of my blog is comprised of my OWN rantings regarding American politics and society. See, Americanophobes are the REAL dingdongs with a black and white overly simplistic view of the world.

Americanophobes across the globe, enjoy defining America by its Extremists. Their media’s slant focuses on American’s extremists and all of it’s flaws. Americanophobes abroad believe in fabricated images of the supposed “typical American”. Some of us believe that the “ugly American image” helps other countries feel more patriotic about themselves. But my friends,… this is what Americanophobia is all about: mindlessness, laziness, genetic defects, displaced anger, scapegoatism, brainwashing, the need to belong, belief without question, inferiority complexes, lack of pride in one’s place in the world, and just plain old ignorance.

Trust me. America knows that it is sick. But America also knows where she is well. I’d like to think that it is only healthy to be aware of both. Not just for Americans. But for the world. There will always be Americans who display the “Ugly American” image. But then again, there will never be a shortage of Canadian and British “ugly images”.

Americanophobia is pointless because the ones that should be self-reflective aren’t listening to your rants and really don’t care whether they exist or not. And the ones that are listening to your rants are those Americans who are ALREADY self-critical.

Lost cause.

UPDATE!

I was speaking to a British friend of mine on Facebook the other day and I was surprised that he wasn’t aware that American comics and TV didn’t bash our own people, stars, and political figures. So much of what happens in the states doesn’t reach your end of the pond, sadly. But hey, bad news sells… It does over here too. The only difference is that the bad news we watch over here is about OURSELVES.

The Audacity to Respond

“Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.” –Winston Churchill

Read the above quote. It’s so true. Is it not?

The audacity to respond… to anything.

Just about all of my commenters here on the topic of Americanophobia are in shock and are surprised that I have something to say about it, that I have an opinion about it, that I’m responding and have a reaction toward the Americanophobes. Shame on me! But too bad too sad!

I wrote about a topic like this more than three years ago. It still rings true for me. We Americans are “supposed” to be the bullies riding Bush’s back yelling giddy up. But the Americanophobes are proving that they are no different – just an unarmed version of an American. Naturally, if you gave the Americanophobes REAL weapons, they’d be blazing away and taking hold of power like no other. They’ll deny it, of course, but only fools believe them. Only the reasonable can read beyond their veil of puritanism.

Look at this thread carefully. Did I do or say anything offensive? If you are confused about my definition of Anti-Americanism, you can read my reasoning here. Leave it up to the Americanophobes to have no clue what their cause is about.

A couple of Americanophobes out and about in the world have told me that because America is so BIG, POWERFUL, STRONG, MIGHTY and “America is a country that can look after itself bla bla bla….” that Americans shouldn’t dispel myths and stereotypes and Americans also shouldn’t complain about it.

If we take a look at all the groups in the world that are hated (both past and present), and ask the bigot himself, he’ll think that he has a good reason to be prejudiced toward said group. Keeping that in mind, “the hated should not attempt to defend themselves”.

Also consider the fact that any time that a person tries to silence someone trying to defend themselves, that is a classic sign of bullying (putting prejudice aside). If you know anything about bullying at all, you’ll know that bullies = cowards. People with true courage will not attempt to silence their opponent and will be open to retaliation. You are aware of the expression, “They can dish it out, but they can’t take it”, right? Those are true cowards/bullies. And interestingly enough, that is what the Americanophobes also call the Americans.

It is justified to hate all Americans considering the aforementioned philosophy. Why? Because they’re big. They should be able to take it.

What’s wrong with this argument? It is unreasonable to confuse the big, powerful, almighty government with the general average man in the street in America (the general population). It’s our GOVERNMENT that is BIG, POWERFUL AND STRONG. The American people, however, are no different from the people living in any other different nation aside from cultural and language differences. The American people have no more / less control/power than the average citizen living in ANY country with an established democracy. With that said, people are people. People are human beings everywhere; they have feelings no matter their whereabouts and their country of origin. A government catering to the $$$$ Fat $$$$ Cats $$$$ and Oil $$$$ for Halliburton $$$$ with Gunz-a-Blazin’ $$$$ doesn’t make me (as a person) a stoic – nor change the fact that I feel compelled to react to the world around me (including strong words toward my own government).

People need a reason for their xenophobia and will scrape and scratch at anything.

In conclusion, prejudice and sweeping generalizations of ANY group is irrational and UNJUSTIFIABLE.

Another thing that I find quite the interesting is that there’s a French blogger out there. He is quite famous too. That would be SuperFrenchie. His entire blog is devoted to dispelling Anti-French myths and defending his people and country. The French are stereotyped throughout Europe and America (far worse in the US). Well, in case you didn’t know, the French do not appreciate being called a the ever so infamous “cheese eating surrender monkies”. SuperFrenchie describes his feelings:

Surrender jokes are offensive, period. This episode of our history is still painful. We have not yet come to terms with many aspects of our defeat to Germany and the ensuing collaboration. And even if we had, jokes about them would still be demeaning and offensive.

[snip!]

In conclusion, no, French bashing is not racism. Maybe a mix of xenophobia (fear or contempt of that which is foreign or unknown, especially of strangers or foreign people), inferiority complex, superiority complex, salt, pepper and conflicting universalisms. It should nevertheless be kept in check, as such stereotypes are the seeds of more elaborate racist feelings that could ultimately lead to violence.

You can read the rest of his post here.

A guest blogger (Flocon) on his site had been linking French-bashing to Nazi Propaganda in this entry. Here are some snippets:

I had long ago made the comparison, which some contested, with Radio Berlin talking about the Jews in 1943. I must stand by it.

The fact that an association between the anti-French discourse and Nazi rhetoric may be unacceptable to the American conscience is understandable. Nevertheless it happens to be the same mental process, which consists of lowering a certain category of humans to the point of suggesting that said category is unworthy of being part of humanity. Are we not speaking of animals, after all? And then you add the fact that the French are hairy (like animals), that they stink (like animals), etc…

The author gives some examples about hatred toward other groups:

Let’s imagine that, in France, we should systematically associate blackness with “So, you likes dem fried chickens?” Oh, but it’s just a stereotype, a trope, …

Or let’s say constantly talking to a black man this way: “Yessum, you’s a good nigga, you ain’t no happy here in France?” Haha, giggle, it’s just a stereotype, a trope… “You’s not happy? You’s susceptible. You’s hafta learn real men know how to laugh at jokes. You not real man yet.”
To a Jew, who would be regularly asked, “Why does it always smell like Zyklon B when you enter a room?” haha, giggle, just a trope, just a stereotype. It’s a satirical show with no intention of doing harm. “Are you still lacking a little bit somewhere?”Laugh, laugh…

To an Arab: “Are you gonna behead me? Have you had your jihad juice? Where’s your camel?” Haha, giggle, it’s just a stereotype, a trope…

Now try to imagine a black, a Jew, or an Arab who, for several years, would have been sys-te-ma-ti-ca-lly associated with this kind of stereotypes; yeah, they’d enjoy it, no doubt.

[snip!]

We are indeed in the realms of the unspeakable, but they want to make us believe, probably in good faith, that it’s just meaningless jokes. Yeah, right…

People use all sorts of excuses and reasons to prevent their enemies from responding:

• It’s just a joke
• You’re big; you can take care of yourself
• You brought it on yourself
• You deserve it

Turn the tables around. Let the Canadians and Brits be on the tail end of universal hate and irrational stereotypes and see how they feel. They write defensively all the time on my blog right here – which is proof that they have feelings and just as much pride as the next guy. At the end of the day, nobody likes to be accused of something they didn’t do. We know the French stereotypes. Here is the American stereotype as we know it:

nationalistic, paranoid, arrogant, fat, lazy, greedy, racist, spoiled-rich, slutty, ignorant, stupid, humorless, loud, obnoxious, gum-chewing, carbon-emitting, baby-killing, gun-toting, bible-thumping, flag-waving and self-centered Neanderthal

And the million dollar question: How can we assert that every single American (all 300+ million) or even most Americans fall under the above stereotype?

This pretty much turns the American people into less than human (like the French stereotype), doesn’t it? But the French can stand up and defend themselves without much ridicule. The Americans, on the other hand, are told to shut up.

Proud American Liberals don’t take anything lying down, so naturally, you’ll be hearing more from me.

Anti-Americanism in New Zealand

Firstly, I’d just like to say how refreshing it is to have returned to the blogshpere to find people such as yourself speaking out about the ridiculousness of what seems to be happening in the world with regards this hatred. I’m so thrilled to see Americans speaking out against this.

While I have a feeling I’ll be posting about this on my personal blog, it is an absolute pleasure to be a guest blogger on topics relating to this. I think I could give a different perspective as I’m not American, yet simply because I’m with an American I seem to be part of a very strange “secret hate club“, so to speak.

I think there’s opportunity to post about many topics, such as:

• Anti-Americanism in the NZ media, how it seems to encourage it and the false reporting on America.
• The NZ Government and their Anti-American comments.
• The “we hate Americans but thanks for McDonald’s” attitude or “Anti-Americanism over a cup of Starbucks”.
• Weird things being blamed on America, recently I saw a news article on TV that blamed all gang activity on America .. what the?
• How acceptable it is to “bash” Americans, and how it IS about the “white” Americans and not ALL Americans.
• My fears about how this may effect my children, because children aren’t stupid, they hear these comments too.
• Why, I’d rather be American. Yes, I’m very serious when I said I don’t want to return once we leave.

I think people need to see how ridiculous it is, how far it’s actually gone, and how much it effects people.

Don’t You Hate it When Americans Stereotype Canadians?

This is the name of a group on Facebook started by Canadians – although not very popular.

“But you guys stereotype us too!”, they say in defence of Americans on the defensive of Americanophobia.

Here’s one amusing and delusional comment made by a Left-wing nutjob American expatriate living in Canada:

I understand that disapproval of the policies of the US government is not bigotry against the American people. I do find that many Canadians subscribe to stereotypes about Americans, as many Americans do about Canadians.

I wonder if Laura Kaminker from “We Move to Canada” can find as much evidence as I have on the “just as much as” part of her argument on the stereotypes Americans and Canadians have about each other? From having read some posts on her blog and having personally interacted with her, this woman has a tendency to make things up to aid her agenda and gets very defensive when shown proof of any sort in the form of a link that may have a contradictory opinion. So, I’ve learned that she’s not as credible as she tries so hard to portray. Surely, there are more Canadians and Americans like her around that drink the same kool-aid.

Anywhoo…..

We both have stereotypes about each other. But which of these two stereotypes are more hurtful? Let’s have a look, shall we?

The Canadian stereotype:

• All Canadians ride polar bears to get where they’re going
• All of Canada is snow 24/7
• All Canadians say “aboot” and “eh” after every word
• All Canadians live in igloos
• Everybody knows everybody in Canada

If that’s the worst things that Americans can come up with, you Canadians ought to consider yourselves lucky! And you’re right. These yanks that think this stuff about you guys, really ARE clueless as to what the real problems are with Canadians and Canada. But you all should appreciate the fact that the misconceptions stop at just plain old ignorance and misunderstood jokes.

I am sure that there are more stereotypes, but these cliches that Canadians moan about aren’t hurtful, and the above cliches are the ones that they ALWAYS mention when discussing American’s feelings about Canadians. These stereotypes, however, don’t discriminate or represent hate. They simply come from ignorant Americans (not that Americans are the only people that hold these stereotypes about Canucks). However, in person, most Americans would be nice to Canadians and not discriminate against them because of their place of birth. I wish the the opposite were true, though.

Ok.

Now, let’s have a look at the American stereotype as depicted by our neighbors to the North, shall we?

• All Americans are nationalistic
• All Americans are paranoid
• All Americans are arrogant
• All Americans are fat
• All Americans are lazy
• All Americans are greedy
• All Americans are racist
• All Americans are spoiled
• All Americans are rich
• All Americans are slutty
• All Americans are prudish
• All Americans are ugly
• All Americans are ignorant
• All Americans are stupid
• All Americans are humorless
• All Americans are loud
• All Americans are obnoxious
• All Americans are baby-killers
• All Americans are bible-thumpers
• All Americans are gun-toters and carry an M16 everywhere they go because they like to shoot random people
• All Americans are waving the flag all day, have flag clothes, most things red, white and blue
• All Americans are self-centered
• All Americans don’t smoke pot or enough of it
• All Americans voted for and support Bush passionately
• All Americans are irresponsible
• All Americans are insular and don’t have passports
• All Americans are bad in bed.
• All Americans are inbred.
• All American women are just like Sarah Palin.
• All Americans cannot speak English properly.

Which stereotypes are worse now? Come again?

Like the stereotypes Americans have toward Canadians, these also stem from ignorance, however, also coupled with abuse and discriminative behavior.

Even if one were to say “most Americans”, it’s still offensive and just as ignorant because how could one prove that – out of over 300 million people from all over the world that live in the US? How could one ever be an expert on the American people unless they’ve lived and been to several different states holding an open mind? Or what about having an open mind period?

Every bigot needs a reason for their hatred to make themselves feel better about it, so naturally, a bunch of self-righteous, shoulder-patting, muscle-flexing lemmings will come here saying, “but at least what WE think about YOU is true haha!”. ….Which of course only proves the points I am making.

What about the stereotypes toward black people?

• All blacks are criminals
• All blacks are poor
• All blacks wait on government handouts
• All blacks are uneducated
• All blacks are illiterate
• All blacks are lazy
• All blacks stink
• All blacks have bad taste in clothes
• All blacks are fat
• All black men abandon their wives and children
• All blacks are oversexed
• All blacks don’t use birth control
• All blacks play the victim card and/or the race card
• All blacks like gansta rap
• All blacks are liberal

What about the stereotypes toward Japanese people?

• All Japanese carry a camera everywhere
• Every Japanese woman wears a kimono in Japan in the streets
• All Japanese men wear eye glasses
• Japanese men cannot satisfy any woman because his dick is too small
• All Japanese women are subservient
• All Japanese people are the same as Chinese or Korean

What about the stereotypes toward the French people?

• All French waiters are rude
• All French people wear a beret
• All the French are cultural snobs
• All French men have a mustache
• All the French wear striped shirts
• All the French are unfriendly and rude
• All the French don’t bathe
• All the French do is eat cheese
• All the French are cowards
• All the French are hairy because they don’t shave
• All the French hate Americans
• All French food is weird/bad
• Paris is dangerous

What about the stereotypes toward English people?

• snobs
• rich
• pretentious
• arrogant
• elitist
• pompous
• posh
• self-righteous
• loud
• obnoxious
• have very bad teeth
• drunkards
• defeatists
• negative
• whiners
• pessimists
• depressed
• angry
• jealous
• overly obsessed with social classes
• women are sluts
• live in London
• they are all gay

What about the stereotypes toward fat people?

• All fat people are lazy
• All fat people never exercise
• All fat people do is eat junk food
• All fat people reside in America
• All fat people smell like feces
• All fat people don’t care about their health
• All fat people want/choose to be fat
• All fat people are happy
• All fat people are selfish and stealing the food out of South Africans’ mouths
• All fat people are in denial that they’re fat
• All fat people are stupid
• All fat people are poor
• All fat people are rich
• All fat people pretend to be ill to justify being fat
• All fat people live in the bible-belt south
• All fat people have guns and commit incest
• All fat people will die young

Here’s what’s true.

• Every group of people is stereotyped
• All stereotypes do not represent the majority of any group
• All stereotypes stem from a rumor or a biased organization
• All stereotypes are repeated over and over again in the form of propaganda
• People who create stereotypes do so out of having unresolved issues within themselves and are on a mission
• People who believe stereotypes and leave them unchallenged and unquestioned are as stupid as the people who create stereotypes

The desire to want to hate all members of a group because of the mistakes of one or a few is only human. It’s proof that we’re alive. It’s proof that we react to our surroundings. Normally, once the anger is released, decent people realize later that labels are silly. Decent people also don’t carry their xenophobic attitudes and long-held grudges to public platforms either. If they say, “those fucking Americans”, they’ll only say that within their own private peer groups so as to not hurt the feelings of the target group that just may happen to be listening or reading.

Losers however, will continue their prejudice, try to find more people who agree, join a group that feels the same (an alliance) and attack and bully the race, creed, ethnicity, sex, body type and etc. in a PUBLIC forum in hopes to change, intimidate, and/or make their opponent surrender. Some eventually do quit the schoolyard bullying and intimidation tactics, move on, and mature. Or so I’d like to think.

Why do people have the “ALL” mentality when one or a few committed a wrong? It is because our anger is that strong (intense enough to fit the magnitude of an “ALL”) and our target is that unattainable. It’s rage that needs to be let out. It feels better and more satisfying to lump all individuals from a group along with the one or few that we’re pissed off with. I don’t know why that is exactly, but it works. It makes people feel better. I will speculate as to why this happens. For example, if I know some people from some country are behaving in such a manner that frustrates me (irrational anger) and I know that I cannot tell them directly how I feel (when I say “them” I mean those very people whom have committed the act that has me obsessed), I HAVE to make myself believe that all or most of their countrymen do the same. Why? Because it takes the responsibility off of myself and my unreasonable anger. Then it is displaced on to that person being a part of a group that all thinks alike. “That’s why they’re like that; they all are – they’re a part of that group after all!” “It’s not me and my irrational anger – it’s THEM! It’s THEM”“ I can say to myself that I have a good reason to be upset – that they’re the ones with the problem (whether that is the case or not). Anti-American Americans do this too. They like to think that all errors are a unique phenomenon of THEIR own country. Ask any left-wing or smug elitist American! Interestingly enough, the Anti-American Americans feel pretty much same way about Americans that the Brits and Canadians do. It’s ironic, really.

The above stereotypes depicted about Americans are globally felt especially by Canadians and Brits. We know this is irrational anger – an anger that people overreact to. Only when you are truly and directly hurt by another person can the anger be rational. However, if the anger becomes an obsession and is overreacted to, the one feeling angst needs to look within themselves as the problem is much deeper than an American eating 814224545422 Twinkies for dinner.

People only think of themselves. And I will never believe that Joe Canadian is genuinely concerned about Jane Doe in India who is starving from not enough Twinkies in Mumbai due to American over-consumption of said product (that is used to make rocket fuel anyway).

What makes a temporary heated knee-jerk reaction into into a life-long prejudice is within the individual’s own personal issues yet to be resolved that have nothing to do with the group that they’re mad at.

In both situations, we need not look at the group targeted, but the group or individual who holds strongly and publicly what they call their “justified” hatred.

I await the Americanophobes to come here and justify the unjustifiable and make an effort to sugar-coat the words “hate” and “anger”. It will be fun. As always. Brainwashed imps are fun toys to play with.

Canadian Americanophobia Never Takes a Holiday

A Canadian commenter and cohort brownie-button-awarders are embarrassed about a beheading that took place in their own country. Rather than taking responsibility and showing the humility often bragged about having… rather than thinking of the victim, the family, loved ones and those passengers on the bus perhaps frightened to death, this Canadian (among others as you can see) decides to use this opportunity to express her disdain toward Americans.

There ya go. You just cannot make this stuff up. As they say, the truth is scarier than fiction. Blame America first. I am sure that in some way or another we Americans are to blame, right? Oh, well CNN was blamed for the Canadian media giving away too many details. Little do these imps know that if they were in another country outside the US, they’d see the same thing – the same media going into gory details. I know. I lived in Japan.

*sighs*

Ya just gotta love those Americanophobic Canadians who pat themselves on the back for being so tolerant toward Muslims while promoting and condoning hate toward Americans. Aah, the double standards!

And we get to catch another case of “short man syndrome” at play today.

Sad when you have to mix politics, ethnicity, and religion with human tragedy. There is hope though. Some.

It is most interesting that those who go out of their way to tout themselves as “compassionate” are always the most callous and opportunistic. These imps aren’t just your typical Americanophobes. They are your typical leftist elitists that come from all over. There are just as many in the (as the Americanophobes love to say) good ole USofA. And they are the same people who applauded 9-11. Go figure…

The below quote was written by an Anti-American skeptic, but if this isn’t any clue as to how prevalent this inanity is in Canada, I don’t know what is?

This is no different from a racist American thinking “must have be a black person” when a crime is committed.

“Well, are you doing the same thing”? Not quite. I’m reacting against this behavior. It’s called calling a spade a spade and showing how low some Canadians will stoop with their Americanophobic propaganda. Pretty pathetic if you ask me. I also make a big deal out of this as we are to see Canadians are a humble, peace-loving, victim’s right centered, we-are-all-people-of-the-earth-centered-who-care, generous, and morally superior to the yanks down below them.

I don’t know which is worse: The perpetrator or those belittling, minimizing, and denying what just took place?

I think I’ll go back to my Bushified cave with all the rest of my baby-killing American-wingnut friends.