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Europe’s Hatred for America – Real or Imaginary?
It starts out with a, “We don’t hate you BUT….[insert bigoted commentary]“ – synonymous to American racists who say, “I’m not a racist, BUT….[insert racist commentary]“. That’s the cliché we have all learned to know and love.
You will encounter more examples to which the author confuses a continent with a country. When will she learn the difference?
Where the same people that hate the French now come to their rescue against Americans as a means to justify Americanophobia. But the best parts are where Aby and co. explain to us all how much more superior Europe is in comparison to the United States. And they are so incredibly original in their explanations!
I highly, highly recommend these reads. We Americans need to find out what is wrong with ourselves and our country. Like Al Jazeera, these people profess to be getting the real, raw, and accurate news unlike any other kind there is.
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And from her “about” section:
“As an information site, dealing with facts rather than popular opinions, …….”
Having balanced, informed, responsible, and objective opinions about the United States is “popular”?!?! 
So, as you can see, they speak the truth. Debate is only welcome to non-Americans because if you challenge them as an American, (that’s why there’s a flag next to your name – so that they can keep track – and those flags are manipulatable, by the way) you will be written off as a “blind nationalist” (me!!) and be accused of thinking that “Americans are above any form of dissent or criticism”.
I don’t know about you, but I like to be informed and know that I’m getting the REAL news. Not that fake stuff we get in America, you know – like MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, C-SPAN, PBS, NPR, David Letterman, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, and oh yeah, Fox Noise?
The verbiage in the above links is very softly and gently distributed to appear polished, supremely educated, and balanced simultaneously sprinkled with a clinical brand of narcissism that puts professional elitists in a humble light. She is genius! If you read the commentary in many of her entries, you’ll notice that it all sounds like its coming from the same person. Maybe I’m wrong, but I’m convinced that the author slips into other aliases and comments to further her agenda (although she does allow some token dissent to make her plan less obvious). She’s absolutely brilliant! To be as manipulative as that, one has to be smart. Not intelligent, but smart. To that, I give her much credit.
Where she’s not brilliant: Aby tells herself that she is “politically incorrect and original”, but I reckon that she doesn’t get out often as her blog is as unoriginal as they come. Her hate speech against Americans is as old, tired, and as cliché as apple pie and hot dogs are to Yankees.
Admittedly, I am obsessed with that site. It’s that same kind of perverted fascination people get when they watch Jerry Springer, the Maury Show, listen to Rush Limbaugh, or rubberneck the bloody car accident on the highway.
And it’s not like I’ve never met ignorant propagandists so over-confident before either as my country has its own. Maybe I expect more out of other countries? After all, the US is supposed to be the dumbest on earth (and inherently so!), so naturally one is to look to other countries for the “right answers”, right? During my schooling and from having watched TV and the mainstream media, I have been mildly indoctrinated to admire all-things-European. And I have so since I’ve been a child. So, I guess you can say that I DO expect more out of them – just as Bruce Bawer did when he first moved to Europe. Millions of Americans look to Europe (more than any other nation on earth) with dreamy goo-goo eyes.
Some argue that Americans think that they are perfect and the best, so people convert to Americanophobia to prove to Americans that they aren’t as perfect as they think.
Fair enough.
But if Europe is now the new America in thinking that it’s all that, they must accept responsibility and accept being the target of sceptics (like myself) who will challenge their inflated egos.
Nonetheless, we do just as good a job at bashing our own ugliness in the US. But American-bashing IN AMERICA by Americans is conveniently not aired in other countries – hence their own mainstream media being easily confused with propaganda (and justifiably so) any time the yanks are mentioned.
I’m a people-watcher in real life. You know, the kind that will sit in a window-seat at a cafe and watch people pass by or listen to other conversations in the background.
People amaze me everyday. Sometimes in good ways – sometimes in funky ways. So, as odd as this sounds, I am grateful to have someone like Aby and Juan McDaniel and “the bearer of ‘authentic original news’, Dmitri Pavlov” around so that I have even more an opportunity to dispel common myths giving readers the untold story about Americans and American life. 
Disclaimer: If you call yourselves Europeans, you will be called Europeans. Americans call themselves Americans, not “North Americans” – hence the title and the direction of my post. There’s nothing hypocritical there.
Like I said, she’s an angry Canadian pretending to be Swiss with a mad case of multiple personalities
Aby “The Internationalist-Sad Fatty”
It’s true that we’re culturally programmed to like Europe and Canada, while Europeans and Canadians are generally culturally programmed to dislike the US. So Aby is guilty of not much more than being a sucker for her own cultural programming. It has to be pretty deep as well, if she’s actually visited the US – most people’s reaction is “the US is pretty nice, far better than I’ve been led to believe.”
How do you come to that opinion? The first, real, en masse meeting of the populace with Americans in Europe was in the 1914/18 war – you will see very little ‘hatred’ or cultural programming then – Americans were welcomed with open arms – the second en masse was during the second world war, the Americans were welcomed then, too – yet they left a distinctly bad taste in the mouth – that was a point where the US had, to some, come of age. From there on in I think if you look at the way that America (government, business, media, Hollywood) both portrayed themselves and those who were not American in a bad light – for want of a more expletive suggestion. What people in Europe, and Canada, are sick of is the perverseness of the US – the unapologetic hypocrisy.
I am English, my wife; Canadian – and we do discuss, every now and again, what it is we see that is wrong with the US – we also note that many, many Americans tell us we cannot discuss that because we are not American – I hope that you can see the hypocrisy in that. Americans, with their ultimate freedom of speech can say what they will about anyone and anything in whatever form they choose to – yet, as perceived, the rest of the world cannot reciprocate in the same manner, this – to many Americans is America-bashing.
Europe – and Canada, by distinction still being a part of and included in, the British commonwealth still have a culture that goes back almost 5000 years – the US; on the other hand, has a culture that can go back about 70 years. Although now we see the inclusiveness of the old America such as the native American tribes. And about time, too.
I have visited the US, and I was not surprised at all with the friendliness of the people I met – those who were just everyday people – I always seek those out whichever country I visit, I hated New York with a passion though – no matter which citizen of the US I met there were arrogant ‘Americans’ – I was told later to visit Texas, it is, so I was told by Americans in Portland, Oregon, much worse than New York.
Maybe the culture split is one of the USA rather than seeing things that are an attack on the US via overseas? I don’t know really – but being English, which defaults me to European, I see things through an Englishman’s eyes – and when you have a corruption of history to tell a story that has never been true and never will be true no matter how many times it is portrayed. What ‘Americans’ don’t get is that our history, that of Europe, is important to us – but we don’t “shove it down your throat” – maybe we should – but taking that history and bastardising it for you own ends means you insult who we are – and for that, why should Europeans apologise?
If those googly eyes would look at Europe more than just an ancestral home – and showed some real respect for the place, maybe, just maybe – Europeans would show the same respect back?
Will, hold up for a moment there…. American-bashing is taking the examples of our extremists and making that to be the “average American”. American-bashing is the prejudicial bashing of a people – not the government!
Are you suggesting that those you’ve met in NY determine the label of all 300 Americans? How many people did you meet in NY? Are you judging the city or the entire state? Did your experience in NY make you feel that arrogance is peculiarly American? What did these people say or not say to you? Most of us (Amerikkkans) grow up learning that city people are cool and unfriendly. However, interestingly enough, NY was graded one of the most polite cities in the world. Call it Ameronationalist propaganda if you will.
Actually JM is right. Many people from your neck of the woods are surprised when the come to America. Here are some examples.
It is my hunch that compared to other westerners, Americans have a much thicker skin, are jaded, and don’t expect much from people. And yes, even when it comes to Americanophobic attitudes abroad. Many Americans have posted here thinking that I’m nuts for taking time to dispel myths and challenge these attitudes.
I ran into some rude people in Japan, but I didn’t think it was a “Japan-ish thing” – rather I felt that I ran into a few mean people.
Our government has treated the world like crap on many different occasions, but until we the people treat you Europeans and Canadians like crap on a people-to-people level, then you can say that we are against you. There is no such thing in the US as Anti-Canadianism or Anti-Europeanism. It’s just the opposite. Since when have you heard of Americans burning your flags? Since when have you heard our media trying to exaggerate images of YOU to turn us against you (with the exception of France)? Since when do we create hundreds of blogs and Facebook groups devoted to petty and mindless European-bashing to the extent that those in other countries do?
And you are demanding respect back for this?
If any groups of people are to be against us, discriminate us, or bully us, it SHOULD be the French and the Muslims for the way Americans treat them on a PERSONAL basis – but even then, innocents are forced to suffer for the idiocy of a few – the minority. Unfortunately, Americanophobia is a phenomenon considerably bigger than Anti-Muslim fringe groups in the US. Fight back the people that hurt YOU, not innocent bystanders that just so happen to come from the same nation as the arses you met in NY – for example. But at least for me, I’d rather be treated badly by a person just because that person was an idiot versus being treated in a condescending discriminatory manner because of the nation I hailed from. BIG DIFFERENCE!
When anyone speaks of the Americanophobic indoctrination of Australians, Canadians, South Americans, Europeans, and New Zealanders, they are covering this generation for the most part – however it is true that Americanophobia has been going on since the 19th century. This means that your people have been judging the “average American man in the street” based on the decisions of our government. You might get a better idea from watching this.
How to you expect respect from that?
See, people in other countries only get one side of the story as exemplified here. My blog’s intention (with respect to my Americanophobia posts) is to give people the other side of the story that your media has kept away from you as exemplified here.
If you want to be historical, we can take this back into history with the Spanish Inquisition, the British Empire, the Russian Empire, the Japanese Empire, Islamic holy wars and extremism in addition to brutal dictators like Hitler that has caused atrocities all over the world. Should these happenings reflect on the average citizen in all these countries? Correct me if I am wrong, but it appears to me that Americans are the least likely as a whole to become bigoted based on the extremists or government actions of another country. Even with Muslims here, most Americans are FINE with them. Now, take an American in another place in the western world, — different story all together. There is a reason why Canadians and Americans go literally out of their way to make sure that in their travels to the west that they are recognized as a Canadian and not an American. If you don’t believe me, please take some time out of your schedule to read these articles – most of which are written by NON-Americans. Americanophobia is a true poison in society where YOU should be charging the perpetrators instead of the innocent. Now, you once told me that you were an Americanophile. How can that be if you are minimizing the bigoted lashes against random Americans?
I am also expecting that you are familiar with the agenda on my blog, and that it is the Americanophobes that I am against – not people from any particular country as outlined all over the place here.
And Will, you are preaching to the choir about American hypocrisy. But is this also to imply that Europe is not ever guilty of the same?
Do you not realize that OTHER countries tell Americans to stay out of commenting on their politics because “we’re American and wouldn’t understand”? For everything that we’re charged for as a people, the same can be found and said about the other 193 countries in the world.
Additionally, America looks up to Europe with dreamy eyes because we are taught here that you are better than us or worth being dreamt about being like. Additionally Europe is one of the most popular destinations for Americans to travel. Why you would take that as an insult or calling it “disrespect” is beyond me?!?! And how is that any “worse” than your media taking instances of American injustices and exaggerating it and sometimes even resorting to outright lies?
And you are asking us to respect the Americanophobes that blindly follow whatever the latest headline dictates in your neck of the woods?
With the US, it’s a problem with the government and those who blindly followed it. This doesn’t mean that they were “out to get you”. But blame them. When you stretch your resentment to the “average American” – that is when it becomes Americanophobia.
With that, I leave you with one of my favorite quotes:
I am still waiting for the Americanophobes to get the difference!
Now, when you say that many Americans confuse Americanophobia with criticizing US policy, do you not realize that even Americans like ME are called an “Anti-American” (quite often, actually) because I was anti-Bush and generally anti-American-corruption. You are talking about the far Right-wing. I recommend this read to you.
Those who support Bush call ANYONE (mostly Americans) who disagrees with them Anti-Americans.
I think you misunderstood the intent of this post. This, as my title suggests, is geared at Americanophobic Right-wing Euronationalists.
I have roughly 150 posts that exposes the Anti-American Right-Wing American nationalists. I’m not hiding them from anybody. Just go through my archives under the “War and Politics” category.
Will-
The “unapologetic hypocrisy” – you’re going to have to be more specific here. There are different American “actors,” and you can’t expect the average American citizen to know what exactly is being “shoved down your throat.” If you take issue with some aspect of US foreign policy (which I can understand – if you’re specific), or the portrayal of non-Americans in a movie (which I can understand – if you’re specific), I’m not sure how that be justified as a condemnation of our entire country and all of its inhabitants. It only takes one exception to disprove a rule, after all.
Case in point: one of the most popular complaints I’ve heard from Brits is that crap TV is forced down their throats. First, my guess is that 90% of Americans don’t know that American television, least of all the crap, is broadcast overseas. Second, there is no intergovernmental mandate that UK stations broadcast the likes of Jerry Springer or Judge Judy, even though they are. The reason that crap TV is broadcast in the UK is that UK audiences apparently like it. The fact that it’s crap makes it all the more appealing; it just underscores all the negative things people like to focus on about the US.
About freedom of speech: *I don’t care* if some Americans think you need to shut up about the US. I don’t! Neither should you! Go on and spout off as much criticism as you’d like. Our constitutional freedom of speech only prevents the government from enacting laws that prevent freedom of speech; it does not concern speech between two private parties. I am very, very sure that the US government has not bothered to try to prevent you and your wife from criticizing the US to your heart’s content. I wouldn’t either! What no law or even common sense is going to guarantee you, however, is a *sympathetic audience*. Most of the critics of Americans who talk about their freedom of speech being curtailed can’t, of course, point to any evidence of this. What frustrates them is that Americans *won’t listen to them*, that they don’t all shut up and listen to what other countries’ private citizens tell them. No law is going to make that happen. It happens to be the same in every other country on the planet, too.
To be clear, LOTS of Americans don’t understand this about freedom of speech, either. It has nothing to do with guaranteeing a sympathetic, rapt audience to whatever you have to say.
About the rudeness/politeness of Americans: there is a tremendous amount of diversity, as there is, I’m sure you wouldn’t dare deny, in your home country (probably the nicest and rudest people I’ve met in my life have been Britons – I wouldn’t try to generalize any differences to region, just to say there is obviously a *wide* range in the country).
I will say this: for some reason, Europeans (and Canadians, oddly) have this perception that all Americans think our country is absolutely perfect, sinless, and a model to the rest of the world. I have heard this often enough from Europeans (Brits included) for a *long* time. It is so unbelievably naive that it makes me question what your news is telling you, or at least what you’re choosing to see. The US is deeply conflicted about EVERYTHING. We couldn’t come to a consensus about anything if our life depended on it. We are *always arguing* with one another. Whether it’s red state vs blue state, coasts vs interior, urban vs suburban, Democrat or Republican, religious vs secular, believe me when I tell you we’re always arguing. This is, I believe, one of our country’s strengths. And yet there’s this persistent perception of a monolithic America that’s hyperreligious, violent, right-winged and ignorant of the world (among left-leaning Europeans) and, simultaneously, hedonistic, amoral, wanton and Godless (among the right-leaning countries of the world, like the Islamic countries). You can’t reconcile these diametrically-opposed conceptions of what Americans “really” are, unless you realize they’re projections of what people want to see us as.
That said, what exactly do you imagine Americans are bastardizing about your culture or history? How are Americans insulting Europeans? How do 300 million Americans need to properly demonstrate respect to Europe to your satisfaction? (I’m asking for explanation because I truly don’t understand what you’re talking about)
I’d just like to reiterate virgomonkey’s statement that right-wingers routinely tell us we’re anti-American, and question our patriotism, because we might say or think something they don’t like. That doesn’t stop us! And it shouldn’t stop anyone outside the US either.
Provided your criticism is at least logically sound, then you might find many, many, MANY sympathetic Americans; if it ends up devolving into “you’re all a bunch of obese ignoramuses” (which, sadly, it often does) then please don’t cry when we learn to ignore you.
As irritating as this bitterness between us (the collective us – Americans) is or as passionate our disagreements are, I have to agree that this IS one of our strengths as a people.
For anybody who wants more proof that America is one of the most self-critical countries, read this.
This surely DOES contradict what the media feeds its people in other western countries. It also contradicts the “fact” that “media bias” in an “American phenomenon”.
I would just like to add that I think every Americanophobe just needs to spend time observing American political debates on forums, blogs and the like on the internet. They need to watch the heated debates between Americans vs other Americans. That says more than any communications from the BBC, Al Jazeera, the CBC, or “what yer friend said”.
Virgo, JM – I know – and I will state this again, and again, and again – until you really do get it through your head – read my post; not in the vitriolic state – but as one who is looking at the post above mine, replying to it and then leaving that as my comment.
I will state again – I have no real problem with Americans, never have – never will – but if you want me to post more often, Virgo you have done this to me on both my blog and here, you have to step back a few steps and think about what I, and others, are saying.
The vast majority know that the problem with the USA is not with the people – of course with exceptions – but that can be said about the BNP in the UK. If, and I ask you to do this, read my post again, but as someone who actually likes the US – and her people, even the idiots who call me, an Englishman, un-American.
I don’t need to read all sorts of posts, comments – and – AGAIN,
I am on dial-up so I cannot view videos.
Look, you want to educate people as to why ‘ordinary’ Americans are not in need of direct abuse, yet – in Europe we see Americans come, and go, and abuse people because they are Americans, with a bit of cash – means nothing! The, too, come to Canada, and tell us here that our ‘Loony’ is worthless, OK – fine, no problem, that isn’t all Americans – most of understand that.
I understand that. But please, re-read what I said about the change between the world wars, what happened? There was a change in the US, that is history that we have – and it is a history that is still joined.
JM – specifics about what? I understand what you and Virgo are saying – feck, I am English and still have to apologise to the Scottish and Welsh for something my X-number of grand parent did or didn’t do.
I have people sending me mail on my blog (Americans) telling me to stop blogging about the US or they ‘will seek me out’ and kill me and my family – nice Americans those, eh?
If you really do want specifics from me – mail me, I will post the reply here.
This from an Ameriaphile – certainly not an Americaphobe.
But I still cannot abide the French – but that is another story.
This is a criminal offense. I don’t know about Canadian laws, but if you report these threats to the police, they can be punished. I’m pretty sure that Canada has the same law. So, please report these people.
The vast majority who have a problem with the USA and not the people must be very quiet and those who have a problem with the people must be pretty loud because they are definitely more than a tiny minority. Maybe not the majority – but not a small group either.
I am actually feeling at home in your blog these days BECAUSE you did get it through my head that you weren’t a bigot. I will re-read your response, but the first time that I read it, admittedly, I was confused. Anyway, if I am bashing American politics in your blog, it is a sure sign that I feel safe there. I could never do this in a blog where the authors were against me because of my place of birth.
And what is it that you have with the French? Now, this I have to hear.
And for curious sake, I am interested in the full story of modern times concerning the friction between England, Wales, and Scotland. Yes, I know the history. But I want the scoop from what it’s like today. In what ways do they make you feel guilty? But as I am not living over there, I cannot image the level of tension or if it can be confused with a sibling rivalry.
On behalf of my fellow Americans, please accept my apology for those freaks that you’ve run into.
Can’t argue with you there.
Will – thanks for your response. I had assumed you were speaking in generalities, so it was clear to me that you’re not a “hater.”
I completely agree with VM: it’s illegal, I believe everywhere in the civilized world, to make threats online, so you should report them to the police. Most likely, you’re teaching a real idiot a lesson, but you could be tipping off the police to a real violent nutcase that could hurt you.
About the American tourists who come and act obnoxious in the EU & Canada – I don’t know what to tell you. I honestly don’t feel the need to apologize for them. I also don’t expect you, for a second, to have to apologize for the British gruffs who smoked pot in our train to Amsterdam and told everyone to fuck off, and the (mostly) English loons who make the Amsterdam red-light district unbearable with the boorish antics. I really don’t. Why? You are not responsible for everyone who shares the same national passport. I have certainly seen enough low-key, polite Brits to know that it’s not a universal problem.
I am very sure that not all the Yank tourists you’ve seen have been abusive; the vast majority are probably quiet and inconspicuous enough to move around undetected. So why is the behavior of some idiots something we need to address as a national issue?
To be clear, I am very aware of the fact that Brits, for example, feel the need to apologize for the drunken louts who litter the Costa del Sol and elsewhere. Maybe it’s because Americans are more individualistic, but generally, we don’t feel the need to issue collective apologies for bad behavior when the only thing binding us is our citizenship, and when there are obviously plenty of examples to the contrary.
I do know, though, that most of Europe (and esp Canada, given their identity issues) is primed to dislike us to begin with, so they’re far more likely to remember the one asshole who pissed them off than the dozen who they didn’t notice or even liked. That’s not our problem. That is the problem with the person making the judgment.
At any rate, VM offered an apology; I don’t feel the need to, but it’s a matter of principle, not a blithe assumption that all American tourists are a bunch of innocent angels.
As for the French, do you mean to tell us that you’ve never had a good experience with a French person? Come on, now…
Now let me see, the French – I was in Paris, had a gun pushed into my face, told to move on – I, and the 2 other people who were with me were sitting on a wall looking at a tourist map.
I went to a cafe asked for coffee – had the change thrown at my forearm, this after the waitress spoke to me in French, I replied in English because my French is very, very bad – I did say “Merci” while picking the coins up off the floor and did leave a tip – I am like that. That was just 2 of the, I think, 50/60 times I have been to France – I stopped going. I can honestly say that I cannot remember one thing nice that happened in France, barring the Turkish taxi driver who let me off the fee because I was skint.
The emails are from keyboard vigilantes, it was never from the same person and the headers were open – unsurprisingly one of the emails came from Dubai – so I don’t care about them – if anything, which is 99.999999999999999999999% unlikely to happen, I can defend my family. But thanks for the concern.
As I am, and I do dislike calling myself this, British, I do apologise for a lot of the idiots that are out there who act like buffoons in the name of being British – which we do know are not all English – but still the world refers to Britain as England – when it isn’t – so the English name gets dragged through the mud while Scots, Irish, Welsh do not – but that is a world view.
As for American tourists – ugh! Yes there are quite a few who just get on with their holiday and enjoy the different culture – great I say, and welcome to the world that isn’t just North America – those who spout their vitriol about how everyone wants to be American are the vocal minority – and as such many get tarred with the same brush – that is, unfortunately, the way of the world and is never helped by the gung-ho attitude of the ruling administration. The way the worlds people look at that is ‘Well you voted them into power”. Obviously a slight majority of the electorate voted them into power – but that is the American system which is as imperfect as the rest of the world.
We liberals all sing from the same hymn sheet – and we all want to be looked upon as who we are rather than the country that we come from – but in each and every nation there is the bad apples that spoil it for the rest of us.
Except France. [please do read that with a little humour]
Will, do you think the fact that Americans sending you death threats is unique? I was told by a British person that he was going to fly a plane into my house so he could recreate 9/11. A tad silly but still meant to be hurtful. You have to look at it as a human thing rather than just the particular country that person originates from. I have examples of the same thing coming from Serbs, Canadians, French, Germans, Australians, Jordanians, Greeks, Irish, New Zealanders, among others. So yes, Americans are like everyone else, I can’t stand a good percentage of them myself, probably more than you
If Aby was an American she would be a far right wing blind nationalist. The Right and Left wings are ultimately one group of people. Switch their places of birth and they change from left to right, right to left.
Her “my continent is better than your America and here’s why” mentality and culturally divisive speech (exemplified through most of her posts) shows me that she’s already as Right-winged as Right-winged can come. She proclaims to be a liberal, but her lack of cultural tolerance and understanding, groups her in with the same people we call the THICK-HEADED far Right over here. She is a jingoist and a xenophobe. So, I see what you mean about the two groups blending.
And she’s as religiously Americanophobic as our own Christian Fundamentalists are religious over here.
True progressives/liberals are for change and meeting up with modern times. From what I’ve read of her blog, she sees no flaws at all in her neck of the woods. She comes from perfection and proposes moral superiority over Americans. I don’t doubt that she thinks she’s superior to other cultures as well – but it’s not politically correct to confess to those feelings. For her, the only change that needs to be looked into is in the US.
And quite interestingly enough, she also got upset over Americans being anti-Bush proclaiming that most of us just didn’t like him “to be cool”. Another element of right-winged rhetoric. Surely, there are some who believe certain things to be cool. But how does one assess that “most Americans” were against Bush’s policies to be “cool”?
My opinion is that she wants to see America as a far Right country attached to all the stereotypes that were spoonfed to her. Now, that Obama has won, she is pissed that what she had “learned” about Americans were wrong and she’s grasping at straws in desperation to try to find anything – anything at all that connects the entirety of America to the indoctrinated unfounded rumors that she’s believed in religiously all of her life.
Let’s just say that she’s panicking right now as opposed to giving Americans a second thought that maybe – just maybe not all of those stereotypes are true. Being the hateful person that she is, I doubt that she’ll ever come to terms with reality and see America and Americans for what they are (the good as well as the bad) as opposed to what she wants them to be.
Liberals are sympathetic to suffering no matter who did the crime. But she only “sympathizes” with those victims at the hands of Americans. When N. Korea took Japanese innocents as hostages to become spies for them, I’d like to bet that she didn’t bat an eyelash.
You might enjoy this post of mine: (Some political humor)
What the Far Left and the Far Right have in common
yeah I enjoyed that post, especially the second last one. lol.
I do think Aby is a little crazy, but she will do anything to further her own agenda which is where being crazy really comes in handy.
Will – ok, so nothing *nice* happened when you were in France. Maybe something seedy, sleazy, or otherwise scandalous perhaps? There had to be something bring you back so many times!
As for the type of American tourist you mention: I personally don’t believe anyone should be proud of things they were simply born into. By all means, be proud of your own personal accomplishments, but your race, gender, nationality, etc? Um, no. I suppose it does require an exceptionally low personal self-esteem to travel abroad with the express purpose of telling the locals that they are inferior to Americans, and I don’t doubt at all that these people exist. I can’t imagine wanting to spend the money and time visiting a place only to know it’s going to be worse than your own home.
I’ve also long suspected that the chicken hawks who love talking about the US’s military campaigns’ destructive power were lacking in their own *ahem!* power. They almost always seem to be male…
@ JM –
Maybe he went back so many times to get cheap gas, gun ammunition, and petty groceries? After all, that’s why so many Canucks cross the border over here.
Just teasin’, Will.
Oi! It IS an accomplishment to be a typical, self-entitlement-oriented, inbred, insular, nationalistic, inherently violent, unfashionable, paranoid, arrogant, unsophisticated, fat, lazy, vulgar, greedy, racist, spoiled-rich, ignorant, stupid, humorless, loud, obnoxious, gum-chewing, carbon-emitting, baby-killing, gun-toting, bible-thumping, flag-waving, and self-centered, globalizing, uncouth, swearmouthed and boorish non-human Neanderthal American obsessed with sex, celebrities and McDonalds that demands the entire world revolve around oneself!
ah’s dadburn proud t’be an South Car’linan, as enny fool kin plainly see. God bless South Car’lina. South Car’lina love it o’ leave it. Git back t’commie China eff’n yo’ doesn’t like it hyar, ya hear? Git home commie. Dawgone straight. This hyar is th’ bess country in th’ wo’ld, cuss it all t’ tarnation. Who is yo’ – some towel-haid terro’ist?