Anyway, I don’t want you to publish my comment, I just wanted to ask you to change up the format a little bit. I’ll check back in a couple weeks and see if it’s a little bit easier to dig into your material.

Good luck! V

I thank virgomonkey for bringing some of this stuff to knowledge.

Despite Bret Hart’s projected hatred for the American fan base back then, I went out and bought the Bret Hart “Hitman” DVD. Bret was very talented and it was be a great addition to my collection of great wrestling classics. I never knew Bret was Canadian until I started to turn away from the new WWE product and started to go back to the older WWF product I missed back around the time I started watching actively. I saw some footage of what happened that turned Bret so bitter to say what he said about American fans…and America altogether. Supporting Canada is good. But not at the expense of another country.
When people generalize a group from personal experiences with a few people, it’s bad all around. It’s like this world wide and I’m discourage to talk to someone of another place because it seems that everyone hates America and Americans. It’s worse for Christians. It hurts me in almost everyway when things like this happened. I’d hate for a woman of Latin descent to say “I can’t go out with you.” “Why not?” “My family won’t let me date Americans.”
One well-known phrase…”Don’t hate the player, hate the game.” That can apply directly to the kind of situation in which you address in your “Reasons Canadians and Britons Hate America and Americans So Much” article. If you have a problem with America, you really have a problem with what happens in America and how the American government handles it. Don’t blame ALL AMERICANS. I most cases, I find myself having to examine…myself. And make sure I don’t screw up. A lot of people know about that bible quote that goes along the lines of “How can you pick out the speck in your brothers’ eye, when their is a plank in your own?” I have to worry about doing that myself. Because if not then I have become a hypocrite…Like the individuals who have jumped up and represented Americans, LIKE BUSH! We should have know that it would be bad because even the way Bush got in office was crooked. And I hope brother Barack Obama will practice what he preached to get in.

I have read once that countries that are either new and/or have aggressively fought for their independence have a tendency to be quite staunchly patriotic. I had never thought about that before, but it does make sense.

In the US, people just call it the World Series, because that’s the name, even if it sounds dumb. It was probably named that when American style baseball was only played in the US. So as well as a catchy grande title, it may well have been accurate (for American Baseball).

Trouble is if you look very far, Cricket is superisingly similar (and also rather different) from Baseball.

Perhaps because of the origins of the US being it’s own country after throwing off the English (with other’s help) there is self- promotional and often boastful quality to communication. i.e. The World Series, the best in the world, but a sport (at one time, anyway) played only in the US.

All the best to you,
Sam

On a more superficial note, it’s true Americans often come across as ignorant particularly in cultural matters. But I have met a good many equally culturally ignorant English people. People whose sole impression of the US is based upon “Friends” or Bruce Willis action movies. People who assume everyone in the US eats hamburgers for every meal.. ironic coming from Briton but so it is. I think Ignorance is fairly universal.

Americans “may appear” more ignorant (and I’m not vouching for all of them!) due to several factors..

A. America’s perceived position in the world. AKA “SuperPower”
B. American policy makers exploitation of America’s perceived position in the world.
C. The fact that a good many Americans feel alienated and disconnected from the world for many reasons but including:
a. policy makers which do things in America’s name which the people (either personally or majority) are against.. feeling of powerlessness
b. policy makers intentionally keep things under wraps from the American people.. i.e. vietnam, iran contra scandal, introduction of crack cocaine into US intercities by the CIA, infiltration of other countries governments, new martial law, Guantanamo bay, the Fed reserve scandal, and some would claim 9-11
c. for whatever reasons (chicken or egg) media hasn’t exposed much of this until US is already waist deep into problems.. and then the average American doesn’t feel they have a voice in these matters, or if they do voice it nothing happens. What impact can US citizens do between working three jobs, paying for relatives huge medical bills and caring for children ect. Not to mention, if the politicians are crooked, who do you vote for? Briton is having a similar problem in recent years.
d. Americans are under a lot of stress (not many holidays, support or medical care) and feel strong urge to escape (hollywood films).
D. Hollywood movies
E. People just trying to “live their lives, earn their living, ect” and without cultural support or unbiased information and yet being fed lies of being in the Greatest Countries yet not feeling any power over where the country is going (apart from grassroots orgs which are usually more community origented, not international.)

I could go on. But while I see a fare amount of ignorance in every country I’ve traveled to/lived in, the American style is universally recognized, but not necessarily understood.

All the best,
Sam

I don’t think I am misunderstanding about acknowledging differences. I just believe that acknowledging differences is very important and failing to do so can result in confrontation.

You are right though, you can ban any comments you don’t like or don’t fit in your paradigm.

You asked me about my question about the World Series/World’s Series I will admit that I should not have used the term “better” and simply asked what the difference between the two terms is. I don’t really understand now but it is not important now and I meant nothing derogatory by my question.

Phil R

When I say, “just like us”, I am pointing out the context in which I am saying it. Never, do I say, “just like us” as a whole making a defining sweep. Please point out where I am doing this and then we can debate out differences in interpretations.

And didn’t I already write paragraphs upon paragraphs explaining this to you already in another post? I’m not saying this to be rude, but do you speak English as a second language?

For the last time, when I say, “just like us”, I am referring to ignorance and arrogance. WHAT PART OF THIS DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND?

Regarding the World Cup and the World Series, could you please point out, kindly, where I made mention that the World Series was better? Additionally, would you also mind pointing out where any of my compatriots made mention that the World Serious was better? Are you really that insecure?

I have a feeling that you filter what you read in my journal to fit your own feelings of persecution as this isn’t the first time that you have twisted my words around to mean the opposite of what I am trying to say.

I even went as far as providing a link to where the term, “World Series” came from. Yes, it does have an origin. No, it has nothing to do with hating British people, Canadians, any Europeans, Zombies, Elephants, Turtles, or Martians, or anybody else on the planet. Read the link. Save the persecution complexes!

Read who I am responding to before you jump to conclusions. Do you not understand what a blog is and what comment sections mean? Comment sections are a place in which the blog owners and commenters have a CONVERSATION. If you are going to challenge a reply, YOU MUST DISCIPLINE YOURSELF TO LOOK AT THE COMMENT THAT I AM REPLYING TO! lol

Quote me first, then give your opinion. How hard is that?

“How is this different from the World Cup”. I had misunderstood the person that I was commenting to. And I even said that to her in my reply. She cleared it up for me.

This is the third time on my blog you have read things out of context refusing to read the replies I am replying to. If you continue to do this (as it wastes my time and frustrates me), I will have to ban you from this blog.

Good Lord!

To be fair your question “How is this any different from the World Cup?” did seem kind of uninformed. I guess I am uninformed but I don’t understand how World’s Series is better than World Series or vise versa.

Phil R

That is how many French feel in the US. They feel Anti-Frenchism represents far more than the minority. And I hadn’t even been aware of it until I found a few French blogs on the internet railing against Anti-Frenchism in the US and in its media.

My opinion is that if we aren’t specifically targeted, we turn a blind eye to it. It’s human nature.

Beware of London though – it is a tourist trap in every sense of the phrase, i.e. full of people who will exploit the ignorance of foreigners in general (not just Americans) and will try to rip you all off. They even rip fellow Brits off.

If you venture outside the capital you will meet a totally different kind of Brit – of course there will be Anti-Americanism there but you won’t be the only ones who suffer their bigotry. They don’t care where foreigners come from sadly.

Cheers

PM

Actually, that is another myth about the US debunked on this website. It is just an innocuous name anyway not intended to hurt, offend, or pretend that other countries don’t exist. I just think Anti-American countries get desperate and try and look for ammunition to use against us. It’s really silly and childish.

This is why I always say on my blog that “we know as much about you as you know about us”. As far as ignorance and arrogance are concerned, we’re just about even.

In any event, the person who changed the title from “The World’s Series” to “The World Series” was not the decision of every American. If it wasn’t the decision of one man, it was the decision of a few. It doesn’t represent the average view of the average man on the street in the US.

And just an FYI: Many Americans when traveling to Europe wear the Canadian maple leaf on their backpack and tell everyone that they’re Canadian to avoid the Anti-American interrogation process. So, beware. Many Americans are in disguise.