I'm American, and I agree with you.

boo hoo people hate on canadians all the time... people can't take us seriously and make all kinds of generalizations. truth hurts! I've been on a dog sled, built igloos in my front yard durring winter, consumed too much tim hortons, cross country skiied competitively i have plaid shirts, i come from a long line of lumberjacks and i sound funny when i talk. embrace it.

fries & gravy, man.

/thread

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Originally posted by Domesticated I wish I had enough self-control to stay out of this. If someone told you they hate horror movies, would you ask them to see at least 50% of all horror movies ever made before accepting their statement?

Okay, so you're comparing Americans to a genre of movie. There are so many things wrong with what you're saying I don't know where to begin, but first off, comparing a person to a genre of movie is idiotic at best. Granted, meeting half of the US population is an exaggeration, but I was just trying to make a point. If someone said "I hate horror movies" and you asked "why" and their reason was "because I saw a couple and I didn't like them" that does not justify hating ALL horror movies.

I really feel like most of the people who have posted so far have missed the point. I don't care in the slightest bit what anyone thinks about the US Government's policies or actions or lack thereof. That topic is completely irrelevant to this thread.

What makes it even worse is that the majority of people around the world who hate Americans have never even met one. I simply don't understand how anyone here could possibly even try justifying hating someone that they've never met simply for the fact that they come from a certain country.

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Originally posted by wienerschnitzel boo hoo people hate on canadians all the time... people can't take us seriously and make all kinds of generalizations. truth hurts! I've been on a dog sled, built igloos in my front yard durring winter, consumed too much tim hortons, cross country skiied competitively i have plaid shirts, i come from a long line of lumberjacks and i sound funny when i talk. embrace it.

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Seriously, call you before xmas sometime next week ?

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Originally posted by wienerschnitzel boo hoo people hate on canadians all the time... people can't take us seriously and make all kinds of generalizations. truth hurts! I've been on a dog sled, built igloos in my front yard durring winter, consumed too much tim hortons, cross country skiied competitively i have plaid shirts, i come from a long line of lumberjacks and i sound funny when i talk. embrace it.

Yeah but all of those activities sound quite fun to me They're certainly no reason to hate an entire country.

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Originally posted by Kenny Rogers i think i see your problem though. u think its unfair that someone hates you when you havent done anything wrong towards them. it makes you sad that someone who doesnt even know you, or have ever met you can hate you personally, on a personal level. in that case i think u think too high of yourself. no one in the world cares about you besides your friends and family. no one gives shit about you outside your country for the very same reason you wonder how someone could. no one hates you personally man, get a grip you emo. but when you have 400 millions of people without a will, without an act, or the knowledge to see the difference you have a really dangerous mobb. perfect example of this is islam. and fotball. fucking hooligans. people hate what they fear. and the world fear americans because their lack of acting right. thats where the hate come from - a reaction to fear.

I really don't know how to respond to anything you say. I think you may be a psychopath.

Edit: My only response is that I wholeheartedly disagree with pretty much everything you say, but that's fine. Other people are bringing up interesting points.

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Originally posted by Kenny Rogers shit you are dumb. read my latest post. the world isnt about your feelings man, u are a maggot, ur a worm, a worthless peace of dust. u are nothing but water and coal and you couldnt make a single difference. nobody hates you personally - they hate your church.

This is going to be my last response to you, because I fear you're really not understanding anything I say. I'm not talking about ME as a person. Yes, I am an American. No, I don't really care if anyone in the world hates America, or hates me because I'm an American.

MY POINT, is that I'm curious as to the reasoning for people hating every single person of a certain country, regardless of whether they know them or not, simply for the fact that they are for that country.

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Originally posted by srussell0018 Okay, so you're comparing Americans to a genre of movie. There are so many things wrong with what you're saying I don't know where to begin, but first off, comparing a person to a genre of movie is idiotic at best. Granted, meeting half of the US population is an exaggeration, but I was just trying to make a point. If someone said "I hate horror movies" and you asked "why" and their reason was "because I saw a couple and I didn't like them" that does not justify hating ALL horror movies. I really feel like most of the people who have posted so far have missed the point. I don't care in the slightest bit what anyone thinks about the US Government's policies or actions or lack thereof. That topic is completely irrelevant to this thread. What makes it even worse is that the majority of people around the world who hate Americans have never even met one. I simply don't understand how anyone here could possibly even try justifying hating someone that they've never met simply for the fact that they come from a certain country.

I wasn't comparing Americans to a genre of movie. Via analogy, I was pointing out the stupidity of your assertion that properly disliking something requires experiencing at least 50% of that available 'thing'.

I'm out. I honestly think that being American excludes you from understanding others' attitudes towards you, in the same way that a non-native language speaker will probably never know how they sound to natives, and vice versa.

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Originally posted by Domesticated I'm out.

Thank you.