Say, libs said obamao would make us more respected...
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BTW, I'm probably uniquely positioned on this board at least to give some insight in to how the world views the US and, I'll be blunt, it ain't pretty. The general view is that of corrupt politicians, "rednecks" that are scared of anything even slightly different (black, gay, mexican, jew, muslim whatever) that keep voting for them, a "shoot/bomb/torture first, ask questions maybe" attitude towards the slightly different things, all underpinned by a fundamental arrogance, and belief that 'america is the greatest! woo!' in every conceivable area.
At a personal level, if you ask generic world citizen about generic americans, you'll get the response that they're fat and stupid. That's not even close to debatable.
This is the case whether you're british, french, german, australian, russian, chinese, whatever. This is not to say that their perception is correct - though in my view it's not far off - but this is how the world thinks of the US. At least, it used to. Then you elected a black president, and people thought 'wow, maybe they're learning, maybe they're dragging themselves in to the 21st century' and since then it's been a battle between a president wanting to bring the US up to 'normal' global social standards, and those same old establishment guys trying to hold back the tide.
Paramount to all of this, if you elect Donald Trump, you *will* be a laughing stock. Similarly with Jeb, however qualified he might be, he's just another Bush looking for 'his turn'. And to a lesser degree, Ben Carson. Most people haven't heard of Rubio, Cruz, Christie, Kasich, Sanders, O'Malley or i-Carly. The only reason another Clinton would not damage the reputation is because she's a woman.
This isn't meant to be an attack, though I'm sure some will see it that way - probably as a consequence of that fundamental arrogance - instead it's meant to just give an outsider's perspective of an outsider's perspective, something most here won't be able to do.
That isn't to say it's all bad. A subset of Americans - namely, those who aren't too fat and stupid to travel - are thought of as polite and well mannered, generally normal people. They see the country slowly getting on board with modern ideas like equal rights for gays and women and blacks, a president desperately trying to stop the endless reports of mass shootings, etc. Yes there are right wing people here, but generally they're not nearly as right wing as there, and certainly not openly. Being gay isn't a big deal in the rest of the developed world, for example, and hasn't been for some time.
HTH.
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Chris hates America! Get him!!
(So basically your stereotype of us is our stereotype of Southerners?)
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Chris hates America! Get him!!
(So basically your stereotype of us is our stereotype of Southerners?)
Chris hates America! Get him!!
(So basically your stereotype of us is our stereotype of Southerners?)
Probably?
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Nice troll gft. Every american thinks that Europeans are fat, have bad teeth and live off the American Defense spending.
"You planning on having a long relationship with that glass or are you going to drink it? Drink up, man. Maybe we can get another.” - Janis Joplin, 1970. -
Nice troll gft. Every american thinks that Europeans are fat, have bad teeth and live off the American Defense spending.
Nice troll gft. Every american thinks that Europeans are fat, have bad teeth and live off the American Defense spending.
And that's because the majority of americans havent' been out of the country nor care to. Otherwise they would see a lot of thinnish people who tend to walk or bike alot. As compared to americans who invent upright scooters so they don't have to go through the drag of walking down the hall 100 or so ft at work to take a shit. The bad teeth though is spot on, Chris can't even begin to deny that.
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I'd say that proved Chris's point....
(Also, I don't think Europeans are fat. I didn't think that was a stereotype)
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I remember when our ship pulled into port in Sydney Australia for a week in 76. Maybe things are different now but I met some people there who loved Americans. A couple of navy friends and myself met some Aussies at a pub and shot some pool with them and they invited us home for tea. We didn't know that meant dinner but they invited half the neighborhood over and we had a huge party. I will always remember the older neighbor who was telling me he was in a concentration camp in WW2 with some American POW's and they were the best people in the world and nobody better say anything bad about Americans in front of him.
If things have changed and are like what Chris says then that is sad.
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Nice troll gft. Every american thinks that Europeans are fat, have bad teeth and live off the American Defense spending.
Nice troll gft. Every american thinks that Europeans are fat, have bad teeth and live off the American Defense spending.
I don't know of a single person that believes that.
As for myself whom has been out of the country, the amount of people that were obese in Europe that I saw wasn't even in the same ballpark as my own country. It makes me quite sad how little people in America seem to care for their health.
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I remember when our ship pulled into port in Sydney Australia for a week in 76. Maybe things are different now but I met some people there who loved Americans. A couple of navy friends and myself met some Aussies at a pub and shot some pool with them and they invited us home for tea. We didn't know that meant dinner but they invited half the neighborhood over and we had a huge party. I will always remember the older neighbor who was telling me he was in a concentration camp in WW2 with some American POW's and they were the best people in the world and nobody better say anything bad about Americans in front of him.
If things have changed and are like what Chris says then that is sad.
I remember when our ship pulled into port in Sydney Australia for a week in 76. Maybe things are different now but I met some people there who loved Americans. A couple of navy friends and myself met some Aussies at a pub and shot some pool with them and they invited us home for tea. We didn't know that meant dinner but they invited half the neighborhood over and we had a huge party. I will always remember the older neighbor who was telling me he was in a concentration camp in WW2 with some American POW's and they were the best people in the world and nobody better say anything bad about Americans in front of him.
If things have changed and are like what Chris says then that is sad.
Yeah safe to say the world view of Americans has changed in the last 40 years
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So, you don't think Europe can afford not to spend on Defense because America foots the bill? If you do, you're a fool. And Brits are fat as hell, as are Germans.
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I remember when our ship pulled into port in Sydney Australia for a week in 76. Maybe things are different now but I met some people there who loved Americans. A couple of navy friends and myself met some Aussies at a pub and shot some pool with them and they invited us home for tea. We didn't know that meant dinner but they invited half the neighborhood over and we had a huge party. I will always remember the older neighbor who was telling me he was in a concentration camp in WW2 with some American POW's and they were the best people in the world and nobody better say anything bad about Americans in front of him.
If things have changed and are like what Chris says then that is sad.
Yeah safe to say the world view of Americans has changed in the last 40 years
Yeah safe to say the world view of Americans has changed in the last 40 years
What? No... you're crazy.
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I remember when our ship pulled into port in Sydney Australia for a week in 76. Maybe things are different now but I met some people there who loved Americans. A couple of navy friends and myself met some Aussies at a pub and shot some pool with them and they invited us home for tea. We didn't know that meant dinner but they invited half the neighborhood over and we had a huge party. I will always remember the older neighbor who was telling me he was in a concentration camp in WW2 with some American POW's and they were the best people in the world and nobody better say anything bad about Americans in front of him.
If things have changed and are like what Chris says then that is sad.
Yeah safe to say the world view of Americans has changed in the last 40 years
Yeah safe to say the world view of Americans has changed in the last 40 years
So Obama running around the world apologizing for the United States didn't help make us be better liked?
And the guy won a Nobel peace prize and everything.
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Oh no, I hurt some guys feelings
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