@Anonymous: Of course France likes America, french fries are the reason we have the America we know and love today!

@Anonymous: Everybody hates America because we are #1. It's jealousy. And it's unavoidable. Everyone will always hate #1. They say the hatred comes from "arrogance," but they just perceive arrogance because they want to. Yeah, there are a lot of assholes in the US. But there are a lot of assholes everywhere.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not arrogant enough to think that the US will always be #1 (change is coming if we don't fix our country). But make no mistake, we are currently #1 and THAT is why foreigners don't like us.

¡Soy de España y me encantaría los E.E.U.U.!

Encantaría means "would love." Are you actually even Spanish?

@Spazturtle: I go to school in a small Italian town. Heard about the bombings. It was kinda freaky. But I mean all we do here is get trashed and fuck around in the countryside. Have yet to have mafia problems as its not quite as hysterical as people make it out to be. But yes. In France everyone will take offence.

@Anonymous: No we don't, we don't give a fuck how high up you are. We hate the fact that you generally come across as self obsessed and arrogant, it's because everything you have originally comes from everyone else. We all started from scratch yet you got a kickstart, and you are so shameless about it. You don't even seem thankful, ever. Even in the post you just made you are showing your own ridiculous self-righteousness. I don't hate you because you think you are number one, some other countries have a higher standard of living anyway -I am very happy where I am and will never want to live in america, I hate you because you assume that is the reason I hate you. Take your head out of your own arsehole sir.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXPhVNv4PgU&feature=topics

Be sure to turn speakers up to max and along as loud as you can!

@Anonymous: *chant along!

@Anonymous: I never said the US has the highest standard of living or that everyone should want to live here. But thank you for proving my point that foreigners perceive, without any real basis, Americans to "come across" a certain way and to believe certain things that we just simply don't believe.

We are #1 because we are the world's economic super power. We are the most important country in the world. This will change, eventually. China or Russia will probably surpass us in the next 50-100 years (or the EU, sooner, if it ever get its act together).

And it's because the US is the most important country that you perceive us to be arrogant, etc. But really we have no more or no less pride in our country than you do in yours, it's just that you are sick of seeing and hearing about the stars and stripes. If we were a meaningless country but had the exact same attitude, you would think nothing of it or us.

@Anonymous: It's like sports; everybody loves to hate the super power (Miami Heat, New York Yankees, Manchester United, Real Madrid). The media loves to talk about them until finally you just get sick of them and want them to fail.

People always see what they want to see. After this feeling of animosity exists in someone, they will begin to dwell on the negatives and let their bias and prejudice show them what they want to see.

I fucking luv these threads. why is USA better Why its not... but you know who luvs them more? the governments. Cause as long as peasants bicker among themselves Governments get to do what they want Then we wake up one day and scream at the top of our lungs "Hey! whats going on?" then we turn to our neighbor and shoot them in the face. God knows you are not going to shoot yourself in the face just because you were preoccupied with government controlled propaganda. All the countries of the world do it, cause they have no faith in the loyalty of its people so they breed hate into their people.

@Anonymous: as an American, although i can only speak for myself, i would like to give an informal apology on behalf of American's everywhere. Because you are right, we have no original creations anywhere. Not even music (which, as a musician, i have a lot to thank Europe for) has anything original. No, i do not believe America is #1, but i also dont think it matters.

Think about it this way, why does it matter where you live or what language you speak? I mean we're all human beings, we're all equally blessed by God (or Alla, or Budda, or any other religion you follow) I think we should stop arguing about who is currently better, and start working on how we can make each other better in the future.

@Anonymous: Europe hates all their neighbors too, and they all say pretty much the same thing. "They hate us coz we're #1".

@Crazydave21216: I agree with the let's-all-be-friends stuff, but what do you mean by "no original creations"? Rock is descended from African and European musics, but it's definitely an American creation. That's like giving your grandfather credit when you ace a test!

@Anonymous: Well, that's pretty much how we feel about other states, as well.

Thanks for the advice everybody!
I feel much more prepared now.

I hope you guys enjoyed your stickers. I try to reward people who are awesome in all of my threads

Bluegrass is an amazing form of music

@Anonymous: Hey, man, it's not all Americans, the internet just brings out the shouty jerks. I mean, you'd think from these threads that all Europeans hated America, but going back to those Global Attitudes statistics that's clearly not true.

I think Europe and America are both pretty cool places, and if I had to move I'd be happy to live in either!

@Anonymous: have you been to America for any extended amount of time? because it's pretty fucking sweet lol

@Crazydave21216: Wait.. WHAT?! We have no original creations? Well here's some things that were created/invented in America: the cotton gin, telephone, revolver pistol, the repeating rifle, bluegrass music, buffalo wings, American football, basketball, baseball (though it evolved from earlier French and English bat-and-ball games), jazz music, video games, the atomic bomb, the oil well, THE INTERNET, toilet paper, motorcycles, bubble gum, artificial hearts, lasers. I can continue if you like?

@Anonymous: Not really hard to get. Everyone knows what about Rosetta Stone. Everyone knows English over there (pretty much) and their accents still make them sound okay. Lame joke. 1/10. Did not laugh.

@Anonymous: I don't hate America (as a European), I actually quite like it. What does drive me up the wall tho, are people listing all the achievements in war, art, science etc, that were "saved", "invented", "created" solely by -Americans-. A lot of inventions you speak of were largely created thanks to Europeans that resided in America, for example Tesla or Einstein. Phone is not an invention of a single solitary person, it was like many other things that exist today, created at the same time in some fashion in other places by other people as well. Just because it is credited to someone doesn't mean it wouldn't have been invented shortly after by someone else. Same goes for Europeans as well.

TL;DR
You're all fucking idiots fighting over irrelevant shit on the internet. There are fat, stupid, racist, as well as brilliant people everywhere in the world, saying America or Europe is better than the other 1 is idiotic.