Why hate the USA? Page 2

TRA Rotid · 07-30-2008, 08:53 PM

Or that when living in a world`s number one superpower, you don`t have to know much about the outside world (because we are the world - duh!). Only that there`s a war in Iraq, because we`re part of it.

sijli · 07-30-2008, 08:59 PM

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Johnnycky94 · 07-30-2008, 09:06 PM

Just bomb the **** out of iraq. But with leaders who re weak ex. liberals, they wont do anything gutsy

Angel · 07-30-2008, 09:12 PM

I still don't really understand the whole Iraq thing - I really don't. I'm not sure whether this war has lost sight of its original purpose...if indeed there was one....

DJ D Mix · 07-30-2008, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Dark Drakan

Some just do, just like some Americans hate us. Maybe some of us take offence to being called snaggle toothed, tea drinking, slow connection pussies who need US help in every war...

Those American people who say stuff like that are rich white people who had nothing else better to do than hate on people form other places and don't know how good they have it. And they hate on people so far away because they have really small #$%^s and can't hate people to their face.

American's have it great. As for me, I really would love to live in England.
And I would take a greater offence if someone called any of that.

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Originally Posted by Dark Drakan

Im english and i dont hate Americans (obviously) and have some American friends but still some hate on me for being english, just the way it is with some people.

[ Whiny voice ] Am I your friend? [ /whiny voice]

I hate haters ( pun? )

Angel · 07-30-2008, 09:16 PM

Americans over XBOX Live are no better or worse than the English they come up against sometimes - all it takes is one person to kick off and it soon becomes a country-thing, not a "you suck at this game" thing. It's easier to rip someone you do not know and will never likely meet for their nationality than it is to make a deeply personal comment seeing as you know zip-all about them. As many Americans I have come across seem to be intently patriotic, what better way to stab at them than mock their country somehow?

Johnnycky94 · 07-30-2008, 09:18 PM

Angel is excactly correst, i always bring up the revolution to you guys!

Solus · 07-30-2008, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Angel

I still don't really understand the whole Iraq thing - I really don't. I'm not sure whether this war has lost sight of its original purpose...if indeed there was one....

I agree, I don't know what is going on now myself. At first, it was to stop terrorists, then to free Iraq, and now i'm just not sure.

Angel · 07-30-2008, 10:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Johnnycky94

Angel is excactly correst, i always bring up the revolution to you guys!

Yeah, usually it seems to start with one side or another telling one person in the opposing team to shut the **** up and then before you know it, everything is being bandied around from obesity to accents to wars to empires. It's just one big pointless ****ing contest, in my view. But people get very uptight about it all the same...

Johnnycky94 · 07-30-2008, 10:17 PM

Yea its true, just national pride kicks in. Sad but sometimes it funny

TRA Rotid · 07-30-2008, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Johnnycky94

Yea its true, just national pride kicks in. Sad but sometimes it funny

I believe it`s mainly caused by one team winning or a player having a bad day and then getting his/her ass kicked by others, while he/she wanted to live out the stressful day in a console game.
Hopelessly losing can be quite frustrating to some, believe me, I know.

Angel · 07-30-2008, 10:24 PM

Perhaps because I have little pride in my own country I fail to fully get the whole allegiance to the flag type stuff...

Hell, over here if someone started pledging anything to the St George Cross they'd probably be done for citing racial hatred or some other retarded charge

moonfever · 07-30-2008, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Angel

Yeah, usually it seems to start with one side or another telling one person in the opposing team to shut the **** up and then before you know it, everything is being bandied around from obesity to accents to wars to empires. It's just one big pointless ****ing contest, in my view. But people get very uptight about it all the same...

Don't feel alone, I don't know why we're still there, myself.

I am Patriotic, until all reasoning goes out the window, and I loose sight on what this all is about. It started out one thing, and that was proven false.
Every country has their own feelings, the way they are brought up, and we can't change any of that. The way we think and feel about things, could be totally different in other countries. Their religions, lifestyles, are so totally different, we can't change the world.

Angel · 07-30-2008, 10:30 PM

I think also people view the more western countries as fair game - slag off someone from the third world (and I'm going bigger than XBL before someone wisecracks that not many in the Luweero Triangle have XBOX 360s) and you are going to be shouted down to some degree. Lay into the Iraqis (yes, I know - not western) and that's somehow ok because they are all trying to murder us anyway

- rail a Brit or American and it's no big deal because in our heads we see them as an acceptable target - they can hold their own, they have no major catastrophic issues which would be insensitive to bring up (apart from 9/11 or Katrina etc). They are not struggling to survive on a daily basis and they give off the impression they can cope with it all.

Easier for a former world bully to have a crack at the new world bully than try to stamp on another nation that could lead to more dire consequences...

moonfever · 07-30-2008, 10:42 PM

Exactly, Angel, and that's what I'm so afraid of. That there has to be a point, where this just stops, and lets the world heal. We all need healing.