Those Stupid Americans…
I was reminded the other day of how hated we Americans are. An admittedly stupid website was reporting that Pippi Longstocking is a Satanic character, and the visiting Swedes (Sweden being the country of Pippi’s origin) let their opinions fly:
- Another stupid American; the world is full of them!
- You’re probably a stupid American áššhølë!
- I wipe my ášš with the American flag and spit in your face.
Being an American myself, I was curious as the sentiment of others. So I decided to find some additional opinions by searching the Internet with Google, spelling (or lack thereof) intact:
- “The only thing Americans can teach is how to corrupt countries and take their money. All Americans are is greety báštárdš.” - I think countries have been corrupting themselves for centuries without the help of the United States. Also, most people worldwide work hard to better themselves and provide as much as possible for their families. Americans included.
- “[The] US is the laughing stock of the world. American cars suck, American people are stupid, fat and ignorant, your technology sucks.” - Yes, spoken out of prejudice and ignorance, Americans can be conceived as being the laughing stock of the world. So would whichever country happens to be in the economic and military lead at the time. Some American cars do suck, but the Yugo hasn’t won too many awards that I’m aware of. Oddly, the fantasy car of choice when I lived in Germany as a child was a Pontiac. Yes, some Americans are stupid, fat and ignorant. So are some members of any other country in the world. If Microsoft products are a measurement of our technology, then, yes, it sucks. But I haven’t seen any other countries that provide the number of major innovations that have stemmed from America in the last hundred years.
- “Americans are full of šhìt. ignorant, yet stuppied people. they are bvery norrow minded and veyr materiolistic.” - I already agreed that sum Amurikanz ar bvery stuppied. But not all — the first spell checking software was invented at UC Berkeley in 1972 by an American.
- “You have a handful of smart and educated people who drive the country, and then you have this humongous blob of utterly clueless people who are hardly able to make a living.” - Can’t really argue with that. But the same can be said for just about every other nation in the world.
- “You are all non-sensical inbred morons.” - Actually I don’t personally know anyone who can be accused of resulting from inbreeding, although it may be common in certain areas of the country such as Tennessee (pronounced “Ken-tuck-ee”, if you’re from Tennesee). You think inbreeding didn’t occur within the European and Asian royals of the past?
- “Americans are generally loud and stupid.” - Yeah, I hate American tourists, too. Again, I’d qualify that as “some”, rather than generalizing the population as a whole.
- “U.S.A is the biggest šhìt hole.” - Seems that lots of people on the Internet are calling every other country on the planet the “biggest šhìt hole”, too, based on results from Google. I say we just all take a vote and decide once and for all. After all, that is the democratic way.
- “I thank God that I’m not a stupid ášš-fûçkìng American.” - I’m glad I’m not a stupid ášš-fûçkìng American, too! I’m just a plain American of average intelligence, eking out a living, trying to live my dreams.
I’d rather be considered a stupid American than have to resort to pointless name-calling in a vain attempt to gain national stature. I am hardly a Bible-toting born-again Christian, but I find it difficult to disagree with: “The proud and haughty man, ’scoffer’ is his name; He works in the arrogance of pride… When pride comes, then comes shame, But with humility comes wisdom.”
Don’t get so worked up about Americans. You should think about the comedy value they provide the rest of the world. If they’re not shooting each other in shopping malls then they’re marrying their sisters/mothers/aunts in the southern states. They live in a country they describe as “free” but youve got to worry that there are so many guns. And they’ve now become so utterly paranoid that any crime mentioned on TV is automatically an “Act of Terrorism”. We shouldn’t hate these people, we should pity them. Americans are hilarious!
Guantanamo Bay - this is an excample of the american hypocrisy people (including me) get annoyed about. How is it possible that a nation such as america can get away with detaining “terrorists” for an indeterminate amount of time without actually charging any of them? (and this is not an isolated incident either). The answer is that weak minded political leaders of the world are scared to say or more importantly, do anything about it for fear of american retribution. (anything from preventing imports, to war) The sooner the american government stops doing things like this, the sooner terrorists will run out of causes.
Let’s not be so hateful and judgmental of Americans! Americans are human beings just like everyone else, and they are privy to the same intellectual foibles and mistakes as everyone else. Let’s face it, do we really think Germans give a šhìt about Beethoven, or the English are constantly quoting Shakespeare? I, as an American, have been to those countries, and they are just as decadent and appalling as we are in the U.S.A. In Germany, I met a beautifulAryan’girl who wanted to have sex with me. She went so far as to ask me if I wanted her to take a šhìt on my face! I, terrified, quickly turned the offer down, but had normal sex with her nonetheless. After sex, I asked her if her fascination with coprophilia was just peculiar to her, or was it a widespread fetish? She shockingly said that most German girls are into it. So here it is, a citizen from the land of Bach and Beethoven, a Nordic specimen that Hitler would have admired, and she wants to šhìt on my face! How disgusting!
This comment is directed at ‘Bubba’: wha?! How come you managed to turn a discussion about American intelligence as perceived by the rest of the globe into a comment about German people’s unusual… er… ‘preferences’? However, good point about the fact that all English people aren’t continualy quoting Shakespeare: I much prefer Ben Jonson (”I fart at thee.”
First, If my country is under attack, the GOOD OLD USA will be the LAST to be there to defend my country PROBABLY because THEY ARE THE ONES ATTCKING IT! Americans think that the only answer to national problems is war. It’s disgusting actually. Also, whether i believe this or not, you won’t care, because as Americans, you think you are the most powerful áššhølëš in the world. Your COUNTRY may be rich and powerful, but a lot of your residents are in fact extremely poor and dirty and over-weight. Also, living in fear every day of your lives must be wonderful…everyone owns at least one gun, and you have kids bringing guns into schools! God knows why anyone would want to live in that supposedly “free” country of yours. Stop electing losers, and maybe things will get better, although that would take quite a lot of work…good luck with all that. “Bowling For Comlombine”-Good movie…All Americans should take a look at it.
The american government almost consistently throughout history has been made up of morons who cause more distruction to their people than good. And since the united states is a democratically ruled country, your government is a representation of the people, people who continue to elect govenments who cause destruction in not only their own country but around the world as well. Its interesting to see how Osama Bin Laden used his expert CIA training and funds given to the Afghan government to kill three thousand american people. One of many idiotic things in american history, caused by americans. So until you cease to elect destructive morons, who stupidly cause more harm than good you will always carry the “stupid americans” label.
I am a Canadian and dámnëd proud of it. I do not care much for americans. It is not so much the people I do not like it is the government brain washing them to believe they are right and the rest of the world is wrong. Therefore the world must abide by our way. For the most part Americans are not stupid. They are (I mean no disrespect) ignorant about the majority of the world because of their educational system. And to me that is so sad. I remember as a lad grwoing up in the 50s and 60s most of our school books were American and we learnt a lot if not more about the states than regular Americans. This is why I belive Canadains are a people of the world. Whereas Americans are isolationist and want to be left alone. That is a real contradiction isn’t it?. I just wish the govt there would just use some common sense. But George dubya doesn’t have much of that of that does he.
Can we all just get along!?!
PEACE
So the consensus is that all of Europe, America, quite a lot of Africa and most of continental Asia, not to mention South America are all implicated in being incedibly violent, ignorant and generally inconsiderate of other nations and peoples. This leads me to believe that apart from a brief misunderstanding with the aborigines when social cleansing was the fashion, Australia is the most goodwilled and people loving place on the planet. Try to be Australian!
Yes, I spelled *incredibly wrong and yes, I did add quite a healthy dose of irony there. The point is that being all school kiddie-ish and saying my country is better than yours is really not broadening anyones’ world view. It’s a shame that (some of) the Americans here can’t get past the initial sting of the comments and actually hear the points that some people are trying (if somewhat un-diplomatically)to make. There’s a really daggy phrase that I think applies which goes something along the lines of “If somebody has a problem with you, it’s their problem. If everybody has a problem with you, it’s your problem.” I think it’s sad that so many people dismiss the anti-american backlash as jealousy, there has to be more to it and as a country and a people it might bode well for America to pay heed to what’s being said.