Comments on: Everyone hates us http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/archives/2006/04/17/everyone-hates-us/ A weblog for people who otherwise wouldn't. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:51:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: KiwiAndy http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/archives/2006/04/17/everyone-hates-us/#comment-115240 KiwiAndy Wed, 10 May 2006 08:12:17 +0000 http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/archives/2006/04/17/everyone-hates-us/#comment-115240 I can see why the muslim world doesn't think much of the West, as if you only see what gets broadcast via TV from the states, without any of the more sane representations of what Joe Average is actually like, it would be easy to believe the country is amoral, dangerous to be in, and materialistically shallow. American foreign policy does it no favours at all in winning friends. The Americans I've met online, and in person aren't as rabid as the ones on TV, but it was interesting to find that there was an item in the news about how americans can make themselves less aggravating when travelling overseas. http://www.businessfordiplomaticaction.org/index.php It also blows my mind how little many Americans know about the outside world. The states may be very large, but there is a lot of insularity. I'm an educated individual, and when weighing up places that i'd like to live, my working definition was "anywhere that speaks English that isn't the USA". I can see why the muslim world doesn’t think much of the West, as if you only see what gets broadcast via TV from the states, without any of the more sane representations of what Joe Average is actually like, it would be easy to believe the country is amoral, dangerous to be in, and materialistically shallow.

American foreign policy does it no favours at all in winning friends. The Americans I’ve met online, and in person aren’t as rabid as the ones on TV, but it was interesting to find that there was an item in the news about how americans can make themselves less aggravating when travelling overseas.

http://www.businessfordiplomaticaction.org/index.php

It also blows my mind how little many Americans know about the outside world. The states may be very large, but there is a lot of insularity.

I’m an educated individual, and when weighing up places that i’d like to live, my working definition was “anywhere that speaks English that isn’t the USA”.

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