why do so many people hate Americans? (352, permasaged)

133 Name: Citizen 2005-11-02 21:35 ID:Heaven

Foreign aid per nation and as % of GNI:
http://www.oecd.org/document/7/0,2340,en_2649_34447_35397703_1_1_1_1,00.html
And per capita:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0930884.html
Draw your own conclusions, gentlemen.

>>132
About the "natural disaster": wasn't the US government itself that didn't respond for a week, rejecting foreign help? And if you compare the world's reaction to the (predictable) flooding of a city in the richest country on earth to the reaction to an quake that killed 50000+ people, I can't quite see what you're pissed off about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_2005_Kashmir_earthquake

>Would you help someone who insulted and bullied you for years, just because they got into a bind?

"I'm terribly sorry about letting you bleed to death, but your brother said mean things to me"

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