Why ppl hate so much americans? Well, that might be 'cause of their attitude over the other countries. Their forcing "be like me" way is just a bullet in the head. They want to be the center of everything and anything. Like a guy said in the thread, using the USA as a center of culture, being the place that have lots of different cultures. NO WAY! Brazil, as a clear example, has LOTS of culture that even 50 states of USA couldn't bring. Originally our language is Portuguese(or Tupi-Guarani, as it was the language of the native people before the colonization), but some places of Brazil speak just german, english, french, spanish, japanese, italian or even some chinese sublanguages. As it might as well been shown: the places here have lots of historical diferences, and, guess what, we still try to learn as many possible around other countries.
Being a Brazilian, I must say the major example: Santos Dummont. OMG, he's the inventor of the plane. The REAL inventor. We just watch the Wright Brothers usurpating his position as the Fathers of Aviation. And I know most of the people that likes a little(just a little) of planes, knows it's true.
As a descendant of japanese, I must say that we don't like either the way that americans respond things. Well, Pearl Harbor attack, you might be imagining. Ok, thousands of deaths. BUT THAT'S AN EXCUSE TO THROW 2 ATOMIC BOMBS INTO TWO INNOCENT CITIES? I'm saying TWO Atomic Bombs. Killing not just soldiers, but women and childrens as well.
Not being enough the Brazilian way of thought and the Japanese way of thought, I show you the human way of thought: do you ever think of how many lives are lost 'cause of Iraq war? Do you ever think how many people die every day defending his ideals, IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY! Yes, the american invasion is killing in the name of american imperialism and capitalism. Why? We sure know: money. The Protocol of Kyoto wasn't signed if wasn't the pression of USA, even knowing that it would doom the human race as it's destroying the Ozone. Why? We SURE know: money. Doing such things would make the country with losses in the economy, so, instead sending food to the poor in Africa, or making invites to Medium-Orient people to live into a Democracy, they find easier to enter into their country, kill their people and their leader and do it as their own way. And instead thinking in the humanity, well, they're just trying to make more money to, I don't know, space travel? It might be, 'cause the way earth is going, it'll have no place to spent the money in some days...
Before someone says that "It's because of the Bush government and shit". That TOTALLY WRONG. Guess why: the government is made by the people that lives in the country. If the Iraq REALLY wanted the Democracy government, they would have, or, at least, asked for help. Brazil made out of the Dictatorial Government, China is, slowing, becoming a Democracy. If the people of a country really wants something, they do, 'cause the Government is what the people of the country wants. Or would a Dictator be what he is without people that's in his side? The humanity didn't went out of the Dark Age?
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