Why a large majority hates us, I know a lot of the answer but yeah.
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Originally Posted by Lexieinhouston
Your premise is wrong and most of the posts in this thread are ridiculous.
A majority of the world would be about 4 billion people. Outside the Muslim world (1.5 billion), who hates us?
The majority of the world is clamoring to get into this county and/or to do business with this country. That's probably true even of the majority of Muslims.
Don't confuse griping about the US with hating the US. A lot of people in this country grips about China, or Russia, or Mexico, but how many Americans actually HATE those countries or their people
A lot of people in other countries may gripe about the US, but it is almost always related to our cultural influence in those countries. We have an outsized cultural influence, but that is a matter of THEIR choices not ours.
We don't force them to watch our movies, to listen to our music, to drive our cars, to buy our technology, to wear the same clothing styles that we do.
They choose to do those things. If some people in those countries are resentful of our influence, what are we supposed to do? Help out their home industries by making bad movies? Making bad cars? Produce lousy computers?
The Europeans can grip all they want about the influence of Google and Facebook, but who made them use those products? We didn't.
The only places where we are faced with real animosity are some of the Muslim countries. And they are, by and large, shithole backwaters filled with misogynistic, homophobic, racist religious nuts. Bin Laden and company don't really care about our Israel policy as much as they think we are hedonists who live decadent lifestyles who are corrupting their younger generation.
If you don't think so, then tell me why they seem so sex-obsessed - or should I say anti-sex obsessed? Why is so much of their rhetoric about men being in control over society and Islam being in control over ALL other beliefs. Their words and actions seem directed at keeping women "modest" and subservient.
So, yeah, to a large degree they hate us for our freedoms. (Sorry COG)
And a lot of others don't hate us but are irked by our social and cultural influence over their societies. But, again, why is that our fault?