The question was why do they "hate" America. Not one of your sources or even your answer addresses the question of "hatred".

Leave it to an American on trying to explain why the rest of the world actually hates you. It has nothing to do with your conservation of energy and blah blah blah blah as written above. Your ignorance of this topic and description above, raps it up in a nut shell. Completely oblivious. First your country pushes its policies and beliefs onto all other countries, kinda like a jehovah witness that comes banging on your door trying to convert you, and we all no how these people are disliked. You start wars for know particular reason except to monopolize on a given resource, or manipulate markets/ economies. You were hated long before Bush. But I do agree with you, when you say that a majority does not care as it is not there problem. But it is there problem and the American powerhouse that used to rain is beginning its downwards crumble. When your country loses its supremacy and is no longer top dog, when people are broke and can't afford to house themselves let alone eat (as we are beginning to see now), will it be there problem then. The list is to long to explain why the Americans are hated. But you are a country of people that take know shit from anybody, I am surprised that you as a people who have this mentality have not yet stepped in and done something about your government. If you disagree, are mad and want change, do something. You used to. This was one quality that I definitely looked up to America for having.

Dislike and hatred are degrees of the same feeling. I'm addressing the question the best I can, which is more than I can say for your answer.

I think this was a fair answer, the question asked why people hate America and dljurek gave a reason why, perhaps, some "hate" America.

You're assertion that the rest of the world is focused on energy conservation is highly debatable. There is no nation on earth that is actually "focused" on using less energy, although some do better than others. Europe might be the only valid example, as high gasoline taxes and high population density encourage them to drive small, fuel-efficient vehicles. As for the rest of the planet, China and India are focused on using as much energy as they possibly can, along with the rest of the emerging economies. Yes, Americans use a large percentage of the world's oil and we can certainly afford to downsize our cars, but we also lead the world in wind energy installations.

It's a good Rorschach test anyway to see why dljurek hates America.

@dljurek: Comparing the US to China for something like oil use is a fallacy on it's face.

Nevertheless I'll go ahead and dissect this one too: Their use of coal is almost TRIPLE that of the USA. The reason? The same as why they DON'T use oil, infrastructure and level of development.

What absurdly stacked comparison would you like to do next? The Congo to Switzerland perhaps?

Only in America......do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.
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Only in America......do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke.
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Only in America......do banks leave vault doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.
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Only in America.....do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.
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Only in America.........do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.

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Only in America......do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

IRAN: 1953
Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh
Prime minister of Iran from 1951 - 1953
Democratic
Time magazines man of the year. The hope for democracy in the middle east laid within the hands of Dr. Mossadegh. He began implementing that foreign oil companies needed to pay the Iranian people a lot more for taking oil out of their land,so that he, and the oil companies taking Irany oil, could give more back to the people. US didn't like that, so they sent in one CIA agent. Corrent(?) Roosevelt, related to the Roosevelt that was in power. Had Mohammed over thrown in short period of time by starting a massive riot. Installed new leader that favored oil. Ashad of Iran(?). They didn't send in military like they were doing before because they were too afriaid, so they sent in one CIA agent.

This is when the US established new way of manipulating countries. Roosevelt was CIA , so decision was made to use private consultants and channel money through world bank and IMF so that if they were ever caught there would be no governmental ramifications.
Iranies. Hate America. My old man works with one and the guy HATES americans.

Guatemala
1954
Jacobo Arbenz Guzman
President of Guatemala from 1951 - 1954: wanted to give land back to people, became president and started implementing policies to give land back to people. United Fruit (corporation of US) didn't like that so they highered public relations fella and launched a huge campaign to convince congress, the american people, media and whomever else of the united states and said that Arbenz was a commy puppet. CIA gave commitment to take Arbenz out, sent in plains and soldiers, jackals and took him out. As soon as he was removed, new guy reinstated everything to the big international corporations.

Ecuador ruled by PRO US DICTATORS <----PRO US DICTATORS (where theres money, theres corruption)
1981
Jaime Roldos Aguilera
President of Equador from 1979 - 1981
Decided to have a truly democratic election. Main goal as president was to make sure the resources from Equador were used to help the people of Equador. Won overwhelmingly in votes, more than anyone else in Equador. Started implementing policies to make sure profits from oil went to help the people. US sent several economic hitman to change Roldos mind and to corrupt him. They were unsuccessful. Assassinated, as 'died in plane crash'. Only people were allowed in were us military from near base. Two key witnesses died in car accidents before testifying. <-- Sounds fishy to me.

Panama
1981
Omar Torrijos
Leader of Panama from 1968 - 1981
Wanted his country to be treated fairly. Wanted US to repay debts to all his people of the destruction that they did in Panama. Wanted to help other latin american countries win independance to be free from the terrible presence in the north. Wanted Panama Canal back in the hands of the people. Won the canal for his people, while in the mean time knew that the US was planning to assassinate him anyway. In June of same year, he also mysteriously died in a plane crash. Was handed a small tape recorder containing a bomb before getting onto the plane.

Venezuela
2002
Hugo Chavez elected in '98 following a long line of corrupt leaders that destroyed the Venezuelan economy. Stood up to US, demanding that Venezuela oil be used to help Venezuelan people. 2002, the US sent in another CIA agent. The way that they tried to overthrow Hugo was done very much like what Roosevelt did in Iran. Riots failed due to Hugo Chavez being a strong leader, and his people having faith in him. (Good try, US)

Iraq
2003
Economic hitman first line of defense. Try to corrupt government to accept huge loans. If failed, send in jackals. Over throw government or assassinate. Both of those failed in Iraq. Saddam Hussein was an ex-cia agent, highered once before by US itself to assassinate an old Iraqi leader so he knew how the CIA worked. Tried to get him to accept a deal that the house of Saud in Saudi Arabia accepted. He said no.
In '91, US sent in troops. Took out Iraq's military. Saddam Hussein assumed to come around. The states left him in charge, because Saddam was a strong man that they liked who knew how to control his people. Still no success. If success they were successful in corrupting Saddam he'd still be running the country and the US would be selling him all the fighter jets he wants. This time, took the military in and took him out. Big oil companies received huge deals to pump oil out of Iraq (Halliburton).

States have been creating an empire, secretly. The majority of the people in the United States have no idea that they are living off of an empire, and there is more slavery in the world than before. If its an empire, whose the emperor? The Corporatocracy. They don't answer to anyone, they are not elected, they don't serve a term, etc. They control media through direct ownership or advertising. Control most of politicians 'cause they finance their campaigns through corporations or through personal contributions. Very top of the Corporatocracy, you can't tell who is working for private corporations or the government, 'cause they move back and forth. One moment, guy is owner of big construction company, next hes president of US. Policies carried out by the corporations. Policies of government forged by Corporatocracy. Not a conspiracy type thing, they all work under one primary assumption. Maximize profits regardless of social and environmental cost. AKA GLOBALIZATION
WORLD BANK US BANK FOR US INTERESTS. Worlds top 100 economies. 51 corporations. 47 are US based. Needed a way to battle people who challenged the system. Came up with terrorists. Fictional Al Qaida is the name of a computer data base, the US supported (created by Musha Hadeen) in1980's.
"The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity...The country behind this propaganda is the US" - Robin Cook, Former British Foreign Secretary. In 2007, department of defense received 161.8 B dollars for anti-terrorism. According to national counter terrorist centre, in 2004, 1907 people were killed by terrorist acts. 70 were american. Twice as many people die from peanut allergies a year, than from terrorist acts. Leading cause of death in America is coronary heart disease, killing 450,000 a year. In 2007, government allocation for funds of research on issue was 3 billion dollars. They spent 54 times the amount for preventing terrorism than spent on a disease that kills 6,600 times more people annually than terrorism. (If I was american I would be going" WTF?!")
Terrorism and Al Qaida are stamped on news reports all the time. Over 1 million people on the US terrorist watch list. Anti-terrorist claims have nothing to do with social protection, and everything to do with preserving the establishment. True terrorists of our world wear 5,000 dollar suits and work in the highest positions of finance, government and business. (No shit?)

Afghanistan before 1980 produced 0% of the worlds opium.
After US/CIA backed Mojahideen and won the Soviet/Afghan war, by 1986 they were producing 40% of the worlds heroin supply. By 1999, they were producing 80% of the total market supply. Then something unexpected happened.
The Taliban came to power and by 2000 they had destroyed most of the opium fields. Production dropped from 3000+ tons to only 185 tons. A 94% decrease in production. On September 9, 2001 the full Afghan invasion plan was on Bush's desk. Two days later 9/11 happened. Today opium production in US controlled Afghan now produces more than 90% of the worlds heroin, breaking new production records nearly every year.
IMF, CIA, World Trade Organization, IMF, Federal Reserve, World Bank <-- Corporatocracy.

Sources: Zeitgestmovie: Addendum.
Book: Confessions of an Economic Hitman

That should give you a broad overview as to who is most likely to hate America.

CONSPIRACY: Anything not shown through mainstream media. You trust people you don't even know. People who go for power and authority. They bombard your televisions and internet with BS about dealings in other countries. They dumb down your education system, and what do you guys do? Defend the system. RIDICULOUS.

The Earth's people should be working together to survive from day to day, not destroying each other. If the governments were actually doing their job (theres enough money in this world to house and feed every human being) than there would be NO suffering, there would be NO pollution, we would eliminate the monetary system because all that does is prevent us from advancing technologically as well as prevent us from naturally evolving. There would be NO upper class, NO middle class, and NO lower class. All life forms would be equal and share the same love and compassion.

Good luck with your lives, all you non-truth seekers.

I don't hate americans. My cousin just married one so I have to like them now ;) hahaha!

The question has spun off topic. "so many countries" is entirely vague to specifically answer and "hate" is a term that should not be used lightly. Many countries might dislike or disagree with the United States but Hate? Which countries? What evidence of *hatred*?

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A sad day for Mahalo Answers and a new low for us.

I remember not to long ago when Mahalo Answers was about actual *Answers* to actual *Questions* with sources and actual evidence.

I miss those days.

You're claiming you "have the facts" that "Osama had NOTHING to do with 9/11. It was an inside job." Unless you are privy to Bin Laden's doings, or those of the US intelligence community and government at a level far beyond what even a well-informed uninvolved person could claim, then it is obvious to any rational person that (a) your initial statement is unsubstantiated conspiracy theory, and (b) your statement that you "have the facts" is either a lie or a delusion.

Either way, as I said before, you are fully entitled to hold any opinion you please, no matter how tenuous (or non-existent) its relation to reality is.

Finally, at this point I will withdraw from this thread in the interest of no longer "feeding the trolls." Have a great life.

Osama's family has shares in the Bush's families companies, and vice versa. You are telling me that Osama hates americans? How do you know your media isn't BS'ing about that? American's have helped make Osama and his family very rich. Infact, I would go as far as to say that Osama had NOTHING to do with 9/11.

It was an inside job.

Great Answer @opher !

A different and refreshing perpective.

Yay, thank you fallen!

That was a few years ago. That holds zero relevance now.

Everytime a natural disaster happens, companies make BILLIONS of dollars off of them. They send out in newspapers, on billboard signs, through television, "Come down to our store now, and every certain % you spend here, we will send to 'whatever-country' for aid!"

I wonder how much in debt, those countries that the US helped out, are in, because the US helped them out. I hope they still own their infrastructure.

Wow weareallhuman, you will use and find any excuse to protest against America. If that letter is of no relevance.. then so is everything you dare to state that is past 3 years ago in any of your arguments. If you fail to see -anything- other then what you have to say, then there is completely no point at all in trying to respect and value your opinions.

It is a real problem when people completely ignore anything good a country does, and just focuses on the bad? Oh really? Well lets hate on England for all the wars they had with France time and again. Not to forget how they treated Scotland. Or what about Japan and how they treated those in China during WW2. Or how about Hatti? Their own govt took in money giving to them by other countries, to help them out because they are poor, and their own govt KEPT that money for themselves and didn't help any of their people with it. And NOW look at where they are? Every country on this planet has had its dark days. The problem is you seem to only want to hold America to it.. and refuse to believe any other country should ever be at fault for what they do. How exactly is that fair? It's not. But why bother telling you all of this? Clearly you are going to have something to say about how evil the US and its govt is, and no one else. I admire you to ignore history and only hold one country accountable for -anything.

Hmm....yeah I can't really see helping out Israel to destroy the Palistinians very good, seems how they have them trapped in the Gaza Strip and are bombing them daily. And, the help and aid that americans are able to send out, are religious groups changing other, poorer countries cultures and religious beliefs. Again, I don't see that as a good thing. I don't trust the intentions of any organization claiming to want your money and will send it to countries less fortunate for aid. Except of course, the organization that Bob Dylan uses ;)

I hear the states has a large shipment of illegal mexicans, but I am assuming that it is because the states is the closest, richest country to them. As for any other foreigners that go to your country for 'opportunity and a better life', it is because they have heard such BS stories across sea. I am sure, that once they get their they realize "damn, I did not see myself coming across and gaining an opportunity to drive cabs or flip burgers at McDonalds".

Actually, weareallhuman, if you said something like that in the states, you wouldn't get into trouble. Only reason you would get in trouble is if you tacked on a verbal threat to cause harm to Americans. Also, you wouldn't be "disappeared" unless you were caught trying to do a crime so heinous you would warrant ending up in one of the prisons that don't exist. Beauty of freedom of speech.

Also, part of your argument was pretty much rehashing my argument that America is ignorant to its own flaws against me. Nice rhetoric and I almost bought it. Poor logic after I realized that you were trying to counter my argument with my argument.

Your country isn't trying to bring peace to the world. They are trying to enslave it. Thats why there is so much bloody turmoil in your own country, and because theres so much BS information going around now adays, and conspiracies left and right, no one can see the truth.

If I was in the states posting these comments, I would probably receive a knock on my door and disappear forever. Thank god I am not in the states! :D

In other words, it's easy to say what should have been done on hindsight.

What was happening in the Holocaust was not much known at all outside of where it was happening. Some leaks and reports, but not much, and war-time communications were very unreliable. These weren't the days of Twitter or texting or anything close. The worst of it actually occurred after the US entered the fighting part of the war. (So if you are super clever maybe you can complain that is the American's fault too!)

I guess in regards to Iraq, you are saying it doesn't count because they weren't doing as well as Germany did? Iraq has a history of invading Kuwait, invading Iran (starting a war and gassing Iranians), attacking Israel, slaughtering a few hundred thousand Kurds.

As a point of fact, America has never won a war on it's own. Apart from their civil war, of course :) Even the War of Independence against the Brits was only won thanks to a lot of help from them pesky French dudes.

>Firstly it is NOT about jealousy as so many of your leaders keep telling you.

Er... is any of this based on anything at all? What American leaders are telling Americans that other countries hate them from anything? The only thing close I can think of offhand was Bush's "they hate our freedom" rhetoric in regards to Al Qaeda terrorists.

Anti-Americanism occurs in many places, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see in many cases it boils down to simple jealousy. Some others have different gripes as well, but a major one is jealousy.

I find it amusing that one person in one post can criticize the US for being involved in the middle east then complain that the US didn't start fighting in WWII until it was directly attacked. Hello?? You basically are saying you will complain no matter what.

Invade North Korea? They have enough conventional weapons, even forgetting whatever they are doing right now with nukes, to launch an attack on Seoul that would kill millions without even leaving their own territory since Seoul is so close to the border.

Have you not read any of my posts? The reason why Japan attacked the US was because your president at the time, and the bankers and big corporate names WANTED to go to war, because war = profit.

The Vietnam war was pointless. The only reason why it went on as long as it did because war = profit. Countless lives were lost for PROFIT.

Any country you go to, with big name suits and important people. These people don't care about anyone else. They want money, power, and absolute wealth. America is just doing a better job at gaining such things, than other countries.

What the politicians do behind closed curtains, with other powerful people, stays behind closed curtains. You can not trust men going for power, because their intentions are never pure.

Do you think Iran enjoys having your country taking their oil for dirt cheap, and leaving them with nothing? That is how America has 'friendly relations' with other countries. They have 'friendly relations' with the leaders of other countries, more corrupted men that allow the states to rape their own people because they gain from it.

You know what I hate? Countries. Theres no need for them. If God was real, he would not of intended for humans to take claim to lands that everyone has the right to live on. Everyone is the same. You'll find the same people in every country, so why define a person by the country they live in? The bottom line is that we are ALL human beings, and everyone has the right to their own belief and opinion, but there are forces in the world trying to stop that. The majority of those forces reside in America.

America is not the only great super power. Thats ridiculous.

I do not hate US. I never said that. I hate corporations and government, and I am sick of people like you who do not research your answers and you just spit crap out that sounds good.

Governments are useless, in every country.

Don't research through media.

Or they were presented with false information such as "Come to US and get rich!". "Great opportunities in US of A!" Riiight.

Pearl Harbour...another inside job done by the American Government to rouse their populace into war!! Why? Because there was a lot of profit to be made by big time bankers. Nice.

Your charity doesn't reach the people you choose to help. Your government seems to have put in the majority of americans heads that any form of government thats not democracy or rebulic is bad or evil. Thats not the case, because even democracy and republic, to me, is bad and needs a change. Why? Because all of the politicians are funded by corporations that they are, for the most part, a part of. That right there makes it all one sided. Hugo Chavez (I haven't read much) is probably just trying to take back his country for the people, seems how the U.S. has gone in there once before and over thrown one of their leaders and put in place a leader willing to sell his soul, and countrymen, for some coin.

All forms of government are corrupt, because where there is money and a want for it, there is corruption.

You are confusing what companies and bigger countries do to stay on top with the natural need of survival. It is greed and corruption that bring those companies and countries to see the downfall of their competition. It is not healthy competition, as it only teaches those who win the game how to win it better the next time, which in turn is screwing over families. It makes mankind FIGHT with one another to survive and live to see another day. That is dysfunctional at best. It does not help us to develop further, because those bigger companies and countries on top are not looking to better, natural, energy alternatives like geothermal energy, wave energy, solar energy, wind energy, etc, because they fight to keep those energy resources that pollute our planet. Also, the way in which we buy and sell resources is exactly whats holding us back from developing our technologies to their fullest potential. It's not the matter of "do we have the resources to build it?", which in most and most likely all cases would be yes, but it is a matter of "do we want to spend the money to build it?", which in most cases is no.

Your first reason reminds me of silk trying to convince everyone that other countries and cultures are jealous of the states.

Your second answer is silly. America knew what they were doing from the start. Creating an empire and enslaving the rest of the world in an attempt to create a New World Order, is exactly the intentions of your government (not so much the government but the corporations and bankers that OWN your government). I am afraid to say that you and the rest of your fellow countrymen, along with whomever else has taken loans from the world bank are paying the price for it.

I will have to mostly agree with your third statement, but I would more or less blame the US' education system for a 'few generations of americans' being unable to point out where France is on the map.

The huge ego of the US was put there on purpose. It is a weapon used by the media and Corporatocracy to control the minds of American's.

They never tried to fix anything in Vietnam, they only wanted to sustain the war so that profit could be made by those companies producing the weapons needed to fight. They went to Afghanistan because in 2000 the Taliban came into power and started destroying the US' opium crops. Today, in US controlled Afghanistan, they are producing 90% of the worlds heroin supply.

Again, in Iraq, they tried to corrupt Saddam and convince him to take loans from their bank. When that failed, they removed him from office and hung him without giving him proper trial. (http://www.straight.com/article/saddam-hanged-for-the-wrong-reason)

Sources:
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com: addendum
Book: Confessions of an Economic Hitman

@weareallhuman

I believe you dude. I've been researching, researching, researching and OMFG!!! It's just makes sense.

This is what I stated on a different website.

I think that other countries hate America because we have too many resources, the way our government functions, the military, too much rich people, racism, the way the media works, etc. There are so many reasons. In my opinion, there is been hidden corruption in the government during the past and today. The mainstream mass media lies most of the time. They sometimes do government cover-ups, such as 9/11, the war, UFO incidents, etc. Another thing is because of capitalism. The Invasion of Iraq is a hoax because they used 9/11 as an excuse just so they could steal natural resources from different countries such as oil in Iraq and other Arab countries. 9/11 was planned way before. George W. Bush always acted very supicious and nevrous when someone kept asking him a 9/11 question. The government here doesn't care about the people living here. There is no such thing as Osama Bin Laden. It's all made up just to do cover-ups. I compared four "Osama Bin Laden" videos via YouTube or some independent website, and the 1st, 2nd, and 4th video, it shows "Osama Bin Laden" being nervous while talking to government officials. The 3rd video of "Osama Bin Laden", is dark-colored skin and he speaks without being nervous at all when talking to government officials! And yes, imperialism is another thing. There is WAY TOO MUCH POWER IN THIS COUNTRY! This is my opinion of why other countries hate us.

The mainstream mass media makes other countries look bad by putting photos and videos of the poor side of the country.

Another thing is that I feel that the disaster and corruption of America is been caused by the Illuminati.

Yup. You're right. It's a fictitious documentary based on facts. Congrats, you have been able to see through my apparently BS resources. I am to assume you have watched the two movies presented on that site? Probably not, otherwise you wouldn't be calling it "just a movie". I guess I can't expect much from you seems how you don't even read your own sources, and I quote "Er, Silk, I just looked at your link there and found that it proves exactly the opposite - that it ISN'T jealousy. Did you even read your own source?" - reverend2009.

The world is definately not jealous of America's power. Honestly, I pity Americans because they are too stupid to realize that their government is constantly bending them over the counter, and making them believe in silly things such as, and I quote "Our power is derived from our freedom, our liberty, and from obeying God’s fundamental laws. And, a strong people are not dependent on socialist government." American's lost much of their rights and freedoms when they passed whatever act it was called (Terrorist Act?) after the Oklahoma City bombings, and then later passing the Patriot Act after 9/11, both incidents planned by the Corporatocracy of America. Not to mention the bogus Myth of Jesus Christ IS a rip off of the story of Horus, Attis, Krishna, Dionysus, Mithra and many, many more that is used to help control the minds of feeble American's. If American's were so 'dependent' they wouldn't be buying into bogus religious stories and they would fix their eating habits so as to become less fat.

Anywho. My reason for why the world hates America is because they send in economic hitman that identify country with resources that are coveted by american companies, then arrange huge loans to the country. The money never goes to the country, but to big U.S. corporations that build infrastructure projects within the country, only benefiting few rich people in the country, and the rest of the people are left with the debt. The catch? The people have to sell their resources to those U.S. companies/banks that have enslaved them, so on and so forth. So you see, folks, the U.S. government is the most corrupt form of government in the world, not only allowing their own citizens to suffer from being unable to afford proper food and housing, but royally screwing over smaller countries in the process. YOUR GOVERNMENT DOESN'T CARE ABOUT YOU! Wake up already so you can start making a difference!
Another reason why the world hates America: America is filled with fundamental religious nut jobs who for some reason believe that their land is the new 'zion', when in fact their government (doesn't matter who is in office, because they are hand picked) is destroying it. Odd, that if their land was that important you would think they would take better care of it? Guess not.