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| Global View of the United States
Posted: 4/5/2008 4:22:43 PM | http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/04_april/02/usa.pdf
After years of becoming progressively more negative, public views of the United States have begun to improve, according to a BBC World Service Poll across 34 countries.
While views of US influence in the world are still predominantly negative, they have improved in 11 of the 23 countries the BBC polled a year ago, while worsening in just three countries. The average percentage saying that the US is having a positive influence has increased from 31 per cent a year ago to 35 per cent today while the view that it is having a negative influence has declined from 52 per cent to 47 per cent.
Looking just at the countries that have been polled in each of the last four years, positive views of the US eroded from 2005 (38% on average), to 2006 (32%), and to 2007 (28%); recovering for the first time this year to 32 per cent.
People were asked to rate Brazil, Britain, China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, the USA and the European Union, as having a mainly positive or negative influence in the world.
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Posted: 4/5/2008 4:23:45 PM | Not that it means much, since the view of the United States in the world is still overwhelmingly negative.  | |
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Posted: 4/6/2008 7:06:12 AM | Ryannnnn, most Americans don't care what other people think.
This is a very isolated country compared to Europe and even Canada. The average "American" takes "pride" in being born and raised in the USA and never having travelled far from home.
As far as the "world" goes, some Arab guys from out there bombed us on 911 and now our boys are over there bombing some Arab guys, so what's the problem? And if we can steal some oil, well, don't we deserve it?
And anyway, we're in the business of being a superpower, we've go the most nukes, the biggest military ......not some kind of "popularity contest", you know!  | |
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Posted: 4/6/2008 9:47:57 AM | I have traveled through much of the world, including Europe, Asia, South American and the Middle East, honestly I wasnt impressed, and after the novelty wore off, I couldnt wait to get home. Europe is crowded and horribly expensive.
Europeans are jaded, overwhelmingly pessimistic, depressed and negative
about life in general. The Third world is well, the Third world.
I think much of the negative feelings toawards the US is based more on resentment , jealously. Strangely enough, you find more admiration of the US among non-muslim
third world countries like India. | |
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Posted: 4/6/2008 10:28:48 AM | This is a very isolated country compared to Europe and even Canada. The average "American" takes "pride" in being born and raised in the USA and never having travelled far from home.
As far as the "world" goes, some Arab guys from out there bombed us on 911 and now our boys are over there bombing some Arab guys, so what's the problem? And if we can steal some oil, well, don't we deserve it?
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For the next century, Americans will be using September 11th as an excuse to fight an enemy that doesn't exist. They think that it is somehow possible to fight a terrorist organization, or a number of organizations, who do not have any real structure, and are scattered in numbers throughout the entire globe. Funny enough how Iraq has nothing to do with 9/11, nor did they pose any threat to the United States or American insterests in the region.
As I said, one hundred years from now, I guarantee that we will hear Americans using 9/11 as an excuse to further their own reach in the world. It's a shame that such a terrible event is used as the justification to cause pain and suffering in other places of the world. It's almost as though Americans think that they are the only nation in the world to suffer such an extreme tragedy, and for that, they should be able to run amuck, creating more enemies than friends. | |
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Posted: 4/7/2008 6:49:02 AM |
Funny enough how Iraq has nothing to do with 9/11, nor did they pose any threat to the United States or American insterests in the region.
So, you're suggesting that Sadaam was doing his people right by lowering them into wood chippers? Gassing to death thousands of his own citizens and burying them in mass graves? Shooting people just because they disagree with him? Etc. etc., etc.?
So you're saying that because he's only doing such things to his own people, and not to us, that we had no business going over there to stop him?
So in essence, you are one of those people who would witness a woman being raped in an alley, and your response would be to turn your back and say, "not my problem"?
Nice guy!
You wouldn't happen to be of French ancestry would you?
And yes, if we see atrocities happening ANYWHERE in the world, we will beat up the bullies. That's what we do. | |
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Posted: 4/7/2008 7:16:53 AM |
Americans will be using September 11th as an excuse to fight an enemy that doesn't exist. They think that it is somehow possible to fight a terrorist organization, or a number of organizations, who do not have any real structure, and are scattered in numbers throughout the entire globe. Funny enough how Iraq has nothing to do with 9/11, nor did they pose any threat to the United States or American insterests in the region.
Hi Ryan. The concept of fighting an invisible boogey man has been around since the dawn of civilization. Even American history books admit hitler did this to his own parliment buildings to invade poland. In Iraq, 2 Brits were caught dressed in local attire, driving around shooting @ civilians. (Great vid on youtube regarding this.)
This was done for obvoius reasons, to maintain kaos & instability (exactly what they want to justify the building of 14 new mammoth US military bases there.)
Its all about money / control, and conquering the middle east for Isreal. The concept of America fighting these wars will soon be replaced by a 1 world gov't, the UN, justified to end the wars our elites started in the first place. | |
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Posted: 4/7/2008 7:21:44 AM |
most Americans don't care what other people think.
It's nice to be "liked" and to know you earned it. | |
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Posted: 4/7/2008 8:08:27 AM | "wars will soon be replaced by a 1 world gov't, the UN, justified to end the wars our elites started in the first place. "
Your kidding, right?
The UN couldnt stop a bar room brawl. Remember the UN's disastrous
peace keeping attempts in Rwanda. That worked out real well. | |
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Posted: 4/7/2008 8:16:59 AM | The BBC is a total piece of communist/anarchist/socialist crap. So stupid that while its reporters were being held hostage by arab terrorists they chose or were cowed into taking an anti-Israel stance. Its corrupt, like a corrupt file on your computer, and not to be trusted, nevermind its "attitude" about the nation that has saved the world, and their own country, twice.
Who doesnt "like" us? Ask the illegals pouring in what their first country of choice is. | |
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Posted: 4/7/2008 9:41:19 AM | The nation that has saved the world has caused one of the most dangerous and hostile periods of unrest ever seen since World War II.
The world would be much better WITHOUT it. | |
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Posted: 4/7/2008 9:43:31 AM |
Remember the UN's disastrous
peace keeping attempts in Rwanda. That worked out real well
Intentional.
Further study on who started the UN, who controls it, owns it, and their long term goals shed more light on the previous opinion. | |
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Posted: 4/7/2008 9:54:26 AM | I was brought up on Americana .Bigger,better etc etc.
My girlfriend and I visited America and Canda last year and you know what......................I was amazed that it was not how I expected.New York was great ,Grand Canyan etc but I don't think I could ever live there unless it was New York.But New York is an American version of London and Europe is buzzing .Our shops are better.our buildings are better ,clothes and our histories are on show daily . Our roads are better laid out and maintained .Edge to edge .Our countryside is like a green patchwork quilt.....cultivated .
Some of the wide open spaces in the USA made me feel a bit....................in a timewarp..like 50's and 60's as you see on TV .Dated is the only thing I can say about it.
Houses are cheaper and bigger but I don't like wooden houses...too much upkeep and not enough attraction .No cavity wall insulation ,double glazing or loft insulation as standard as we get here .Another thing I noticed that you can get a beautiful house and next door is a shack .Weird.In England you get upmarket individually designed homes which are expensive as they are brick .You also get semis and town houses which are neat, small and tight..........but you will never get a shack in amongest anything unless its in your own garden for keeping the tools in. Your back yards are barren.......ours are like little parks front and back . And Brits holiday abroad at least 2/3 times a year so ou see more people,interact with more cultures .
Whats surprising me is how the housing market has slumped over there considering they are cheap houses.
BTW....getting a lot of Americans coming to London for work....................care to explain ? | |
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Posted: 4/7/2008 9:56:30 AM | London pound stronger, work 1 year at the same profession in UK and make significantly more spendable cash after taxes.
Same reasons 3rd world immigrants making minimum wage in our grocery stores are considered rich by their people back home. | |
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Posted: 4/7/2008 10:16:53 AM | The nation that has saved the world has caused one of the most dangerous and hostile periods of unrest ever seen since World War II.
The world would be much better WITHOUT it.
Wait a minute, you're saying that it's America's fault, and that the Muslim extremists have been destroying people and their beliefs of liberty only since WWII???
And you're a university student? Having trouble with your history lessons are ya?
Muslim extremists have been killing people and invading nations since the 8th century, simply because the Muslims consider anyone who doesn't take up Islam as their religion are their sworn enemies, and must be destroyed. I just saw a show on the tube last night about how the Muslims invaded India and destroyed many Kamasutra temples, simply because there where sexual carvings in the stone. Don't blame the United States for Muslim extremism. That's been around far longer than America has even been thought about.
Copy/paste this: http://adaniel.tripod.com/Islam.htm
But now, because of our acceptance of liberalism in America, we have become the targets of radical Islam. But somehow, that's our fault?
Please, by all means, explain that.
No wonder they call the liberals the "dark side". They're totally in the dark. | |
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Posted: 4/7/2008 10:22:20 AM |
Funny enough how Iraq has nothing to do with 9/11, nor did they pose any threat to the United States or American insterests in the region.
So, you're suggesting that Sadaam was doing his people right ...
Obviously, he wasn't suggesting anything of the sort - and the statements he made are perfectly true.
if we see atrocities happening ANYWHERE in the world, we will beat up the bullies. That's what we do.
This is a very ironic claim, considering that the US is by far the worst bully on the global stage, and has committed and/or sponsored most of the worst atrocities. For the record, "what you do" isn't beat up bullies, it's pillage and plunder.
What is the global view of the United States? "Psychopathic bully" comes to mind... | |
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Posted: 4/7/2008 11:20:55 AM | the US is by far the worst bully on the global stage, and has committed and/or sponsored most of the worst atrocities.
Funny how you foreign liberals always say that, but never seem to be able to cite a single instance of us being the bullies when there wasn't already a bully there.
and the statements he made are perfectly true.[quote/]
So you agree with his contention that we're fighting an enemy that doesn't exist?
I feel so much better now that with a swift stoke of your mighty keyboard, Islamic terrorists no longer exist.
Riiiight.
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Posted: 4/7/2008 11:48:04 AM |
ike 50's and 60's as you see on TV
I wish it was. At least more like it because I think that is the beauty. I miss the old one pump gas stations with the bell cord, the service bays, and the bottled YooHoo. "Fill 'er up!" and "Check the oil".
I miss the feed stores with the old farmers sitting around talking baseball, that damn McGovern, and telling us young whipper snappers which girls we need to be in the back seat with on the gravel roads.
I miss everyone smiling and saying "Good day and how's your mom?". Riding our bikes vast distances in a day barely getting home in time for dinner. Chocolate milk shakes at the soda fountain, penny candy, and X-Men comic books when their uniforms matched.
'Leave it to Beaver' wasn't weird looking because we still looked that way, unaware that 'The Andy Griffith Show' would still be the funniest thing on TV 40 years later, and Greg Brady was a hippie freak.
Yeah, I miss the America we used to be and others consider us now to be outdated. | |
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Posted: 4/7/2008 12:13:56 PM | An enemy that doesn't exist? If no enemy exist there is no enemy and if there is no enemy that we must have imagined what happened on 9/11. This is the bottom line, we were suckered punched on 9/11 by an enemy and now our military is defending us. Look at it this simple way, if your family or property were hurt or damaged by someone would you go around you neighborhood, city or state soliciting help to defend yourself or would you just defend yourself?
It doesn't matter what other countries think of the U.S. and people who think it is should spend more time wondering what their fellow americans think of this country. Everyone is an expert on politics, thinking only their view is right andbelieving what they read because they agree with it. Me, I don't give political advice and when I give my opinion I sure welcome and respect that of others no matter how silly I think it is.
We as a nation need to keep in mind that our constitution is just that, OUR CONSTITUTION and it applies only to the citizens of this nation. If our politicians violate the constitution or do not do the job of the office that they were elected to then it is our responsibility to get them out of office. Interprting the constitution to our individual views will only seperate us more. There is a true enemy that our military is fighting and our constitution gives them the right to defend this country. | |
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Posted: 4/7/2008 12:41:13 PM | i think we should really lose lots of sleep about what the world thinks, dont you?
after all, they didnt do jack when Hitler was killing millions, or Stalin when he starved and froze 20 million Kulaks by sending them to Siberia, or Mao when he purged 40-60 million dead in Red China.
tell me america haters, do the communists pay you to rouse the rabble and get them shown wilding for the cameras, or are you just misguided unpaid volunteers....what Lenin called "the useful idiots"? | |
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Posted: 4/7/2008 1:11:03 PM | post 18 @ itechman 42
Well to be frank with you mate.......I was expecting the America that you are describing but its not there any more like you say but what it is is.......maybe I didn't articulate it as well as I could have...............its the dated sense of the buildings ,roads , people's clothing styles and fabric .We have old buildings but ours are kept updated by new windows,doors etc . Our pay,conditions ,medical,welfare rights etc . are better.
So many things are way advanced ,here .
The America that you describe would have been the true Americana that I watched on TV. I didn't see that at all . Aside from New York and some parts of Florida - I found a general state of unkemptness if you like.No maintaince . I really hesitate to say it .I mean Florida is great but Tenerife could beat it easy.So could mainland Spain or any of those countries not to mention the English Riveria .Theres something about the shops say........ours are better laid out .Shop doors/windows just so . Same applies to yours but only in the best areas .New York was more uniform and amazing . But so is London .I feel Europe to be the centre of the world and London the very epicentre .Its all happening here .
Sure you have fantastic scenary and I forgot to mention that the biggest plus for us was the Native American culture .Totally stunning and awe inspiring in both America and Canada . The biggest plus for you too if only America made more of that - it would be benefical for your image . But America is on a mission to hear not,see not -to places and people that you should be listening to and galling us by being diverted by so called PC to bullshit issues .
I could say more but its like talking to a closed door..........so I tend to stick to surface issues here or I would be heartsick .The answers are so obvious and yet America is not listening . Suffice to say not listening in the middle east .Not doing enough there because America is diverted and running short of funds or stretched for men and America really believes that the rest of the world is at the stage of when they went to America..............lol .
I feel sad that America 's super power status is about to end soon...within the next 20/30 years max .It could be avoided but you have only to see American's posts on POF and you see that they honestly do not realise whats wrong .Try explaining and they don't understand .America is diverted by the wrong people and less important issues and not listening ............so I take the view that I like America as in the western movies  | |
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Posted: 4/7/2008 1:39:03 PM | Hey... sorry I went off topic as your original post took me off on a trip down memory lane. The warmth arrived today and the sun is shining for what seems the first time since forever so I'm feeling a bit nostalgic.
Isn't it true that arrogance is the first step to self-destruction and we passed arrogance some time ago? | |
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Posted: 4/7/2008 1:55:25 PM | These 'views' of the USA or any Country are like the tides of the ocean... they come and go.
It depends what the 'perceived' fad is at the time.
The simple fact is that it doesn't matter what other Nations think of us. They need us. If anyone believes their Country can survive without trade with the US, they are wrong. Even the tiniest and/or most desperate third world Country needs us. Like us or not... no matter. We are needed by the World.
As for 9/11... noone likes to be 'suckered punched' (as another Poster termed it and is exactly what happened). This is a continuous battle now with terrorism. It came, reared it's head, even before 9/11...thing is with 9/11, it was too close to home. Now that the head has exposed itself and lent it's body for all to see, there is no peace. We will do things other Countries don't approve of. So be it. Everyone needs us economically. If we go under, so will most of the world. Everyone, everywhere better hope we come out of this recession. Else their own Country will see events in their own lands far worse than we have/will have here. | |
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Posted: 4/7/2008 3:24:36 PM | In reply to the OP's second post....
"Not that it means much, since the view of the United States in the world is still overwhelmingly negative."
You can quote all you want about how bad, lame, critical, money-power-wealth hungry, etc., the USA might be or is, from various sources but I have as yet to see a single person (like the OP) who begins one of these posts of the US to also in the same breath explain why of all the various countries there are to migrate to, the worst one (according to the OP's thoughts) everyone flocks to for citizenship of above any other country is the good ol' rotten-evil-power hungry USA.
Lets address why all these APPARENT (according to the OP) extremely mentally challenged people (they gotta be retarded to want to come to the USA right? At least according to the OP? It's the worst place on earth to be! according to the OP) are doing anything they can to gain access to citizenship rights. | |
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Posted: 4/7/2008 3:42:19 PM |
So you're saying that because he's only doing such things to his own people, and not to us, that we had no business going over there to stop him? I think most people around the world think you guys should have minded your own business when it came to Iraq. Invading a sovereign nation that was not a threat to you tends to make people cynical on you motives. I guess you could have a leg to stand on if you did the same for other countries that are led by despots, but you don’t. (yeah yeah we know the US version that you alone freed the world when you finally stepped up to the plate in WWII.)
And yes, if we see atrocities happening ANYWHERE in the world, we will beat up the bullies. That's what we do. Horseshit you do. Is this what they teach you guys in school? Did they forget to mention how many of the “bullies” you help put in power in the first place? Who’s next on the “beat up the bullies” list?
Look at it this simple way, if your family or property were hurt or damaged by someone would you go around you neighborhood, city or state soliciting help to defend yourself or would you just defend yourself? No one says you shouldn’t defend yourself, but perhaps it might be wise to go after the people that wronged you rather than people that had nothing to do with damaging your property.
Funny how you foreign liberals always say that, but never seem to be able to cite a single instance of us being the bullies when there wasn't already a bully there.
I’m no liberal (but I am foreign, thanks Mom and Dad!), but I’ll throw a few countries for you to consider. What or who gave you the right to meddle in any of the following countries internal affairs?
Chile, Argentina, Indonesia, Guatemala, Iran, Egypt, Iraq, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Bolivia, Angola, Zaire, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Tunisia, Algeria, Jordan, Panama, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Honduras, El Salvador, Nepal, Cuba, Brazil, Uzbekistan.
Lets address why all these APPARENT (according to the OP) extremely mentally challenged people (they gotta be retarded to want to come to the USA right? At least according to the OP? It's the worst place on earth to be! according to the OP) are doing anything they can to gain access to citizenship rights Immigration to the USA and why people may want to move there is a totally different subject than what the OP posted. It’s still a land of great opportunity for immigrants; I don’t think anyone disputes that.
The times sure have changed for the USA. Once revered and looked up to, now loathed and rightfully feared by many. | |
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