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Originally Posted by TheBrit
The guy who was shot was a soldier in NI. They are there.
For all the guys who can't figure out why people hate Americans and their culture, read the comments on the Guardian website. It's quite simple, a lot of those give the impression that Americans are rude, obnoxious bastards. I see American tourists every day, even in this country they aren't much more polite than the comments on that website.
And as for the whole invading part, that's probably the one characteristic that pisses me off most. You know, the whole "I'm gonna go to Iraq and kill me a Taliban" thing you've all heard the soldiers say on TV.
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And just as many of those quotes had people welcoming the outside comments. Listen if you want to look down upon a group of folks fine but if you are going to do it at least look at the OTHER side that some what mitigates the negative. That logic of you looking at that site and using it to justify that Americans are rude and obnoxious "bastards" is no different than John boy in Arkansas looking at serial footage of extremists in Islamic countries burning American flags and saying they are all evil. Or reading quotes from the random guy on the street in Europe calling them bastards and assuming that all the world hates America and becoming even more resentful to the outside world in general.
If you hadn't noticed this whole Americans are rude and pushy/Euros are all nosey and jealous know it alls is a viscious cycle.
American hears a European downing an American. American thinks Euros are all snotty. American acts pushy towards an unrelated Euro. Euro thinks all Americans are rude. Euro gets condescending to American. American thinks all Euros are know it alls. So on and so forth. At least temper your venom against America SOME what especially when evidence to the contrary is readily available on the self same link you are going off about.