Which countries hate the United States?
Well, there’s a rather long list of countries the US has screwed up (or paid other people to screw up): Guatemala Angola Panama (three times and counting) Nicaragua Vietnam Iraq (two obvious ones) Iran (overthrew their democracy and installed a vicious dictator, sanctioning the hell out of them since they got rid of him) Venezuela (they funded a coup against Chavez, but the people overthrow it and put him back in) East Timor (the US paid for the Indonesian genocide) Indonesia (the US kept Suharto in power) Russia (pretty obvious really – all the US-sponsored privatisation has made life for the poor Russian almost as bad as it was under Soviet rule) Australia (get your crap off our television screens) Colombia (same general reasons as Indonesians) Palestinian National Authority (obvious) etc…
I think any time you identify a group of people as having a particular behavior, you miss the truth. That is a pretty big generalization. If you go to any country you identify as “hating Americans” and talk to individuals on the street, you’ll probably find a lot of people who like Americans. You’ll also probably find a lot of people who do hate Americans, based on watching Dallas, or Dynasty or Desperate Housewives. A lot of the world is very poor, and if what they see of Americans is that fiction designed to make Americans jealous, they are going to be very jealous. Especially if they don’t realize that it is complete fiction. Much of the world is very conservative, and if what they see is licentiousness, they are going to be angry. Especially if they don’t realize that most Americans don’t behave that way. The poorest American has more than probably 90% of the people in the world. However, the average American doesn’t have anywhere near as much as is portrayed on television. The ave
