Comments on: Europe’s Hatred for America - Imaginary or Real?

By: Arnold

Arnold — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:56:58 +0000

It is futile for us to hate Europe, I don’t think most us do anyway. Europe is where our ancestors came from leaving apart the American Indians.

By: Juan Moment

Juan Moment — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:00:18 +0000

One has to be careful not to conflate dislike for the US administration with Hatred for America. I can’t stand the US government, but getting along with the ordinary Jim Jimson from the US is about as easy as getting along with Hans Schmidt from Germany.

By: Aby

Aby — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:26:24 +0000

@Juan Moment - It makes sense. The American people, more often than not unaware of the finer points of their government’s foreign policies and influence in foreign politics which creates such perceptions.

By: Impeach Bush

Impeach Bush — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:03:34 +0000

Juan Moment, getting with the average Texas Jim Joe is harder than Han Schmidt from Germany. A ordinary ward of an asylum here more like.

By: Kirsch

Kirsch — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:02:17 +0000

Americans think we like small barracks, no social life, smoke dope and go to work in macdonalds. We like happy and peaceful living not going to war with other nations when no need.

By: ericoak

ericoak — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:44:36 +0000

Hahahaha yea the Iraq war was a big mistake, but come on! Europe not being known for going to war with other nations for no reason. Have you studied the history of our own continent. Since Rome, Europe has been a battlefield.

By: Hoki

Hoki — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:17:28 +0000

If we look at the American colonies today, we find that unlike their European counterparts, they put nothing back in. They don’t build railways, hospitals, universities, stadiums, places of worship. They do build prison camps, military bases, resource extraction facilities. When the American Empire finally recedes, the countries affected by it will be worse off, rather than better off, than they were before being “liberated”.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:05:32 +0000

I think this article is on the edge of unconstructive anti-Americanism, but a point is definetely made.

@Hoki. Very good point. When America establishes itself anywhere overseas, it primarily does so by establishing a military force there. The downfall of European imperialism/colonialism prohibits Europeans from following such violent politics and taught them to apply diplomacy and create interdependent political and economical bonds with former collonies. The way we got there was pretty gruesome and bloody, but it has given us an examplary political model today.

By: Jacques

Jacques — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:43:18 +0000

@ ericoak

By abandoning the present and going for the distant past, you open a cupboard of skeletons. The United States is a country is built on the skulls and bones of over 20 million ethnic natives, ruthlessly massacred to accomodate the lawless pirate rejects of medieval Europe. Europeans made many mistakes in the past and learnt from them, to avoid any more at the present. Americans learnt little, and your comment above is a disheartening evidence of this fact. They’d rather carry on their bloodied conquests at the present age, while pointing fingers at Europe of the Middle Ages, carefully and conveniently ignoring their own bloodied past. Selective reasoning, as we call it, the foundation stone of extreme nationalism.

Logically speaking, today’s United States is not very unlike the Nazi Germany of 1930s and 40s. The only positive about the Nazis is that they no longer exist in their original form, they made the blunder of attacking Russia.