DomYngBlk -> RE: Why people hate America (5/6/2011 5:34:01 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Aneirin Don't you realise, haven't you read ? The whole world does not hate the USA. The masses of the world in the most part see it as imperfect, often an oppressor, often a humanitarian country, often wrong, often right. The hatred of America does not match the hatred of the United Kingdom 100 years ago. We did some seriously inhumane and undefendable things back then. We're constantly apologizing about it. The USA has done terrible things too. The key is in apologizing. Although the government seems far from making any concessions, showing any humility or even the faintest sign of modesty, the world understands that the American people are hurt, and the world is sympathetic and caring. People in most nations know that American people are no less human than anyone else, trying their best. Governments and massive organisations, however, are frequently the last to realize when such Human emotions need to be brought to the forefront. The USA has a child as a government, a young country which is only recently learning that actions last forever, something that plagues older nation's embarrassed leaders. The dislike of America is not as great as people's dislike for terrorism, its atrocities and oppression not as bad as Imperial England. - ( http://www.vexen.co.uk/USA/hateamerica.html) I am about understanding now, not hate, for I have done too much hate in the past, it is counterproductive and at worst a disease of the mind. Has the Queen apologized for the mess it created in Iraq, India, Nigeria, Kenya....just to name a couple?
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