I'm not anti America at all, in fact I love the U. S. but the reality when I think about this country it doesn't appear respectable at all.
Beginning with its leadership. Congress is filled with finger pointing teenagers, and often annoying immature adults who cave into social peer pressure even for the worst vaules and immoral behaviors.
The recent presidents who are a reflection of the overall population don't appear masculine and serious in attitude at all.
George Bush Jr. came off as a fool publicly.
Barack Obama, a class act socially but came off as very soft and sweet.
Donald Trump is a raging whiny disrespectful immature adult and Biden seems frail and lost who often has trouble speaking coherently.
The overall population in this country accepts all kinds of foolishness in the name of love and acceptance and its extremely sensitive to speech they don't like and agree with.
Do you as an American think America has lost its self respect and as a foreigner have you lost respect for America, if so why?
When I was younger (like 10-14) I thought America was really cool. There’s so many different states and they’re all pretty different, there’s lots to do and so on.
Now, in general I’m not a huge fan. The politics side of things is horrendous, Obama was the only president I was a fan of (but to be fair, politics in the UK is just as awful right now). The lack of free education and healthcare is crazy to me, and for that reason I would never want to live there. I think it’s extremely unfair and people are put in horrible positions because of this. The access to guns is also insane to me, and the obsession with guns too which seems from an outside view to be more common in the South? But I don’t get it, and the amount of mass shootings/school shootings is also very concerning. Also, basing a lot of things on Christian beliefs/God, personally for me I couldn’t live there as it seems like such a religious place, and in some areas quite extreme. It also seems like there’s a lot of corruption.
Also, this isn’t as serious but the lack of education on other countries and things going on around the world…EVERY American I have spoken to thinks British = English, that the UK is just England, that everyone in the UK has the same posh British accent. Also, a lot of Americans have the view that America is the greatest place in the world and that everyone else wants to live there which is quite funny, as most people in the UK/Europe would much rather stay here.
That being said, I don’t hate America, it’s a great place to visit on holiday and there’s a lot to do there, it can be a really beautiful and entertaining place. But I would never live there or say the USA is the best country
Also another thing to mention - I used to work as a waitress and we got a lot of cruise ships in often filled with people from America. Some of them were so friendly and talkative which I loved! And when I visited Florida and New York I found the same thing, a lot of people seem very friendly and chatty! HOWEVER…there are also SO MANY entitled Americans. They would come in and demand to pay in US dollars which we obviously don’t accept anywhere in the UK, when a table was reserved they would just come in and sit there and refuse to move, they demanded discounts and food for free all the time…. there was one woman who came in around 7:30 for a meal, we did an early bird menu from 5-6 that was 20% off or something and she demanded that discount because ‘if she would’ve known about it she would’ve come in earlier’…. that’s not how it works! And she was screaming at me in front of all the customers. They would snap their fingers at staff (even though they didn’t wait to be seated like they were told to and just sat on reserved tables), we would tell them we were full and could reserve a table for them later and they would refuse to leave the building and demanded to eat right then. Also, when it WAS full if there was a spare seat with a family they would just go and join them and demand to be fed there which was sooo awkward for the customers because they obviously felt too bad to tell them they’d rather eat a family. All sorts haha
Welp you don't sound like a fan of guns. So maybe look up Obama and Eric Holders Fast and Furious and NDAA and tell me if you're still a fan. Being from another nation and 21 you weren't around long enough to know much about our national leaders, politics, and social issues. You know as much as you're shown and that's it. I've survived 2 home invasions in the USA. Violent crime is an issue here. What kept me safe was my father's nylon 66. When you live in the poor areas, if you're smart you own a gun. Our saying: "when seconds count the police are only minutes away." I once waited 2 hours for police to show up. I'd have been dead if I had to rely on them. Just consider that
@t-8900 You seem pretty mad, I was just sharing my opinion - if you wanna own a gun and it’s legal where you live go for it. It IS crazy to pretty much everyone outside of America though, and you’re using violent crime and so on as justification for owning a gun but if it was more difficult to access guns then gun related crime wouldn’t be as common? Guns are involved in a lot of the crimes occurring for which you ‘need’ a gun to feel safe, do you see what a mean? I don’t have to be old or live in America to know things about politics or leaders, I’ve studied it and done my research, so I’m not sure what you mean by ‘you know as much as you’re shown’ - don’t know if you’re implying the news or something but as I said I’ve studied and researched it - AND regarding the police that’s why I mentioned that the police in America is also an issue in my opinion
The first home invasion a guy came in with a butcher knife. I'm not mad but what you're doing is lecturing a victim of the crime. Now just imagine I was a woman who was raped. All of the sudden the tune from the general public is much different. But did you know hammers and knives make up for lots of deaths too? Do we ban those as well? For me thing you think it's easy to get a gun. Well not legally. Can you tell me what the process is for purchasing a gun in the USA? There's multiple laws on the books. You said Obama was your favorite president but I doubt you've heard of fast and furious or the NDAA prior to this interaction because sadly most Americans don't know about it either
Also my phone autofills and kills my grammar and spelling sorry about that. It's an ongoing problem with this thing. I'm not mad I'm just frustrated. I've been arguing with people going back to 2011 and they use the same arguments over and over again. Let's look at it different. Criminals don't follow the rules, we all know this. When you disarm people the short term is more criminals with guns than good people. In Maryland, where I lived a woman was required to have a "good and substantial reason" to carry a gun while her stalker ex had made threats and followed her. For 3 months she waited and she never would get that gun because one night he broke in, raped her, and then stabbed her to death. That's what gin legislation does. It doesn't help, it hurts for us. There was red flag laws also passed in our state and it got 3 people killed and 2 of the 3 were over simple domestic disputes, cops roll in and gun them down. You said we have a cop problem and we do. So why would we want only them to have guns? Makes no sense
I never had a lot of respect for the US. Not America! America is two continents with a lot of other countries. Already something really self-centered. I have respect for maybe 0.5% of their population, the scientists and engineers who could make this world better, but the rest? Shithole with raging Karens, entitled blacks, idiotic Trump supporters, flat-earthers... the list is endless. There are only two things I want to visit there. The Grand Canyon and to walk the Appalachean trail.
America lost it's self respect after WW2. I would say our nation peaked in the 50's tbh. A vision, a national goal, cohesion. Yes you can talk about racial divisions, sure. But the division is still there. Now at least minorities have a voice and that's good. But we are regressing rapidly. We now live in a society that challenges observable truth, we have people dressing up like clowns declaring they are a million genders, we have places that oppose our 1st amendment, we have powerful lobbies trying to destroy our second amendment, we have the likes of Antifa running around that in the old days would have been righteously annihilated to the last fruitcake, we have traitors in gov that would have been lynched for treason living like royalty, we have been in countless unconstitutional wars, we have sold our people out to mega corporations, we got people who don't know s lick of American history beyond the parroting of their gender studies professors, we got rampant abortion and we got kid fiddlers in Hollyweird trying to turn kids trans. Tf kind of nation is that? It's not a nation, it's clown world.
I used to love the idea of moving to America, until I got older and started to understand the realities of living there. I find it so hard to believe people actually enjoy living there.
Lack of free healthcare and education blows my mind. One accident and you're in debt for life? Want a career and you're in debt for life? That's absurd. I just don't get why people in the US aren't fighting every day to change that.
Gun violence is another one I don't get. The UK had a few mass shooting and we banned guns (almost all) and we've had no mass shooting since. Australia had several mass shootings so they banned guns, and they've had no mass shootings since. America has hard mass shootings in a weekly basis for literally years, and the best they could manage was to talk about maybe putting background checks in place? Fucking absurd.
Guns are the only thing that keep the police and government from cracking skulls and imposing complete tyranny. Look at how the cops have pushed around people protesting covid mandates over the past few years. If all of those protesters showed up armed, do you really think they’d be getting tazed and tackled to the ground? Nope.
@Agagagagaga that's nonsense and deep down I think you know that. If they showed up armed then would not be a peaceful protest. Also we protest just fine without guns, so maybe you wanna look at your police and not the guns for a solution.
Who protests just fine? The Dutch whose police tackle them for marching against mandates? The Australians who get pepper sprayed for walking down the street? The Germans who get fire hoses turned on them?
Get your head out of your ass. The only thing that stops police officers is fear for their own lives.
The one thing you forgot which is most important of all we are only 200years old compared to the many hundreds of the rest of the world and WE are still a work in progress. I have never heard historians say we are perfect far from it but still evolving and trying and there are bound to mistakes and missteps foul up. Our president s everyone from Washington to Biden can be picked apart for something they did or said or believed the only thing we can do is keep on plugging to make the best we can with what we have till it is perfect
As a US citizen, America is so far from what it was intended to be.
We have a bill of rights but that's toilet paper now, healthcare is a nightmare, people are trying to pit ourselves against each other for stupid reasons and our economy is tanking all thanks to our establishment politicians and the corporations they control.
Our constitution was supposed to keep the state out of our lives as much as possible because, as history shows, it does nothing but destroy. Unfortunately, as generations go by, more and more people lose sight of this and keep electing sociopaths who have nothing better to do than to control what the people think.
It scares me that this is happening because the US used to be the place to run to when countries go berserk (Cuba, USSR, Nazi Germany etc.) but if the US falls, there is no America 2 to run to. All I can hope is that more people realize what a dumpster fire we have become and do something to fix it.
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As an outside observer the US is like an empire in collapse with all the corruption, fevered madness and short sighted profiteering that entails.
I'm frankly a bit surprised at the lack of civil war or states leaving the union.
Amazing work leaving billions of dollars in weaponry for the Taliban to enjoy. Seriously what the actual fuck?
Having a presidential reinactment of weekend at Bernie's isn't helping matters either. There's nobody at the wheel and the cliff is coming up fast.
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America has become the laughing stock of the world. Imagine evacuating a country taking the military out first and leaving 85 billion dollars worth of first class armaments to the enemy? Russia, China and all of Europe are happy seeing Biden as president. He is not making NATO allies pay their fair share, he rejoined the WHO (AKA the Chinese Health Organization), He got us involved with the Paris Climate Scam, also he is not pushing for better trade agreements and will let China and Russia do pretty much what they want. China will never pay for the damage they caused by releasing Covid on the world. I am sure everyone is laughing every time they see Biden make another mistake.
As a non-'American' (and so: NOT a foreigner in myself) - I began rejecting ''Americanism'' some time in the late 80's. Before: I wasn't mature enough to have an opinion ( but already FELT that something's ''strange'' about that culture) Meanwhile, I'm quite hostile about ''America'' as an 'organization' - but I'm aware that individual people must not per se be confused with the system they live in. ... In general - I only give my respect to specific individuals, but not to ''groups'' or ''institutions''. Has ''America'' lost self respect? (you will notice the: '' ''-'''s '' I suppose :) ) I think that the typical ''American'' is too busy to cheer to himself to spend thoughts on self respect :D Well... other 'countries' do that as well, to be fair :)
I'm not American, obviously, but the whole "obnoxious American tourist" definitely was present in my formative years. And then all the things America does on the global stage - not to mention the disasters of the American finance industry - have just galvinized it more.
I don't think I've ever had respect for America as a country.
I like the average American person, but the country is just fuuuuuuucked.
There are several reasons why my country has lost respect for its government, the latest being the orange shitstain. However, I'll never lose respect for the hard-working Americans whose families have made this country one of the greatest in history.
It lost it's respect many many years ago when it took this land away from those already living on it, and then we either killed them or enslaved them, calling it our home from that moment on.
You mean from people who were not one nation and doing the EXACT SAME THING to each other? 😂 Strength and fear earn respect. Respect, when your rivals can't and don't push their luck with you because you'll wipe them out. That's why weak leaders lead to more wars. Putin saw the Afghan withdrawal and he made his move.
I have one question to ask, now that Biden is the president how much LESS your paycheck is buying than when Trump was president and please do not say it started by Trump because that fall under guise of RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA four years of lies
@DARKCLOUD1945X Yes, it started under the orange shitstain. He robbed, cajoled, and swindled billions from our government coffers. He drove up the national debt to incredible limits. Now we're paying for it.
it was Trump that shut down the oil production in this country and it was Trump that abandoned our citizens in hostile territory abandoned BILLION of dollars of equipment in enemy territory. Please get your crap straight before blaming the wrong people for the blunders that the senile old man is making daily and turning this country to the dream of your party THE DEMOCRATIC COMMUNISTS PARTY OF AMERICA
What the USA is turning into is no good and I fear is it is going to get much worse before it turns around in a couple of hundred years. Currently, we are headed in the direction of North Korea.
India is even worse. It's a literal shithole where they can only manage to get 1% of people to pay Taxes properly, fake university degrees are handed out like hotcakes so they can screw up the international Labour market, phone scammers from there target the elderly in the west and their politicians flirt with Nazi style ethno state ideology.
They don't have the right to criticize pretty much anyone.
Okay, my apologies. You should start calling yourself a classic or classical liberal. If you want your blood to boil, do a Google search for the libs of tik tok.
Been reported all over the world. I saw it in the Jerusalem times.
I thought about asking a question about it on here but I'm not sure. Maybe you can ask the question.
A woman on Twitter set out to upload tiktok videos under her Twitter account.
The liberals are absolutely furious and they were trying to get Twitter to ban her. But now that Elon musk has bought the site, they're shit out of luck.
She looked all over tick tock and found videos of lgbtq teachers talking about what they're teaching five and six year olds.
All she did is upload them to her Twitter account they should be proud of that. But they're not they're furious.
So if you think America has lost self-respect, you need to check this out.
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