When all is said and done,States shall forever remain the undisputable most influential and powerful country in the world. No matter what they say, they'll stop everything and look up everytime the U.S sneezes a little.

@ the retarded arguments in here.

United States of America is the only country with America in its name and referring to it as "America" or its citizens as "American" is a hell of a lot easier than "United States of America" or "United Statien." No one is trying to claim the continent.

I don't think you would find any American citizen with an IQ higher than room temperature that would disagree that Canada and Mexico are part of North America and their citizens are all of the continent just like Americans from the US.

I don't understand the annoyance over people using a part of the name of their country to refer to their country and nationality. Do Tasmanians and New Guineans get annoyed with citizens of Australia for referring to themselves as Australians as their country shares a name with the overall continent? Do Kenyans and Nigerians get offended if South Africans refer to themselves as "African"? It's just odd to me that is something that annoys other American continental inhabitants. A citizen of the US referring to themselves as American in a national context doesn't negate someone else's right to refer to themselves as such in a continental sense.

The vitriol and venom that is directed towards citizens of the US from so many of other nationalities in general is mind boggling to me though. I can't think of any country in this world that I could sit and legit say, "I hate *whatever country's citizens* and people are awful and uncultured, the cities are ugly, they're stupid, arrogant, uneducated, lazy etc." simply because I didn't like the government and politics, whatever few citizens I'd actually encountered and what I'd heard on the news.

I'm actually really thankful that I'm not American. The way they treat their lower class and the huge divide between the rich and the poor is awful. I mean its not perfect in the UK but at least we have free healthcare and free education and we don't have to worry about guns or anything

America is probably the most corrupted country on planet. More so than Russia. They spy on all their citizens and world leaders and accuse countries of having weapons of mass destruction, then start a war with them to later find out they were wrong. I don't think Iraq has recovered from the war yet
The nuclear bombs dropped in Hiroshima is still having an impact on the new born babies (birth defects) and places like Afghanistan and Pakistan have drones dropped on them on a daily basis.

Most of the hate that the world shows America is justified IMO

Going by the location listed under your username, you're from the UK. So would you feel that people would be justified in saying they hate YOU because many have suffered due to British colonialism around the globe?

what a messy thread s;

People from Europe talking about America being a warmongering country who spies on countries & jail people with a straight face



Like are you unaware of your own history

I love the US but sis, do you not think us Brits were saying the same thing 120 years ago?

Actually that would be Rome


Tis true all empires fall but the impact will always be remembered

The British Empire isn't around anymore though, all of the countries have been emancipated and the empire isn't negatively affecting people like the Iraq war or the Hiroshima case is
This is the 21st century and there is no need for people to be bombing or killing others for trivial and petty things like oil or diamonds

Riiiiiiiiiiiight because the British empire didn't shape the entire ****ing world and had any sort of lasting negative impact that's still felt to this day & will be felt for decades if not centuries to come.... that totally didn't happen at all

People aren't still being affected when over the past FIVE centuries, European countries went in and drained their resources? Do you think that it is any coincidence that the poorest nations in the world today are mostly ex-colonies? You can't be serious with that.

No

If you gave some examples it'd help your argument.

You better drag ha to class and educate ha

How about you take a glance at Africa and then move on over to the Caribbean, then India then if you still have time swing on over to America who is a direct product of Europe and its unjust laws, religion persecution and how America's native people were subject to genocide, theft and slavery

The effects of Hiroshima



The effects of the Iraq war



Some of the African countries may be poor, trust me I'm from one of them so I know how bad it is, but they are developing. There arent babies being born decades later with birth defects or ill health.

Didn't nobody tell Japan to **** with us we were happily minding our own business on that front, you want to be mad at some one for that, blame the Japanese government who was supporting the dictator and who happily helped killed millions of innocent people in WW2.

And yes Iraq is awful but don't throw stones when you live in glasses houses because I can show you just as many ****ed up pics from africa that is still being felt to this day CENTURIES after Europe stepped foot on there.