ArnoldRimmer on 13 August 2013
| SvennoJ said: Overly arrogant ignorant people make USA look the worst. The people that shout USA is the best at everything in the world without even knowing what's going on in their own country, let alone outside of it. Or blind patriotism if you will. Obese people, tobacco users, poor people don't make the USA look bad. Criticizing other countries for problems you have at home does. Practice what you preach come to mind. Ofcourse that goes for most countries. What makes the USA look bad in particular, Guantanamo bay comes to mind, the massive cock up dealing with hurricane Katrina, the prison system, unconditional support for Israel, NSA scandals, debt culture, xbox one :p. |
I think this comes very close to the essence of my last posting.
As Jimmy Carter pointed out just a few weeks ago (it was published in a newspaper over here, don't know if they reported about it in the US), the whole NSA, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo etc. scandals stopped the US being perceived as a moral authority. And I think that's really about America's deepest problem. Americans may still think that they're "the good guys", but throughout the last 15 or so years, the rest of the world happened to more and more consider them the bad guys because of their foreign policies and are more and more becoming afraid of them. When it comes to global sympathies towards countries, USA is meanwhile perceived just marginally better than China.
