Does any non-American find it really easy to hate the US during these games?

Question

I mean geez, I love the athletes and all, but just reading some of these anti-other-country posts on YA makes me sick. Are we really that arrogant and ignorant or are the nice people not on Yahoo Answers? If you are, speak up!

Answer 1

most of the world define the country leading the olympics by the greatest number of gold medals, so at the moment china is in front...

the US however, in what seems like a convenient methodology, count by overall amounts and in doing so manage to place themselves as No1...

its this sort of attitude that leaves the rest of the world seeing the USA as being insufferably arrogant...

I'm no great fan of Chine but I will be very happy if they bring the US down a few pegs by topping the medal count at these games

Answer 2

Yeh, Americans suck ***, we don't 'hate' you though, I probably prefer to see anyone other than England winning, as an Aussie, losing to England would be far, far worse..........I dread the thought!

Answer 3

Do I hate Americans? No. Is the rank and file population of America,  a country of over 300 million people,  loud, arrogant, and stupid? In terms of their knowledge of the rest of the world and their behaviour towards the rest of the world ... absolutely!!!!!!

It is particularly unhealthy to have such a biased belief in one's own abilities as a nation.

Americans ... good at sports? Absolutely!

Good sports? Sadly, not often.

Answer 4

Yeah, you can just tell by reading the messages on this forum that China is being hated for being no.1. For Americans, sounds familiar? The ironic part of this is you guys are on the other side of the coin now - the ones doing the bashing and hating...

Answer 5

Let's see... China is cheating, the Spanish teams are proving that they are racist, Sweden has an arrogant Arab @$$hole wrestler who can't control himself, and you find it easy to hate the US.

It seems to me that you hated the US before these games even started, and you're continuing to look for reasons to justify your dislike of us.

Answer 6

I find it really easy to hate the US with every breath in my body any way, not just in the olympics.

Answer 7

um, no, because i'm chinese and the US is sucking right now and china has 23 gold medals. so americans should be the ones hating china cause we ROOOCCCKKK.  

Answer 8

A lot of the American athletes are not humble (and there are a lot that are) but I can arguably see how other countries can view that as arrogant.  Wouldn't you be excited to win a medal or even a game at the Olympics though?  I'm excited for all olympians who do well.  Unfortunately there are plenty of people who can't view the olympics as a competition and think that every little thing that happens is meant to be egotistical or arrogant.  Individuals can act like that but they don't represent the whole United States.  The attitude of one does not represent the attitude of many.    

Answer 9

I don't see too many people bashing the United States here.

But I've heard plenty of Americans whining about the Chinese gymnasts' age.

As for me, I don't bash anybody...

Answer 10

I find your comment offensive since I am an American.  I think most countries hate us anyway because they are jealous of our country.  As far as I am concerned I live in the best country in the world.  I love my country and its people.  Go USA.  China is cheating.  A lot of those athletes are underage.  Some of the female gymnasts were not 16.  That gives them an advantage because they are shorter, weigh less, and are more flexible.  If China hadn't cheated the USA would have won the team medal.  I have nothing against China but the scoring is not fair.  They are being scored too generously because the Olympics are in China.

Answer 11

The USA athletes are fine with one exception.

The USA Basketball team are a pack of arrogant egotistical tossers.

We all know they are going to win the gold medal, big deal.  

Basketball is a yank game anyway and the rest of the world doesn't care.