How can the American people, save America's reputation in this world?

Question

There has been so much harm done to the US reputation of being the GREATEST country in the world. The US Dollar was once worth a lot more, now America is looked down upon and hated by so many other nations. There MUST be something the People can do to save this wonderful land and it's people before someone blows it up and world war 3 begins, with the US as the loosers.That Must NOT happen. We must be able to change the predictions in the bible that the mighty EAGLE would fall.

Answer 1

The people don't have any control.  It is the politicians that make all the decisions and make us look so bad.  All we can do is vote, and sometimes even that is taken away.  Then if a bad person is in office, we are screwed until we can , (some of us anyway) vote again.

Answer 2

Arrest Bush and drag him out of office now. That would restore a lot of creditability. As for the Bible thing. You can interpret it however you want. It's bible touting people who put Bush in office in the first place. They still think the world is flat don't they? Hey, I asked a question and it didn't cost 5 pts.

Answer 3

ok, don't ask Americans what should they do to make people see them in a different way or at least don't listen to their answers ;) It's mostly about changing the way of thinking or at least adopting a different perspective. Don't take it as an insult, but just consider. Americans usually think of themselves as the best ones even if they aren't and think that the God is on their side... (calling oponents- axis of evil?) which is a ridiculus idea as it would make God be against somebody and that's not what God does - he/she loves everybody in the same way!

Americans also have what is called an american functionalism - it means adopting ideas to match your needs - such as 'how getting rich makes me be a better Catholic' (check Zig Ziglar's book - really silly explanation) even though the bible is quite clear about modesty and money issues.

Another idea is the perception of freedom and actually relates more to your foreign policy than personal traits of americans. You see, a one person's freedom ends where freedom of another person starts. US policy right now means that you have right to feel safe, even at the cost of making others feel at risk...

Onother thing is that modern societies (it applies to more than just americans) tend not to understand that there are people who perceive the world in a different way and your game rules simply do not apply to them as they wish not to play your game (consider countries that follow the rules of their religion and people trying to sell them economic, democratic thinking) Their ideas concerning what is good and bad is different and you cannot make them do and think what you do and think. So as long as you try to make them go an american, easy way of life based on consuming a lot that makes those who refuse feel angry about as some of their surrounding is attracted to your easy way of doing things (think of selling drugs being punished by death)

During my studies in Europe I found a book on ethics that was to be used outside US only... as there was a different issue with different ethics rules issued it the US by the same author :)

The problem is that American model cannot be applied in other coutries as they are not America and their environment, history and people's thinking is different. So as long as you make people do things in your way so long will they resist.

As an outsider I can tell you couple things - on what basis do you assume that US is the greatest? Well, it's among the richest and it is one of the most developed but it surely doesn't make it the greatest. Imagine that every other country consumes as much resources as the US - that is truly impossible as there is not sufficient of them.

I guess a great country would be the one where people see the biggest value in other human and the US is considered to be the one where a car is valued more. You need to buy yourself healthcare and people who cannot aford it are left to themselves. Same with education. Maybe the greatest country is the one that has the greatest people - those of outstanding moral standards, intelligence, hardworkingness, education. The kind of nation that values the most personal development, expertise, etc and is organised in the best possible way... (Arystotele - a Greek philosopher who invented the term "democracy" described it as "the rules of idiot crowd" as there is very few truly wise people in the world and the majority is ...hmmm... nothing-special :) )

THE BEST ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION IS STUDY!!! Study different cultures, religions, philosophies, art, technologies, logics as their better understanding will give you a better understanding and ease the communication with those others that hate you. Maybe you will also understand why particular of them do that and adopt better perspective than "fence them and keep weak and poor"