Why do Britain's hate Americans?

Question

Cool! so many responses!

Answer 1

I think the rot started with Hollywood - saying how America won the war by itself.

Answer 2

Americans are very OTT and loud, sorry!

Answer 3

Wow - generalisation! I severely doubt that Every single Brit hates every single American, but if they did, then I guess you'd have to ask them individually.

Answer 4

maybe because they steal everything britain has eg. big brother, americas got talent, american idol blah blah and even had the cheek to change their english (spelling of words) or maybe they just hate the fact that americans have better weather than britons lol

Answer 5

Here we go again...

We don't. A lot of people don't like America and its establishment but I think you'll find most Brits won't hate someone just because they're American.

By the way, we're called Britons. "Britain's" would be something belonging to Britain. Sorry to be picky.

Answer 6

I dont!!.......

Americans Love british tho a bit too much! maybe we are just not returning the love.

Answer 7

We don't. Well, I don't anyway. I love Americans!

Answer 8

I think hate is too strong a word.  We make them the butt of our jokes in the same way they like to joke about us.  When the chips are down we're more friends than not.

Answer 9

It used to be because they were over fed, over paid, over sexed and over here.

Now I guess it has something to do with America's mind boggling ignorance of world affairs coupled with it's foreign policy.  

Answer 10

Who likes the americans?

Its not a matter with the american citizen its more a matter of America's attitude in their media and the way they approach international politics and that they think they know everything and they are always right.

Answer 11

well i dont hate americans, i think your president is a complete ****. and just hearing him speak, makes my skin crawl. no one can say they hate a whole race,culture etc etc.  

Answer 12

They don't hate us.Britains were one of the few countries that stepped up to the plate in time of war.They are more like cousins your don't see often but think kindly of.That doesn't mean they can't critique us once in awhile.Heck we critique ourselves.  

Answer 13

When the h**l did we start hating Americans?

Maybe George Bush YES!  but not the whole nation!

Answer 14

They just hate America thinks it's got talent.

Answer 15

some do, some don't

Americans are seen as parochial and self obsessed - this is a general feeling throughout the world, not just in the UK

Answer 16

They don't, it's just the anti-american bigots that sometime lurk here online that make it seem like it at times. I know many people in the UK and expats over here in the US that are quite fond of us. Don't think that it's everyone....it's just fashionable to bash Americans - it's acceptable bigotry. But not universal by any means.

Stereotyping any nationality and buying into the hype is a sign of a very weak mind.

Answer 17

no offence, but if your American then you guys can be just as bad

edit

for the record, i like Americans

Answer 18

I thought this website was a pretty interesting read...

http://www.vexen.co.uk/USA/hateamerica.h...

Answer 19

Most don't,but the ones that do,hate for two reasons.

#1 jealousy

#2 English people like strictness and proper English.Americans don't represent that.

Answer 20

I don't hate americans. I do hate ignorance, though. We're not 'Britains', we're English, Scottish and Welsh. Briton's if you must, but I consider myself English.

Answer 21

I don't hate you!  I don't hate anyone, really.  I'm quite easygoing!

Answer 22

Mostly because of their use of superfluous apostrophes!

and because they have a tendency to just be a little to over the top.

Answer 23

I wouldnt say I hate Americans at all, they just make me cringe.

Answer 24

Most Brits that I know remember the USA saving us from n**i domination and for the Marshal Plan after WW2.

Answer 25

google anti americanism in Britain  

Answer 26

i hate the ones i have met they put a bad name for the rest of america but i dont hate all of yous

Answer 27

I dont hate americans, you guys make the best TV and films, gotta love that accent.

Arent Americans derived from English settlers or something? they went and killed all the natives and all the Irish are in America now too, we dont have any irish people left!

I'd love to go to road trip round America!

Alex W, is that a joke?Apart from posh people, the youth in Britain talk street slang, there is a major urban culture in London and outside of London some accents I cant even understand!

Answer 28

I like Americans. I just don't like the government because it thinks it can tell all the world what to do. That's all. Your country and you Americans are fine, it's just a shame about your government.

Answer 29

We don't - personally I rarely give them a thought and since the vast majority never leave their own country I never meet any anyway.

Answer 30

Mostly because of their use of superfluous apostrophes!

Answer 31

you abandoned them, and had a civil war with them,  but nothing too bad...