If you aren't talking about education and art collections and foreign aid... then what are you talking about? Where is our lack of art appreciation? Where is our lack of culture? Where are you siting our self-centered, possession driven existence from?
Owning art is not necessarily appreciating it. Just because there is art in this country, does not mean we are a country of art lovers. That is simply not true.
The only reason that others are infuriated by American's belief that we live the right way is because they too believe that they live the only way that should be considered. No one wants to admit that they live in a way that is substandard or less in comparision to another way of life. If Americans believe that another country had the right way about something, we would change our ways to reflect that and make it our own. The same is true for other countries. If others didn't have the same inbred belief and surety of thinking that they were just as right as we see ourselves, then there wouldn't be anything to cause problems in the first place. You can't shift all the blame to one side of the fight and say, It's all their fault! when there are obviously two sides to every situation.
I'm not shifting all the blame, simply answering the question of why do so many non-Americans hate Americans. It is because there are so many of them who deserve it. Not all of them, but too many.
One peice of rotten fruit can frequently ruin an entire bin... it's the same with people. One bad American tourist causes the stereotype that all American tourists are bad. Are all blondes dumb? Well, some may argue... but, no. No matter how bad those few are, you still can not blame the vast majority of the good for the faults of the few.
I am not blaming the good ones. I am explaining that the image of Americans is driven by the loud, obnoxious "ugly Americans" that travel.


Thanks,


-Kory


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