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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
I think when a country is as powerful as the US is that we're going to be disliked by a lot of the international community for that reason alone.
Global popularity as an end in itself isn't really a worthwhile goal; we should concern ourselves with doing what's right while we look out for our own interests. Ideally, we would could do this in a cooperative spirit with others, but it's not essential.
And, I don't really mean you Drolefille, but a lot of the folks who concern themselves with the rest of the world hating us conveniently assume that they hate us for the same reasons that they are dissatisfied with our government or foreign policy.
A some of the world hates us because we pollute the world with porn and radical ideas about women's rights. Others hate us because we have protectionist trade policies and promote a much higher standard of living for our own citizens than we do for the rest of the world.
Our foreign policy may not be helping, but life isn't going to be rosy with the rest of the world because we elect Obama, unless of course, we're willing to change the way we live for the sake of making the international community happy. I'm not particularly interested.
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I just feel like too many people focus on the bolded things and not that some people hate us because we think we own the world, we talk big but then we don't pay our debts, and when we do "walk the walk" it's invading a sovereign country, one that did not
directly threaten us at the time, (Sure it was Iraq, no one really liked them, but it's a precedent that we should NOT have set), because we are perceived not just as a Christian nation but a crazy oversexualized and over-sexually-repressed society all in one go.
Also, we "promote" a high standard of living, but we do not live up to it. People who live in this country are starving. We're the richest country in the world and we cannot manage to feed our own people. It's so ridiculously depressing that most of us just don't even think about it for our own mental health.