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How do foreigners think of America?

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TheQuailman
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Like how do people who don't live in America veiw us as a whole. And I mean in general, not what random terrorist groups think.
Sep 12 2007 8:59PM
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TheButterHashira
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they seem to think that americas stupid because miss teen south carolina is a moron. i mean it was a beauty pagent not a geography bee
Sep 12 2007 9:00PM
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doublexl
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pompus
selfish
politically blind
Sep 12 2007 9:03PM
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DDrem.
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obese



and its not "how" do foreigners think, its "what"
Sep 12 2007 9:07PM
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DrStrangelove
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they hate us

whenever i go to england, i pretend im from canada

whenever i go to mainland europe, i pretend im english...
Sep 12 2007 9:07PM
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skiierman
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Fat
Stupid
Ignorant (that's a popular one)

But the people that aren't stupid themselves know that we didn't all vote for Bush haha.
Sep 12 2007 9:09PM
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Shpadoinkle
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...aye.
Sep 12 2007 9:11PM
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MLB
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same thing in canada, we may be neighbours but there is alot of american hate.
Sep 12 2007 9:17PM
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Scharff2003
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yeah dumb miss tee america she called us U.S. Americans
Sep 12 2007 9:23PM
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GangstaKid
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why would you pretend to be english there as stupid and ignorant as americans.
Sep 12 2007 9:24PM
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tBatt
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fat
cocky
self centered
rich
hypocritical


and yes im american
Sep 12 2007 9:28PM
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artfullydodged
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A bunch a fat idiots rocking guns
Sep 12 2007 9:29PM
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Public_Enemy0255
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shit not alllll of us are fat
Sep 12 2007 9:31PM
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potato_man
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1 of my friend's family had a foreign exchange student from germany live with them, and he seriously thought that americans go to mcdonalds every day, every meal

they actually them this in the schools, cuz they dont want th impressionable germans ending up like those stupid, fat americans

i lol'ed
Sep 12 2007 9:33PM
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GangstaKid
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fuck germany its full of mini fuckin hitlers
Sep 12 2007 9:36PM
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Scharff2003
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they make really good beer tho
Sep 12 2007 9:37PM
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jacqui-la-fripui
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yeah but they all watch our movies
Sep 12 2007 9:38PM
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charmander
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alias
Sep 12 2007 9:39PM
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FartBoy05
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im skinny and dont like any kind of bush.
Sep 12 2007 9:40PM
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TerminatorX
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its stupid how they think were the idiodts when we are the ones that provide them with good music, movies, and television shows.
Sep 12 2007 9:41PM
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carbon.pulse
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obese
self centered
texan
retareded

just cocky selfcentereed pricks
Sep 12 2007 9:41PM
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MadSteezin
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When foreigners think of American they think of Bush our stupid redneck president and how he started a useless war for some personal reason. They also think of fat people and how were snotty.
Sep 12 2007 9:46PM
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doublexl
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they were all rocking votes i shit yo not...
Sep 12 2007 9:47PM
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R.Z.A.
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watch borat.
Sep 12 2007 9:52PM
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Rosbif
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Too true, I watched it a few weeks before I moved to CO and I was genuinely scared!
Sep 12 2007 10:01PM
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Holte
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Am I the only one who thinks it's weird that only Americans are answering this thread?
Sep 12 2007 10:05PM
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DDrem.
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but at the same time, dont we have stereotypes for all the foreigners themselves? americans give themselves way too much
middle east- work at 7-11 or bomb the world
hispanic- lowriding farmers with moustaches
canadians- love hockey
etc etc. you get my drift.
people can have their opinions but as long as you dont fall into accords with it, who the heck cares
Sep 12 2007 10:07PM
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timmi
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as a whole? i can see a lot of hate generated towards USA.
but i mean, for them to stereotype each american into the same category would make them just as ignorant as what they beleive americans to be.

and ps, how come americans can get away with calling themselves americans? i mean, technicly wouldnt canadians be americans too? since we are from north america.

Sep 12 2007 10:11PM
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holyDINOSAURS
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as if youre the only country with the ability to create good media. come on dude, your perpetuating the stereotype
Sep 12 2007 10:12PM
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GangstaKid
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Sep 12 2007 10:31PM
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skibum193
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A lot of Europeans think we are overweight, eat at Micky Ds alot, don't know/care about the rest of the world, and all drive huge SUVS. Which for a lot of the country is unfortunatley true
Sep 12 2007 10:33PM
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TheButterHashira
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i dont think that foreigners need to judge americans based on what they see on tv. like miss teen south carolina, she was in a fucking beauty pagent not a geography bee, if she looked hot she did her job. and were not all fat. im healthy and i eat right except for excessive amounts of caffiene. id like to go to the scandanavian countries though. i want to see if they really live better than us. like since i was 8 i wanted to go to finland and now im obsessed with sweden and norway.
Sep 12 2007 10:40PM
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TerminatorX
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ya i know there are some good canadian bands and actors and the trailer park boys is a great show, but (im pulling this out of my ass) 70-80 % of internationally known movies, actors, bands,and artists are probably from the u.s.
Sep 12 2007 11:11PM
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purplejumpsuit
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and thats what the americans think of germans...
Sep 12 2007 11:28PM
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calebski.
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fat
Sep 12 2007 11:32PM
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DrStrangelove
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because i dont speak german or spanish well enough yet to pretend to be german or spanish...
Sep 12 2007 11:33PM
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jimmychung
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i've asked other people, and it's not as bad as you would think. most people don't like some of the things we've done (who could blame them), but are mostly indifferent. my friend from japan says they all like us over there, and that includes some other east asian countries. my friend from switzerland says they don't hate us, same with my friends from columbia and nicaragua. i think it's mostly the french, they haven't liked us much for awhile. my humanities teacher was talking about going there back during the vietnam war and getting spit on by the french. lame.
Sep 13 2007 12:22AM
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Hairspray
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I hate her, shes such an idiot. How did the answer turn into education for South Africa and Iraq? wtf?
Sep 13 2007 12:25AM
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brokebutitsworthit
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From this thread I would say, poorly educated, ignorant, obese and selfish, unable to accept their consequences, and pussys if they are so scared that they have to wear Canadian flags to get some respect.
Sep 13 2007 2:44AM
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RudyGarmisch
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Introverted, brash and ignorant.
Sep 13 2007 4:11AM
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PacificRimJob
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sage francis is the shiz.
Sep 13 2007 5:56AM
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StanMcStanson
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really fucking stupid
Sep 13 2007 6:26AM
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skiierman
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No, that's how they say hello.
Sep 13 2007 7:09AM
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freestyler540
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The only way I can put it is follower. Nobody thinks, if a political or mostly a religious leader speaks, everybody agrees without thinking. Majority is always right is another philosophy.

But all my trips to the US (NYC and Duluth) went great, I met some of the coolest people. Although they had no idea were Quebec is, they treated me like friends.

Sep 13 2007 4:31PM
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jimmychung
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hahahah

"if you think that's weird, you should see how we pee" *holds up finger*

not exactly the same scenario but it reminded me of it.
Sep 13 2007 4:53PM
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Shorton
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im from britain, and i think that america sounds like a really cool country to live in, its so diverse, theres everything,i just dont like george bush, he seems stupid..
Sep 13 2007 4:54PM
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PacificRimJob
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My friend is from Coventry, he told me that many brits just think of america as their creation, and we are just their monsters running amuck haha.

In some ways, its true... if you look at U.S. history in a blind sense...
Sep 13 2007 6:40PM
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tequila
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:(

Stereotypes have to come from somewhere, so yeah, when I think of America I think of geeks, fat asses and hillbillies. But I know not everyone's like that.
I think you guys have crappy food, more fake people and real weather.
I also think that American schools are all built from some crappy generic design.
You celebrate random holidays and think about sport way too much.

But then you also have Oreos, real mountains and forests, waste disposal (my god we need to get it here), huge snowfalls, places where its actually sunny, better skiers/boarders (should I say that?), more than two decent Universities....

As for Canada - these days if someone says Canada I think of skiing. Haven't a clue what else you have up there....
Sep 13 2007 6:55PM
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tBatt
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haha and anyone from south america too... we went over this in spanish yesterday..
Sep 13 2007 8:38PM
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2planking
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fat
stupid
cocky
self centered
Sep 13 2007 8:41PM
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skifree919
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haha we have the best food because its so diverse (if you live in certain areas) you can eat food from any differnet culture any night of the week. We do care too much about american football, but thats pretty much the same in europe just with soccer.

I'm leaving on monday to go to south america for 2.5 months, so ill get back to you on what bolivians think of americans
Sep 13 2007 8:41PM
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