Has nothing to do with "jealousy."
We are the ones lying about us. American academics, entertainers, and news media figures are telling the world how awful we are.
You can't blame foreigners for believing what we say about ourselves.
Thanks so much
It is a testament to the lies told by the German press to the German people.
If you follow any travel site before going on a trip to Europe they are always saying “You must be an American” and “”Why would you worry about your safety here, this isn’t America”.
Meanwhile they are being raped and murdered right and left.
Btw, they also have much nicer countries then we report here.
Jealous ... or another way “they hate us ‘cause they ain’t us”
surprised nbc even aired that- it ruins their ‘America is a capitalistic white supremacy systemic racism hell hole, and Americans should be ashamed to live here’ mantra
I will say thouygh that it was really heartening to see all the nations who participated in the boat festivities yesterday- coming ot celebrate alongside us- It brought a tear to my glass eye (j/k- but it was neat to see- They don’t all hate us- )
Constantly.
I didn't notice it so much when I lived in Hungary but HOLY CRAP do they constantly lie in Germany and Austria. The Beeb also lies their asses off non stop. But its not just the lies. Its also the lies of omission and the constant emphasis on anything that is negative. Part of it is Butthurt. A big part is they are trying to protect "the European Social Model" ie socialism. If they admitted many things were better in the US, the peasants would start asking the Establishment some very difficult questions. We can't have that.
The vast majority of Europeans have no idea how big the US is. They think Blacks are 30% or 40% of the population and are shocked when you tell them they are only 13%. They think people are left to die in the streets if they don't have private medical insurance. They don't really understand that the US is a federation and that states really matter and have a lot of power. They think the federal government and more specifically the president run everything. For example they'll spout off to you about how "the US only spends X amount of dollars on Education" and how this is so terrible/scandalous/sucks, etc. When you simply respond that STATES pay for elementary school through college and not the federal government it barely computes. It doesn't work that way anywhere in Europe so they don't understand that it does work that way in the US.
They've been told there are few worker protections and its very easy for employers to fire employees in the US - which is true. Here comes the Lie of Omission...they are not told its much easier to get hired in the US. They European media will go on and on about the crime/murder rate in the US (this was more true in the past before they imported violent 3rd world savages by the millions). They won't admit a helluva lot of it is Black inner city drug gangs killing each other. They'll never tell their viewers that 68% of counties in the US have 1 or 0 murders per year....ie most of the country is quite safe if you're not a Black inner city drug dealer and if you don't hang around those people.
They're told about "gun deaths" in the US but are never told 2/3rds of them are suicides. They are deliberately led to think those are all murders. You can tell most of them all of the above and they'll think you're lying to them....that you're just some hyper nationalistic American trying to explain away all the bad things. Even educated Europeans overwhelmingly only go to a tiny handful of places in the US (NYC, San Francisco, Vegas, LA, Disneyworld) and will think they know the whole country from that. It doesn't even occur to them that their media has been constantly lying to them all their lives.
I quickly noticed all of the above 35 years ago when I first started living in Europe. They simply would not believe me when I contradicted any of the propaganda their media told them. Its finally starting to dawn on some of them who came and saw some actual places in America for this World Cup. This is why they're so shocked by everything. Its not at all what they were led to expect.
At lunch with family yesterday, my niece’s husband works for a company with offices worldwide.
He said that one co-worker in UK is afraid to visit the USA because he’s convinced that when you land in America foreigners get a full cavity search at the airport before they can leave. Nobody can convince him otherwise.
It’s also extremely unfortunate that Americans lie about their fellow Americans (and themselves) personally, professionally and financially all the time. That’s no way to “form a more perfect union”!
I remember fifty years ago visitors from Europe afraid to go out of their hotels due to all the crime THEY SAW ON TV SHOWS in their native Europe.
They were shocked to find it was not bad as portrayed.
He must have been watching DNBC before he came here to find out they were lying to him.
If the “world” really hates us, why does so much of it want to come here to live?
They should know we’re nice as we rebuilt and then protected their sorry country from 1945 on.
If you think controlled / government mainstream media in the USA is bad - it's 10X worse elsewhere. Even in so-called "free" countries like Germany
That’s why you see America being invaded by 20 MILLION freeloading, Socialist invaders. America is the only country where all the freeloaders want to go to live and survive off the backs of American taxpayers. No other country would allow that to happen.
Our media lies to us too but at least we live here and know what’s mostly going on. If you live in a foreign country you basically have nothing else to base your preconceived notions on.
There is a lot of resentment of America around the world. We succeed, where others fail. They are motivated to find some way to believe that their failure is due to our success.
The only real connection is that our success shows-up their lack of success.