Can anyone explain the anti-American sentiment to me?

[thailiketoo]

You don't know do you? Communists were in Thailand big time. All of Thailand's neighbors were overthrown, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Burma. The Thais asked SEATO for help and America, Australia, and even UK responded with troops and equipment. America had many thousands of men serve in Thailand between 1965 and 1975. I can't remember the name of the Brit operation here but there are some posters who were involved I'm sure.

So don't yell. Be quiet and ask some of the Americans who built the airports and deep water ports and roads and communications capability and schools that brought Thailand out of the middle ages and made it the Tiger of Asia (economically).

Who overthrow who?

So what you think, why 3+ million people died in Cambodia? How was Pol Pot/Khmer Rouge able to get into power?

I think it is beyond the scope of our discussion here but I would suggest you look into the history of South East Asia and SEATO and explore the Thai request for assistance from SEATO and the response to said request. There are museums devoted to the communist insurgency in the Phetchabun area. The Communist Party of Thailand - CPT was a Marxist-Leninist political party in Thailand active from 1942 until the 1990s.

In every civilized democratic country has multiple political parties, including communist. That is called FREEDOM!

The party launched a guerrilla war against the Thai government in 1965. Even though the CPT suffered internal divisions, at its political peak the party effectively acted as a state within the state. Its rural support is estimated to have been at least four million people. The party enjoyed a brief period of legality from 1946 to 1948. (That's called HISTORY)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Thailand

Initially known as the Communist Party of Siam the party was founded officially on 1 December 1942, although communist activism in the country began as early as 1927. In the 1960s the CPT grew in membership and support and by the early 1970s was the second largest communist movement in mainland South-East Asia (after Vietnam).

Edited July 23, 2014 by thailiketoo

[Shurup]

Why are you some of you haters still here? You made your point. Are you waiting for a visa?

Most posters have done the seagull thing... Swoop in, drop shit, swoop out.

Time to piss off. Go start a thread about your own sorry country.

All the smart ones are gone already, only you and a few others stay and keep arguing. See my signature.

Sent from one of my mobiles, whatever mobile it is.

[heybuz]

would somebody close this thread it's developed into a sh--t fight

[thailiketoo]

Do percents of people travel or people? America is a big country. You can stay in America and travel to Cuba, Miami or Mexico, San Antonio. Or Iraq in Detroit or Poland and so on. There are more Thais in California than most cities in Thailand. Get in a car in Europe and drive through 5 countries in a day. Get in a car in America and drive for 5 days and still be in the States. Americans travel but they have four seasons and many oceans and mountains and languages and cultures to choose from right at home.

Yes US is a big country, what's your point? One smart kid in a family doesn't make a whole family look smart. SO yes, the percent counts. 1/3 of "traveling" US population doesn't equate to a whole country when speaking of a whole country in general.

There are about twice as many Americans with passports as British. The chances of you meeting an American overseas is twice as likely as meeting a Brit. The stereotype of Americans not having passports is a myth.

Let me ask you this. If you are going to open up a restaurant catering to tourists which country would you study to find out your best chance of success? The US spends almost twice as much as the UK on travel.

If the US spends almost twice as much as the UK on travel which country spends the most on travel? Travel, tourists, dollars? If you have a tourist business which country should you advertise in to get the biggest bang for your buck? Hmmm?

Why do you think Thailand has a Treaty of Amity with the USA and not Canada or the UK?

There are more smart kids in the USA than in Canada or the UK. Who cares about percents? I hire smart people.

There are more smart Americans available than people from Canada or the UK (Scotland will be independent soon).

Perhaps there are more smart people per capita but that's not the point if one is looking for smart employees.

I am just kidding but the above serves as an example of why percents are not important. If I'm a banker looking for new millionaire depositors I am not going to ask what percent of your citizens are millionaires; I'm going to ask how many millionaires in your country. Who has a more important and/or difficult the President of Australia or the Governor of California?

[AYJAYDEE]

The thread is full of nastyisms not reasons. It's full of mocking jibes not reasons.

For example, "MILITARY POWER The United States equals the power of ...Russia, China, Japan, Israel, Great Briton, France, Germany, And the next 6 most powerful nations combined.

I can hear an old Vietnamese gentleman laughing somewhere..." Post # 315

Dr no wrote the above and did not want to state a reason for anti Americanism he only wanted to mock America.

If he would have said people don't like America because of the Vietnam war I'd agree and point out that American youth stopped the war by demonstrations in the street and it was one of the last examples of young people actually influencing policy in the West instead of sitting on their butt playing computer games or looting retail stores.

The majority of the American people did not want the war in Vietnam, that's why it stopped without being won. We knew it was wrong and wanted to get out. I know, I was there. I fought and I protested and the war stopped.

If we hadn't gone to Vietnam, Thailand would be communist now and the Russians would feel more at home than they already do but what the heck. Do you appreciate the sacrifice America made to keep Thailand free?

You just don't get it do you!

"American youth stopped the Vietnam war" you say.

There you go again, bl@#dy yanks

Your congress and virtually the entire American population didn't even know that your government and the CIA were also bombing the <deleted> out of Laos and some of Cambodia, killing tens of thousands of civilians indiscriminately with unconventional weapons. Again, you think you were the only ones fighting in Vietnam don't you? The only ones protesting to stop the war? The only ones doing something to stop the senseless killing of both sides? The whole World had had enough of Vietnam, everyone was protesting about that war. At the least it was every country that was again dragged into another pointless war declared by America using the same untruths that they still use today which still result in the same outcomes. Your government stopped the Vietnam war because America couldn't win that war, do you understand that? Furthermore, staying in that war was far more damaging and costly for the American global image and your economy as well as the brutal divisive impact on your society.

As for your statement about saving Thailand from Communism, well I just can't find words to respond to that, other than, you wonder why you see anti-American sentiments in these posts.....OMG!

The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre) occurred at Kent State University in the US city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis. Some of the students who were shot had been protesting against the Cambodian Campaign, There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of four million students. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

I was at the protests in the 1970's. My future wife went to Kent State, Before that I was in the Army in Vietnam and Thailand and Laos.

I can answer any questions you may have about those things from a first hand perspective. No rumors. No media bias. I was there.

In 1962 Thailand, a member of the South East Asia Treaty Organization requested the SEATO nations for military assistance to help defend Thailand in case of any attack from North Vietnam troop movements along its northern borders.

In 1960 Thailand and Laos and Vietnam and Cambodia were not under the communist sphere of influence. In the 1970's Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia were under the communist sphere of influence. Thailand was the domino that did not fall because of the US military presence in Thailand from 1965 to 1975.

You don't get an opportunity very often to speak to one of the people who were involved in the history you have only learned about from books. Myself and many others posting on Thai Visa could give you a unique and accurate perspective on that time period if you only would ask.

spare us your domino theory BS

[Wat dee]

Do percents of people travel or people? America is a big country. You can stay in America and travel to Cuba, Miami or Mexico, San Antonio. Or Iraq in Detroit or Poland and so on. There are more Thais in California than most cities in Thailand. Get in a car in Europe and drive through 5 countries in a day. Get in a car in America and drive for 5 days and still be in the States. Americans travel but they have four seasons and many oceans and mountains and languages and cultures to choose from right at home.

Yes US is a big country, what's your point? One smart kid in a family doesn't make a whole family look smart. SO yes, the percent counts. 1/3 of "traveling" US population doesn't equate to a whole country when speaking of a whole country in general.

There are about twice as many Americans with passports as British. The chances of you meeting an American overseas is twice as likely as meeting a Brit. The stereotype of Americans not having passports is a myth.

Let me ask you this. If you are going to open up a restaurant catering to tourists which country would you study to find out your best chance of success? The US spends almost twice as much as the UK on travel.

If the US spends almost twice as much as the UK on travel which country spends the most on travel? Travel, tourists, dollars? If you have a tourist business which country should you advertise in to get the biggest bang for your buck? Hmmm?

Why do you think Thailand has a Treaty of Amity with the USA and not Canada or the UK?

There are more smart kids in the USA than in Canada or the UK. Who cares about percents? I hire smart people.

There are more smart Americans available than people from Canada or the UK (Scotland will be independent soon).

Perhaps there are more smart people per capita but that's not the point if one is looking for smart employees.

I am just kidding but the above serves as an example of why percents are not important. If I'm a banker looking for new millionaire depositors I am not going to ask what percent of your citizens are millionaires; I'm going to ask how many millionaires in your country. Who has a more important and/or difficult the President of Australia or the Governor of California?

You win!! or California! Your not one of the smart one's obviously. just kidding.

[AYJAYDEE]

your statement suggesting Most well informed Americans who know it was a group effort by allies, I absolutely agree with.

Point out my lies. I haven't lied.

What red herring?

All I'm saying, is that far too often one meets a very opinionated, loud American who knows everything, and puts other peoples' countries down. As a non-American, I can tell you it happens quite often.

I've never disliked an American simply for foreign policy, but for how in your face they can be.

The OP asked why the anti-American sentiment? Many of you are that stereotype.

Where do you meet these Americans? Online?

all over the world. they have passports!!

[Shurup]

Do percents of people travel or people? America is a big country. You can stay in America and travel to Cuba, Miami or Mexico, San Antonio. Or Iraq in Detroit or Poland and so on. There are more Thais in California than most cities in Thailand. Get in a car in Europe and drive through 5 countries in a day. Get in a car in America and drive for 5 days and still be in the States. Americans travel but they have four seasons and many oceans and mountains and languages and cultures to choose from right at home.

Yes US is a big country, what's your point? One smart kid in a family doesn't make a whole family look smart. SO yes, the percent counts. 1/3 of "traveling" US population doesn't equate to a whole country when speaking of a whole country in general.

There are about twice as many Americans with passports as British. The chances of you meeting an American overseas is twice as likely as meeting a Brit. The stereotype of Americans not having passports is a myth.

Let me ask you this. If you are going to open up a restaurant catering to tourists which country would you study to find out your best chance of success? The US spends almost twice as much as the UK on travel.

If the US spends almost twice as much as the UK on travel which country spends the most on travel? Travel, tourists, dollars? If you have a tourist business which country should you advertise in to get the biggest bang for your buck? Hmmm?

Why do you think Thailand has a Treaty of Amity with the USA and not Canada or the UK?

There are more smart kids in the USA than in Canada or the UK. Who cares about percents? I hire smart people.

There are more smart Americans available than people from Canada or the UK (Scotland will be independent soon).

Perhaps there are more smart people per capita but that's not the point if one is looking for smart employees.

I am just kidding but the above serves as an example of why percents are not important. If I'm a banker looking for new millionaire depositors I am not going to ask what percent of your citizens are millionaires; I'm going to ask how many millionaires in your country. Who has a more important and/or difficult the President of Australia or the Governor of California?

Nope you still haven't provided any good examples of why the total number of traveling americans is a better benchmark of a whole country than the percent of the total population. Yes there are more american than brits somewhere in the world at any given time, but at the same time there are even more dumb americans who stay home and don't know anything other than US and maybe Mexico. If you forgot, the Post #661 is where it's started.

To answer your other points, chances meeting a Yank overseas or opening a restaurant catering for tourists would surely depends on the location, wouldn't you think so? Most of the traveling Americans would be sitting somewhere in Mexico or Caribbeans, so if you're talking about those places, then sure, there're more Yanks there than Brits or any other nationalities. If we take some EU country for example, there can't be more Yanks there than Brits. A Brit can make a quick short and cheap weekend getaway trip there while for the Yank it would require some serious planning.

[thailiketoo]

Do percents of people travel or people? America is a big country. You can stay in America and travel to Cuba, Miami or Mexico, San Antonio. Or Iraq in Detroit or Poland and so on. There are more Thais in California than most cities in Thailand. Get in a car in Europe and drive through 5 countries in a day. Get in a car in America and drive for 5 days and still be in the States. Americans travel but they have four seasons and many oceans and mountains and languages and cultures to choose from right at home.

Yes US is a big country, what's your point? One smart kid in a family doesn't make a whole family look smart. SO yes, the percent counts. 1/3 of "traveling" US population doesn't equate to a whole country when speaking of a whole country in general.

There are about twice as many Americans with passports as British. The chances of you meeting an American overseas is twice as likely as meeting a Brit. The stereotype of Americans not having passports is a myth.

Let me ask you this. If you are going to open up a restaurant catering to tourists which country would you study to find out your best chance of success? The US spends almost twice as much as the UK on travel.

If the US spends almost twice as much as the UK on travel which country spends the most on travel? Travel, tourists, dollars? If you have a tourist business which country should you advertise in to get the biggest bang for your buck? Hmmm?

Why do you think Thailand has a Treaty of Amity with the USA and not Canada or the UK?

There are more smart kids in the USA than in Canada or the UK. Who cares about percents? I hire smart people.

There are more smart Americans available than people from Canada or the UK (Scotland will be independent soon).

Perhaps there are more smart people per capita but that's not the point if one is looking for smart employees.

I am just kidding but the above serves as an example of why percents are not important. If I'm a banker looking for new millionaire depositors I am not going to ask what percent of your citizens are millionaires; I'm going to ask how many millionaires in your country. Who has a more important and/or difficult the President of Australia or the Governor of California?

Nope you still haven't provided any good examples of why the total number of traveling americans is a better benchmark of a whole country than the percent of the total population. Yes there are more american than brits somewhere in the world at any given time, but at the same time there are even more dumb americans who stay home and don't know anything other than US and maybe Mexico. If you forgot, the Post #661 is where it's started.

To answer your other points, chances meeting a Yank overseas or opening a restaurant catering for tourists would surely depends on the location, wouldn't you think so? Most of the traveling Americans would be sitting somewhere in Mexico or Caribbeans, so if you're talking about those places, then sure, there're more Yanks there than Brits or any other nationalities. If we take some EU country for example, there can't be more Yanks there than Brits. A Brit can make a quick short and cheap weekend getaway trip there while for the Yank it would require some serious planning.

You wrote, "Most of the traveling Americans would be sitting somewhere in Mexico or Caribbeans,"

America's most popular overseas countries are: England (9% of all trips), France (7%), Italy (7%), Germany (5%), Dominican Republic (5%), Jamaica (5%), Japan (4%), China (4%), India (4%) and Spain (4%).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-d-chalmers/the-great-american-passpo_b_1920287.html

We go to England because we know how much they like us.

[AYJAYDEE]

You wrote, "Most of the traveling Americans would be sitting somewhere in Mexico or Caribbeans,"

America's most popular overseas countries are: England (9% of all trips), France (7%), Italy (7%), Germany (5%), Dominican Republic (5%), Jamaica (5%), Japan (4%), China (4%), India (4%) and Spain (4%).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-d-chalmers/the-great-american-passpo_b_1920287.html

We go to England because we know how much they like us.

Try again, Mexico trips dwarf the UK visits !!

http://www.theexpeditioner.com/travel-news/which-countries-do-americans-travel-to-the-most/

[Bald Eagle]

Personally I find yanks a very interesting bunch. Real thinkers.

I do enjoy pulling their leg from time to time. And their wives.

[Shurup]

There are about twice as many Americans with passports as British. The chances of you meeting an American overseas is twice as likely as meeting a Brit. The stereotype of Americans not having passports is a myth.

Let me ask you this. If you are going to open up a restaurant catering to tourists which country would you study to find out your best chance of success? The US spends almost twice as much as the UK on travel.

If the US spends almost twice as much as the UK on travel which country spends the most on travel? Travel, tourists, dollars? If you have a tourist business which country should you advertise in to get the biggest bang for your buck? Hmmm?

Why do you think Thailand has a Treaty of Amity with the USA and not Canada or the UK?

There are more smart kids in the USA than in Canada or the UK. Who cares about percents? I hire smart people.

There are more smart Americans available than people from Canada or the UK (Scotland will be independent soon).

Perhaps there are more smart people per capita but that's not the point if one is looking for smart employees.

I am just kidding but the above serves as an example of why percents are not important. If I'm a banker looking for new millionaire depositors I am not going to ask what percent of your citizens are millionaires; I'm going to ask how many millionaires in your country. Who has a more important and/or difficult the President of Australia or the Governor of California?

Nope you still haven't provided any good examples of why the total number of traveling americans is a better benchmark of a whole country than the percent of the total population. Yes there are more american than brits somewhere in the world at any given time, but at the same time there are even more dumb americans who stay home and don't know anything other than US and maybe Mexico. If you forgot, the Post #661 is where it's started.

To answer your other points, chances meeting a Yank overseas or opening a restaurant catering for tourists would surely depends on the location, wouldn't you think so? Most of the traveling Americans would be sitting somewhere in Mexico or Caribbeans, so if you're talking about those places, then sure, there're more Yanks there than Brits or any other nationalities. If we take some EU country for example, there can't be more Yanks there than Brits. A Brit can make a quick short and cheap weekend getaway trip there while for the Yank it would require some serious planning.

You wrote, "Most of the traveling Americans would be sitting somewhere in Mexico or Caribbeans,"

America's most popular overseas countries are: England (9% of all trips), France (7%), Italy (7%), Germany (5%), Dominican Republic (5%), Jamaica (5%), Japan (4%), China (4%), India (4%) and Spain (4%).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-d-chalmers/the-great-american-passpo_b_1920287.html

We go to England because we know how much they like us.

Oh, you're saying most Yanks don't travel to Mexico and Caribbean but go to UK???

Is it because they believe the Mexico and Caribbean are actually part of the US so they don't count???

This once again confirms Americans' geography knowledge!

Now, lets look at some real statistics:

http://travel.trade.gov/view/m-2014-O-001/index.html

[Shurup]

You wrote, "Most of the traveling Americans would be sitting somewhere in Mexico or Caribbeans,"

America's most popular overseas countries are: England (9% of all trips), France (7%), Italy (7%), Germany (5%), Dominican Republic (5%), Jamaica (5%), Japan (4%), China (4%), India (4%) and Spain (4%).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-d-chalmers/the-great-american-passpo_b_1920287.html

We go to England because we know how much they like us.

Try again, Mexico trips dwarf the UK visits !!

http://www.theexpeditioner.com/travel-news/which-countries-do-americans-travel-to-the-most/

But why?? Isn't Mexico a part of the US? Somewhere South of Texas??

[AYJAYDEE]

There are about twice as many Americans with passports as British. The chances of you meeting an American overseas is twice as likely as meeting a Brit. The stereotype of Americans not having passports is a myth.

Let me ask you this. If you are going to open up a restaurant catering to tourists which country would you study to find out your best chance of success? The US spends almost twice as much as the UK on travel.

If the US spends almost twice as much as the UK on travel which country spends the most on travel? Travel, tourists, dollars? If you have a tourist business which country should you advertise in to get the biggest bang for your buck? Hmmm?

Why do you think Thailand has a Treaty of Amity with the USA and not Canada or the UK?

There are more smart kids in the USA than in Canada or the UK. Who cares about percents? I hire smart people.

There are more smart Americans available than people from Canada or the UK (Scotland will be independent soon).

Perhaps there are more smart people per capita but that's not the point if one is looking for smart employees.

I am just kidding but the above serves as an example of why percents are not important. If I'm a banker looking for new millionaire depositors I am not going to ask what percent of your citizens are millionaires; I'm going to ask how many millionaires in your country. Who has a more important and/or difficult the President of Australia or the Governor of California?

Nope you still haven't provided any good examples of why the total number of traveling americans is a better benchmark of a whole country than the percent of the total population. Yes there are more american than brits somewhere in the world at any given time, but at the same time there are even more dumb americans who stay home and don't know anything other than US and maybe Mexico. If you forgot, the Post #661 is where it's started.

To answer your other points, chances meeting a Yank overseas or opening a restaurant catering for tourists would surely depends on the location, wouldn't you think so? Most of the traveling Americans would be sitting somewhere in Mexico or Caribbeans, so if you're talking about those places, then sure, there're more Yanks there than Brits or any other nationalities. If we take some EU country for example, there can't be more Yanks there than Brits. A Brit can make a quick short and cheap weekend getaway trip there while for the Yank it would require some serious planning.

You wrote, "Most of the traveling Americans would be sitting somewhere in Mexico or Caribbeans,"

America's most popular overseas countries are: England (9% of all trips), France (7%), Italy (7%), Germany (5%), Dominican Republic (5%), Jamaica (5%), Japan (4%), China (4%), India (4%) and Spain (4%).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-d-chalmers/the-great-american-passpo_b_1920287.html

We go to England because we know how much they like us.

Oh, you're saying most Yanks don't travel to Mexico and Caribbean but go to UK???

Is it because they believe the Mexico and Caribbean are actually part of the US so they don't count???

This once again confirms Americans' geography knowledge!

Now, lets look at some real statistics:

http://travel.trade.gov/view/m-2014-O-001/index.html

Its incredible how they keep answering the Op's question!!

[fasteddie]

I'm Scottish, i absolutely despise 99% of Scottish people and i hate Scotland as a country. We have a huge chip on our shoulder, we seem to think "everyone loves us" yet we are ignorant, unhealthy, violent vermin.

We like to tell everyone how nice we are before stabbing them, we tell everyone we invented everything when in fact we didn't, other did before us, we just lie.

Nah, Scottish are fine folks with good sense of humour (that if you can understand them, hahaha).

Violent??? Only when drunk... which is almost always.

Sent from one of my mobiles, whatever mobile it is.

I'm sorry we're off topic here mods but it has to be said. I spent 2yrs in the Navy based in Scotland and had my 2 week honeymoon there, and apart from a handful of Glaswegians, you couldn't meet nicer people. Love deep fried pies ya bass.

[Bald Eagle]

Yeah I like the Scots. Not too sure about their diet of deep fried pizza and mars bars though.

[fasteddie]

In 2013 Russia was ranked 148th out of 179 countries, six places below the previous year, mainly due to the return of Vladimir Putin. Freedom House compiles a similar ranking and placed Russia at number 176 out of 197 countries for press freedom for 2013, putting it level with Sudan and Ethiopia. The Committee to Protect Journalists states that Russia was the country with the 10th largest number of journalists killed since 1992, 26 of them since the beginning of 2000, including four from Novaya Gazeta. It also placed Russia at number 9 in the world for numbers of journalists killed with complete impunity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_of_Russia

Anyone who takes Russian media seriously has to have a screw loose or an agenda to push.

the censorship by the corporate owners of american media has done just as good a job. nobody takes the american media seriously.

Aw come on now. US #32 Russia #148 http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2013,1054.html

"Freedom House is a U.S.-based blah blah,

'nuff said!

[Shurup]

I'm Scottish, i absolutely despise 99% of Scottish people and i hate Scotland as a country. We have a huge chip on our shoulder, we seem to think "everyone loves us" yet we are ignorant, unhealthy, violent vermin.

We like to tell everyone how nice we are before stabbing them, we tell everyone we invented everything when in fact we didn't, other did before us, we just lie.

Nah, Scottish are fine folks with good sense of humour (that if you can understand them, hahaha).

Violent??? Only when drunk... which is almost always.

Sent from one of my mobiles, whatever mobile it is.

I'm sorry we're off topic here mods but it has to be said. I spent 2yrs in the Navy based in Scotland and had my 2 week honeymoon there, and apart from a handful of Glaswegians, you couldn't meet nicer people. Love deep fried pies ya bass.

Agree, the 1st part of my reply was coming from my heart, I like scotts, been working offshore with some and still friends with some and they're fine folks. It is hard to understand them but if you do, they make your day!

The 2nd part I was just making fun of them, I never stayed and party with them long enough (I don't drink much), but I've heard stories....

BUT let's not go off topic, this tread is about Yanks!

Edited July 23, 2014 by Shurup

[fasteddie]

OK what are the reasons? 1. Americans are loud. Is that a fact? I'm quiet. 2. Americans don't know anything about the world. Is that a fact? Far more Americans have passports than Brits. That's a fact. there are over 109 million valid U.S. passports in circulation according to the State Department.

America's most popular overseas countries are: England (9% of all trips), France (7%), Italy (7%), Germany (5%), Dominican Republic (5%), Jamaica (5%), Japan (4%), China (4%), India (4%) and Spain (4%). Other significant countries visited include: Bahamas (3%) and Costa Rica (3%). With just six percent of Americans trips going to the Middle East, and even fewer, just three percent, visiting the whole continent of Africa, and two percent going to Australia/New Zealand.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-d-chalmers/the-great-american-passpo_b_1920287.html

this thread is full of reasons. whether you agree with them or not is immaterial., they reflect how folks feel about americans and that was what the OP asked.

The thread is full of nastyisms not reasons. It's full of mocking jibes not reasons.

For example, "MILITARY POWER The United States equals the power of ...Russia, China, Japan, Israel, Great Briton, France, Germany, And the next 6 most powerful nations combined.

I can hear an old Vietnamese gentleman laughing somewhere..." Post # 315

Dr no wrote the above and did not want to state a reason for anti Americanism he only wanted to mock America.

If he would have said people don't like America because of the Vietnam war I'd agree and point out that American youth stopped the war by demonstrations in the street and it was one of the last examples of young people actually influencing policy in the West instead of sitting on their butt playing computer games or looting retail stores.

The majority of the American people did not want the war in Vietnam, that's why it stopped without being won. We knew it was wrong and wanted to get out. I know, I was there. I fought and I protested and the war stopped.

If we hadn't gone to Vietnam, Thailand would be communist now and the Russians would feel more at home than they already do but what the heck. Do you appreciate the sacrifice America made to keep Thailand free?

"Dr no wrote the above and did not want to state a reason for anti Americanism he only wanted to mock America"

Americans really do not understand sarcasm!

As for your last paragraph, how can you come to that conclusion? given you lost, they won, you know, the commies! how dare they want to run their own affairs, didn't they know uncle Sam's puppet dictator knew best? Just exactly what did the USA do to keep Thailand free?

You just can't help yourselves can you?

[fasteddie]

OK what are the reasons? 1. Americans are loud. Is that a fact? I'm quiet. 2. Americans don't know anything about the world. Is that a fact? Far more Americans have passports than Brits. That's a fact. there are over 109 million valid U.S. passports in circulation according to the State Department.

America's most popular overseas countries are: England (9% of all trips), France (7%), Italy (7%), Germany (5%), Dominican Republic (5%), Jamaica (5%), Japan (4%), China (4%), India (4%) and Spain (4%). Other significant countries visited include: Bahamas (3%) and Costa Rica (3%). With just six percent of Americans trips going to the Middle East, and even fewer, just three percent, visiting the whole continent of Africa, and two percent going to Australia/New Zealand.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-d-chalmers/the-great-american-passpo_b_1920287.html

this thread is full of reasons. whether you agree with them or not is immaterial., they reflect how folks feel about americans and that was what the OP asked.

The thread is full of nastyisms not reasons. It's full of mocking jibes not reasons.

For example, "MILITARY POWER The United States equals the power of ...Russia, China, Japan, Israel, Great Briton, France, Germany, And the next 6 most powerful nations combined.

I can hear an old Vietnamese gentleman laughing somewhere..." Post # 315

Dr no wrote the above and did not want to state a reason for anti Americanism he only wanted to mock America.

If he would have said people don't like America because of the Vietnam war I'd agree and point out that American youth stopped the war by demonstrations in the street and it was one of the last examples of young people actually influencing policy in the West instead of sitting on their butt playing computer games or looting retail stores.

The majority of the American people did not want the war in Vietnam, that's why it stopped without being won. We knew it was wrong and wanted to get out. I know, I was there. I fought and I protested and the war stopped.

If we hadn't gone to Vietnam, Thailand would be communist now and the Russians would feel more at home than they already do but what the heck. Do you appreciate the sacrifice America made to keep Thailand free?

JEESUS CHRIST!! ARE YOU SERIOUS!??

LOL

[fasteddie]

You don't know do you? Communists were in Thailand big time. All of Thailand's neighbors were overthrown, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Burma. The Thais asked SEATO for help and America, Australia, and even UK responded with troops and equipment. America had many thousands of men serve in Thailand between 1965 and 1975. I can't remember the name of the Brit operation here but there are some posters who were involved I'm sure.

OK what are the reasons? 1. Americans are loud. Is that a fact? I'm quiet. 2. Americans don't know anything about the world. Is that a fact? Far more Americans have passports than Brits. That's a fact. there are over 109 million valid U.S. passports in circulation according to the State Department.

America's most popular overseas countries are: England (9% of all trips), France (7%), Italy (7%), Germany (5%), Dominican Republic (5%), Jamaica (5%), Japan (4%), China (4%), India (4%) and Spain (4%). Other significant countries visited include: Bahamas (3%) and Costa Rica (3%). With just six percent of Americans trips going to the Middle East, and even fewer, just three percent, visiting the whole continent of Africa, and two percent going to Australia/New Zealand.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-d-chalmers/the-great-american-passpo_b_1920287.html

this thread is full of reasons. whether you agree with them or not is immaterial., they reflect how folks feel about americans and that was what the OP asked.

The thread is full of nastyisms not reasons. It's full of mocking jibes not reasons.

For example, "MILITARY POWER The United States equals the power of ...Russia, China, Japan, Israel, Great Briton, France, Germany, And the next 6 most powerful nations combined.

I can hear an old Vietnamese gentleman laughing somewhere..." Post # 315

Dr no wrote the above and did not want to state a reason for anti Americanism he only wanted to mock America.

If he would have said people don't like America because of the Vietnam war I'd agree and point out that American youth stopped the war by demonstrations in the street and it was one of the last examples of young people actually influencing policy in the West instead of sitting on their butt playing computer games or looting retail stores.

The majority of the American people did not want the war in Vietnam, that's why it stopped without being won. We knew it was wrong and wanted to get out. I know, I was there. I fought and I protested and the war stopped.

If we hadn't gone to Vietnam, Thailand would be communist now and the Russians would feel more at home than they already do but what the heck. Do you appreciate the sacrifice America made to keep Thailand free?

JEESUS CHRIST!! ARE YOU SERIOUS!??

So don't yell. Be quiet and ask some of the Americans who built the airports and deep water ports and roads and communications capability and schools that brought Thailand out of the middle ages and made it the Tiger of Asia (economically).

Burma.??????????????????????????????????/

[fasteddie]

.............. With the huge British empire leaving a legacy of British English especially in India's huge population and almost every African country speaking British English.......

What is " British English" ?

Britain is made up up of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland , Wales, the Channel Islands and a few other islands of the coast of Scotland. The versions of each are about as different as comparing what they speak in Canada to Austrialia.

There is no such thing as British English ! A more accurate term would be English English, or really just plain old simple English since it is the mother and original tongue that has been distorted by the so called English speaking countries into something else. We speak the original version, often called the Queen's English, or in the past the King's English. What ho.

SDM

I say old chap, that told the blighter!

[fasteddie]

.............. With the huge British empire leaving a legacy of British English especially in India's huge population and almost every African country speaking British English.......

What is " British English" ?

Britain is made up up of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland , Wales, the Channel Islands and a few other islands of the coast of Scotland. The versions of each are about as different as comparing what they speak in Canada to Austrialia.

There is no such thing as British English ! A more accurate term would be English English, or really just plain old simple English since it is the mother and original tongue that has been distorted by the so called English speaking countries into something else. We speak the original version, often called the Queen's English, or in the past the King's English. What ho.

SDM

Sorry about my misuse of British English. There is an English dictionary different for each country specifically and I should have said English English. I was trying to distance it from American English. If you just say just English, people ask which one?

I know it probably bothers you that people less familiar with the UK lump all the separate countries together.

Actually it doesn't bother me at all, I was just being facetious. I find it really annoys our American, Australian cousins to say something like, using Samual L Jacksons words after pretending not to understand them, " English, do you speak it ?!" But I'm only kidding, one thing as Brits we have that does tend to separate us from everyone else is our sense of humour. So what, the parrots dead, why is that even funny.

I'm pleased to say that I am fairly well travelled and believe that every country has good and bad. I've travelled all over the States and although I do believe that countries such as the UK are dragged I to things that we would rather not be by the US, this is nothing to do with Americans in general or America which is a wonderful country, but most developed countries are.

SDM

He's not dead! he's resting after a long squawk!

[fasteddie]

Why are you some of you haters still here? You made your point. Are you waiting for a visa?

Most posters have done the seagull thing... Swoop in, drop shit, swoop out.

Time to piss off. Go start a thread about your own sorry country.

Nah! we're having loads of fun watching you guys dig yourselves in deeper and deeper!

Best thread in ages.

[fasteddie]

The thread is full of nastyisms not reasons. It's full of mocking jibes not reasons.

For example, "MILITARY POWER The United States equals the power of ...Russia, China, Japan, Israel, Great Briton, France, Germany, And the next 6 most powerful nations combined.

I can hear an old Vietnamese gentleman laughing somewhere..." Post # 315

Dr no wrote the above and did not want to state a reason for anti Americanism he only wanted to mock America.

If he would have said people don't like America because of the Vietnam war I'd agree and point out that American youth stopped the war by demonstrations in the street and it was one of the last examples of young people actually influencing policy in the West instead of sitting on their butt playing computer games or looting retail stores.

The majority of the American people did not want the war in Vietnam, that's why it stopped without being won. We knew it was wrong and wanted to get out. I know, I was there. I fought and I protested and the war stopped.

If we hadn't gone to Vietnam, Thailand would be communist now and the Russians would feel more at home than they already do but what the heck. Do you appreciate the sacrifice America made to keep Thailand free?

You just don't get it do you!

"American youth stopped the Vietnam war" you say.

There you go again, bl@#dy yanks

Your congress and virtually the entire American population didn't even know that your government and the CIA were also bombing the <deleted> out of Laos and some of Cambodia, killing tens of thousands of civilians indiscriminately with unconventional weapons. Again, you think you were the only ones fighting in Vietnam don't you? The only ones protesting to stop the war? The only ones doing something to stop the senseless killing of both sides? The whole World had had enough of Vietnam, everyone was protesting about that war. At the least it was every country that was again dragged into another pointless war declared by America using the same untruths that they still use today which still result in the same outcomes. Your government stopped the Vietnam war because America couldn't win that war, do you understand that? Furthermore, staying in that war was far more damaging and costly for the American global image and your economy as well as the brutal divisive impact on your society.

As for your statement about saving Thailand from Communism, well I just can't find words to respond to that, other than, you wonder why you see anti-American sentiments in these posts.....OMG!

The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre) occurred at Kent State University in the US city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis. Some of the students who were shot had been protesting against the Cambodian Campaign, There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of four million students. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

I was at the protests in the 1970's. My future wife went to Kent State, Before that I was in the Army in Vietnam and Thailand and Laos.

I can answer any questions you may have about those things from a first hand perspective. No rumors. No media bias. I was there.

In 1962 Thailand, a member of the South East Asia Treaty Organization requested the SEATO nations for military assistance to help defend Thailand in case of any attack from North Vietnam troop movements along its northern borders.

In 1960 Thailand and Laos and Vietnam and Cambodia were not under the communist sphere of influence. In the 1970's Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia were under the communist sphere of influence. Thailand was the domino that did not fall because of the US military presence in Thailand from 1965 to 1975.

You don't get an opportunity very often to speak to one of the people who were involved in the history you have only learned about from books. Myself and many others posting on Thai Visa could give you a unique and accurate perspective on that time period if you only would ask.

"Thailand was the domino that did not fall because of the US military presence in Thailand from 1965 to 1975"

So despite the fact they had already whupped you, you still insist they were scared of you so they didn't attack Thailand?

You really do take the biscuit!

[In Search of Space]

.............. With the huge British empire leaving a legacy of British English especially in India's huge population and almost every African country speaking British English.......

What is " British English" ?

Britain is made up up of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland , Wales, the Channel Islands and a few other islands of the coast of Scotland. The versions of each are about as different as comparing what they speak in Canada to Austrialia.

There is no such thing as British English ! A more accurate term would be English English, or really just plain old simple English since it is the mother and original tongue that has been distorted by the so called English speaking countries into something else. We speak the original version, often called the Queen's English, or in the past the King's English. What ho.

SDM

I say old chap, that told the blighter!

Don't the origins of the English language come from northern Germany, mixed up with a bit of French & few others along the way ? So are we speaking German English ?

The poor guy married to the Hi-So multi-millionaire nymphomaniac

[SDM0712]

He's not dead! he's resting after a long squawk!

He's pinning for the lucky7, miss.

[AYJAYDEE]

.............. With the huge British empire leaving a legacy of British English especially in India's huge population and almost every African country speaking British English.......

What is " British English" ?

Britain is made up up of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland , Wales, the Channel Islands and a few other islands of the coast of Scotland. The versions of each are about as different as comparing what they speak in Canada to Austrialia.

There is no such thing as British English ! A more accurate term would be English English, or really just plain old simple English since it is the mother and original tongue that has been distorted by the so called English speaking countries into something else. We speak the original version, often called the Queen's English, or in the past the King's English. What ho.

SDM

I say old chap, that told the blighter!

Don't the origins of the English language come from northern Germany, mixed up with a bit of French & few others along the way ? So are we speaking German English ?

The poor guy married to the Hi-So multi-millionaire nymphomaniac

there is a lot of Norse in the English langage as well

[fasteddie]

He's not dead! he's resting after a long squawk!

He's pinning for the lucky7, miss.

I'm sorry! I have a cold.

Edited July 23, 2014 by fasteddie

[fasteddie]

there is a lot of Norse in the English langage as well

.............. With the huge British empire leaving a legacy of British English especially in India's huge population and almost every African country speaking British English.......

What is " British English" ?

Britain is made up up of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland , Wales, the Channel Islands and a few other islands of the coast of Scotland. The versions of each are about as different as comparing what they speak in Canada to Austrialia.

There is no such thing as British English ! A more accurate term would be English English, or really just plain old simple English since it is the mother and original tongue that has been distorted by the so called English speaking countries into something else. We speak the original version, often called the Queen's English, or in the past the King's English. What ho.

SDM

I say old chap, that told the blighter!

Don't the origins of the English language come from northern Germany, mixed up with a bit of French & few others along the way ? So are we speaking German English ?

The poor guy married to the Hi-So multi-millionaire nymphomaniac

Based on Latin with lots of other influences.