Why do the British hate the Americans so much while Americans adore Brits?

[BigBallinChester]

I'll never understand this, they hate Americans and practically foam at the mouth towards them. This is present in almost all British TV,Media and News. Meanwhile Americans tend to like British folks and their Media. It always seemed weird to me.

[Birds]

Originally posted by White Knight:

The simple truth is that Europe's unwanted degenerates jumped ship and went to the New World to make a life for themselves. When this unofficial colony managed to thrive instead of starving and dying off, Europe sent soldiers to remind them who was still in charge. The colonists sent those soldiers home and Europe has been miffed ever since.

North Americans have a love/hate thing going on with Europe. Many of us are direct descendants, some of us love European accents, culture, etc. Meanwhile, we mock those same accents, believe they don't wash often enough, smoke crappy cigarettes, etc. In truth, I think we kind of feel insecure about the fact that Europeans have such rich history, architecture, culture, and other things that our ancestors rejected.

I bet Australia is a bit similar in this regard?

Not really, Australia got halfway through removing itself from the Westminster system then the UK simply started passing laws that prevented them from removing themselves.

Their options were to buck the single most powerful economic country on the planet by breaking their own laws to get rid of them, or do their dirty work in intelligence and human trafficking.

Today Australia's single most important and valuable product is safe havens for traffickers making the rounds between SE Asia and the Commonwealth.

Making fun of Britain's complete lack of indigenous cultures, having destroyed them all themselves, is a bit of a national pastime. In private. Since if it's in public the UK puts pressure on the government to send police to arrest you.

[PawgaliciouS QueeN]

Projection.

[White Knight]

Originally posted by Birds:

Not really, Australia got halfway through removing itself from the Westminster system then the UK simply started passing laws that prevented them from removing themselves.

Their options were to buck the single most powerful economic country on the planet, or do their dirty work in intelligence and human trafficking.

Today Australia's single most important and valuable product is safe havens for traffickers making the rounds between SE Asia and the Commonwealth.

Relax, no one is coming for your vegemite sandwiches.

My point was simply that there is a love/hate relationship between colonies that were never colonies, who managed to do well for themselves despite the challenges they faced, and the countries that didn't want them.

[Birds]

Originally posted by White Knight:

Originally posted by Birds:

Not really, Australia got halfway through removing itself from the Westminster system then the UK simply started passing laws that prevented them from removing themselves.

Their options were to buck the single most powerful economic country on the planet, or do their dirty work in intelligence and human trafficking.

Today Australia's single most important and valuable product is safe havens for traffickers making the rounds between SE Asia and the Commonwealth.

Relax, no one is coming for your vegemite sandwiches.

My point was simply that there is a love/hate relationship between colonies that were never colonies, who managed to do well for themselves despite the challenges they faced, and the countries that didn't want them.

That's extremely vague and I have no idea what you're talking about.

There was also an attempt to replace Vegemite with Marmite, and this took the shape of top-down enforcement until half the country started rioting including the grocery stores themselves.

[BigBallinChester]

Originally posted by Makise Kurisu:

Originally posted by Crasus:

China is current worlds most hated country and it turns out many other countries now are exploiting and bombing each other now that America is in decline.

So your excuse for America bombing and exploiting the world, is that other countries are bombing and exploiting the world?

Are you saying other countries aren't hated because they aren't doing the same?

[BigBallinChester]

Originally posted by Makise Kurisu:

Originally posted by Ulfrinn:

Why would people going around being rude to American citizens?.

Because not leaving America means that one is implicitly supporting imperialism by participating in that society.

The only moral action is to get out before the imperialist house of cards collapses.

Otherwise, animosity is justified, as Americans who denounce imperialism while still paying taxes to the world’s largest imperial economy are hypocritically enjoying the fruits of imperialism.

By this logic everyone should be mean to Russians and Chinese for supporting their large imperial and fascist countries.

[Plaid]

Originally posted by Crasus:

I'll never understand this, they hate Americans and practically foam at the mouth towards them. This is present in almost all British TV,Media and News. Meanwhile Americans tend to like British folks and their Media. It always seemed weird to me.

Maybe get to know a country beyond the television shows it produces (and beyond the propaganda your government tells you)

[Birds]

Originally posted by Crasus:

Originally posted by Makise Kurisu:

Because not leaving America means that one is implicitly supporting imperialism by participating in that society.

The only moral action is to get out before the imperialist house of cards collapses.

Otherwise, animosity is justified, as Americans who denounce imperialism while still paying taxes to the world’s largest imperial economy are hypocritically enjoying the fruits of imperialism.

By this logic everyone should be mean to Russians and Chinese for supporting their large imperial and fascist countries.

just the ones who post here to support it; the regular users who blend in and don't do weird stuff like that are, presumably, not the issue.

[Dwolfin]

I think you got that backwards, not too sure how you messed that up

[apathy]

I hate the American government, for sure.

Whether I hate its people is up to them to decide.

[Netaris]

Originally posted by Crasus:

I'll never understand this, they hate Americans and practically foam at the mouth towards them. This is present in almost all British TV,Media and News. Meanwhile Americans tend to like British folks and their Media. It always seemed weird to me.

I have no clue either. I thinked they were good friends as they're basically the same peoples, that's strange.

[Volare per Noctem]

Originally posted by Crasus:

I'll never understand this, they hate Americans and practically foam at the mouth towards them. This is present in almost all British TV,Media and News. Meanwhile Americans tend to like British folks and their Media. It always seemed weird to me.

Because of Florida man always getting on the news and making us all look like an undesirable populace.

[Xero_Daxter]

Truth be told I can't take Brits seriously.

Imagine a British guy trying to rob you.

"Oi. Hand me your bloody wallet, mate. Nice and slow, ye."

[GloriousZote]

Oh no, America DOES hate the British, it's just that they hate the French even more, and the French hate the Brits, so America is content in a.. let's call it a peace treaty with the Brits until France has been dealt with.

It's like the old saying goes: "The enemy of my enemy is someone I'll only nuke tomorrow."

[Hobbit XIII]

Originally posted by Xautos:

Originally posted by Hobbit XIII:

You need to do bit more research. England defended itself and even if Battle of Britain in the air failed the South East had transformed itself into guerrilla central that would have culminated in the gradual withdrawal of forces and becoming a war of attrition with an estimated loss of a million people and the German's losing.

Please research more on the home guard and its training beyond what the jokes are about.

Much of the work was dismantled and the rubble / bricks were put into rebuilding housing and infrastructure.

don't know about now but when i was a brat you could still see some of the underground bunkers fenced off by the MOD for use in WW2 by the guerrilla / special forces.
Those assigned that duty were given 10 days rations for when the call came and could not say a thing about what they were to do or had done or anything about it for 30 + years even after the war.
Asked why only ten days they were told you wont be alive any longer.

I know how effective the SAS were at times during WW2, but there are times they also failed pretty badly as well. the home guard luckily was never really tested with a full blown invasion against a battle hardened German military. but that's just one of those what if's that we will never know.

I am not talking about the SAS and you have shown you have done very little research in that field by saying the SAS in the defence should operation sea lion fail.

Do you know who trained the home guard and why they were removed?