Why are so many Americans anti-American? 

Why are so many Canadians anti-Canada? I'm an American that immigrated to Canada. The same mindset exists on both sides of the border. So terrible.

@@gregfed Canadians are far more anti-american than anti-Canadian.

@@gregfed Canadians are very patriotic

​@@gregfedit may be hard for me to talk because I've never been to Canada, but I have not seen a single anti-Canada Canadian. I've seen loads of anti-America Americans, though.

@@gregfed Canadians love canada, but we hate the politicians

Fascism and Communism/Marxism are our favorite nothing words. Everyone is a fascist or communist.

Factually incorrect

While the US is far far from being Fascist (from an institutional point of view)- There are some cultural undertones in the US that are a bit alarming that do overlap with "The Big F" ... namely deep adherence to a strong social-military overlap... ex, flying B2 stealth bombers over a sporting event... No matter how one looks at things like that, that's more like something out of the mid-20th century authoritarian playbook than it is like a democratic nation.

something literally nobody is saying

@@cakt1991just saying your marginalized makes me think your one of those extremely offended twitter types

I'd more say "malevolently half-informed".

@@davidnicholson6680agreed

Americans believing propaganda nonsense history is far more common. Hear about the “Lost Cause?”

I'd say it's more like unwillingly informed. You know how you learn random info about, say, the Kardashians or whatever. And you are not interested in them at all and never actively sought that info out, yet somehow that's now stuff you are aware of? America is like that too for lots of non-Americans. I'm not blaming Americans for this. It's probably more the fault of local news media in various countries, algorithms online pushing America-centric content, and the cultural influence of American entertainment media. But in any case, it's not that most people are actively searching for issues to criticise America for. And if the tone coming from America (through media, online content and comments, etc) is negative... well that's what we learn. In any case we kinda can't escape it?

It sets my teeth on edge to get lectured by Brits or Australians about how much better they understand my country's politics than I do, because of something they read in the Guardian or wherever. And it happens pretty often. JJ is *kind of* doing it here. But at least he acknowledges that what he's giving is a slightly mystified outsider perspective based on direct observation.

"I love my country, that's why I want to work hard to improve it" is a great way to put it

⁠@@wolfphoenix9049 Ich stimme zu

I hate my country, thus I left and won't go back. There are inarguably better places to live in the world.

Yeah, bet it will work in Russia and North Korea

@michiganmajin7284 well said

I dated a girl from Brazil, who knew all about US slavery but couldnt tell me when slavery ended in Brazil (20 years later than America) these kind of people must just really not care about learning anything of their own country's history.

@@tuckerchisholm1005 Nope, they just enjoy hating on the US as a scapegoat for all imaginable evils of the world.

I know a guy from Austria who thought that Montana was in the south

maybe the reason non Americans are so well informed about the US is because the US is the one that runs the entire world including what occurs in their own countries. this creator has the dimmest fans I have ever seen

You can also make the reverse argument. Americans who are so starstruck by 'european' styles government, healthcare and so on and and don't know that Puerto Rico isn't a state. In general those people are simply annoying. The grass is always greener.. elsewhere apparently

Probably some truth to this

That only carries you so far. At some point, you have to start thinking for yourself.

@@TheSurrealGoose a lot of people really don't do that unfortunately

​@@JJMcCulloughhonestly yea, as a foreigner living in America for over a decade it baffles me how consciously oblivious Americans are to foreign propaganda.

I have been all over the world and never have been given that impression that people think we are terrible. They may disagree with some things about our government and some of our countries policies, but that does not translate to them being anti-American. Before I spent time out of the country, in the military, and visiting on vacation, I would hear people say "Oh they don't like Americans in this place or that place." But when I had a chance to see the world. I realized, they really don't give us as much thought as we think they do. I have yet to be in a forighn land where they show any animosity to Americans. It has generally been a positive experince for I and the people in the country I was in.

No, if anything American Society IGNORED its failures and wrongdoings and overblew the successes for too damn long. Now with the internet as a whole you a lot of the crap that was hidden away isn't hidden anymore and since a lot of people were never taught its true history are now shocked about it. Plus, people feel like there is no hope for the future and our leaders are too busy being greedy and maintaining the status quo than actually doing right by their own citizens. I don't blame people for thinking that the only way to fix it is to tear it down and start over.

​@@Violent_Wolfen ^^^

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Sure, but what have we, as a nation, successfully done as a positive contribution in the last 5 yrs? 10 yrs? Sure, we can argue commerce and services like Amazon and Meta, but we didn't do that, US businesses did that with the help of globalization and flexible regulations. Sure we finally pulled out of Afghanistan, but should we have been there for 20 yrs? We can point to a few Supreme Court cases, but that's less than a dozen people who we're now realizing some miiiiiight be outside influenced. Even going back further for our true accomplishments, most are fruit from the poisonous tree. We got Bin Ladin...who was once an ally; we got Hussein...who we once sent weapons; we won the Space Race, thanks to Operation Paperclip. Not even touching how we learned about Syphilis. Oh! The Olympics! Sports is our positive contribution. I suppose aiding Ukraine is a common good...not entirely altruistic, but it's a start. Now, name 5 negative things brought to you by the letters U, S, & A in 2023 alone. My mind can aaaalmost rattle them off like lyrics to "We Didn't Start the Fire" lol. That doesn't mean I'm anti-American. I'm educated on the history and practices and the millions of broken eggs while we're still haven't gotten around to making that omelet. What we are is concerned. Are we OK over here?

In this case it’s pretty true though

Also keypads (like all electronics) are more prone to breaking down. So not exactly ideal. Whats even wrong with a lock and key? I think this is example of tech for tech sake. Tech exists to make our lives easier, not because it looks cool.

Nah. Not cathartic. Not “cathartic.” /

@@jhonklan3794 there’s entire towns and cities with these tho in the US😂 like these mfs don’t even bother asking ppl here; but are quick to give us their two cents

I’m exactly like you, but what every single HDI/ranking stats you look into, the US is up there with the best of the best. It’s like when you have no problems in life; you go out of your way to over blow things and make problems for yourself. It doesn’t help America is literally the social media and entertainment capital of the world; everyone is peering into our country consuming our things, but rarely do we bother looking into theirs . There are so many problems in Korea, Germany, hell even Sweden, and many similar 1st World countries, but we don’t hear about it because no one bothers looking at the numbers. The things I’ve seen in Asia and Europe would make your jaw drop, it’s time we use our massive media apparatus to start really showing these outsiders just what it’s like laying their countries problems out to the world 24/7, and I promise this anti-American sentiments will disappear over night.

We have the world's largest amount of incarcerated ppl. That's enough reason to shit on America for me.

seriously as a moderate liberal person, I feel the American patriotism growing in me the more I see far right weirdos hating our country.

The fact he thinks America is a failed society is hilarious. What does he think the definition of that phrase is? In my experience most right wingers think America is a failed society because there are people with more emotional maturity than them, who are more accepting of tolerant of differences than they are. They call these people “snowflakes” which is hilarious when they’re the ones who can’t handle the existence of people who are different than them.

Why should I even listen to someone who can't even keep their accent straight

hahahahaha

As he continues to say dubai is great

They should try and live there to see what it's like. Or in Angola, Argentina, Turkmenistan, Western Sahara...

Before my mother died we lived in a neighborhood where you could put a lighter next to water coming from your faucet and light the water on fire. HOWEVER, while my mom wasn't exactly an up person about the state of the US, she refused to let us compare ourselves to people that had it worse. Every meal was started with everyone stating something we were grateful for. I cannot imagine what it's like to live in conditions worse than my old neighborhood. But mother spent years on the streets when she was a kid. She ate out of dumpsters, and in the winter dumpsters were how she didn't freeze to death. I don't want to say that the US is a failed state, but the signs of becoming one also shouldn't be ignored. History had taught us how hard and fast giants fall when they fall. I don't want that here. I really don't want us to take the rest of the world down with us if we can't fix things before that. My mom wasn't exactly a pessimist. She was a realist that died from lingering complications from getting shot while working in child protective services 15 years ago. The commonplace gun violence here and the denial of the current and worsening climate crisis, the walking back of equity and progress, those made her very active in our community believing that even though our neighbors hated her, that the only proper response was to do everything possible to help them and low key teach anyone that wanted to learn how the system works, so it didn't run them over. She died in December. Me and my siblings were taken in by family friends in Canada that can barely afford the extra burden of all of us. But they have been joyous to have all the extra life in their house. We're very lucky. And we see that. But we also want to go home and are working, from a distance at the moment, to make it a home we can return to in relative safety

@@isaac4273 In some respects many Americans have already felt the kind of struggles described by rachel9876, from police brutality/corruption to the cutoff of utilities as a result of a combination of infrastructure degradation and an ever increasing number of climate disasters. Puerto Rico was without power and clean water for over a year after Hurricane Maria, for example, and many Americans die from preventable as well as treatable diseases, which are not the kind of experiences faced by people living in other developed countries. And many people who don't live in America or flee to America as refugees may have experienced the same problems abroad due to the geopolitical fallout from American Imperialism at the turn of the 20th century and the Cold War 'Containment' policies that followed. That's not to say everything is America's fault as it certainly isn't, but if you look deep enough into American history, you'll find it's not completely innocent either.

South African here, from Gauteng. You're right, but you're also wrong. America is a state on its way to failure if it continues to follow current trends. On one side of the coin, no matter who is in power, the government is complacent with corporate predation and expansion. They have no solutions for the imminent threat of job replacing AI because they refuse to prevent companies from abusing workforces. The unhealthy and implosive gig economy grows larger and traditional employment is disappearing; living costs are sky-rocketing, wages are eternally stagnant, markets are heavily saturated and the value of labour is plummeting which will be amplified by A.I. On the other side of the coin, we not only see a complacent political and institutional movement, but a malevolent one: fascism. Yes, I know, everyone throws that word around and I am not saying the U.S is fascist, which South Africa increasingly is, but it is facing a rising fascist wave. The fascist element is not only working social discrimination into their platforms and into the institutions which they do control, like the Supreme Court, but, like the mainstream of both political parties, they are perfectly fine with and prefer corporate domination and deregulation even though rhetorically they preach against corporate power. But notice, they only preach against corporate power, when fascist voices are deplatformed. My dad is a Trump fan. He hates Malema. I've tried to point out to him, before, the stark resemblance between Trump and Malema in terms of rhetoric and the type of support base they both have. I have also pointed out the stark resemblance between the Zumas and the Trumps; criminal corruption to the highest degree that has wormed into the deepest parts of government. In South Africa, we have an oligarchy type gang that steals all the resources, preys on the working class and sabotages everything for capital gain. The only difference in the U.S is that, whilst the government isn't doing this to a large extent, they are complacent in allowing corporations to do just this. I know, it's overused, but corporate power really does rule the world. If it didn't, nobody would be worried about things like automation, workplace abuse and predatory employment. When it comes to financial well-being of average Americans, which therefore bleeds into physical and mental well-being, corporations have the final and usually the only say. Not that this trend doesn't exist here in SA either, but here, corporate predators are as much victims of the government as the rest of us are. What I do know is, our government has set the minimum wage to a meager R23/hr; utterly laughable. But what I also know is that a lot of companies can afford to pay workforces alot more than that. Regardless, South Africa is an example of what happens when fascism gets mainstream platforms. South Africa is an example of what happens when you have both predatory corporations and a corrupt and predatory government. South Africa is a good example of what could happen to America, to some degree, if the same fascist elements continually gain political control.

"Dying empire" is a better description of us.

does your country have a maniac ruling one of its states who has banned so many books in schools that school libraries are literally being emptied out, who has passed and proposed countless bills targeting sexual minorities and helped inspire a wave of similar bills nationwide, AND is running for the presidency? We might have good reason to believe that things have seriously gone wrong here when a very large amount of people openly support electing someone like that to lead the most powerful country in the world. We might have good reason to hate what's happening to our country.

Thanks for this, honestly helped a lot

As an American, I complain about America because we could and should be better than we are. That does not mean that we are terrible, there's still nowhere I'd rather be.

What’s wrong with working to improve our situation? I feel like this attitude of comparison only serves to let the US off the hook for significant problems we still have to address. Just because we don’t have it as bad as Costa Rica doesn’t mean we have to be satisfied with the state of our own country

The average quality doesn’t matter to me, because I live in one of the worst bits.

then you watch a lot of garbage

I second this. I've had to leave some of my favorite sites because of a huge pervasive anti-American sentiment, even on posts that weren't political in nature. I felt like the rest of the world was trying to gaslight me into thinking the situation is worse than it really is. I needed this wake-up slap, and so does the rest of the world

Be an even bigger contrarian (because that seems to be popular these days) I love America like I do! I am proud to be an American and will always be!

Its strange because so many of them are clearly very ignorant about America and just regurgitate what they read on the internet. The joy they seem to feel in falsely denigrating america is also gross and something our country would never do. We dont need to hate other countries to love our own!

It's not anti American. It's waking up to the injustices and hypocrisy that prevents us from living out the constitution. Eg. Pointing out problems to better our nations future

The US is doing pretty compared to so many other countries

Same here. I feel like I have become more patriotic since I moved away. I am yearning to go back. (Never thought I’d say that!)

Same, yet I see videos online about how much better the country I live in is compared to the US. The truth is is the cost of living is much lower here and Americans take over their remote jobs to live here, so they are automatically richer. I work for local companies thus make very little money and my living standards are far low than in America.

SAME

Same

Same also, I moved abroad and never missed my home country so much This video similarly got me emotional and also made my rethink a lot of the rhetoric I’ve shared as jokes and also how much more defensive I’ve become of America since leaving it Great video

I think this has more to do with economics than politics. Like this reality or not (even if I don't agree how conservatives went about it)-- the U.S. (or any country, really) can't service the national debt forever. It has become such a chasm that there is almost a guarantee we have a depression in the next 10 years. I love America. It has its faults, and we should try and fix them. But between a student loan bubble that has left high need fields in short supply that will eventually burst, a national debt issue that is effectively a ticking time bomb, and the size difference of the boomer population compared to Gen Z--there will be an event that shakes the economy out of its stasis. The simple reality is America gave up trying to hold its national superiority while the rest of the world caught up. The U.S. was ahead of its time for so long because we wanted to be ahead. Science, business, sports. Then came the selling of manufacturing overseas and the push that everyone should go to college like that didn't devalue the college degree.

@@theragnarokmachine2251 Agreed - tho more a matter of gross inequality - 0.01% vs 99.99% - failing the economy, and the economy failing the overwhelming majority. Since 80s, Western countries have increasingly pushed the costs of social goods - like an educated workforce, for example - onto individuals. Rather than using the super powers sovereign nations have to fund long term projects and spread risks and benefits across millions of people, we choose to pretend these super powers don't exist, and push much higher costs onto individuals using less powerful institutions than govt, like banks and insurance companies. So we've loaded up ourselves and the economy on private debt, which is bad for both of us. And despite not investing in social goods like education, govt debt is higher than ever, tho it's much less of an issue than private debt. (The few economist who called 2007 in advance were basing much of their analysis on private debt.) On a positive note, there seems to be a shift away from Neoliberalism toward a more Keynesian approach in recent months. Neoliberalism can't compete with China's mixed economy. We had a more mixed economy during the Golden Age of Capitalism, when we were most prosperous🤔

Not even realizing that societal collapse is 100% worse than what we have going on right now. They're essentially hoping things get worse, just because things are bad in the moment. Idiot logic.

Speaking for poor people it's because there's an underclass that gets ignored and I do pray for the downfall of the middle class I hope you all suffer as "we" have suffered lol

​@@noahlemon7870cool basing your political views on spite; that has never horrifically backfired or ruined people's lives, no sir.

Honestly fuck patriotism but we doo need to tone the the skepticism

"Never considering another form of government". I mean have they not heard of any other types before or something? What does not standing for the pledge (which the Supreme Court affirmed in1943) have to do with our form of government? Yes, we definitely need that healthy balance of praise and criticism, but I'm not sure if a highly authoritarian regime is the best comparison or a "breath of fresh air" from a political environment perspective

To be fair, most students don’t stand for the pledge not as a deliberate act to demonstrate some initiative for whatever beliefs they may have, but because they’re indifferent and aren’t mandated to do it. Why get up to stand for a couple minutes when you can stay sat down with your phone? It’s more of a convenience matter.

​@@jefft2546(sorry about the length of this) not standing during the anthem at football games initially started as a way to speak or against systemic racism being exercised against black people in the United States. Systemic means it's built into the government, and the way the country runs as a whole. If we give the kids the benefit of the doubt and consider that they are also exercising their right to protest (rather than just not wanting to stand up first thing in the morning), the logical conclusion would be that something big and important about the system needs to change. People usually think that means the government needs to change. The radical leftists seem to idealize communism, and the radical rightists seem to idealized authoritarianism. A good teacher should have conversations about this, and encourage the kids to think about what actually happens in those styles of government. I am not American and don't know what their curriculum is like, but I know we did study those governments, and life was equally not good in both those types of countries, because to keep the government going in those, they very quickly wound up running almost the same way. Please keep in mind this is not my way of saying systemic racism isn't an issue, because it very much is, in my country as well as the USA. This is something I've actually been thinking about since my friends told me they are leftists who want communism to be our system of government. I think I literally asked if they actually didn't study communism, since I knew teachers have a little flexibility in the way they teach the subjects, and surely nobody who studied communism in action could think that was a smart idea. Turns out, they did cover that subject, and they are kind, foolish people.

@@nenemuy God Bless Mediocrity

If you dobt mind me asking, where do you live now, countrywise

@@person3070 I’m in Europe myself and I ducking hate it here man; miss my home so much, no money to be made; the second I get the chance, I’m going back. How could I been so stupid fml, every important factor and stat goes against all the pessimistic talking points you ever hear, ffs why else would so many ppl be rushing to move to the US, but rarely the other way around? That right there should’ve been the biggest giveaway….but so many of us r too busy fighting each other to notice how good we have it

@@hollister2320 Damn that sucks. Hopefully you can return back soon. If I may also ask you, what country are you currently in and what makes you dislike living there so strongly?

I hear you. I was never really anti-American but after I moved away, I entered a period of intense learning and retrospection. I've been abroad for seven years and do intend to return to the USA one day. If I hadn't taken advantage of what my origin country had to offer before leaving, I wouldn't have made it to seven years.

@@jadeabyss9978 What country did you move to, if you don't mind me asking?

agreed.

This is because the pessimism is based on the established facts. One example is the gap between the rich and the poor is the largest ever been. The other is the millennials are worse off financially than their parents, which is the first time in the U.S. history. The second example is extremely shocking when you think about it; even the great depression did not cause a generation to be financially worse off than the previous one. No wonder the politicians with extreme views who condemns the current system are voted into offices. The system is no longer woking for the masses.

Most of the founding fathers died really pessimistic about the republic. Many of them lived through our first economic depression, the failed war with Canada, and the beginning of fierce political factionalism. Today we are going through similar things, so it's not surprising people today are feeling pretty pessimistic too.

Excuse me, but is it considered "Traditionally optimistic" inside the country? I'm not American so that's not a description I'd have have about their people

@@zweks Americans have throughout the past 150 years roughly remained optimistic in the future despite the odds this roughly popped up after the Civil War with Westward expansion really going into high gear but the height of this optimism happens with the Great Depression and World War 2 where FDR instilled a hope for the future against the odds of both near economic collapse and against fascist expansionism. It is sort of how we have the saying "if you can make it here you can make it anywhere". It was believed in America that you are the master of your own destiny and that bred American optimism about the future.

I had a little bit of an experience that was an eye opener for me. My mom is French and very critical of the US, like she will openly tell anyone how much it sucks. One day I was with my best friend, whose mom is Venezuelan (born in the US but grew up mostly in Venezuela). She told me how her mom got annoyed by my mom's constant anti American rhetoric because of what the country gave her as an immigrant: she was able to come down, get a very good job, marry a man who ended up developing a successful business, and have a very comfortable, privileged life. Not saying she couldn't get that in France but she essentially got the American dream that a lot of immigrants strive for when going there. My friend's mom worked hard to get her family here from Venezuela during the crisis. Then we have another friend who came from soviet Hungary. Of course, there are things in the US that warrant scrutiny and critic. But, when you start talking about how shit America is when you are in a place of privilege without providing much constructive balance or nuance to your argument other than "America bad"--it reeks of being tone deaf.

I would love to see evidence of how public schools teach you to hate America. Because, as someone who also studied high school in even a place like California, history, and especially modern history is incredibly sanitized. Let's not forget, that the government that bankrolls movies to have a pro-military messages is the same in charge of what's being taught in school.

God bless that man.

It’s the infiltration of the public schools - which at this point are little more than indoctrination camps - by Marxists and Marxist-derived ideology (e.g., social justice, BLM, feminism, wokery). If you live in any of the Anglosphere countries in the 21st century, you literally have it better than 99.99% of the people who’ve ever lived, yet these kids are being brainwashed to think their own country is on the same moral level as Hitlerite Germany. It’s disgusting.

Schools should be always neutral

This reminds me of a YT video I saw by a Vietnamese living in Germany who makes videos about living in Germany from a foreigners POV. She plays all the characters remarking about several things Germans do well, and the Germans saying no, we do all those things badly.

True.

this guy is an idiot and he knows nothing about America. I mean, yeah, our standard of living is better than most of the world, but where are the only developed country without universal healthcare and corporations are running rampant here. I think is a concern that things will get worse if we stay on our current course.

I agree. Especially as a nonwhite American. It would be fucking stupid as hell for me to live here uncritically. Just self destructive and life ending.

You forgot to mention the racism. I haven’t finished the video yet but it’s super racist and white supremacist here and probably everywhere. Who knows I’m a stupid American who’s never been anywhere. . I know many would disagree but I’m a biracial woman who’s in my 40s now and I could tell you stories that would make you rage slap the nearest white person starting from when I was a child. I don’t know if I would’ve had a different experience in another country. I suspect if I had lived someplace other than the very racism Deep South of the US maybe things woulda been different. Also if I hadn’t been poor. I’ve literally hated this country for as long as I’ve been aware enough to hate it, but I’m not going to leave. I’m just going to sit in my beautiful backyard in a city I can’t figure out how we were able to afford a house in and sip my ethically sourced high end coffee whilst listening to this Canadian tut tut me for hating this place. Also fuck Andrew Tate. I hate America for making Andrew Tate 😂😂😂😂 rabble rabble rabble

You're just our little north Korea we keep as a buffer from Russia

⁠@@FishSaucbuffer against what exactly? a ballistic missile 🤣🤣🤣

A friend of mine has started labelling things like this "luxury beliefs", which is a phrase I really like.

Well said.

@@lucasdeniro1906 Land and Naval Invasion defense, but yea also far away location for air defense closer to where they would launch from

Most of the world have a good view about the US. Yes you are obsessed about race, socialism and your own ideas but comparing how other superpowers behaved the US is pretty cool.

My family grew up outside of America and we love our homeland but America is definitely way better. Less crime and more opportunities

A decade ago, I remember Americans loving America more but I still love being American.

I lived in the USA eons ago (Carter-Reagan). I have only fond memories of the Americans; friendly, helpful, kind, generous. Their main issue is the choice between peepee and poopoo at the ballot box. 🤢 Chosing the lesser of two evils will always get you evil...just less of it. 😏

@@BigMamaDaveX If you want better options, then fight for better options in the public square. Voting DOES work, the problem is your opinions aren't popular. As much as I hate Trump, he was simply popular. That's the reason he won.

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Thanks, friend.

Then you are foolish.

That is very sweet of you, thanks.

No. You’re hating on us.

And sacrificing to improve it in your own local way.

That's how I see it too! You accept the flaws and focus on change instead of moving out and doing nothing.

The French are the last ones who should be criticizing America about a lot of stuff like racism, police brutality, and imperialism. And I really like France just as I like America but both have issues.

@@Strideo1 loving a country while understanding it's faults is a sign of patriotism

That's what I've always said, but I'm not really sure modern American pessimism is doing much to inspire people to work to improve their country. A lot of people feel the country is hopeless and that they can't do anything to improve it. Who do you think is going to work harder to improve their life, someone who thinks "I'm a good person who could be better" or someone who thinks "i'm an evil failure"? I mean, maybe you might think the person who is super down on themselves might use those negative emotions to fuel their actions, but in my experience they're more likely to just give up and wallow in their misery.

Euros are often uncritical and credulous. Mocking America is entertainment to them. It's sold to them by their media for fun. It's the kind of vapid, shallow "takes" people raised on stuff like Colbert and Daily Show have. Once you try and dig into anything of substance with them they shrivel up fast or become very emotional and nasty. It's really bizarre.

As a European who has been to the USA and Brazil many times my two cents is that we judge countries based on their individual circumstances. The US and European Union combined are some of the richest nations on the planet. When Ireland can't build a metro in 40 years, when German trains decline in quality, when house prices soar to extortionate levels in the Portugueese capital, we Europeans complain because we have little in the way of an excuse. It should be better. The US is the richest and most powerful country in the world while many south american countries suffer immense problems from crime and poverty eg mexican cartels or brazilian favelas to poor economies suffering from a crisis or horrendous inflation eg Argentina. So when a citizen from an EU country goes to say, São Paulo in Brazil, and sees the great subway and rail network or the excellent public university of USP or the modern neighbourhoods inspite of problems like poverty, crime and favelas, we are impressed how far they have come inspite of their disadvantages. They had an excuse to fail but overcame it. They excell at something. Europe and the US dont have excuses like they do. So when America is so much more powerful and richer than say Finland, Spain or Denmark, it seems odd to us you lag so far behind. US Healthcare, education, public transport, food quality, work life balance, urban design, infrastructure etc etc is all so much worse than in Europe. European nations dont get everything right but most excell at something(s) and are decent in most aspects of a citizens life. American excells at little bar being rich, powerful and failing to use said wealth and power to improve citizens lives. When Brazil has better examples of transport, healthcare or education than American cities, you know youve a problem. It is a pity, America has so much potential.

@@danielforrester5265 You are literally doing what this video is about, the US excels at many things and you're glossing over that to make it seem worse than it is. This video literally mentions a few of the things that the US is at the forefront of. The point is, you can make any country look worse by comparing its worst qualities with the best qualities of another country.

@@danielforrester5265 "US Healthcare, education, public transport, food quality, work life balance, urban design, infrastructure etc etc is all so much worse than in Europe" Half of those are demonstrably false, the opther half re dubious. I'm always amazed at how unsubstantiatedly arrogant Europeans can be with respect to the US. I could go on listing numerous areas in which the EU is far behind the US, or when the US has had to bail out the EU as a result of their financial or political shortcomings (let alone militarily), but honestly Americans have no such unhealthy interest in criticizing peer countries.

The hatred for the United States doesn't just extend to Europe; it encompasses the majority of the world's population according to official surveys on the question. The majority of the world's population thinks that the US is the greatest threat to world peace and that isn't without reason. The United States has been the perpetrator of the majority of atrocities during the 20th century after World War II. It has violently couped and installed fascist dictatorships in Guatemala, Chile, Brazil, El Salvador, Argentina, Peru, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, South Korea, the list goes on. The US is also responsible for some of the largest mass murders in history. Such as its murder of 1-2 million Koreans through mass napalm and biological warfare, 1-2 million in Vietnam with the same methods as was done in Korea, the Nixon Administration supplying Yahya Khan's West Pakistani dictatorship with hundreds of millions of dollars of tanks, bombs, planes, and munitions that were used to genocide 2-3 million Bengalis in East Pakistan in 1971, Its support of the Settler colonial Apartheid state's genocide of Palestine, and I could go on. But what is lost upon European liberals and other westerners about this dynamic is that the American people don't have a say in their government. From its very inception, the US was and is a Plutocratic Oligarchy. Bribing politicians in the US is fully legal and the same Corporations that bribe the Republicans bribe the Democrats. Republicans exist to tout the racist, xenophobic, and imperialistic propaganda of corporate interest opening, while the Democrats exist to absorb the votes of people who don't like these things and do literally nothing to change the Republican course of policy. Biden, "The most pro-labour president in our history" worked really hard to crush unionising strikes such as those of the Railroad workers after East Palestine, has only expanded oil drilling, is maintaining Trump's border wall and extending his anti-immigrant policies, and has literally not implemented a single demand of BLM and has only increased police funding. In short, the only difference between Democrats and Republicans is that Dems want to put the LGBT and BLM flag on the bomb heading for an Iraqi hospital while the Republicans don't want these flags on their bombs.

Ja! Das!

Want to stop Unrest in America

ban the people who are saying it

Du bist nicht Deutsch

@@search_Adam_seeker Weißt du woher?

ja, truth hurts

Playing devils advocate, they do have solid points.

Next step should then be, “what is right? what is wrong? Morality is objective let’s act accordingly to fix it”

@@jonathanharris2570 There is no objective morality system.

I believe much anti-American sentiment is a backlash to the 200+ year notion that American can do no wrong while willfully ignoring many terrible things we were doing. Maybe we'll be able to reach a healthy equilibrium in the next 30 years.

This is a very revisionist view. 50 years ago the hight of the civil rights movement, Watergate, LA riots, Iraq etc. There's been plenty of conflict and thus criticism towards america by americans, even in recent history. The world is always ending, we just forget because it's gonna happen tomorrow ;)

@sticy5399 I wouldn’t be so dismissive about the woes of my generation. We are markedly poorer than our parents and one of the few, if the only, to be so. We’re not doing great, things have been going up for 230 years up until now where it feels like we’ve peaked in every faucet of life.

Ironic that immigrants are often able to appreciate their new home better than anyone else, but are often accused of being unpatriotic by chauvinists who regularly complain about how their country is going to shit.

There's something else going there especially when it comes to poverty levels. If you can convince people they are worse off today, even if they are better off, it is easier to get them to believe that your side has all the answers to their problems. It is about political gain.

Had a guy in college unironically argue America was like a third world country during class. I laughed out loud but had to stifle it quick when I realized I was the only one laughing at the absurdity of what was just stated.

America for Americans and you aren’t and will never be American!

Even growing up here I think it's weird. Young people complain about being so poor, yet they are rocking Iphones. I'm like what the hell. In the 80's my mom had to use lay away to even get a VCR, and this was long after the rest of the country already had them. And even I had it much easier than 100 years ago when people couldn't afford new clothes. Things were repeatedly sown up again and again so they would last a long time. Sewing was a highly valued skill in those days for a reason. And yes even minorities are doing quite well now days. They are driving around in nicer cars than me, I have trouble believing they are this disadvantaged. As for me, I'm doing okay. I'm certainly not poor like I grew up. I'm lower middle class and have good money set aside for retirement. Financial discipline can get you a long way in this country. And I don't actually own an Iphone LOL.

Very well said- all the good vibes to you.

One of the best comments here, thank you.

Stop lying America doesn’t have a history of rewriting anything or creating lies to fit in narrative nice conspiracy theory go read a book

True. It has totally run amok.

@@superduck6456 i don't hate myself. i hate the monsters who run this country and the whole world, into the ground: the rich and the politicians who work for them, and you who support their lies

Yes. I live in an area (West Portland) with a lot of immigrants especially from India, Mexico, and Southeast Asia and I barely ever hear them complain about conditions in America, I think because they have first hand experience of what life is like in an actual “Third World Country”. Even their children born in the US don’t seem to feel as strongly. Most of the cynical side comes from upper middle class White people who are actually the best off. And the most patriotic are the people in rural areas who are poor and have bad access to resources.

⁠​⁠@@finneganmanthe8984that’s because those people have actual experience in working the land, part of this likely has to do with the fact that they have such a comfortable life that they can afford time to think about these issues while a person who barely gets by can’t. They complain as if the US is the worst nation in the world yet it’s one of the best, they just haven’t lived in a third world country to understand the experience.

Idk about immigrants. But none of the working class people I know are happy with their current or optimistic about America’s future. We’re all pissed and exhausted.

I wonder too if it’s simply because these middle class people spend too much time sitting around and thinking or have jobs where they do that and rather than interact with people, they observe, but also dissect and study but do so without any knowledge and think “omg things are different and that sucks. “

Until you get a toothache without insurance

Yeah that’s what this country is all about. We venerate people based on how well they can exploit and fuck over others. It’s a nation of scammers, liars, and people with no scruples; the types who value money over human life, natural beauty, and actual freedom run this country and it’s seen as a great thing to aspire to. It’s disgusting.

Agreed. It’s hard to be proud of my country if they let that happen

What's so upsetting about our awful healthcare is that we keep being told that those bills are what make our healthcare so great. That if we didn't give money to those filthy rich pharmaceutical companies, we would have horrible healthcare. And people buy this, demand the bills, and never really think about change until it's too late and they have their own medical debt to live with.

Also US should stop intervening and playing around in other countries (Assassinating their leaders, installing US favourable leaders and funding coups). Then the US has the audacity to be crying saying that other countries are doing human rights offences asking for sanctions. Makes your country look so obnoxious and self righteous.

Doctors don't work for cheap

The Germans brought us scientists, engineer, psychics, psychology, and medicine as an American I really admire Germany and the Germans.

Look the world is free to criticize the U.S. We are a country with a large economy, military, technological, pop culture footprint. We are not China or Russia or Saudi Arabia, we don't send a hit squad to murder journalists who question the regime. We are an easy target and sometimes we do need to be called out. People know they are free to trash us without fear of retaliation. I think jealously is at the heart of anti- american sentiment sometimes.

Anti-Americanism in Europe not today but in its origins has its roots in white supremacy and a type of ecological racism (not trying to sound so "woke" but it's true). Some European geographers way back during the age of discovery thought the environment of the Americas made it incapable of developing any high civilization and made its inhabitants inferior and those moving to the Americas to "degenerate". They said some pretty wacky stuff too like America's "immense forests" and "noxious vapours" from swamps stagnate its air leading to human degradation, the "silence and gloom" of America's forests causes its inhabitants like the "Tunguses of Siberia" to have few words in their language, to barely speak, and like to get drunk. Also they denied that the Aztecs really had a calendar because there's so way American "savages" could make one when they supposedly don't have "words to count above ten"

I've always wanted to visit beautiful countries in europe like Germany, ireland, and The Neatherlands. But after watching some tiktoks of Comstant anti American belittiling and Amercans being harrassed abroad simply for being American, I have reconsidered.

Russia Should blow us up 💥💥💥

It's like I told my dad, people in the USA are hard on our own country because we know we can do better, and in some ways it's not a bad thing, but we should still strive to do better because our people gave the potential to be better.

Pretty sure a million Iraqis would beg to differ

@@samsca8529Americans didn’t vote to go to war in Iraq, our legislators did

@@boardcertifiable Agreed!

Bruh I’m fairly certain that that first viewpoint comes from conservatives and the second from leftists. All Americans not thinking the same is not a contradiction.

What were they expecting their government to do? Go to war with the US over our abortion laws?

That baffles my mind.

Thats nuts to me, Australians should be focusing on their own country, because they live in a VERY good one... We are thousands of miles away from you and our only cultural connections are historically tied to the UK. BLM protests being a worldwide thing was also pretty eye-opening to me, it showed me with a real example how much other countries care about us and what we do. A great burden to bear, knowing we’re the most relevant society on the planet!

Yea zoomers don't even know where they live

I'm gonna go out and protest the Rishi Sunak administration now.

This is absolutely true- very well said.

I sincerely doubt that even if those issues were solved, that this anti-Americanism would go away. I think its deeper cultural shift brought about by technology and the poliferation of anti-American propaganda by genocide deniers like chomsky and the like. Communists who could not get over the fact that their pet project, global communism, had failed.

Gun violence has gone down since the 90s

@@nutmaster7794That was due to the lead inside gasoline braindamaging the general population

Yeah. It's nice to know I'm not alone in not being pessimistic.

We need more patriots to reassert faith in our country. I truly believe we have been the best superpower. We're not perfect. No country is. But what we have is special.

I’m glad there are people out their who still have faith in our nation. The media can be so negative that we forget how good we have it.

@@jhonklan3794 It's special because it's White, it was only every great because of how White it is, if you want it to return to greatness, you need to allow White people to have actual power, not browns and jews.

​@@kylenumb481 How do we have it good? The system actively wants us dead, doesn't hire us and prefers black immigrants for hire than us, White people aren't allowed together by race otherwise it's a hate group, yet BLM can exist, and any other nonWhite race can enjoy racial ideals. This place as it is, is a 4th world shithole, worse than South Africa, police torture Whites while treating blacks with kid gloves. We objectively do not have it good at all, there is a system collapse on the way and I couldn't look forward to it more.

There is nothing to criticize

The Internet has negatively polarized me against foreigners because of exactly this.

Hey I know russian healthcare is shit, but at least it’s cheap right

​​@@aidenhall8593 lost multiple close relatives to neglect in Russian healthcare system, but yeah it was free

Oh you're so right about the hunger games/totalitarian regime thing. I remember people kind of talking about that during the 2020 protests, about all these white middle class kids protesting for the first time and lowkey preparing for war like the Hunger Games. Tiktok had me convinced to pack a go-bag a few nights before the 2020 election.

@@alanirunnercorrect me if I’m wrong, but I think in Russia almost 20% of the population doesn’t have access to toilet.

@@anaverageyoutubeuserThat’s where the meme of Russian soldiers stealing toilets in Ukraine comes from.

You have to admit though: our failures are spectacularly embarrassing, especially for a nation as wealthy and powerful as us. We have a military that can't be beat, and a health care system that can't be used well at all. That dichotomy alone is staggering. It's easy to find yourself in the company of other developed nations and feel like the guy who's there because his grandfather owned the club but by himself couldn't button his shirt properly.

@@Theomite funny you mention that. I actually had to make use of American healthcare for an emergency surgery while I was there and it seemed like a very quick, efficient system compared to Canada. It's costs were high, but covered by a pretty reasonably affordable insurance plan (granted I was on a student insurance policy, so it was cheaper, but I also had no money coming in either so it balances out I think). Maybe I am wrong but this seems like a "grass is greener on the other side" type of situation.

I am like JJ. Glad I am Canadian and appreciate the US while being Canadian. Americans who praise Canada as some sort of left wing utopia name me sick. Despite what people down there think, we are a mix of left and right just as they are and while we have a lot more social programs and gun control; the fact is they don't know what the pros and cons are of many of our social programs. And our gun policy has been actually very sensible but up until recently has been far more liberal in its allowance of gun ownership than most nations. Canada isn't armed like America, but our gun ownership per capita is far higher than people realize. It works however because we have strict laws and people who own guns legally follow them. If only the government was strict in enforcing crimes with illegal weapons.....

​@@thirdtooth4069 yeah but as I heard from nearly every European and Canadian "are health care is free so therefore better" Firstly: taxes =/= free Secondly: I'd rather not wait at the hospital likes it's the DMV.

@@thirdtooth4069 I agree with you on this as well, although expensive, American healthcare is very good. (From personal experience)

*parents house bedrooms because they cant afford a place of their own in this economy

"yet you participate in society! interesting.."

"Yeah everything here sucks, we suck, sad, but true" A wise man once said if you have a problem with everyone, the actual problem is you. WE don't suck. YOU suck.

​@@jeffmorris5802Dude your country does suck in the sense your infrastructure is fcked, you don't help your population and then follow a long when Murdoch propaganda and lobbyists PR comes out and blames the people for shit that at its core is policy lobbyists have pushed. You can have all the pride you want doesn't take away from the fact your country is totally rooted.

I think this is brought on at least partially by the fact some groups in America do experience a lower standard of living, which upper class people don’t experience anywhere except for in potentially exaggerated ways online. This leaves them either to conclude this is exaggerated/made up or it’s the general state of the country because they don’t leave their wealthy areas often enough to have a real understanding. That’s my experience at least.

Europeans literally invented racism. I never understood that logic, though like only Americans are racist that makes no sense to me.

Traveling mostly to Canada and Europe reminds me of a lot of things that are better there that suck here. That said... even Canada is palpably not MY country. It's lovely and the people are great and the politics are better but it's not home. Going elsewhere does remind me of that.

This is an interesting one, you certainly aren't the only person to have the same feelings. But there is also a large american expat community who only felt vindicated by their traveling. And it's these travelers who talk negatively about America compared to other countries they have visited who make up most of that kind of 'content creator'

@@evangelosvasiliades1204 Maybe it depends on the country

​@@arcticelephant4721it also depends if you are just on vacation there or actually live there.

Interesting, I think this can go either way. I moved to Germany and I've only gotten more cynical about my country since being here. The outside perspective seems worse than the inside perspective

Of course, radical change is needed in a number of areas of US policy, both foreign and domestic.

Yes hello i am one of those anxious people as a trans american i am terrified to wake up tomorrow and find that legislators have passed a bill that takes away my rights

over the past year, we have lost reproductive rights & many states have banned abortions. in the last 2 weeks, affirmative action became illegal, & now companies can basically use jim-crow type of segregation against LGBTQ people. this was during a time where my friend from the UK visited me, & he was shocked at how things have been going

People don't just feel things getting worse. They KNOW it's getting worse day by day with our current supreme court and legislators

@@fugitive_ no one is taking away your rights. You just cant force others to call you something or agree with your worldview. You can still express yourself in what ever way you would lik.

this exactly

The main thing that I hate about anti-americanism is that it thinks that America is the only place where this happens even though it affects every country. The people who think america is a fascist conservative country forget that places like hungrary and russia exists. the people who think america is too liberal forget Canada exists... and people who think it is communist forget basic econimic theory...

The problem is modernday neoliberalism not America only. America isnt perfect but saying its a "third world" country is offensive to those who actually live like sh**...

Yeah it’s almost like a direct reaction to that hyper patriotism we briefly experienced

Perhaps you're right, since it's ironically the same wing of American politics that has moved from one extreme to another. Republicans were extremely supportive of military interventions, now they're hardcore isolationists and very critical of America on the world stage. Their patriotism was partly informed by religion and tradition, now traditional values put them at odds with American liberalism. They mostly supported the Patriot Act, now they view any public safety measure by the US government as a threat to their person.

That's definitely it

You hit the nail right on the head.

@@samg.5165you speak as if everyone fits into a binary. Most republicans are not isolationists. Sounds like your perceptions come from media sensationalism rather than reality.

Lol good point

The French police defending themselves from a violent criminal literally driving a car straight at them is a completely different situation to typical police brutality in America. Public opinion in France is overwhelmingly on the side of the police and it’s only a massive media censorship campaign that it appears otherwise to outsiders

Both are bad

@@jagotiberan2181 Sure, but most Americans admit it is a problem. White French people almost never do. Ask them how they feel about Roma people and you'll hear racist tirades that would make George Wallace blush.

Butch France had 1 case of police brutality and Paris is in flames to protest against. When America began protesting police brutality a huge pro police movement rose... You can see the discontent of their people with police brutality and racism

Then there are absolutely problems (speaking from personal experience) but they’re problems that have almost always been improving in modern American history, with people and government gradually becoming more and more understanding and motivated to fix them, something that in many places, such as with Roma in Europe, isn’t being addressed or fixed nearly as quickly

they are fine, u the one who fears to go to theyhood

What about them they have it better than any other group

Yeah I mean J.J. McCullough has over 900k subscribers. Lots of people can fall victim to grifters.

I changed my comment cause I'm curious, what's a plural society?

​@@zweksOne where they tolerate a wider range of views and lifestyles. The Amish are an example of that success, they have the freedom to live in their own world and can fit in our system.

@@wemakeasiansurveys4U Therein being the problem. The USA offers a farce of a pluralistic society. Some groups are allowed to act with freedom and independence. Others are deliberately deprived those rights. That's not pluralistic; at best, it's semi-libertarian, operating under an authoritarian police state.

@@wemakeasiansurveys4U The Amish can have the freedom to live in their own world but god forbid two people of the same sex or even different races want to get married and the pluralism is thrown out the window. Or people of different skin colors or ethnicities want to live according to their traditions and we're told to "go back where you came from" and harassed. The state I live in still has laws in it's constitution making being gay illegal and even passed a law preventing LGBT people from getting proper healthcare while passing another tearing trans children who are being respected and cared for by their parents away from them and banning any talk about LGBT anything in schools. The US isn't really unique in our ability to have a pluralist society and a lot of foundations against such a society are written into state and federal laws and constitutions.

@@BunkerStrategist Lol

LOL, this guy has no idea what the American experience is. STEM degree holder here as well. All of us should just switch to working in the bread and circus economy like this guy...

if you have a useful degree like engineering and don't decide you have to live in silicon valley you can do very well. live in cleveland or buffalo or some other cheap city. if you insist on living in a very expensive city then don't expect to afford to live there. you can easily make 100k in a cheap city as an engineer. i bought a house in the suburbs where i live for 165k 3 years ago. a house like this in san francisco would be over 1 million.

You do realize that most of the natives were wiped out from disease that unintentionally spread from Europe, right?

The elites seem to be getting more and more treacherous and ungrateful than the hard working middle class Americans!… It all comes from elitist ignorance and arrogance… Yes, both!… If you think that things are getting expensive and unattainable in the USA, then go to Canada right across the border or Australia or New Zealand or the UK or other Western European countries!… Their currencies are falling against the U.S. dollar, unemployment rate is higher and rising and pretty much everything is more expensive than the U.S. No pal, I came here to this country and decided to stay and no one is going to tell me that the USA isn’t the greatest country in the world, especially not some treacherous elitist U.S. born ingrate!

Yes, I often hear the phrase "The American Dream is dead!!!"...the left says it's because of America's persistent original sin, Racism...while the right says it's because of the oversaturation of immigrants seeking the American dream, that it has run out dry...

There aren't millions of homeless people in the US, not even close to a million. And even then, about half of the homeless people in this country voluntarily choose that lifestyle. My own uncle and grandmother are prime examples.

@@matthewmoore7447 Some of those problems were largely fixed, and have gotten worse. Declining life expectancy, first poorer generation than parents ever, wealth disparity, same structural issues present that orchestrated the great depression and 2008.

Some people in fascist regimes have nice houses.

> “I’m so glad I was born here and not a war torn country” This is probably the single biggest thing most Americans (and Canadians) take for granted. The incredible lack of war on our continent. Sure our countries go *to* war, but the leveling of cities, the terror of advancing armies, the indiscriminate atrocities, and the mass flight of refugees; the horrors of war have not been felt by the American civilians really since 1865… a casual 158 years of peace. Even other prominent places like Asia or Europe have never seen a full century of uninterrupted peace in all their history

@@matthewmoore7447 Ok there’s close to 600,000 homeless in the US. I lived in PDX before so I guess my perception was skewed. A lot of my friends growing up we’re homeless so I at least know it from their perspectives. This is why it’s hard to bring these things up because I’m not trying to insinuate that we’re all fine and dandy here and there’s nothing left to fix and we can just let homeless people continue to be homeless. I think it helps to remember our privilege because it can help us see the light at the end of the tunnel. For the majority of world history people have been ripping ppls limbs off and crazy fucked up shit like that and they still do it in a lot of places across the world. My point was that even if you’re homeless in the US, you might have to deal with gun violence and things of that nature, but you will most likely never experience the horrible torture that people endure in other countries due to war, terrorist groups, etc. People do FUCKED up shit to each other and we live in an unprecedented time and place of relative peace. When I read about what the Dutch did to the people of DRC, for example, I thank my lucky stars that I live in the US in 2023! That doesn’t mean that I think America is perfect and I don’t fight for civil rights and better policies to protect people. I’ve dedicated my life to public service, that’s how much I believe in moving us forward. I recognize my privilege and I use it to help other people - that’s my point!

Just like a kidney stone all things will pass

@@AvatarSimulator I think the key here is that the US is not automatically better than some countries. There are absolutely horrible parts of Brazil, but there are also horrible places to live in the US. I think the US has things to offer, but in all likelihood, there are certain places in Brazil that are about as safe as parts of the US, if not safer, as in more or less the living conditions of the developed world. If people already have a job, friends and family living in a place like Florianopolis, then why would they feel the need to move?

​@@murkywaters5502don't get me wrong, I'd never move back to Brazil until the violence situation is resolved. Pretty confident I can say the same thing about the US. Neither Brazil or the US give any shits to drinking water or food quality, and I don't feel comfortable raising kids in either country. That's really what it came down to

@@AvatarSimulatorI’m am American born and raised and I’m GTFO here asap and moving to Portugal as well. I’ve spent a lot of time in both Spain and Portugal the past few years and it’s a different world living in a country where the govt actually looks out for its citizens and not the ultra rich.

@@AvatarSimulator I understand what you mean. I hate the way school and raising children in the US works and I never fully liked it. I've lived in the US all my life and I really wish I could move to some other country that I felt good about having kids in. However, as much as I *hate* certain parts about the US and its culture, I think I stand a better chance here in terms of employment and also surviving the effects of climate change. In all probability, I'm just not going to have kids because there are too many barriers and variables.

The top one percent also paid 45% of americas taxes

I’ve never hated on my country as much as I see others do

In many cases, when I hear how they would "make it better", I find it fortunate they're usually too lazy or incompetent to translate their thoughts into action. The people who are most anti-American are rarely social-democrats or moderate conservatives.

@@samg.5165 I hear it more from the democrats side of things. Ya know, since the other side is censored

@@jpmeyer09 not anymore

@@jpmeyer09 I disagree. Democrats are more likely to stay the course in matters both foreign and domestic. For better or worse, they're the status-quo party, which is best exemplified by Hillary Clinton's "America is already great" quote, a perhaps unconvincing response to MAGA. Every major Republican campaign has been more critical of the US than its Democratic rival, in recent years. I wouldn't say that the other side is being censored, but its true that in science, arts, entertainment and just about every prestigious field in society, conservatism has fallen way out of favor. That is the natural outcome of the right-wing's failure to provide an alternative to progressivism. Maybe if you would stop obsessing over transgender bathrooms and conspiracy drivel, educated people would take you seriously.

Agreed, I would say that this video isn’t really helping those problems, the tone of this video is saying that criticizing America is anti American, which I honestly believe is the opposite.

We didn't invent patriotism, did we? The problem with America is that we're the only country that acts like we alone feel this special bond with our country. Oh, and the fetishism with our flag as well. If a person exhibited these symptoms, he'd be rightfully called a NARCISSIST. Maybe that's why so many Americans have embraced Trump - the ultimate narcissist - like the second coming of Jesus.

​@jacobfury1686 he literally never said that, he said being a complete pessimist is anti-american

@@NotFunctional-ever The “complete pessimism” was talking about people criticizing the system that’s been putting a lot of them down their entire lives, is it pessimism if it’s true?

​@jacobfury1686 literally right after the sponsor he says that there are problems that plague the country and they should be taken care of. He is talking about people who think that nothing good ever happens and that it is the worst country and how those people are bad for the country.

youre white and str8 right? if you werent the south wouldnt be kind to you.

I pray you are right. I sometimes wonder if patriotism was under the same threat during Vietnam or before that the civil war. I truly hope we dont lose our optimism and patriotism permanently.

Glad you are Canadian now, good on yah.

I have kind of the same experience, if it's not their opinion about why the US sucks, it's how the US is the puppet master of whatever European country they come from. That or they are full on obsessed with our culture.

We have a failing infrastructure as one of the richest countries in the world. People in flint still don't have clean water, pardon me for not wanting to jerk off America

Is it fair to think the only way we can label something a bad country is in reference to its current peers? That metric seems silly.

Honestly any time anyone tries to talk about a "third world country" seems really silly to me now, the whole point was 1st world allies of the US, 2nd world allies of the USSR, 3rd world everyone else. There is no USSR, so the worst you could be is 2nd world.

​@@skyistaken1605they use two different methods to label the countries good or bad right in their comment. What do you mean, "... the only way"?

Very interesting. I'm American from an immigrant family from Sicily. We frequently visit my relatives there and they visit us here in the states. Iately on social media I listen to a lot of Americans that just came back from their trip to the Mediterranean and now want to live there but vacationing in the summer at leisure and actually living there year round are two different things. Don't get me wrong, I love Sicily, it's a Mediterranean paradise, I've wanted to live there myself but they definitely have their problems as we do and it can be very frustrating dealing with their beurocracy. Recently, I just said goodbye to some relatives from Sicily that were here in the US for a visit and one of my cousins commented that he's aware of the problems the US is facing at present but so are we in Europe but I will say this, "America is still America".

It's because most of the people that say that are morons who has lived the west for far too long and don't know how well they have it. Yeah I haven't stepped outside of the US ever in my life but I know that there are countries worse than mine. To your last point about how there are people literally dying to try to get into the US if it truly was as awful as people say it is there wouldn't be tons of people trying to get into the country legally or illegally.

Sorry about that. Unfortunately a lot of people die trying to immigrate, like stories of Cubans making rafts out of scrap and drowning trying to get to Florida. In my opinion the immigration process should be quicker and simpler so that people don't feel as if they're forced to do it illegally, and it's easier for them to do so the proper and safe way.

It's quite ironic how American-centric the domestic Anti-American types are

@@lucasharvey8990 Immigration process was always hard. In the olden days, crossing an ocean was already the greatest barrier An easy immgiration process makes it rife of abuse and we already see in France how no assimilating a ton of immigrants will have negative consequences

Plenty of areas of this country are have third world level violence and poverty.

I love that. Nothing is beyond saving!

exactly. my family came to the US as Sudanese refugees, & will forever be grateful. if i stayed, i would’ve been raped/killed or married as a child w/ no education. i’m proud to be a naturalized citizen, & i use the sacrifices & opportunities to my advantage. however, i can see many reasons why the country i love should be criticized. american citizens from many demographics are f*cked over due to wealth disparities. production went up 65%, but wages only went up ~18%. the top 1% of earners own 35% of all wealth. the top 10% own 75% of the wealth. *the bottom 50% of the population own 1% of the wealth.* the cost of living is ridiculously high, & the outlook for younger generations is something to complain about. there are tons of issues that show how unfair this country is when compared to its success. all i want is what’s best for the people here, & hopefully all countries when we decide not to exploit others

This is quite a wise saying! I'll remember this. Thanks for the comment!

Not to mention the housing market. My god it makes California seem reasonable.

Yeh the Anti-American Attitude sucks in Ireland . While I don’t exactly like America’s Approach to Social Issues or war or actually a lot of things, they are still great people who come to this tiny island with so much love and admiration for us. They offered a home to us during times of Famine, Revolution, Civil War, & Civil Unrest & Violence, it’s time for us not to constantly insult their homeland and dunk on their way of life.

I think it depends on the people around you. I've had conversations with Irish people dunking on both Ireland and the US.

I have personally found the Irish to be some of the most obnoxiously self-righteous people on earth when it comes to America, and that’s coming from a Canadian! It’s particularly insufferable given how much Americans love and fetishize Ireland. I mean, the Irish leader gets to come to the White House every year on St Patrick’s Day! Trudeau doesn’t get to come to the White House every Canada Day!

@@JJMcCullough Yes so true! I'm from the US and my grandparents are Irish. Last time I visited there were so many comments about "ooh there goes your president" in regards to Trump as if I personally placed him in office, and backhanded comments about everything in America being horrible, Americans being fat/lazy/ignorant (which we have our fair share of people like that, but to categorize an entire countries people like that is so unfair). Ireland is beautiful and I love my family from there but it's not perfect either!

re the youth and green grass: Well, the grass IS greener on the other side. Noting that this is true is one thing, and doing something about it is another.

​​@@LouieLouie505ou really think so? The other day I saw a video of someone describing the Argentine south as an underrated paradise because of its amazing landscape and peace. Yes, Argentina, where inflation in 2021 was of 50.9%, and in 2022 it was of around 94%, crime has increased and food is inaccessible. And I've seen similar shit about other nations before. My guess is that one only looks at the good stuff and forget the bad shit about those countries bc one can't stand anymore to be surrounded by negativity, coming all from one's home nation, almost like an escape type of thing.

@@isaac4273 “… do you really think so…” I know so. The US is missing universal healthcare, comprehensive elder care, paid vacations, paid family leave, gun control, affordable mass, transit, and more.

@@LouieLouie505it’s like you’re purposely missing the point of this comment and the whole video

@@broonoart "...missing the point..." Not at all. "Grass is greener.." means better elsewhere. It *is* better elsewhere -- I showed how. Someone in the US might be 'anti-American' because they know that life could be better if politics would stop getting in the way of these things that other comparable countries have.

@@joshyhush22 you kind of bullied the entire world for the last 80 years or so

greatly said

"it gives the impression that our progress is stagnating" Canadian here, American (and Canadian) progress really has stagnated on the infrastructure and economic side, and I'm not entirely sure why. I've considered over-regulation, education, etc. but none of it really clicks. When I visited Korea recently it really drove the difference home.

Th first point is very true. By most metrics the EU, Canada, some other Commonwealth and Asian nations have long ago caught up and in many cases surpassed the US. Heck, even in how they run a proper democratic election and government has been done better in those nations compared to the US of A which seems to be stuck in a bygone era.

I wonder if the lack of a great leader has to do with the way that we perceive our leaders in the information age, or whether it's because legitimately we're getting worse leaders. Being a student of history, it is quite hard for me not to feel like even the leaders from the past I disagreed with, that they were much more competent. And when I look at someone like Teddy Roosevelt, I just make a sigh. I feel like one big change that can improve this is have an age cap on running for offices. There's something to be said about how older experienced people can have a lot of wisdom, but I think that people Trump and Biden's age are just a bit too old for the office of president. Whatever the case, that one's just my opinion. I'm sure someone more well versed in modern politics than I could come up with some sound reasons why the office isn't attracting (or is inaccessible to) better leaders.

@@LittleLordFancyLadToo many people slinger burgers or selling insurance. We sent so much of our manufacturing to foreign countries so we don’t really build anything. It falling out of our culture.

It’s true. Like imagine if you were in a marriage and all you did was complain about your spouse. At some point “it’s because I care!” wouldn’t be a persuasive excuse.

The US is the world greatest tyrant that the world as ever seen and they need to be stop. As far for capitalism screw capitalism it has screwed us over and needs to be abolish.

​@JJMcCullough how about we recognize that the US is the world greatest tyrant that the world as ever seen? How about Gen Z are actually right that capitalism is a hell whole and needs to be stop. The whole argument about but it is better than other place. Bull shit the reason that we have better we steal all of their resources. On top of that the US will make their lives as miserable as they can possibly get away with if they go agaidnt their hegemony.

​@@JJMcCulloughoh and I am saying this as a Canadian where i want to say that PP is a smart Trump that needs to be stop before he ruin this country even further with more neo-liberalism nonsense that as screwed us over. But of course since Canada is just a lapdog of the US they will not stand up agaidnt the Tyrant and go against the neo-liberal policy.

​@@JJMcCulloughThis is way too simplified to be a decent analogy for the situation, my spouse isn't running a country with 300M+ people

and social engineering

@@NatCo-Supremacist Ok Nazi

@@ValentinMausespeck Corporations can only do so because they are pocketing the government

Didn't expect to see you here, your usually busy pissing off TOOL fans or something like that, lol.

But do the people who say this actually believe in or acknowledge America’s strengths? Or is it just a motte and bailey fallacy?

@@Justin-rv7oy Damn, I'm getting noticed. I need to get an alt lmao.

But that's not what we're talking about

I think there are limits to that philosophy. If you consistently find yourself opposed to your country's institutions, core values, or citizenry, then maybe you don't have your country's best interests at heart. Depending on the validity of your grievances, that might be entirely justified, but let's not pretend all criticism is patriotic.

The right also feels that they will be targeted by the "mob of the leftist agenda" its like two paranoid twins arguing

People on the right legitimately fear being placed under corrupt tyranny because of the self-centered paranoia of people like you.

Same!

It has become easier to "blame the system" rather than strive for change within it. I think we are experiencing societal burnout as a result of our left-right power swings and roundabouts.

@@SleepFaster18 some systemic issues can’t be changed. Homophobia for example, the majority want more of it and that’s why they were cheering on the latest SC case and are pushing for DeSantis to win.

@@science_bear That’s a lie and what you’re talking about is social change you can’t change the way people feel or think when it comes to homophobia, racism, sexism, etc.

@@science_bearstop spreading disinformation this is part of the problem

It's that 30% that tilts the discussion though. It's not about agreeing or disagreeing. It's just that JJ takes this hyper-optimist approach to the discussion. He accepts there's bad, but seems to brush it off in favor of a positive narrative. That might work in Canada, where there are many foundational government pieces of infrastructure to care for people, or it might be more fitting in a place where people can actually have mature, polite conversations about serious topics in a way that won't bring about literal threats of violence. But the USA is not that. Is the USA a failed state? No. But the problems are real, and more seriously, they're deeply rooted. The actual problems that exist - those not intertwined with propaganda - are ugly and terrible, more so than pretty much anywhere else on the planet. Refusing to acknowledge those realities is blindness.

​@@heychrisfox, you make some excellent points.

@@heychrisfox they're not worse than anywhere else on the planet, there are plenty of countries with far worse situations. But they are far worse than "the best country in the world at everything" and a lot of people do fail to see that.

@@user-cx9nc4pj8w This. There are definitely many countries where the political and economic situation is far worse than the US. After all, a number of countries are either actively engaged in civil war or have had internal armed conflicts recently that they are still recovering from. At the same time, it's also important to recognise the major problems impacting the US that are predicted to get worse in the coming years. Especially the cost of living crisis, workforce shortages, and the prevalence of abusive workplace practices. There's plenty to be worried about, but the US is not a dystopia, it's not particularly weak, and it's not a "failed state". Could it become those things in the future? Absolutely, but that outcome is not yet set in stone

@@bhavjotsingh5820 Exactly, that's my only real complain here. JJ really brushes over those serious concerns for the sake of his video. Maybe they were outside of the scope of his framing, or maybe he just is ignorant to how bad it is. But the reality is - as an American, who deals with it directly - it's way worse than he makes it out to be.

I completely agree with this. I'm 25 and I feel like I've watched what my parents could attain drift further and further away from reach. As well as the fear and anger so many people have in public now.

Thank you! You put this so well. I think a lot of the older people like JJ and other commenters are missing this point, that a lot of the generation vocalizing about the disatisfaction of the US as a whole grew up being given the pro-American rhetoric that did not meet the reality we experienced. No country is perfect, thats an ignorant thing to say, but there are places that are better, and I feel like we all get shamed for wanting better.

@@squeakybbwhat place is truly better than the us? You just haven’t seen how good you have it. You haven’t traveled around the country, you’ve lived in a bubble and you don’t know the real world.

​@ImafukinGayFish I am going to agree with you. All of the people that I know personally complain (usually rightfully so) has never been out of the country or has rarely traveled. Like jj said we have some deep problems, but everytime I have traveled abroad for an extended amount of time my appreciation for the united States grows more and more. A lot of my travels have been in the Scandinavia countries. Don't get me wrong they have a lot of good things going on there, but it's nothing like the US. You have to experience other things to develop a great appreciation for what you have, even in more difficult times.

I hope you realize that the Trump scandals turned out to be fake whilst the cascading Biden scandals are all too real.

It's never going to be actual punching down as long as we have this much global power. I mean, I get what you're saying and I've experienced similar things, but I've also seen how poorly many Americans do indeed act when they are abroad. Humans are cognitively biased toward remembering negative events, so the many Americans who are well-behaved are forgotten in favor of the loud jerks.

Then if you hear nonsense like that, stand up and defend the USA. Have some PRIDE, dammit!

@@scottdoesntmatter4409 You're not wrong...but that's also a very cis male thing to do. As a meek female, traveling abroad, standing up to males openly making fun of Americans basically to my face is not on my priority list. Sorry not sorry. I'm not trying to get taken mate.

@@AssGasGottaBlast Seriously? One, you are paranoid, two, dump the "cis male" bit. Nobody can dictate your terminology, its a form of thought control. Three, logic and reason rule the day, pipe up and have some pride once in a while.

I’m going through that now and I hear nothing good about America. They lump us all together 😢

Im proud of our involvement in Ukraine

The Gulf war was incredible. Stopped Saddam from genociding the Kurds and Kuwaitis which is a good thing. Got intl support and was a swift overwhelming victory Our anti-terrorism efforts have saved millions of lives. Our current security of intl trade has led to the largest reduction of poverty in human history PEPFAR, a US aid initiative targering diseases in developing countries, has saved over 25 million lives.

Please look up PEPFAR. One of the greatest thing any country has done. Whenever there is a disaster who is first in line? America! Whether it be Haiti, Turkey, or Africa, we are always the first to help.

@@jhonklan3794Yeah but the media has kinda told the average American that our terrorism stopping efforts failed in the Middle East even if it didn’t.

Well we are starting human trials on a pill that may kill solid tumors, that’s a major breakthrough.

EXACTLY THE WORDS I COULDN'T CONJURE UP AND FORM INTO A SENTENCE. THANK YOU.