A lot of people in many countries view Americans as ignorant warmongerers. I've seen this time and time again, no matter where I've been - Australia, Europea, China, Japan.
I received Michael Moore's Dude Where's My Country? for Christmas, and he seemed to join the America-bashing club: I thought he was being very unfair in the beginning for treating Americans as dumb xenophobes the majority of whom couldn't say where Great Britain was on a world map.
Moore comes back at the end though, and sets out some interesting stats on Americans:
57% of Americans think that abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
86% of the American public "agree with the goals of the Civil Rights movement".
83% of Americans say they are in agreement with the goals of the environmental movement.
94% of Americans want safety regulations on hand gun ownership.
8 in 10 Americans believe in universal health care.
62% want to send less non-violent crims to gaol
85% of Americans support equal opportunity rights in the workplace for gays and lesbians
58% of Americans thought unions were a good thing.(Even I think they're a necessary counterbalance.)
Moore obtains his stats from objective sources.
I find this quite a relief. You see, like Arabs and Muslims, I think a lot of press coverage of Americans is very biased, and displays the worst traits of the extremists amongst them.
Americans aren't a bunch of redneck, faggot hating, Christian fundie, ignorant cowboy fuckwads, and I think more people in other countries should realise this.
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