Worlds most hated countires

[whyidie]

In your estimation, who would you say are the worlds most hated countries ? You can focus on one or list your top three. Or do both. Like this:

1. France
2. England
3. Belgium
10. United States of America

France - Hated in SE Asia because of their slave driving plantation ways. Rest of Asia may like them. Hated in Africa for the same. Hated in Europe for being invading imperialists and invaded roll overallists. Hated in Large parts of South America. Disliked only mildly for reactionary reasons in North America. Hated in Australlia because. Antarticans love them.


England - Asians don't hate them. Africans do because of the colonization. Australia treats them like kissing cousins. They hate them yet love them. Same with the Indians. With some exceptions the rest of Europe is generally mild towards the English. South America isn't too fond of them.

Belgium - Asians hate them because of their women. Africans love them because of their balloons. The Belgians hate them. England is envious because of the beer.

USA - Asians love us because we import a lot of rice and electronics. Africa loves us because we didn't do any of that colony junk. European countries generally love our sophisticated taste in food, tv, and pretty much all art and culture. South America enjoys our humble attitude.


So yes, my list is crap. But thats because I'm from America. We have lots to keep track of here nevermind what France said about Niger. What about yours ? What countries are the most hated world wide ?

[GodWillsIt]

1. US
2. France
3. Israel
4. England

5-10 ??

[Vlad The Impaler]

i almoste hate russia . especially the ideea of an imperial russia

[Don Corleone]

My top 10 and reasoning why:

1) USA When you're on top, everyone else is jealous. Everybody else looks at the USA and says "screw them, we should have all that".
2) Israel One thing Europe and the Middle East CAN agree on is Jews belong in America only.
3) Japan The rest of Asia hates Japan much more passionately then they do #1 or #2.
4) UK Former colonies have lots of axes to grind, that and their friendship with #1.
5) India Every muslim in Asia dreams of converting the subcontinent to Islam and cannot understand why the Hindus resist.
6) Russia: former satellites still have lots of animosity, many in West believe they still have dream of global domination.
7) China: The bigger they get, the more they climb this list.
8) France: Slowly sinking on this list as their strategy of appeasing everyone outside of NATO continues to pay off.
9) Thailand You can only be the world haven of pedophiles for so long before people start to get sore.
10) Egypt Making peace with Israel, at least officially, has left them out in the cold in the Middle East.

It would be interesting to start a second thread of "Who do YOU hate most", my guess is USA would top that list with all of non-Americans, and half of Americans as well.

[Silver Rusher]

Closed!

(dammit, I don't have those powers! Ah well, hopefully a mod will come in here and do it for me)

[Tribesman]

How can you hate a country ?

[whyidie]

How can you hate a country ?

Stay tuned to find out how!

[Don Corleone]

How can you hate a country ?

I think what he means is that you hate what the country represents and yorr picture of the stereotypical inhabitant. In the case of the USA and Israel, perhaps it extends to hating each and every last citizen, but generally, it more relates to hating the 'idea of so and so".

[Husar]

I think Don Corleone makes some nice points.
I personally hate Americans only when/because they brag about their superiority. As long as they behave normally, I may rather admire them, it's the constant "look at our equipment"/"we are soo 1337 because of..."/"noone can ever beat this or that" etc from some people that makes me hate at times.

Since I don't have an idea about many things and even my hate for the french doesn't exist anymore, I cannot really give a list.

[Justiciar]

1) USA When you're on top, everyone else is jealous. Everybody else looks at the USA and says "screw them, we should have all that".

Pretty much. It isn't jealousy though. People just don't like powerful nations that push them around. Sadly, America is doomed to be hated now and mocked later.

2) Israel One thing Europe and the Middle East CAN agree on is Jews belong in America only.

... that doesn't even warrant a proper resonse.

3) Japan The rest of Asia hates Japan much more passionately then they do #1 or #2.

A slight exaggeration, but they are definately hated in China and Korea.

4) UK Former colonies have lots of axes to grind.

See the latter of my first sentances, pretty much sums it up. The only former 'colonies' that really dislike us are ones that we truly f***ed over, or ones with notable Irish populations. Shock horror.

5) India Every muslim in Asia dreams of converting the subcontinent to Islam and cannot understand why the Hindus resist.

That's bull. The only muslim nations that hate India are those that share it's rather awkward borders.

6) Russia: former satellites still have lots of animosity, many in West believe they still have dream of global domination.

I wouldn't say they're hated. People are just weary of them.

7) China: The bigger they get, the more they climb this list.

Certainly can agree with that. Aside from Tibetans, Tibetophiles, and it's own citizens not many people really dislike China.

8) France: Slowly sinking on this list as their strategy of appeasing everyone outside of NATO continues to pay off.

True. A few countries in Europe do still dislike France, but I wouldn't call it HATE per se.

9) Thailand you can only be the world haven of pedophiles for so long before people start to get sore.

10) Egypt Making peace with Israel, at least officially, has left them out in the cold in the Middle East.

A temporary thing. If it comes to war, I don't doubt they'd leap at the chance to kick Israel in the nads.

[Reenk Roink]

You guys have it all wrong here...



North Korea: Do these guys have any friends?



Iran: Again another nation that has popular support (though unlike North Korea it's not because of brainwashing) but very little outside support.



Israel: Let's not kid ourselves, our nations are with very few exceptions (that I can't even think of) based on conquered land. A lot will probably have histories of genocide and/or expulsion (U.S.A). But Israel is a relatively fresh country. The wound in the Arab world is fresh. Too bad that if Israel were to fall, it wouldn't be at the hands of a Saladin. At least not from the current situation in the Arab world.

[rasoforos]

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1. The US (Anti-Americanism shows that all nations in the world have at least something in common and that we could all one day unite under that, hold hands around the globe and sing old time classic Soviet and Al Qaeda hymns over uncle Sam's corpse...oh well except the US that is)

2 Israel. For some reason 20% of the planet hates them and want to kill them in the name of....their own God....go figure... To make this more interesting, Christians and Muslims take turns hating them or loving them (Jews were actually finding refuge in islamic countries some centuries ago)

3 The UK. (although more than a US state than a country now...). Hated and loved by their ex-colonies ("They exploited our natural wealth...but lets go see the queen anyway'). Admired by people like Hitler and Dubya. A very self-hating country too. The Brits love to think that everyone hates them...which is why they gave Tony Blair a 3rd term even though they hate him. It makes sence...maybe...

4 Yurop. Thats not really a country...but dont tell the republicans...


5 Australia. Hated by:

1) The ASEAN (because of Australia's 'we wanna join your union but you cannot migrate here if you are yellow' policy)

2) The northern hemisphere (because they go swimming when we are freezing our butts off)

3) Me: Because they produce Olive Oil and wine...these are European stuff. We dont produce cangaroos, they should not produce Olive Oil.



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[AntiochusIII]

France - Hated in SE Asia because of their slave driving plantation ways. Rest of Asia may like them. Hated in Africa for the same. Hated in Europe for being invading imperialists and invaded roll overallists. Hated in Large parts of South America. Disliked only mildly for reactionary reasons in North America. Hated in Australlia because. Antarticans love them.

Where did you find that out?

I personally lived in Asia for a loooong time (and quite close to the old Crown Jewel of France, Indochina, for that) and the only anti-French sentiment came up in history lessons around the Colonial period. Out of the classroom and the French looked just like any other Westerners out there.

And I've heard Francophone countries aren't exactly hateful of their former masters. No more than the English, or perhaps only a little bit more.

Your list is kinda weird, no offense. Personally, I think the US is generally recognized as one of the most hated countries in the world, if only because people can point it out on the map while most wouldn't be able to locate Honduras or Nepal to hate. That and being powerful and active internationally tend to give you a lot of bad publicity, and envy, and hate...

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

1: USA
2: France/Israel
3: France/Israel

[whyidie]

Where did you find that out?

I personally lived in Asia for a loooong time (and quite close to the old Crown Jewel of France, Indochina, for that) and the only anti-French sentiment came up in history lessons around the Colonial period. Out of the classroom and the French looked just like any other Westerners out there.

And I've heard Francophone countries aren't exactly hateful of their former masters. No more than the English, or perhaps only a little bit more.

Your list is kinda weird, no offense. Personally, I think the US is generally recognized as one of the most hated countries in the world, if only because people can point it out on the map while most wouldn't be able to locate Honduras or Nepal to hate. That and being powerful and active internationally tend to give you a lot of bad publicity, and envy, and hate...

Check out my first post:

So yes, my list is crap.

I figured having Belgium as the 3rd most hated and the USA as 10th would be enough without having to use smileys.

Frankly, this is more of a learning thread for me. Your post provides insight that I wouldn't otherwise get. Good example of why I started the thread. How are the colonial countries viewed ? Was one generally more agreeable than another ?

[whyidie]

Wow, I totally overlooked Israel as a potential top 3.