[MaDMaN_26]

I'm sure some has been said but for me it boils down to a few things...

- Half of you put Bush in office a second time. Once is a mistake and can be forgiven, “sorry guys our bad.” … the second term was perhaps the biggest /spit the American public has ever given the rest of the world. It sickened me and is probably the biggest reason why anti-Americanism has grown in recent years. It still blows my mind how it happened. How the hell did half +1 of you think, ya 4 more years of that please.

- The seemingly complete lack of knowledge beyond your borders. I'm not saying all Canadians are worldly, but the stereotype is many Americans are seemingly under the impression the world begins and ends at their border; they seem to have an arrogance about understanding or appreciating anything that is not all about them. I know from meeting many Americans this is not a fair stereotype, but few are. Still the ones that prove it’s not completely baseless usually do it in a stunningly public and high profile way. Your former president did it for 8 years. Coupled with how the USA pushes their POV and foriegn policies on other contries as the be all and end all of how to do it right, when its so brutally obvious your internal issues could use alot of attention, poverty, gang violence, new orleans is still a mess... I think my frutration is this, if your gonna have blinders on and not see the rest of the world, could you at least look in the mirror?

- It bothers me how corrupt and propaganda spewing your media has become... ours sadly has followed close behind, but Canadians seem (to me) to view the media with more skepticism than Americans generally do. The bias of your media and how they blatantly skew the view to meet their own (or their owners/sponsors) political agendas without check is disturbing to me, especially when your have the population and power to be a driving force in world events and policies.

- Considering how easily the Freedom of press liberty was forsaken it is hard to understand why the right to bear arms on is hung onto so vehemently… especially when we hear things like “I use ma’ m-16 to hunts de deer rounds ‘ere”… it propels and supports the "Warmongers" label Americans receive from the rest of the world. Yet you cling to the idea that there is no way to have safer streets than the "I can shoot you back" method.

While these things work against the US, for the most part I think Canadians know that Americans, in general, are a great people, and it is a fantastic country to live next door to…. There are days where I think it would be nice to live there too as I could make a list at least as long about things I hate about Canada….
- We have several political parties to choose from, they are all terrible, Brutal and horrible choices, when we go to the polls its not about who will do the best job, its about who will screw us the least and be not quite as horrible as the other guy.
- Canadians are complacent about almost everything, its why our political parties and so many other things lack, we never stand up and say "NO!" and we fight for nothing and accept everything as "meh, what can we do" (not a statement about our troops)
- Incredibly high taxes, which are thoroughly wasted by the terrible brutal and horrible political parties previously mentioned. Whe nthe solution is to raise taxes we collectively say "meh, what can we do"

I could easily go on, but this is a wall of text already. It boils down to this: I don’t hate the American people anymore than I hate some Canadians… I get frustrated with my Country and yours (and others). People may say I hate Americans as an easy way to express that frustration, but when pressed it would boil down to having issues similar to these that color the view of the entire country and all who inhabit it.
What really surprises me is why you had to ask… seriously you had no idea what could possibly have people saying anti American things? You didn’t know? Kind of makes me think you fall into my second reason for not liking some Americans and that you don’t watch or read enough foreign news. Turn off Fox News, and think real hard about whether everything is a fantastic as you’re being programmed to believe. (that goes for a lot of Canadians too)