President Trump's Effect On America's International Reputation (1 Viewer)

[msommer]

Mexico, Japan, Most of Europe, El Salvador, Canada, Brazil, S. Africa and the Marianas Islands.  Most places find Americans annoying and "idiots", especially Europe.  Thanks for playing.

How far away from being the oldest man in the world are you? Two guys have to croak and you're it? More? Less?

 

[Card Trader]

How far away from being the oldest man in the world are you? Two guys have to croak and you're it? More? Less?

 

[msommer]

Have to be pretty old to have lived in 35+ countries

 

[Card Trader]

Have to be pretty old to have lived in 35+ countries

He asked where I traveled/lived, try to keep up.

 

[BeaverCleaver]

How far away from being the oldest man in the world are you? Two guys have to croak and you're it? More? Less?

 

[Steve Tasker]

Don't Americans make fun of Asian tourists with their cameras? Or Eurotourists and their aversion to daily showers?  These things are natural built-in rivalries and levity, it's been going on as long as people realized they were even the slightest bit different than the other guy. 

Germans don't particularly like Americans, but they don't particularly like anyone.  The Italians like Americans mostly, they don't like Germans.  In fact none of the Euros like Germans, they are way more disliked than we ever could be.  South Africans love us, Eastern Euros like us, Irish love us, Brits tolerate us like we tolerate them, and if you make an effort with teh French they are extremely open and engaging.

I haven't visited or lived in nearly as many places as you have, but I don't think I've ever gotten the hostile feeling/cold shoulder in any of the places I've visited.  If you're genuinely interested in someone's culture and willing to do your best to conform to their norms, people are happy to have you.  Don't be an "arrogant American" and you won't be treated like one.

 

[timschochet]

Well, based on the polls, we may be about to find out....

 

[cstu]

I'd heard a lot about how rude people were in France so it was shocking to me how great everyone we met was there.  That is without knowing any French beyond butchering greetings.

We just in Paris in July and even in Paris they were very friendly.  Been there several times and never had a negative experience.

 

[wikkidpissah]

Grr, no they don't.  I have traveled all around the world and Americans are actually very well thought of overall.

We may not always be thought of well, but we are always thought of first. American capacity, flexibility and unprecedentedness have kept us on top and we are a factor in most of what the world does. Three generations of that creates a globleload of resentment. Whoooole lotta folks waiting to see America with its pants down so they can begin the process of minimizing our hegemony.

While i see little difference between the two attention whores attempting to run our country, a Trump presidency whips that belt right off. Europe is already skilled in dealing with cartoon fascists and will begin our ungreating. Then the clusterhug of countries/factions climbing over each other for pecking order will spark new adventurisms that we can no longer afford to handle. The world will see all our bad acts as just ridiculous, instead of ridiculous-but-probably-necessary as they have since 9/11. And the world will look around for the something great which always handles stuff like this and it wont be there.

And you will hear a flushing sound. I'm looking forward to it. Before i go, I want to see if i'm right about our runaway selfishness when the Crash comes. My sons are strong - maybe they'll see a world that palpably matters out of all this.

 

[Jackstraw]

That's just it - he should be inspirational and yet from Ferguson to Baltimore to Charlotte to Tulsa - not saying President Obama is the cause, but certainly he is the man in charge as it unfolds.  

There's a lot of words there but they don't really say anything. Trumpian. 

 

[hxperson]

I don't enjoy debating politics and think both of the candidates suck, but I will say that I've never felt better about being Canadian than I have over this last year. 

My job requires me to travel often both in and out of the country, and I have found that close to 99% of Canadians that I've talked to think that Trump is a farce and a joke.  Gives me some comfort that all is right at least in my part of the world.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Lesseehere:

- China, rattling real sabers

- Middle East unilaterally moving our embassy to Jerusalem should pretty much kill our remaining Arab friendships

- Europe, populist movements building in Italy, France & Germany, Eastern Europe feeling pretty much left out in the cold at the mercy of Russia...