Taco wrote:Behaving like an arrogant asshole is one of the keys to success in America(and Canada). You'll have more friends, more girlfriends and better job opportunities. However, this type of behaviour rarely helps you when
I cannot confirm that 'everybody hates Americans'.
However a huge number of people outside of USA and many USA citizens themselves who are living abroad do not like American politics, especially external politics.
The US-government is obsessed to control every US-citizen overseas.
USA is also obsessed to teach all foreigners, who do not agree with USA, that their personal life-style is wrong.
USA is somewhat the moral policeman of the world, teaching parents worldwide how to respect children (especially by ignoring father's rights), teaching men how to respect women as every man is a rapist due to feminist rhetoric, teaching what to eat (US-beef/pork) and what not to eat (whale-meat and such curiosity food), USA is interfering indeed deeply into the daily life of ordinary people including religion and their families, despite they are living far away from the USA.
Of course the USA-government has a lot of enemies and is facing plenty of critics because of that.
However US-citizens, who are living abroad as their personal decision, like retirement, marriage with a foreign women etc. rarely report any problem - I know several US-citizens here in Tokyo, working for international trade, international school, electronic companies etc. and there are no complaints at all. (and do not ask me what they talk about their own government)
Also in Thailand, some of my neighbors are US-citizens - they never complain.
The only thing, what I really noticed, is that these American men who are living abroad and never have problems, is the fact that they are all men and they do not have a wife from USA. They ALL have local wives, or from countries nearby. Japan, China, Philippines, Vietnam, Thai etc.
US-women rarely show up in Asia and most are gone - rather frustrated - within a few months. Asian society does not fit them.
I cannot confirm, that ordinary people outside of USA hate individual American men who are living outside of USA.