I'm an American (originally from Mexico) who happens to disagree with a large portion of American foreign policy. I, like most other people that I know, hated the American government as much as the rest of the world did in the Bush era for destroying the face of America to the rest of the world, and continue to frown upon many practices of the government, even today, a day in which we live under an African American president who is here to give us "change." That being said, I think our government does many things right as well. I, like most people that I know, do not have the "America is the greatest thing to ever happen to the world" mentality. If we want to talk about jumping into a bandwagon, let's talk about the America-haters. A universal observation can be easily be made (i.e. in a forum such as this) - ignorance dominates the world. The problem with that style of thinking (and the people on the particular bandwagon - american hating) is that they seem to have a hatred for the American people. Not the government, not Big Oil, not Wall Street and corporate America, but the people. This hatred is strikingly similar to the hatred that an ignorant American might have for, say, Hispanics, people of Middle-Eastern descent, etc. And it makes me sad. I will take Levi above as a sad example. "I hate the U.S.A. There just mad because they did'nt come first. It's time to get your head around the idea that the WHOLE world hates you." The other day, I read a comment on a similar site. "Get out of our country, you f***** mexicans. Everybody in america f****** hates you!" The similarity between the two comments is undeniable. No reasons, no explanations, nothing. What do you know about the American people? You see what we call a 'tool' or 'douche bag' go to your country and act like a complete moron. Compound that with what you see on international news (or perhaps simply your national news, if the U.S. has managed to put it's nose in your business) and immediately think that everyone in America is as ignorant as the guy you saw or the politician who gave a speech. You failed to notice the nice, educated, tolerant American family that walked right by the moron, scornfully glaring at the guy for making such a terrible impression. It's the same here, too. People hate mexicans and african americans because they see them on the news, in prisons, etc., but fail to notice the myriad of caucasian trash that lines the streets as much as the mexican trash and the african american trash. The rest of the hard working, honest, decent mexicans and african americans go unnoticed in many eyes. Why? Because the hardest thing you can do is to find the faults in yourself before pointing fingers at anyone else. This, combined with frighteningly common self-indulgence and ignorance (here and everywhere else in the world) is the true plague of society, and, I'm afraid, will continue to plague humanity for as long as we exist. I am ignorant in many ways myself. I, like most people in this world, find it easier to point and blame than to find my own faults. But I, as anyone who truly desires a better tomorrow, wake up every day trying to gain new knowledge. I try my best to open my eyes to the world, to other cultures, to other ways of life. Ignorance will always be here to destroy and instill hate. Einstein should have said "Knowledge is limited, but IGNORANCE encircles the world." However, when it comes down to it, it is each individual who must try to grow that is responsible change, for a better tomorrow. Peace and love from a non-ithinkamericanisthebestcountryintheworld-american.

This comment is dedicated to any (and only to any) ignorant person leaving ignorant comments on a blog (no one can see who I am, right? I can say whatever I want!).