I doubt we're not in the top 20 anymore Pyggy but outside of Muslims and Jews I'd bet we're at least 3rd! We are hated because we have our nose in everyone else's business and because we are brash, cocky and have attitude. I remember as a child upon being in Germany for my first visit back after we emigrated, my mother asked me to speak German when we were out in public because Americans were so despised there. To them we were just a bunch of loud mouthed unmannerly louts who cared nothing for the German culture or their people.

yes unfortunately many country's hate America even some Americans hate America.

I love my country America home of the brave most people want in but many people hate America probably a jealousy thing

Although I don't agree that we ought to be, we do have a pretty bad rep around the world. And who can blame them? Our foreign policy in most regions has been to support whatever government will make our economy strongest, with no concern whatsoever as to how that government is treating its citizens. We kill innocent people. We torture and deny trials in a country founded on liberty and justice for all. We have undeserved influence in the world arena as the world's only superpower, and yet we blow the responsibility by being self-centered jackasses. Of course, this is all an argument against America, not Americans.

Americans, on the other hand, are often ill-educated couch potatoes who can't find Iraq on a map and rarely know about the goings-on of the rest of the world. And though we share some of the blame for why this is, the media is largely responsible, by using scare tactics and infotainment to take up news hours, rather than fulfilling their duty to actually inform about events that matter. I would also place fault on the public school system, which does not teach students critical thinking skills, but instead teaches them to memorize and repeat.

I was at first going to post disagree but that high five fest over there would have just kept my argument on the bottom.

So, i'm posting here. And why not? the points don't matter anyway.

I'm pretty sure that Muslims are currently the most hated people in the world, and America isn't even the top 20 of highest Muslim population (which is weird since Obama said that we're the fifth most Muslim populated nation... lulz).

But, there is no country that is called Islam. Just countries that have it. In fact, they hate people so much that they have to separate Muslims between two hateful sects, LOL!!!19

I'm pretty proud to be an American. I think the main problem that people MAY have with us is that America was born from a rebellious movement, so we naturally hate government takeover. Which is so different from Western Europe which is pretty cool with government running most things. Hell, it was considered Extremely Right Wing to be for Private Property. They even consider Capitalists to be a bunch of Anarchists.

But no, Americans aren't hated. They really just have a problem with our style.

We're cocky, too. Just because we have the most kick ass military along with a major takeover in business. Seriously, McDonalds and Oreos runs a Monopoly in other countries. And, our movie about Western European history (300) is far more successful than any movie Western Europeans have ever created.

It's odd that I'm disagreeing with this one, since I'm usually the last person to be "proud to be an American," and whenever I'm overseas I just tell people I'm from Sweden, but I was hanging out with a British guy last week in Stockholm who made a rather good point about Americans.

He said that all the Americans he's met have been very kind and very cool, and that the ones who bother traveling to places other than, say, Cancun are the ones who are actually worth meeting. And also that it's interesting to him how Americans are so chill, and yet the government is so... not.

I thought they were some noteworthy points. Hate the government, not the people, maybe?

I think that Jews and Israelis are. I mean, everyone hates us. We get blamed for everyone's problems and we get yelled at for defending ourselves against Arab attacks! Who could be more hated than us?!

Oh, no, I doubt that. If we're hated, it's probably because the people wish they were here. (Which is something I hear over and over, so....must be true). However, I can name 2 ethnicities I dislike almost as a whole, more than Americans, but I'll keep it to myself. :-)