It is neither our 'diversity,' nor our 'freedom' that other nations resent and despise. It is our history of systematic oppression and imperialism. This imperialism has manifested itself not only through overt military means, but also through economic policies, religious missions, and the destruction of indigenous cultures around the world.

We live as well as we do in this country because we have exploited and hurt those in other parts of the world. Others will deny this, ignorantly assuming that other nations hate us for our virtues (ie, "freedom" and "diversity"), while in reality if they do hate us, their feelings are at least justified.

Some reasons I might list from recent memory:

The United States has produced a culture of superiority, that believes it is the best without being supported by most facts.

The United States typically pressures other natures for political policies to be embraced (such as copyright mirroring the DMCA) but generally refuses to take part in major multilateral efforts (those involved in climate change, Kyoto Protocol for example).

The United States has a very terrible record of meddling in other sovereign nations' affairs, inciting war, ousting leaders via coup, causing instability, and especially putting dictators into power who they themselves had become mass murderers.

The United States is the only nation to detonate a nuclear warhead in a city inhabited by civilians, not once but twice.

The United States monitors all international communications signals via ECHELON. This rightly concerns privacy advocates overseas.

The United States gave birth to many multinational corporations, and the corporate culture, and is blamed for a very bad kind of globalisation that destroys local cultures of other countries.

They hate us because we meddle in the affairs of others. We try to impose our systems and believes on everyone else, claiming that these are the best methods, systems, etc. A country that is only two hundred years old and telling nations that have been around for thousands of years what they should do, and you would why were hated.

America is just name attached to a piece of land where people come together and share the same basic ideals. It is impposible to hate land. Land is esstienal to life.

However, the hatred is our ideals and culture, particularly freedom and liberty.

We're the most diverse nation in the world. We have more ethnicities, cultures, religions and lifestyles than any other country.

They're obviously prejudice.

One word where all hate comes from...................................... jealousy

People hate America when they:

1) have the preconception that 'hate' can apply to nations,

2) are in conflict with it,

3) disagree with it's ideals, and/or,

4) were brought to the position via external influence

AND

1) feel strongly enough to characterise 'hate', and

2) are unable to find relative good in it.

people dont usually hate america. i talked to a lot of iraqi guys and i thought to myself, these guys must hate america because american soldiers have torn their country to shreds, killed god knows how many of their friends, and family member, yet these guys seem to be quite forgiving of their oppressors and find forgiveness. i am quite impressed with the people who have been abused by america. it seems to me that most of the hate is coming from within america and not outside it. ive also talked to alot of chinese people, and most of them seem to have good things to say about america, despite all the horrible things that amerians say about the chinese. i have also talked to numerous vietnamese who had their country torn apart by u.s. troops. the american soldiers dropped more bombs on viet nam than all of world war 2 combined, yet i havent heard an ounce of hate come out of the viets. mexicans havent dropped a single bomb on america, but look at the amount of hatred that americans have towards them.

Some people in other countries hate America because they are jealous that most people have it better off in this country than they do.