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I read an article about anti-Americanism in Canadian politics. Now I expect Europe to hate us, I expect large parts of Asia to hate us. But somehow I naively assumed our benevolent and nonviolent neighbor to the north would have a gentler attitude. But then 40% of Canadian teenagers desribe America as "evil" and that number jumps up another 20% in French speaking areas.

I am so tired of my country being hated.

I hate UPS with the burning passion of a thousand suns. For the love of god don't send anything to me UPS. USe the postal service or FedEx, anything but UPS. No matter what schedule I'm working they refuse to come at a time when I would actually be home to sign for the package, and so I have to deal with unpleasant mess of 183/290 interchange to wait in line in the horrible UPS center.

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It's not all the doofus in the white house. Doofus's foreign policy isn't much different than every president since WWII because most of our foreign policy is handled by the Pentagon instead of our ambassadors. it's militaristic foreign policy which shoots first and looks at the facts later which most people have the most problem with (that and canadians getting killed by their allies with no apology and no one held accountable for the crime). people everywhere understand that politicians everywhere are lying scumbags. inter-country resentments right now have less to do with politics and more to do with policy.

and since america refuses to review these policies and how these actions fuel resentment globally (with Bush Sr. going so far as to proclaim he'll never apologize for america no matter what the facts are), america is going to make more enemies before it makes any new allies.