Why do foreigners have such a low opinion of Americans?

Not all of them do. The academics and scholars I know don't, nor do medical researchers and other scientists. I wonder where you are hanging out, and with whom?

It's standard to grouse and complain about the big guy on the block. That's always been the case. Great Britain was hated by many people when it had an empire. So was Rome.

Moreover, many foreigners also look down their noses at various other countries. Many French and Japanese think they are superior to absolutely everyone. That attitude is simply a part of their culture.

It's not just recent policies that people dislike. Foreigners were complaining abut the US decades ago.

In most cases, American people ,US citizens, (although America includes Canada, Chile, Cuba, Mexico. etc...) have the lowest level of culture that you can imagine, and they ask questions of childs. I am not exagerating, it's absolutely truth.

And they did it, basing on their deep ignorance about the minimum knowledges that you

can assume in a developed country as US, the first power in the world while China or other don't say the opposite. In USA, there are people with a high level of culture, but they are a minority.

I think the government in USA, is very interested in maintaining this situation for justifying other things later. I want to say that I like USA, I visited only once on holidays, I am not against USA.

For this reason, quite citizens justifying acts of their government, without knowing any ****** idea about

the subject.

I watched one program in US TV channel, how a journalist asking people in the street.

Do you agree in attacking this country (they invented the name of the country), that is close to Middle East?. And the answer was, YES, and another guy proposed attack italy, ahahahahahah

You was able see that the most cases are absolutely ignorant about the international questions that the journalist did. Ignorant and quite of them arrogants.

The most important thing for americans is the money, more than for the europeans. The money is important but is not the most important. When the money is the goal of the life, something is bad.

Many foreigners I've met regard Americans as unbelievably pampered, complaining about problems that most other countries wish they had ("this sucks, I had to drive all the way to the end of the parking lot to find a spot. And then WALK the whole way!" or "why is netflix always so #%$@%# slow!"). Tell me THAT one's not true.

There's also the perception that we have incredibly simplistic, black-and-white political ideas (gee, I can't find any examples of THAT on yahoo), a really dumbed-down media and education system, and a belief that everything that happens in the world is somehow all about *us*.

I wouldn't say I've ever met any foreigners who *dislike* Americans, but they all seemed to roll their eyes at us a little. We're kind of like the popular girl in high school. Everyone finds her loud, high-drama, and a bit vapid, but everyone wishes they were in her shoes. If you're her pal, you can go to all the cool parties with her. And if you're not nice to her, she'll find ways to make your life miserable by turning everyone else against you.

Only ignorant and myopic foreigners have this mentality, but having said that, foreigners do not have a monopoly on myopic world views of other foreigners in other countries.

Without an objective and nuanced POV, people can and often do blame the citizens of a given country for the crimes, mistakes and in our country's case, the internecine visited upon other countries by our military, our intelligence, (oxymoron warning) "services" and misguided vigilantes who willingly volunteer to kill other people under the guise of "stopping the innocent slaughter of people" (read xtian Kurds).

Nothing wrong with going to war with people like ISIL or whatever the talking heads are calling them these days, but stop saying that you're there because you care about innocent Kurds being slaughtered, the only reason Americans are fighting in a vigilante sense along side their "Kurdish brothers" is solely due to the fact that Kurds are being killed because of their affiliation with the xtian religion, these "volunteers" are merely fighting to protect their fellow xtians, there are very few people willing to die for altruism, dying for their religious beliefs while defending other penitents being killed for their non-jihadi beliefs, now that's more believable than just going over to Northern Iraq to protect innocents, "just because".

their lack of Knowledge outside of the USA

I hate hearing Paris FRANCE or London England only used By Americans everyone Knows where Moscow Rome London Paris Is and what country they are in

i saw a tv Documentary done in New York where Americans were asked about the World and all could Not point to Australian on any Map and Could Not Find Germany in Europe

But they did Know all the US Presidents Great for a Job in the white house

The dominance of capitalism, our idols (ex. Jersey Shore, Miley Cyrus, lil Wayne), music (the themes of the songs), internet trolls, patriotism, complains about the government, lack of universal health care, intercepting some conflicts that creates a war, national debts, xenophobes, and politicians.

For the record, I still love America, it's just the few individuals who create the bad image.

I really wonder if and why foreigners have a low opinion. We have a steady stream of visitors, tourists, and illegals. There are millions of them! Our immigration "quotas" are filled for years into the future. Even Canadians seem to like to live here when they retire. Living near the Mexican border, I see shopping centers packed with Mexican license plates. More than those from our own state. If they have such a low opinion of us, WHY are they all coming here????.

The ones that do are usually arrogant, bitter, boring, gross, ignorant individuals. They have their heads so far up their a$$ they act like their sh*t don't stink. Lol I also find it funny that they claim we always start wars when they have a beautiful history full of rape, war, disease, and genocide. For the most part I like Europeans though just not douche bad arrogant ones. I like People from Uk, France, Italy, and Spain alot.

And yet they all want to move here. Go figure. I don't beleive it is all foreigners, just like not all Americans dislike foreigners. Some do and some don't.

It's because downtrodden people resent those who aren't. Foreigners, especially Europeans, are the worst. They arrogantly assume themselves to be more intelligent and more sophisticated than we are, and they can scarcely hide their contempt when dealing with us.