What do you Really think about Americans?

[the_bob_delusion]

Go.

[zanadoo_56]

If I only had what I see on TV - re Trump and guns - to make a judgement I'd think they were nuts.

I've only a met a few and they seem very nice, but some of them do think America is superior to the rest of the world and we couldn't survive without them. LOL

We had an american family living next door when I was around 12.  There was a girl my age and she was great.  Her mother however was a dreadful snob and when a popular doll her daughter owned finally came to Australia, my mother said she would buy me one.  When I mentioned it to the neighbour, she told me that was impossible.  I said it wasn't as there was an advertisement in the newspapers about it.  The mother gave me an angry look and told me I was mistaken!  She was really nasty and rude.

One thing I couldn't grasp when I was a kid (after watching The Mickey Mouse Club on TV, was when I asked the girl what Disneyland was like she told me she had never been there.  I thought everyone in America went to Disneyland. 🙂

[lionrose.7]

I have been to Disney world and Disney land, first time we took all the children on one visit, second time was in Miami with sister in law amd she shouted myself and step daughter a trip, we had a ball and we live in NZ LOL

[rogespeed]

are you American *bob d  ? 

[Anonymous]

Compared to other nations, the U.S. by far spends more foreign aid than anyone else. Germany is the next largest donor, but the U.S. spends over $10 billion a year more than this nation.

US Foreign Aid by Country 2020 (worldpopulationreview.com)

[davewil1964]

Percentage of GDP? Which is a generally accepted measure of a country's ability to help others.

[lionrose.7]

Actually New Zealand for it size per person is high on the list of giving charity we look after all the islands

[lionrose.7]

America, New Zealand and Canada top list of world’s most generous nations | The Independent | The In...

[kopenhagen5]

What do you Really think about Americans?

Coca cola, Hamburgers, Disneyland, Big cars, War, Movies(Hollywood), Mattel toys and Peanut Butter.

[4channel]

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Re: What do you Really think about Americans?

@the_bob_delusion wrote:

Go.

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Well, I think Americans have somehow let themselves get distracted to the extent that they have unwittingly allowed huge corporations to own their country. The medical sytstem and the Fed are two examples.

[Anonymous]

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@davewil1964 wrote:

Percentage of GDP? Which is a generally accepted measure of a country's ability to help others.

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The average for all wealthy nations is 0.3%, the US gives 0.2%, but we are $10 billion ahead of the next guy.

What every American should know about US foreign aid (brookings.edu)

There have been many positive results achieved globally with the amounts we have historically given.  The list below is not the results of just US, but of all countries' aid.  I would say, though, that without the billions from the US, these results would not have been possible.

• Extreme poverty has fallen dramatically over the past 30 years—from 1.9 billion people (36 percent of the world’s population) in 1990 to 592 million (8 percent) in 2019.

• Maternal, infant, and child mortality rates have been cut in half.

• Life expectancy globally rose from 65 years in 1990 to 72 in 2017.

• Smallpox has been defeated; polio eliminated in all but two countries; and deaths from malaria cut in half from 2000 to 2017.

• The U.S. PEPFAR program has saved 17 million lives from HIV/AIDS and enabled 2.4 million babies to be born HIV-free.

• Assistance programs can promote national economic progress and stability, which can make it more viable for citizens to remain at home rather than migrate to other countries.