Anti-United States Sentiment

The T wrote: cuncuna wrote: Getting tired of the term "America" being used to talk about just a part of it. Even if you are not at all thinking about American  countries of the south, ¿where, according to you, is Mexico? ¿This feeling is anti Mexico as well?.   You're right and Ive been starting to be influenced from that way of talking. America goes from Cabo de Hornos to the northerrmost point of Canada and Alaska.... not from Rio Grande to the 5 great Lakes.... But that's what, sadly, has helped to create hostility against the US: the idea thier people (misinformed) have that it's the center of the world...   Even saying  North Americans is wrong.. where does that leave Mexicans and Canadians?   There you go: another element that feeds the fire against the US in the rest of the world.   And this country (US) still has some things that make it a leader, and by far the thing I respect and actually rever the most is the freedom of speech which is absolutely absolute.... Not even in Europe are you free to even say stupid things (like pro-nazi words..). here you are free to be an idiot...   Why would a country with such a magnificent premise be hated outside its borders? Agains, ask the leadres, ask history, but also, ask the human nature.... the weak tends to envy the strong.... the poor tends to resent the rich.... (it doesn't help that the rich has actually taken advantage in a few occasions...)

well, freedom of speech is not as absolute as you think. when it comes to freedom of press the USA are only ranked 48 in the list which is published yearly  by "Reporters without Borders". Germany has fallen back from rank 11 to rank 20 due to an incident that took place a little more than a year ago, when the offices of a newspaper were searched by German police.
shared leaders are Iceland and Norway, by the way.
here a link to the list, if you are interested:
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=24025