What makes somebody dislike people from other countries.

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cisamcgu

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Reply to the original post, I found it odd too.

The American was racing her heart out, trying her best to win but failed in the final 100m. I felt sorry for her in a way, but that is racing. I didn't, for one minute , think that as an American she deserved less sympathy for her disappointment.

And to reference a lot of the rest of this thread, the winner, Dutch, is hardly from a repressed, downtrodden nation ..

Just my opinion, of course
 

PaulB

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Location
Colne
I think this is partly a reaction to the anglocentric nature of our UK media rather than any dislike of individual English contestants or teams.
What about the London-centric nature of the UK media? Does that entitle anyone from north of Watford (south of Gretna) to wish ill on anything south of there?
 

coffeejo

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West Somerset
My favourite, largely because it's meaningless and yet says it all, is the annual bet about whether it'll be a white Christmas. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that judged by snowfall in London?
 

stephec

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Location
Bolton
FTFY :okay:.

And the reasons for such an attitude, as asked in several posts? Here are a few:
1966 being wheeled out at every opportunity (and we certainly don't want THAT happening again!).
Wayne Rooney.
Chris Evans.
Your English media's constant demand/insistence that England deserve to win every competition at every sport.

Some English people get bored with that as well.
 

GrumpyGregry

Here for rides.
Why is England in a privileged position with respect to Scotland, Ireland and Wales? We live on the same islands and suffer (pretty much) the same weather and geography. We speak (pretty much) the same language and have (Eire apart) the same flag. So I'll ask again; why do we English want Andy Murray, Rory Golfperson, Wales in the Euros or anyone/thing from the British Isles to win yet they just love to hate the English and relish English defeats and setbacks ?
Hmmm. Is this for real? Can someone be so utterly ignorant of the last 1000 years of history in these islands.

We live on the same islands and suffer (pretty much) the same weather and geography.... and where is most of the good arable farmland?
We speak (pretty much) the same language.... and what did we speak in Wales Scotland and Ireland before English came to dominate?
We have the same flag.... a flag which evolved over time but is dominated by the ruddy great big red cross which is the flag of where?
et cetera

They hate us because of the way our ancestors behaved....?
 
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screenman

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Hmmm. Is this for real? Can someone be so utterly ignorant of the last 1000 years of history in these islands.

We live on the same islands and suffer (pretty much) the same weather and geography.... and where is most of the good arable farmland?
We speak (pretty much) the same language.... and what did we speak in Wales Scotland and Ireland before English came to dominate?
We have the same flag.... a flag which evolved over time but is dominated by the ruddy great big red cross which is the flag of where?
et cetera

They hate us because of the way our ancestors behaved....?

So in the OP I quoted somebody who was happy to see a USA citizen beaten, what has that got to do with 1,000 years or the price of potato?
 

GrumpyGregry

Here for rides.
So in the OP I quoted somebody who was happy to see a USA citizen beaten, what has that got to do with 1,000 years or the price of potato?
Nothing. As should be clear from my quoting I wasn't trying to answer your question. Others have done that more than adequately.
 
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screenman

Squire
Nothing. As should be clear from my quoting I wasn't trying to answer your question. Others have done that more than adequately.

Others have tried too, but I still cannot understand get my head around it. Maybe I just do not have the hatred gene inside me that others have, I wish most people well regardless of where they happened to be born, after all we have little choice in the matter.
 

srw

It's a bit more complicated than that...
Others have tried too, but I still cannot understand get my head around it. Maybe I just do not have the hatred gene inside me that others have, I wish most people well regardless of where they happened to be born, after all we have little choice in the matter.

There you go with your assumptions again. What makes you think a bit of joy at seeing an American or a Chinese athlete lose out is to do with hatred?
 
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screenman

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There you go with your assumptions again. What makes you think a bit of joy at seeing an American or a Chinese athlete lose out is to do with hatred?

The quote alone. The girl was a tryer, a shame to see her get beaten sounds nicer I feel.
 
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