I just read a couple of mails where some people ask me if I hate the American way of life, especially the American capitalism. Because of those who have misunderstood my last post, I’m going to make a few comments on it.Some Mexican friends have told me they dislike America basically for the next reasons:

- War in the middle east (Iraq, Israel).
- Oil and weapons of mass destruction.
- Pollution record (Kyoto).
- Patriotism.
- Discrimination (racism)
- Just jealousy

Anyways, there’re a lot of reasons, most of them involving American foreign policies which are enough to convince people in both the eastern world (Islamic or otherwise theocratic nations) and western world (developing countries) that anti-American hatred is justified. But are they really enough to hate America as nation? I don’t think so, after all, the US is a very young nation which has actually a child as a government.
Even though the US government doesn’t show the faintest sign of humility and modesty, it has nothing to do with most American people who do their best in order to reach their goals and are actually the true power of the United States.

I’m not someone who has anti-American feelings, in fact, I got a lot of American friends who have always been very friendly toward me. I could say I love America as nation.

By the way, a Mexican friend of mine made a comment into his blog on my perception of richness. He actually mentioned that richness is an unlimited resource. I agree, if richness is measured in terms of knowledge. We can measure richness in terms of money as well, but in this case richness is a limited resource. Given this situation, the “American Dream” could be true just for those who create knowledge for producing richness in terms of money (in most cases). Unfortunately, “American Dream” is all about richness in terms of money, that’s the way most people see it at least. In this case, richness is a limited resource, then the “American Dream” is not a reality for every single person entering the US since most of them cannot create enough knowledge to produce unlimited richness (in terms of money), they’re just the support of an economic model which cannot be seen in the way “American Dream” does.

If “American Dream” were true, how would you explain poverty in the United States?

Although, I think the US is a great nation, I do believe “American Dream” is utter nonsense. Probably your views on it are completely opposite to mine, which is acceptable as well.

As simple as the John Lennon’s song “God” says: “I don’t believe in American Dream, I just believe in me and that’s reality“. ]]> http://ramonn.org/blog/2006/11/03/why-should-i-hate-america/feed 0