QA提问：美国人是否普遍意识到他们国家在国外的声誉很糟糕？

Josie Dimarico
Yes we know and we really don’t care. It’s a shame for you guys that you feel so disgusted with our culture and so “above it”. We’ve had friends who moved here and wanted to change it to what they moved from. We think to ourselves GO HOME THEN. Why stay if it’s so terrible? We like it. We don’t think we are a lesser culture. A huge portion of us believe that we were the greatest nation on earth and are basically the falling ROME right now. Capitalism provides the closest chance to equal opportunity to people and middle class options. It doesn’t guarantee the same outcome for those who don’t make good choices to protect their own interests. We realize there are hard scrabble starts and the greatest wealth has come to those people when they made great choices and sough opportunity and SEIZED it. There’s no perfect nation out there. We laugh at you guys too. Seriously, like hard!

是的，我们知道，但是我们真的不在乎。你们对我们的文化如此厌恶，表现得如此“凌驾在它之上”，真是太遗憾了。我们有朋友搬来这里，想把这里改变成像他们自己那儿一样。我们心里想，那你们就回家去吧，如果这里这么糟糕，为什么要留下来？我们喜欢这里。我们不认为我们的文化更低级。我们中的很大一部分人相信我们是地球上最伟大的国家，我们现在基本上是正在衰落的罗马。资本主义为人们和中产阶级提供了最接近平等的选择机会。对于那些没有做出保护自身利益的正确选择的人来说，并不能保证获得同样的结果。我们意识到开始的时候很艰难，但是当人们做出正确选择、寻找并抓住机遇时，他们就拥有了最大的财富。世界上没有完美的国家。我们也嘲笑你们，说真的，在狠狠地嘲笑

Cynthia Hourihan
My grandparents were immigrants from Europe before WW2, they were excited and proud to come to America for a better life. They left nearly all their worldly possessions behind for the chance to be free and oh how they worked for their freedom.
They were so proud to be American that my Grandfather volunteered as air warden in NYC for any air raids and after Pearl harbor was attacked he signed up for the Navy to defend his Country leaving behind his wife and two children for over three years. My mother was his daughter.
He returned after seeing so much, too much blood and tears the ultimate sacrifice for our Country.
If I hate a restaurant for example, I’m not going to go back, perhaps the staff was rude or the food was terrible, maybe I’d even give it a bad review if my experience was so bad. One thing I’m not going to do is eat there every single night and still complain. I’d kind of look like a fool after all there are other restaurants to go to. I feel the same about those that come to our Country, complaining and badmouthing it and taking all that they’re “entitled” to take (really?).
I’m talking as the granddaughter of immigrant grandparents who did all they could to better future generations in America. I’m proud of my Country, I’m sickened of what is going on however i stand by my Country.
If others don’t like it, write a review and don’t come back. Capeesh!

我的祖父母是二战前的欧洲移民，他们为来到美国过上更好的生活而感到兴奋和自豪。他们为了自由的机会几乎抛弃了所有的物质财富，哦，他们是如何为了自由而工作的。
他们为自己是美国人而自豪，因此我的祖父自愿在纽约担任应对空袭的空中守卫者。珍珠港遭到袭击后，他留下妻子和两个孩子，报名参加海军保卫国家，一直持续了三年。我母亲是他的女儿。
在目睹了太多的血和眼泪，以及为我们国家做出的伟大牺牲之后，他回来了。
打个比方，如果我讨厌一家餐馆，我就再也不会回去光顾了，可能是工作人员太粗鲁了，或者食物太差了，如果我的用餐经历太差，也许我甚至会给它一个差评。我不会每天晚上都在那里吃饭，然后却仍然怨声载道。我会看起来像个傻瓜，毕竟还有其它餐馆可去。我对那些来到我们国家的人也有同样的感觉，他们抱怨、说脏话，拿走他们“有权”拿走的东西（真的吗？）。
我是移民祖父母的孙女，他们为了让在美国的子孙后代过上更好的生活而尽了最大的努力。我为我的国家感到骄傲，我对正在发生的事情感到恶心，然而我依然支持我的国家。
如果其他人不喜欢美国，那就请写下一篇评论，然后不要再回来了。

Ray Altiery
And this new wave of illegal immigrants don’t give a shit about America. They parade in here flying the flags of their abusive native countries. They are here for dollars, dollars Joe Biden is taking from American citizens to give to these illegal invaders.

而且这一波新的非法移民根本不关心美国。他们在这里游行，挥舞着他们祖国的旗帜，而他们的祖国则虐待了他们。他们来这里是为了美元，乔·拜登从美国公民那里拿走美元，去给这些非法入侵者。

Tonya Martin Knox
Those abroad think so poorly of Americans and feel the need to voice it over and over…but somehow they still need validation that we KNOW it and it BOTHERS us. It is like their own opinion doesn’t matter even to them unless it has an impact on us. If their opinions matter so little to themselves, you can imagine how little it matters to me.

那些在国外的人对美国人的评价太差了，他们觉得有必要反复强调……但不知何故，他们仍然需要证实我们知道这一点，并且感到困扰。就好像他们自己的观点对他们自己来说都无关紧要，除非这些观点对我们有影响。如果他们的观点对他们自己来说都无关紧要了，你可以想象它们对我来说又有多么不重要。

America Forever
I met a woman who had fled Syria. She told me how grateful she was America existed. She told me how America had opened its arms to her. She was so proud and happy to be in this country, I almost joined her joyous tears.
We are a great country. And we will fight to remain so. There is room for improvement, but those imperfections are because we are the human race.
As for now, God bless America.

我遇到一位逃离叙利亚的妇女。她告诉我她是多么感激有美国存在。她告诉我美国是如何向她敞开双臂的。她在这个国家是如此的骄傲和快乐，她喜悦的眼泪几乎感染了我。
我们是一个伟大的国家。我们将为此而奋斗。我们有改进的余地，但这些不完美是因为我们是人类。
现在，上帝保佑美国。

George Pankey
Ask yourself this question. If The United States of America is soooo bad and the whole world think we are a terrible country then why in the hell do their citizens want to come to America to be free? We are so bad that over 900,000 of the World citizens LEGALY immigrate to The United States of America not to mention the illegal aliens that come here.

问问自己这个问题。如果美国太坏了，全世界都认为我们是一个可怕的国家，那么他们的公民到底为什么要到美国来获得自由呢？我们是如此的糟糕，已至全世界超过90万的公民合法移民到美利坚合众国，更不用说那些非法移民到这里来的外星人了。

Helmut Höffner
Non American here.
Yes, they are.
Reactions vary.
Some simply won't visit they consider hostile places for Americans. Some take it easy and go there with their America t-shirt.
Vast majority doesn't care - they have the entire world coming to them anyway, so experiencing “new cultures” is not that hard. It is a continental size country with basically all types of landscapes, climates with various types of regions, all that without a language barrier. More than enough to visit for an average person.

我不是美国人。
是的，他们意识到了。
但他们的反应各不相同。
有些人根本不会去去那些他们认为对美国人怀有敌意的地方。有些人无所谓，穿着他们的美国t恤去了那些地方。
绝大多数人都不在乎——反正整个世界都会来到他们身边，所以体验“新文化”并不难。它是一个大陆大小的国家，基本上拥有所有类型的地貌、气候和各种类型的区域，所有这些地方都没有语言障碍。对于一个普通人来说，可以去的地方已经足够多了。
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Michael O'Leary
A better question would be….
Are YOU aware that we don’t really care what people think who have:
1 - Historically raped the world for their own benefit for hundreds of years, And STILL to this day think they should be in charge and everyone should do what they say should be done!
2 - Were the main beneficiaries of the Slave Trade (Who do you think were collecting and selling them to the US and buying/shipping them to work in their COLONIAL POSSESSIONS?)
3 - Started just about every war before Desert Storm, fighting over those far away lands they deemed as theirs.
4 - Uses unfair trade rules to keep out US goods but complain when we do the same things they do as far as their trade is concerned.
5 - Who have always acted as if they are the elder and more mature thinkers despite the fact they have perpetrated all the immature things I stated above
6 - Who complain about our Immigration policies only to do many of the same things they complained about with us when they were faced with a refugee stampede!
7 - Who have no issues doing business with a country they have sanctioned for bad behavior simply on the basis that it fits their own selfish needs. I guess it’s MATURE to only have morals and stand up to people when it is not inconvenient to you.
No we don’t really care what people like that think!

这个问题应该这样问……
你是否意识到，我们真的不关心这样的人是如何想的：
1-在数百的历史中，为了自己的利益掠夺了全世界，直到今天，他们仍然认为自己应该管理世界，每个人都应该按着他们说的去做！
2-奴隶贸易的主要受益者（你认为是谁在收集奴隶并将其出售给美国，然后购买/运送到他们的殖民地里工作的？）
3-在沙漠风暴（译注：指海湾战争）之前，发起了几乎每一场战争，争夺那些他们认为属于自己的遥远土地。
4-使用不公平的贸易规则将美国商品拒之门外，但当我们在贸易上做与他们相同的事情时，他们会抱怨。
5-尽管他们做出了我上面提到的所有不成熟的事情，但他们总是表现得好像他们是更年长、更成熟的思想家
6-他们抱怨我们的移民政策，但当他们面对蜂拥而至的难民时，却做出了跟他们所抱怨的相同的事情！
7-与一个国家做生意没有问题，他们仅仅是因为符合他们自己的自私需要而以该国的不良行为为由制裁他们。我想，只有不会为你带来不便的时候，才讲道德以及勇敢地面对别人，这样做很成熟。
不，我们真的不在乎这样的人怎么想！

Alys Richards
The proper way to ask the question is, “Do Americans give a shit that they have a poor reputation abroad?” My answer is “nope”. The next question would be, “Does that mean you’ll stop calling on us to save your ass if attacked by a foreign enemy; you’ll stop expecting aid money; pay your fair share to the UN, WHO, and other global organizations, instead of expecting us to pay most of it; stop relying on us for all the greatest medical, scientific, and engineering advancements; and stop flooding our shores and taking our jobs?” Because, if you think so little of us, that should be your natural response.

这个问题的正确问法是，“美国人在乎他们在国外的名声糟糕吗？”我的回答是“不”。下一个问题是，“这是否意味着，如果遭到外敌袭击，你们将不再呼吁我们拯救你们；你们将不再期待援助资金；向联合国、世卫组织和其它全球性组织支付你们应支付的份额，而不是期待我们支付大部分；不再依赖所有我们取得的最伟大的医疗、科学和工程成就；以及不再涌向我们的国家，抢走我们的工作？”因为，如果你们把我们想象得如此糟糕，那你们自然应该这么做。

Steve Stewart
Who cares what they think? I don’t, and the mass majority of America doesn’t, and how they feel about us won’t change anything.
Does your country do business with China? Does that bother you? How about the oil you might get from Middle Eastern nations that treat homosexuals like paper airplanes? Issues with that? Every other nation has their own problems. We aren’t one of them for the most part. So worry about you and we will worry about us. And do not forget, most of the crap you hear about America is propaganda and BS.
You might think all sorts of things about us, but you can pretty much be assured we are not thinking about you.

谁在乎他们怎么想的？我不在乎，大多数美国人也不在乎，他们对我们的看法不会改变任何事情。
你们国家和中国做生意吗？这会让你烦恼吗？中东国家对待同性恋者就像对待纸飞机一样，那么你从那里得到的石油呢？有什么问题吗？每个国家都有自己的问题。我们在大多数情况下没有他们的这些问题。所以你们管好你们自己的事情，我们也会管好我们自己的。别忘了，你听到的大多数关于美国的诋毁都是宣传和废话。
你可能会对我们有各种各样的想法，但你可以确信，我们一点都不在乎你们怎么想。

Zach Hall
Yes, and they correctly don’t care. I’m not super conservative, but I’m definitely right of center. I’m also extremely well traveled. I’ve visited 20+ countries and have friends in most of those countries. When I travel, I much prefer going to bars and interacting with locals rather than visiting traditional tourist locations. Most people I interact with actually have a much more neutral opinion of the US than most assume. If you reading this are American what is your personal opinion of Portugal? Most foreigners have similar opinions of the US, we’re another country of many that have at most a tangential impact on their day to day life. Ok but yes the US has a much larger impact on most countries than Portugal. And due to media coverage, there’s a much bigger opinion of us among foreigners. Fair enough. I’ve met many who are convinced that if you live in the US, every few days you lose a loved one to gun violence. When I mention to them that more die in car crashes than gun violence they do a double take. When I mention that if you’re not committing suicide or involved in gangs your odds of dying to gun violence is negligible people are shocked. When I mention that despite not having a nationalized healthcare system we have the best doctors, the most medical patents, and the best cancer survival rates in the world, they do a double take. The fact is most people from other countries have only heard propaganda about how the US is and is very surprised by some very basic facts. Most have been extremely open-minded and actually thanked me for opening their eyes, while of course some are convinced I’m just lying. Hopefully some of those who think I’m lying have done some research and seen that everything I’ve said is true.
But anyway you have a mix of people who don’t hold to the premise of this question, many people from other nations correctly don’t give a shit about the US, and then you have people who are misinformed about the US. Of course there are some people who don’t like the US based on correct information, but unless you want to discuss much more specific critiques of our country, it’s not particularly worth addressing in this question. Anyone who has traveled realizes that the vast majority of citizens of other countries either don’t care about the US or have an incorrectly negative perception of us.

是的，他们不在乎。我不是超级保守的人，但我的观念绝对是中间偏右的。我也旅行过很多地方。我访问了20多个国家，在大多数国家都有朋友。当我旅行时，我更喜欢去酒吧与当地人交流，而不是参观传统的旅游景点。事实上，和我交流的大多数人对美国的看法比大多数人想象的要中立得多。如果你是美国人，你个人对葡萄牙有什么样的看法？大多数外国人对我们也有着相似的看法，我们只是众多对他们的日常生活影响最大的国家之一。
好吧，是的，美国对大多数国家的影响要比葡萄牙大得多。由于媒体的报道，外国人对我们的看法要大得多。很正常。我见过很多人，他们相信如果你生活在美国，每隔几天就会有一个亲人死于枪杀。当我向他们提到车祸中死亡的人数比死于枪械暴力的人还要多时，他们愣了一会儿。当我提到如果你没有自杀或加入帮派，你死于枪械暴力的几率可以忽略不计，他们感到震惊。当我提到，尽管没有一个国家化的医疗体系，但我们拥有世界上最好的医生、最多的医疗专利和最好的癌症存活率，他们又愣住了。事实上，其它国家的大多数人只听过关于美国的宣传，对一些非常基本的事实感到非常惊讶。大多数人都非常开明，他们感谢我让他们开了眼界，当然有些人相信我只是在撒谎。希望那些认为我在撒谎的人已经做了一些研究，发现我所说的一切都是真的。
但不管怎么说，有那么一些人不符合这个问题的前提条件，许多来自其它国家的人对美国毫不关心，然后还有一些人对美国有错误的认知。当然，有些人是基于事实而不喜欢美国，但除非你想讨论一些关于我们国家的更具体的批评，否则这在这个问题上不太值得讨论。任何一个旅行过的人都会意识到，其它他国家绝大多数人要么不关心美国，要么对我们有错误的负面看法。

Domenic Norton
Indeed, our country is so hideously grotesque and horrible that tens of millions of people come here to visit each year as tourists, millions come to study as students on student visas, and about 1–2 million come here each year to immigrate and permanently reside here [whether legally or illegally].
Hundreds of thousands of people risk their lives to enter the United States each year because the United States is the most worthless, vile, obscene, racist, imperialist power in the history of the world and such powers naturally attract diverse varieties of new-comers by the millions.
Is that about the gist of it?

是的，我们的国家是如此的丑陋荒谬和可怕，以至于每年有数以千万计的人以游客的身份来到这里，数以百万计的人持学生签证来这里学习，每年大约有100-200万人来这里移民和永久居住（无论是合法的还是非法的）。
每年都有数十万人冒着生命危险进入美国，因为美国是世界历史上最没有价值、最卑鄙、最下流、最种族主义、最帝国主义的大国，而这样的大国自然会吸引数以百万计的各种新来者。
这就是这个问题的主旨吗？
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Donald Rich
As opposed to some of the other responses I will try to answer the actual question asked.
Yes, I believe in general that Americans are aware of the USA’s “poor reputation” abroad. This is so well known it somewhat of a joke. As indicated by the other responses it is known but American’s don’t care very much.
As long as the world wants American products, inventions, medicine, programs, etc. Americans seem to be OK with their “poor reputation.

与其它一些回答相反，我将尝试好好回答这个问题。
是的，我相信大多数美国人都知道美国在国外的“坏名声”。这是一个众所周知的笑话。正如其它回答所表明的，这是众所周知的，但美国人并不十分在意。
只要全世界都想要美国的产品、发明、药品、项目等等，美国人似乎对他们的“坏名声”没有意见。

Scott Harris
Of course. The difference is we know you’re brainwashed and can’t help it. Look at all the starving people in North Korea who think the US is a worse place to live than North Korea, and that Kim is virtually a God. Europe likes to pretend they are better at certain things like health care, but when you realize that everyone who can comes to the US for treatment that argument becomes pretty hollow. Add to that the fact that the government gets to decide who gets lifesaving treatment and who is left to die, and it becomes even more clear. The world watched in horror a few years ago when that kids could have gotten treatment in the US and lived but the government wanted him to die and refused to allow his parents to leave the country with him for treatment. I suppose it’s really no surprise that Europeans are so comfortable with the government deciding who lives and dies. Just look at their history. They come from a place where kings has ultimate authority of who lives and dies. Everyone who was not a member of royalty only lived if a King allowed it. If the ruler wanted you dead there was nothing you could do about it. They owned your life. This is just a more modern version of that. Americans are different. We come from a place where self-determination and self-reliance are paramount. It’s not any surprise that Europeans subconsciously despise us for that to cover up their envy.

当然知道。区别在于我们知道你们被洗脑了，无能为力。看看那些在朝鲜挨饿的人吧，他们认为美国比朝鲜更糟糕，而金正恩实际上是个神。欧洲喜欢假装他们在医疗保健等一些方面做得更好，但当你注意到每个来美国接受治疗的人时，这种说法就变得相当空洞了。再加上政府有权决定谁能得到拯救生命的治疗，谁只能等死，这一点就变得更加明确了。几年前，当那个孩子本可以在美国接受治疗并活下来，但政府却希望他死，并拒绝让他的父母带着他一起离开自己的国家接受治疗时，全世界都惊恐万分。
我想，欧洲人对政府决定谁生谁死感到如此自在，这真的不足为奇。看看他们的历史，他们所来自的地方，国王们对谁生谁死拥有最终的决定权。每个不是皇室成员的人只有在国王允许的情况下才能活着。如果统治者要你死，你无能为力。他们拥有你的身家性命。这个事件只是一个更现代的翻版。美国人是不同的。我们来自一个自决和自力更生至关重要的地方。欧洲人下意识地鄙视我们以掩盖他们的嫉妒，这并不奇怪。
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Shallon Hughes
As a rural Missourian, (considered a flyover state in the U.S.A.) we rarely think about how other states much less how other countries perceive us. New York and Los Angeles are as foreign to me as Mongolia or Australia. I can freely admit I am quite ignorant of cultures from all of these regions, but find them fascinating as they are different from my own and enjoy hearing their opinions on world events, as my own culture is quite insular by a large landmass and lower cost of living. (Less opportunity to travel abroad). My community is largely blue collar and is mostly concerned with day to day living and activities. I would assume I am in a similar situation, as most people in developed countries that hear about world events through their regional news source, that it is a far off event that will not affect that I will be going to work tomorrow to maintain a lifestyle for my family. So, sorry to say the opinion of others does not weigh too heavily on my mind when I think of the costs that I need to prepare for in the immediate future.
Hopefully this helps with a bit of understanding of how smaller America can see the world. We rarely consider the effects of our own larger government and what it does and rather pay attention to our local government and how it is going affect our daily routine.

作为一名密苏里州（被认为是美国的一个立交桥州）的农村居民，我们很少考虑其它州如何看待我们，更不用说其它国家如何看待我们了。纽约和洛杉矶对我来说就像蒙古或澳大利亚一样陌生。我可以坦率地承认，我对所有这些地区的文化都一无所知，但我发现这些文化很迷人，因为它们与我自己的文化不同，我也喜欢听他们对世界大事的看法，因为我自己的文化因幅员辽阔、生活成本较低而相当孤立（出国旅行的机会较少）。
我的社交圈主要是蓝领阶层，主要关注日常生活和活动。我会假设我也处于类似的情况，就像大多数发达国家的人通过地区新闻来了解世界大事一样，这是一个遥远的事件，不会影响我明天去工作，为我的家庭维持生计。因此，很抱歉，当我想到我需要在不久的将来准备的开支时，其他人的意见对我来说并不重要。
希望这有助于我们理解小美国是如何看待世界的。我们很少考虑我们自己的上级政府的影响以及它所做的事情，而更愿意关注我们的地方政府以及它是如何影响我们的日常事务的。
译注：立交桥州（flyover state）是美国人的用语，用于描述美国东西海岸之间的部分地区。

Noah Way
Everybody complains, but just imagine if China, or North Korea, or Iran, or Russia, or Syria, etc… were in America’s position of power. How would you feel if Pakistan were given USA’s power.?
America will go to war if it feels there is a need. Yes, the joke… SPREADING DEMOCRACY means PROTECT THE OIL. But it needs to keep oil flowing which benefits EVERYONE. And when things stabilize, we LEAVE. Do you believe ISIS would capture your country to get rid of a murderous dictator and then leave? And then continue to support it financially?

每个人都在抱怨，但试想一下，如果中国、朝鲜、伊朗、俄罗斯、叙利亚等处于美国的权力地位，会怎么样。如果巴基斯坦获得美国的力量，你会有什么感觉？
如果美国觉得有必要，它就会发动战争。是的，那个笑话……传播民主意味着保护石油。但美国需要保持石油流通，这对每个人都有利。当事情稳定下来后，我们就会离开。你相信伊斯兰国会占领你的国家，除掉一个凶残的独裁者，然后离开吗？然后继续在财政上支持这个国家？

Ryan Lolly
Considering how poorly you claim the rest of the world thinks of us, there sure are a hell of a lot of you wanting to move here.

考虑到你声称世界上其他人对我们的看法是多么糟糕，可以肯定你们当中有很多人想搬到这里来。