<p>You’re from Philadelphia; so how do you know why a lot of european people dislike the US? I’m from Europe, and I can tell you one thing, it is not because we think it stands above us on some sort of ranking list. </p>
<p>People here dislike the US for a lot of reasons: fist of all your president and political system, i’m sorry guys but most european country’s are a lot better off that you americans! Second of all because America BELIEVES it is number 1 (of course in many ways it is) and often acts as if they can decide everything alone, without considering other country’s or the UN (irak, irak, irak) and that makes a lot of us angry and it isn’t that good for our pride either…</p>
<p>But there are a lot of prejudices as well, especially about your social system (which of course is bad compared to most of the european systems, but those are impossible in the us and a lot of people don’t realise this) and about american people, people here often believe americans are stupid. I would like to advice all of them to spent some time on this forum, and be proven wrong. American people are just as smart as european people and often more active and involved than we are. </p>
<p>And there are many other reasons I can’t think of right now, anyway, the European dislike for the US is a lot more complicated that JohnnyK says… and of course a lot of us don’t dislike the US at all, we just disagree with some things…</p>
<p>As an ending to this ridiculously long post I would like to point out that despite all this there is no place in the world I would rather go to college than New Haven, Connecticut, United states of America :)</p>