Why does everyone hate us so much ?!

[englandd]

I’m talking about being English, spent alot of time on the cesspit that is Reddit this World Cup and the vast majority absolutely hate England, I known it stems from the British empire but as far as I’m aware it wasn’t just England who were bad back then was it ? I mean Spain and Portugal took a big part in colonialism too but why is it just the English that gets the hate ?
Last night I would’ve been genuinely happy to support Norway if they went through, I can’t imagine hating another nation so badly. Maybe I shouldn’t take it personally 😆

Aibu ? Do we deserve the hate we get from something that happened hundreds of years ago ? For what it’s worth the British empire were ruthless and I don’t celebrate anything they did, but I also don’t think we should be punished still for something that happened so so long ago.

This is actually hilarious! I’m in Dublin and I’ve seen more sunburned, shirtless men walking along the canal in the last week than I did in two weeks in Spain in a resort with tons of English and Irish holiday makers!! They weren’t drunk but this was in daylight hours!

Exactly this

We import a lot of foreign murderers and rapists by boats.

"Hadrian's Wall is entirely within England. Rebuilding it would place large sections of Northumberland, Cumbria, and Tyne and Wear north of the wall. This would shift iconic cities and landmarks like Newcastle upon Tyne, Carlisle, and the North Pennines into Scotland.

Thank you!

Do you actually hate

Which country are you in?

That's not my personal opinion at all. It's what I've heard from other people as reasons why they don't like the English. I do and I think it's a ridiculous thing to say 😃

Rubbish. We don’t say “home” because we think we’re entitled to win it, just because England was the birthplace of football. All football anthems, English or not, point to victory. Their purpose is to stir the fans to excitement and hope that they’ll win. “It’s probably not coming home, but we’ll enjoy the hope while we can before we get knocked out in the semis on penalties” would be more accurate, but utterly shit lyrics.

ETA: If you actually look at the lyrics of “Three Lions” you’ll see it’s very self-deprecating and talks of how we invariably fuck it up.

All the years of oppression left I guess an impression

The difference is that Germany as a country are apologetic, make sure to teach about their part in the Holocaust in schools, and want to make sure nothing like that ever happens again

England swept it all under the carpet, not only refusing to accept responsibility for a lot of what went on in NI but outright covering it up, and refusing to teach Irish history so most English people who haven't a clue about what their country has done relatively recently never mind historically

There's an air of arrogance about the whole thing, and many English people still look down their noses at the Irish, and I think this is noticed by many other countries, in particular the United States where so many Irish had to flee to because of the English

The Yanks don’t understand irony! It’s not in their natures to be self deprecating.
They have to BIG everything up, they are full of confidence, a can do attitude that I wish we had.

We suffer from imposter syndrome in spite of winning two world wars, sacrificing the best of British youth to keep Europe safe.

We’re just a little ole island so have to cheers ourselves on.
Many hate us for our sense of independence.

We tend not to dance to the tune of others which is just one of the reasons for Brexit.

We don’t like to be governed by unelected bureaucratic nonentities miles from our shores.

Maybe the England fans are behaving better because it’s harder to get into the US with criminal convictions? Plus it obviously very expensive to get to this year?

I agree OP I don't understand that diatribe at all. Football was created in 1863 by England and it's our national game so to use the phrase "it's coming home" doesn't seem racist, xenophobic or inciting hate in my opinion. It's just us being proud to stand up and speak of hope for our national team and our pride on the global sporting stage. Not sure what's wrong with that.

Untrue. The british army were protecting the goods leaving ireland to feed England. There would have been enough for Irish people but they had to see their food leave on boats.

there were soup kitchens but only if you cinverted to church of england.

the attitude during that time and from 1916 to 1922 was bad, then came the troubles and again the military did the worst things in NI because it was condonned by your government

😂 it's the arrogance and behaviour of your fans. That's it.

This World Cup has shown it perfectly. Scotland, Norway, Mexico, Morocco, etc, etc go across and party with everyone, involve everyone, get along with everyone.

England fans go across and sing 'get your tits out for the lads' and 'your shit and your fans are shit', while mocking every other nation.

Maybe not ever England fan does that but thats what's filling up SM feeds and news channels.

I’m not from the UK either and I agree with this. No hate though.

Just got home from Stansted airport and why is it that there are alwaya so many parents from the UK that behave like abusive assholes to their children. Screaming in their faces even though they are crying, swearing and making threats. It’s absolutely awful.
If it had happened where I live people would call the police.

Oh it isn’t just football, and you know it isn’t. Anyway, I started the post because I genuinely don’t get how some people have the mentality to really hate a nation. As I said in my op, I would’ve been happy to support Norway going through, but then I saw a comment on Reddit from a Norwegian saying fuck England you all deserve to lose etc etc, and that isn’t me “attention seeking” as you so nicely put it lol it was what prompted me to come on here and ask the question.

In terms of speaking foreign languages… most other nationalities use English as the common language. I don’t see many Germans or French or Danes or Irish for that matter, conversing animatedly in Greek, Arabic or Turkish whilst on holiday.

I do try to learn phrases but obviously don’t have time to become fluent for a ten day holiday and I don’t think those countries expect it

Spot on.

I haven’t seen any of this, I’ve seen videos of English fans and Mexican fans celebrating richer after the game, not to say there isn’t fans that do behave the way you say you’ve seen,

I also think a lot of "bad behaviour" from "the English abroad" actually applies to Scots, Welsh and Irish people too, its just that there are much fewer of them so they're much less conspicuous and also for non native speakers the default is to hear English and assume English, without being able to hear the subtlety of an accent.

If i saw a group of German speaking lads behaving like twats I'd just assume they're German. It wouldnt actually occur to me in the moment that they could be Austrian or Swiss. So you know, when we get the stereotype of "the Germans stealing sunloungers", for all we know the Austrians and Swiss might be just as bad for it 😉

Even in my own language, I'm actually not capable of hearing a difference between a "plain" American accent (I mean other than the very flavoured ones we know of like a Southern or NY accent) and a Canadian accent. Im sure I would if I spent time there, but as things stand, if I heard a group of North American-sounding tourists acting like dicks I'd just assume they're American. Same with Oz vs NZ.

It sounds like your algorithm on SM. Mine is full of celebrating for Jude Bellingham and the team

And many also emigrated to England strange that?

I think your OP, and this one might be one of the reasons people find you irksome. Hate is a strong word. It also takes a lot of energy to hate. You overestimate yourselves if you honestly believe you are hated en masse 😂

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i love how you got racism from my post but hey oh. It s your prerogative.

You do realise that England invented the FA in 1863, so modern football's home is literally England. Hence, the Lightening Seeds' 1996 song. Which like others have said, it is just a bit of fun and banter. But I guess a lot of Americans don't tend to understand banter and English humour.