Here’s a thought maybe it’s not the brand value that’s trumping anti-American sentiment, perhaps there isn’t as much hate for the U.S.A. that we’ve been lead to believe by our “beloved’ media.

GUYS… AMERICA IS NOT A COUNTRY IS A CONTINENT.
I AM FROM URUGUAY AND I WAS BORN IN AMERICA, THE REAL AMERICA, SO I DON´T SEE WHAT´S THE BIG DEAL…

Nice one! Brit’ here and I can attest to the anti US sentiment. But were I feel it should have (in the past specifically) been aimed at the government (looking at you Dubyer) I see a lot of the feeling behind the sentiment reflected in the American people on the TV and online.

I think people in general should learn to differentiate between what a nation wants and what it’s government wants.

It’s one of the reason’s I’ve always liked Cap’, he represents an ideal not an agenda.

“…perhaps there isn’t as much hate for the U.S.A. that we’ve been lead to believe by our “beloved’ media.”

Oh no, there’s plenty of it. rjhemedes is correct. You need to travel overseas more.

I do plenty of traveling overseas and I don’t see all this hate you’re all talking about. There are just as many people who are appreciative of all the contributions of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The responces I see on this board are those of hatred because of jeolousy from a small bunch, because we are the greatest nation ever concieved. Also THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is a country. North and South America are continents. Please get your geography and terms correct. Ignorance is not an excuse.

If there’s such anti-American sentiment, wouldnt the audience be turned off by the story itself, which is one big patriotic tale??

I´M SORRY jmteuton IS THIS GUY NAMED CAPTAIN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA !?
AMERICA IS A CONTINENT NOT A COUNTRY

Gonza, go learn some geography. NORTH America and SOUTH America are the continents. America is a COUNTRY.

I don’t think many Americans would have a problem watching Captain Russia or Captain China but oh wait those two characters would represent oppressive governments on both counts. What would Captain Russia and Captain China represent blocking google or having one of the most corrupt mafia style government in one of the largest countries on Earth. I enjoy what someone said up there Cap is all about the ideal anti American sentiment maybe so but when it comes right down to it all these people that come here to start a life because of what our American dream is entitled to them know personally why our ideals will stand the test of time. You can disagree with the American governments choices and actions(which hey Captain China would not be promoting) but when we get down to brass tax our ideals are utopian. Anti American sentiment I think many of these countries need to remember how much America has done for them as a whole. I don’t remember Russia offering up the idea of the United Nations or even intervening in World War II in the beginning as a matter of fact the Ruskies and Hitler had a little pact didn’t they. Yeah I said it you don’t like America fine but everyone likes our liberties.

“The responces I see on this board are those of hatred because of jeolousy from a small bunch”

I’m certainly not jealous of Americans. I’m Canadian and proud of it. I just detest the attitudes of Americans such as yourself. Willfully ignorant of the world around them because … it doesn’t matter. Because you’re the best, right?

It’s one thing to be proud of your country. That’s fine. So am I. It’s quite another thing to assert that you’re somehow “better” than someone else simply because of where you happen to live.

“…because we are the greatest nation ever concieved.”

Precisely the attitude that gives you a bad name.

“Please get your geography and terms correct. Ignorance is not an excuse.”

And what’s your excuse for poor spelling? So far, you’ve spelled “jealousy”, “responses”, and “conceived” incorrectly. Rh
It’s laughable to see someone make these errors while criticizing the “ignorance” of others.

“. Rh”

And before I get banged on that, that was part of a deletion that I didn’t quite complete before hitting “Submit Comment.”

Maybe Captain Continent ?

@jmteuton says: “I do plenty of traveling overseas and I don’t see all this hate you’re all talking about.”

More likely than not some of those people are probably being very polite, or you are not attune to the underlying dislike of Americans as a whole.

I’m Canadian, and whenever I’m in a different country and mention I’m an old Canucklehead, you cannot believe the expressions of relief I see on foreigners’ faces. Even amongst some of my fellow Canadian friends, Americans are not seen in a positive light, especially politicians who posit right-wing views.

I’m a nihilist, so I could care less either way.

I’m from URUGUAY the real AMERICA were we took money from Nazis gave them nice comfrotable goverment jobs and tax breaks after WWII. I’m gonna be pissy and get mad cause people from the USA are called Americans although America is two continents and not a country! I have the argument of a 6 year old who owns a map!

Really aren’t you just mad cause people from Uruguay are known are Urinals? Seriously, Dude, your bs is so played out and so frankly unfunny and boring get a new act. I’m sick of hearing it.

@jmteuton

Well, the reason why Canada is rotting from within, as you so eloquently phrased it, is because my fellow Canadians decided to vote for Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party, whose agenda for the past 6 years has been to turn Canada into the USA. Food for thought.

Personally, I blame the idiotic obsession with hockey. I’m probably the only Canadian that loathes that sport. Soccer FTW!

i.e. Canadian hatred and jealousy of the USA: I rest my case.

I want come out here in defense of Gonza, who stated that AMERICA is a CONTINENT and not a Country.

That’s how we, in SOUTH AMERICA (I’m from Brazil), learn our continents. To us, it is Oceania, Antartica, Europe, Africa, Asia and America.

That’s the academic view of geography we choose to subscribe to (well, not us, but the people who choose these things and what we learn in school). He doesn’t have to go study Geography. He already did, and that’s what he learned, and he is not exactly wrong, either.

I’m sorry, but do you guys even know why it’s called “America”? A dude named Amerigo Vespucci explored the coast of BRAZIL, in SOUTH AMERICA, for King Manuel I of Portugal. He was also trying to discover the route to India through the West, that Columbus failed to find. He wrote a bunch of reports to King Manuel I and, because of that, the continent got named America, because in the Portugese language, his name was AMERICO Vespúcio.

So, in fact, you guys got NO REAL CLAIM on the name “AMERICA”. Actually, youse guys only use it because your country doesn’t HAVE a real name. You are a bunch of States (got read the definition up on the dictionary), that are in the American continent, that decided to be together politically. IT SAYS SO IN THE NAME.

I mean no disrespect by that, mind you. I’m just pointing out that you americans are way too guarded with the words “AMERICA” and “AMERICAN”. They actually don’t belong to you. And can be used by a lot more people to describe themselves than you think. But we have all agreed that it would be easier to call you that, “AMERICANS”, because how else would you call a person from THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA? The Unitedstateans? Well… actually, in Portugese, we already do… Hmmm…

America is a great place, I`m not saying it`s not. I mean, your country actually works, differently from mine, at least. There are problems everywhere, but you guys got your sh…stuff together.

I`m actually picking on the WORDS. Not on anyone, and certainly not on the principles America was built upon.

I lived in the U.S. and like the Nicaraguan friend of Rickard I was really amazed at what was acomplished in America in pretty much the same time that Brazil had. And Brazil hasn`t done nearly enough to compare.

I wouldn`t dare to try to discuss geopolitics in a newsarama thread. LOL.

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA……”OF AMERICA”. Get a clue people. Let’s say it again “OF AMERICA”. Therfore we are AMERICANS. Not North American, not South American, not Central American. AMERICAN of the UNITED STATES. GOT IT! GOOD!

I`ll say it again!

America is a great place, I`m not saying it`s not. I mean, your country actually works, differently from mine, at least. There are problems everywhere, but you guys got your sh…stuff together.

I`m actually picking on the WORDS. Not on anyone, and certainly not on the principles America was built upon.

I lived in the U.S. and like the Nicaraguan friend of Rickard I was really amazed at what was acomplished in America in pretty much the same time that Brazil had. And Brazil hasn`t done nearly enough to compare.

I wouldn`t dare to try to discuss geopolitics in a newsarama thread. LOL.

Chinese and Korean titles are routinely changed, anyway.

I am amused to see South Korea listed with Russia, though. It is true that there is a lot of anti-American sentiment in South Korea–mostly deserved, thanks to the behavior of U.S. soldiers from the bases there.

Many kung-fu movies made or supported by the Chinese government boil down to mass patriotic propaganda exercises. American movies often go down this route–e.g., Saving Private Ryan or Pearl Harbor, which were basically good (USA) versus evil. I see no reason why Captain America would not be received on its own merits as a superhero action movie.

sorry, don’t know how to edit, or if you even can.

@jmteuton: seriously man, it’s people like you that give us a bad name. Didn’t your parents ever teach you that it’s rude to brag? If you truly believe that we are worthy of all this praise then just let other people say it rather than saying it yourself. That just makes you (and all of us, since you keep talking like you speak for the whole country) look desperate and kind of sad really.

I like my country a lot, and consider myself a patriot, but I prefer to let our actions and history do the talking, whatever people choose to take away from that.

These conversations are fairly fun. As a well-traveled American, and patriotic military enlisted man, I’d like to throw my two cents in.

The United States “of” America.

“Of America” as a possessive clause the United States is a part of the American Continent. The United States doesn’t “own” the continent rather it is a possession of the region, part “of” the region known as North America. However, Mexico and Canada do not claim that part of the region in their country’s name so it’s just easier to shorten the name to “America” when speaking because why use ten Syllables when 4 will do? It’s funny that so many people of countries that reside within the borders of the South American continent find it so offensive that we shorten our national identity to “American” when generally we’re so divided amongst ourselves that we have to hyphenate our national identity to make ourselves feel special.

My interest in discussions like these is my curiosity of a weak national identity. My experience in the South American Continent is very limited, mostly to Central America and the Caribbean, though I’ve heard many people that claim to be from one of the countries from that continent that have such a problem with me calling myself an American as though it somehow excludes them from using it. And that’s what I don’t understand, why does me choosing a word to easily describe where I live somehow offensive to any one else? Is a national identity in Uruguay so low that it’s embarrassing to admit you reside there? And I am supposed to care that a person is embarrassed of their home that I have to change the descriptors of my place of birth to somehow make that person feel better?

If that’s the case, I need to ask “Why”.

Geographically, we are known as “America” and we’re called “Americans” though when I travel overseas I tell people I’m “from the States” not because I’m at all embarrassed where I come from but it’s usually how the people of the local area tend to describe where I’m from, and I’m the visitor to their country, so I try to adopt their customs as best I can so that I might be able to experience my stay in that country better. Though I’ve actually had a conversation with a person that suggested we start calling ourselves “United Statesians”. And I’m sorry that just sounds stupid, and insulting as hell. I suggested to her in return that she ought to refer to herself as a United Kindomite to which she scoffed and said “I’m a Scot”, despite living in the country of the United Kingdom in the region of the British Isles. So by her logic, by suggesting that I call myself a United Statesian, she ought to drop her identity and refer to herself as a United Kingdomite, but sadly those people that believe we need to drop “American” from our national identity rarely abide by their own logic in a pretentious attitude that is generally used to describe most people that live in the United States of America.

It’s one of those “Look in the mirror” aspects of poor attitudes that I wish more of my countrymen would do, but I can sleep well at night knowing that we American’s are not the only ugly countrymen out there. Tourists from other countries that visit the United States mirror a lot of the attitudes I see of many American tourists in Europe.

I love visiting other countries and most of the time I love where I live (humidity sucks). I love experiencing cultures not my own, and I’m not apologetic to where or how I live. And I don’t think anyone should be apologetic either, but if you’re pretentious enough to think you can tell me how I should perceive myself, perhaps I’m not the problem in this discussion.

I love being called arrogant by judgmental people.

Maybe, people will walk out because Captain America is kind of a boring character, much like Superman. I’d rather take the dark insanity of Batman and his rogues gallery, or the dynamic of cockiness and insecurity of Spider-Man, or the sexiness of a scantily clad Wonder Woman.

Hi, speaking from Germany here.

I always liked Steve and the things he believes in. And I like the fact, that he is often questioning the things the United States (meaning the politicians and(!) the people) are doing or saying.

There are certain values he stands for… but those are not unique to one country. He is a patriot, who loves his country and would die for it.

Democracy, freedom of speech and religion (which is a problem nowadays, because of fanatical elements), human rights etc.

You will find those values in other countries too. And that is why he is a appealing character… not because of the fact he is wearing the colors of the flag of the US… and please remeber: a lot of countries use the exact same colors.

Sometimes I think “Americans” (citizens of the US)… we call them “Amis” makes it easier to make clear whom you are taking about… are just a stupid bunch of ignorant uber-patriots… and some of the posts here, are clearly written by such people.

At other times I just hope they will follow Caps example. Please try to be more like him. Love your country and fight for it, but love it and fight for it for the right reasons. What the right reasons are? Ask Cap! You can read it in a lot of Cap Comics.

Looking forward to the movie!

The idea of a patriotic hero is so self-limiting in the first place. I wish Cap had remained Nomad.

As for the reality of anti-americanism… it is very real indeed. And really, how could it be any different? Spending around a billion dollars a year (I wish I were exagerating) to wage warfare abroad all the while being so ludicruously patriotic is a scary combination. People ought to distrust those who act that way.

Who cares, I’m only glad that Jack Kirby isn’t alive to see his co-creation screwed royaly! I wonder what Joe Simon really thinks! Anyone who thinks it’s cool with the producers to make fun of the original costume (which they mock at a USO show) is NOT a fan of Captain America… but a tool who’ll accept anything to see it on the screen.
‘Nuff said!

I love how the movie studio is so concerned that anti-American sentiment will hurt their profits that they’re willing to disavow their own country to make a buck. Now who’s anti-American?

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