Jealousy?? Not likely.
The anti-nuke marches and demonstrations held in Britain, were actually in protest against the Americans basing nuclear capable bombers on British soil, and about America using British soil for basing Nuclear weapons.
At the height of the "cold war", many Britains saw the American bases as being possible targets for the Soviet Union's nuclear forces, and therefore the American bases were seen as hazardous to the British public, who lived in close proximity to the bases.
My personal dislike for America, stems from their policies, especially their foreign policies and trade policies towards most other countries and nations.
Secondly America is a country built on broken promises and treaties, if one looks at the history, one will see that the government broke every single treaty ever signed between them and the Native Americans.
In the land of the free, the original inhabitants and their descendants, are still not free, are still persecuted, and many still live in "locations", not much better than our squatter camps.
Considering that many of you come from a country that saw persecution of the indigenous people, and still see the legacy of that today, in many aspects of this country, it surprises me that so many of you support a country, and defend its values so much, considering that most of those values have no value or meaning to anybody, other than Americans themselves.
In 1945, the Soviets would easily have taken Western Europe and Great Britain. It was the presence of the US troops (and their nuclear arsenal)
which prevented Joe Stalin from ordering his forces onward.
While your point may be valid about the nukes, in some degree, the fear of Soviet retaliation did not prevent GB from developing their own nuclear capability, the same can be said of France.
While the US government of old, may have broken these Native inhabitant treaties, you'll find that other governments (eg Mexico) currently do the same in THIS DAY and AGE. Society was structured diffrently then.
People of colour were seen as inferior and this was institutionalised. It was a world-wide phenomenon common to all colonial countries.
I'm sure that if you dig through the history of every nation on the face of this earth, you'll find
at least one minority group which was ousted or even led to cultural extinction because of the views or actions of the majority. In Taiwan, the Chinese
subjugated the indigenous population of Formosa, for example; on Okinawa the ethnic population there was seen as inferior, and in the
part of Germany now called Prussia - those people were pushed into cultural extinction, Prussians (a non-Germanic ethnic group) as a nation do not exist (do not confuse Prussians with the 17th century Germanic state of Prussia, these were two different population groups). In Spain, even now, the Basques are fighting for independence from Spain. In Australia the Aboriginal populations were hunted to near
extinction and later when that was outlawed their language and way of life was systemically expunged.
At least the Native Americans still have some of their land and can practice their religious/cultural activities which have been preserved. Countless cultures have been lost in other parts of the world, however.
As for the Native Americans, no-one discriminates against them. In fact being native American entitles you to some generous government grants and scholarships. Many Native Americans choose to stay on these reservations because of religious reasons. I know that some reservations run very profitable casinos too. These people are definately not oppressed or at least not more so than the average employee
in any western nation.
