Why are we hated?

  how did we get to be so hated?

Well, there are many odious traits that Americans have that the rest of the world doesn't like.  Constant boasting, with not much to boast about.  That gets on other people's nerves.  The idea that somehow or other the whole world belongs to us. Everybody should do what we tell them to do, they don't really like that.

Gore Vidal (May 14th, 2008)