Ugly Americans
by digby
It's impossible to catalog all the reasons the world might hate Americans, but for my money, this should be at the top of the list:
American tourists -- wealthy ones, given the high costs involved -- account for the majority of lions killed for sport in Africa. A 2011 report by the International Fund for Animal Welfare found that between 1999 and 2008, Americans brought home lion "trophies" -- heads, pelts and whatnot -- representing 64 percent of all African lions killed for sport during that period. And that number is rising: "Of these trophies, the number imported into the U.S. in 2008 was larger than any other year in the decade studied and more than twice the number in 1999," the report found.
We worship guns and we worship violence and we worship killing. And we insist on taking our blood sacrifice rituals all over the world.
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