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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are not American right OP? So people are not going to react well to you criticizing us. Plenty of people in the US are critical of their own country - but most people don’t like it when someone from another country is criticizing your own. [/quote]
So when does one get to criticize it? I’m a naturalized citizen who has been here since my early teens. I see faults with both where I came from and the US. I see what OP is saying. Criticizing your country doesn’t mean you don’t love it. Or make it better.  And it’s funny hearing an American say you can’t criticize someone else’s country when the US does it all the darn time to others. [/quote]

What is America not doing for your country back home that it is not doing? I am sure that is the source of your complaints. [/quote]
Your question makes no sense. Can you re-phrase it? Btw-Last time America (which is a continent not the US by the way) interfered with our country we ended up with a dictatorship. So the US can stay put.  I do love the US but that doesn’t mean I don’t have criticisms. But my question stands…who does get to criticize the US? Born citizens? What about those born to undocumented immigrants? Or just people whose families have been here for generations?  The fact that so many people are getting defensive in this thread proves OP’s point. 
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The country is the United States of America. Sometimes people refer to the country as “America” and the people as “Americans.”

Why are you so focused on who “gets” to criticize a country? If you aren’t going to do anything about the issues you don’t like, people won’t want to sit around and hear your constant complaining.

Do you think people want to listen to you griping all the time…about anything?

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