text: do people hate america  or americans or both? people around the hate us, but why is it the idea of the u.s. or the citizens or is it  just our president. people hate what they do not know or understand -- that is the root of all prejudice in our world.  unfortunately, when one is only exposed to the ill-informed prejudice of their surroundings, have been carefully 'taught' that this person is evil (because they are of this ethnicity or region/nation), and they never go out to really learn about the person (from this other ethnicity or region/nation), then they, too, as adults, will perpetuate the same prejudice and hate in the next generation -- their children, and so forth -- ad infinitum until  one day -- in the blink of the eye -- one of their children or family members decides to take a chance -- to go out and meet someone different (of another ethnicity, region, country/state/religious belief) -- and through that meeting they find out that what they were 'carefully taught' by the prejudicial labels passed down through posterity were wrong -- then change will happen -- and lo and behold -- the world view is changed --- and now, with the new experience of learning ... meeting ... talking ... they find out ...   hey, what i was so 'carefully taught' is not what is the truth after all!