Why do people say 'Everyone hates the English'?

I know a lot of countries hate the English but it's a huge exaggeration and wrong to say that every single country in the world hates the English. Because it isn't true. None of the Scandinavian countries hate the English. They actually admitted themselves that they're very fond of the English. Canadians don't either, as far as I know. Nor do Americans, the Japanese, the Dutch, the Swiss and the Italians. Australians don't really either. When it comes to sport, it appears they hate the English but at the end,they get along extremely well with them. Other countries do have their reasons for hating the English, especially the Scottish, the Welsh and the Irish and countries that got affected the most in the British Empire would hate the English ( British but mostly English) but why do people say "everyone" hates the English and almost every country hates England? Would anyone actually say otherwise of Scandinavia's relationship with England?

It's mostly a joke.

But at some point in history we (the English) have been at war with pretty much every country on the planet, so an a level it's accurate...

Not Scandinavia or Japan. I've done a lot of research and I've never, ever seen any conflict between England and Scandinavia or England and Japan. The Japanese are actually huge Anglophiles. We did fight with America but they've forgiven us and consider us one of their best friends. I higjhi doubt they would say that if they hated us.

Your research methods leave a lot to be desired!

We were technically at war with Finland during WW2 when they declared war on Russia. And we haven't really forgiven Scandinavia was a whole for the entire Viking thing...

We were very much at war against Imperial Japan during WW2 and fought bitter and extremely violent battles throughout the jungles of the far east.

And America... Kinda. But there's a reason why they almost exclusively use English actors as villains in their films...

And we were not mostly fighting Japan in the war.

We weren't. But that doesn't mean the fighting that we had with them wasn't appallingly violent.

And it was all rather tongue in cheek. Re-read my first post. The quip about us being at war with everyone wasn't the main argument.

Not Scandinavia or Japan. I've done a lot of research and I've never, ever seen any conflict between England and Scandinavia or England and Japan. The Japanese are actually huge Anglophiles. We did fight with America but they've forgiven us and consider us one of their best friends. I higjhi doubt they would say that if they hated us.

We fought Japan in WW2 in Burma and Singapore etc.


And we pretty much fought every single European county at one point. Albeit it was mainly the French.

None of the Scandinavian countries hate the English.

i'm swedish and i hate the english, sorry to burst your bubble, men ni suger kuk tyvärr

Where's the evidence we fought Norway, Sweden and Denmark? Excluding the Vikings. In more recent centuries, when was the last time we fought all those countries?

Finland. WW2

Sweden. 7 years war
Denmark and Norway were once part of a union. We fought Denmark-Norway in the napelonic war.

The 7 years war in 1756 and lasted 7 years. That’s why it’s called the 7 years war. Sweden at the time was the Swedish empire

Why? What's your reason? I think you'll find it extremely difficult to find any English people that hate the Swedish.