Three Articles on Anti-Americanism
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The BBC has published the first two of three articles on a skeptical look at anti-Americanism. Here are the first two, and I am also including a third article by Andrei Markovits that presents another viewpoint. The articles present three bad but common reasons that America is hated:
1. American common-man democracy offends and alarms the intellectual elite of Europe.
2. Anti-Americanism is an easy way to deflect criticism of local ineptitude.
3. Anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism are intertwined in the far-left and far-right movements in Europe, sharing much of the same language and imagery.
Death to US: Anti-Americanism Examined - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6547881.stm
"The kind of anti-Americanism fostered by French intellectuals down the centuries revolves around intense dislike of what America is - not what it does... It is time that we understood that this attitude, this contempt for what democracy can do, is at the heart of at least some of the anti-Americanism we see in the world today."
Anti-Americanism in Venezuela - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6572615.stm
"... in Latin America as elsewhere in the world, is anti-Americanism a smoke screen, a very convenient smoke screen, whose noxious fumes hide the reality of local failure?"
European Anti-Americanism and Anti-Semitism - http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-16.htm
"It was not the existing United States and its Jews that were feared and disdained, but the combination of Americanism and Judaism as concepts and social trends. After World War I, the false notion of Jews as rulers of America became pronounced. Expressions such as Jewish Wall Street, Jewish Hollywood, and Jewish jazz became commonplace, creating the image of a totally 'Judaized' America"