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Since 1980, I have spent over six years in Korea, three years in Japan, four and one-half in The Netherlands & Belgium and am now in Israel. With the exception of Israel, I have found most people throughout the world love Americans, however: Europeans seem to marganilized into a sort of socialist people devoid of hope or salvation and they all seem to have "just enough" money, too much vacation time and no prospect of rising financially into afluence. Europeans have traded "Opportunity" for "Security Socially" as a people, e.g., they are literally socialist and envious of others who excell. Asians on the other hand are extremely productive and competitive and do have "hope" and expectations of rising into material afluence in their lives. As for the Middle East, it would seem that Israeli's are a blend of American-European outwardly but full of hope in spite of the ravages of Arab hatred visited upon them daily. And for the nonChristian Arabs, they too seem to lack hope as their leadership throughout their Arab world seems to allow only their leaders to live in splendor while they enjoy squallor coupled with state sponsored transference of personal condition into the aforementioned hatred of Jews and Americans.

To clarify my prevous post, Israli's are America's best friends followed by Aussi's and Philipino's.

The Europeans are decadent and in decline. The French are trying to maintain their living standard by peddling weapons to whoever will buy them. China and India and the rest of the ascendant economies are trying to follow the American (and Japanese) model as closely as they politically can. Europe committed global leadership suicide in WWI and WWII. France has been pacifist since WWI when it was bled white and the courage gene was diminished in the national character. I hope the Europeans enjoy their inevitably declining living standard while it lasts.

Since 1980, I have spent over six years in Korea, three years in Japan, four and one-half in The Netherlands & Belgium and am now in Israel. With the exception of Israel, I have found most people throughout the world love Americans, however: Europeans seem to marganilized into a sort of socialist people devoid of hope or salvation and they all seem to have "just enough" money, too much vacation time and no prospect of rising financially into afluence.

My experience is also that Japanese don't dislike Americans. I think that this fits in with that they aren't generally envious of us.

That isn't to say that everyone in Japan is happily cocooned in a second inward-looking Heian dream; indeed, I believe that many Japanese are interested in the wider world, and at least a portion feel some limitations within the confines of their social system.