[MadAnthony1776]

Another eighteenth century popularizer of anti-American views was Cornelius DePauw of the Netherlands who contended in his popular 1768 book, Philosophical Research on the Americans, that everything across the Atlantic was “either degenerate or monstrous.”

He obviously missed the boat because I would say that last comment more reflects things in Europe. You can window shop for prostitutes in Holland and Germany to name just one of the many institutions common to Europe.

[hmong]

"Even in the twenty-first century, Americans prefer a plain talking Texas cowboy who expresses himself in sentence fragments to a Harvard educated liberal who speaks in nuanced paragraphs."

Didn't both of them graduate from Harvard.

Envy...that is the sin. Liberals are just envy appeasers...as Jack Wheeler would say.

[Lion Den Dan]

America is hated for its success, the same reason the Democrats hate America.

[Mo1]

A History, enlightened Europeans were convinced that America was inferior to the Old World and that nothing good would ever come of it

Didn't they think the same thing of Israel

[kipita]

America is great mainly due to two reasons:

It's a common person's country where anyone with intelligence and/or a good business idea has the resources to accomplish their objectives.

Freedom of thought from religious ideology but respect for religion in everyday life.

[7.62 x 51mm]

Screw the rest of the world, and the lib-dem traitors here. I don't give a flying rat's rearend what they think or want.

[PJBlogger]

HATING AMERICA: THE NEW WORLD SPORT
by John Gibson is an excellent, highly readable book that gives a more political view.
John Gibson is a Conservative who hosts a show on FOX News.

[Paul_Denton]

one they note bears a disquieting similarity to anti-Semitism, its ancient and evil sibling.

Bring it on europe! I prefer a straight fight to all this backstabbing.

[nicollo]

I'd add to the list the late 19th century and early 20th century populists such as Edward Bellamy and Herbert Croly, as chief among our homegrown America haters. Bellamy wrote of a socialist utopia, and Croly, who co-founded The New Republic, was a fascist who believed that equality trumped liberty. Both and those of their movements rejected the American Founding.

Those bursting ideas of the Founding have just scared the hell out of so many people.

[Route101]

Who cares why they hate us?....Just get out of the way, Pilgrim.

[woofie]

excellent...

[johnb838]

They don't seem to cover the part about dictators using America as a straw man to distract the populace from their own corruption and failure. I think this is an enormously common reason for anti-americanism, especially in the Middle East.

[Redleg Duke]

Why do they hate us? A simple answer. America is the only country in history that you can hate, dispise, and spit in the face without fear of being wiped out!

[SolutionsOnly]

It's all a matter of what one chooses to focus on. Freedom is a double edged sword. It allows the best to rise to the top and the worst to sink to the bottom. I'm very proud of the United States when I look to the founding fathers and completely ashamed of it when I flip the television to MTV. If the American media is the world's window into America, I can completely understand a revulsion to our culture. I'm not saying it's fair or accurate - just understandable. The media (TV, movies, etc) present the worst we have to offer.

It takes intellectual maturity to accept the inherent strengths and weaknesses in human character. Freedom unleashes both good and evil - Character counts - and our collective character has been slipping since the 60's (I'll use the quality of television programming as exhibit A). It takes all the pieces of the puzzle to come to accurate conclusion regarding the goodness or evil of the US and most of the world does not get the full picture.

[Freedom4US]

"Even in the twenty-first century, Americans prefer a plain talking Texas cowboy who expresses himself in sentence fragments to a Harvard educated liberal who speaks in nuanced paragraphs."

It's not quite so simple. William F. Buckley speaks in "nuanced paragraphs"; but he's a conservative. That our learned institutions are capable of producing dunderheads of the highest order isn't my concern. The author might note that the "Texas cowboy" is a graduate of Yale, but that wouldn't fit in with his thesis. I'm of the mind "Don't let schooling get in the way of your education..." - and there's nothing wrong with Cowboys for that matter.

[IronJack]

I suspect Old Europe, ensconced in the worn but comfortable trappings of privilege, saw the American continent first as a rough-and-tumble haven for misfits, then as a mother lode run by simpletons ripe for the exploiting, and finally as a cultural and economic threat.

Europe is not exempt from any of the charges leveled against the US: imperialism, slavery, war-mongering, decadence, xenophobia, greed, exploitation ... Every country in Europe has been guilty of the same offenses.

Of course, those charges are overblown from the start. But Europe is the classic glass house, and America's critics are the first to stand on the porch with a handful of stones.

[America's Resolve]

I really don't care WHY! It's enough for me that they do.

That's why I want all aid that isn't aimed at America to be stopped. All Foreign, humanitarian, disaster, food, medical and other aid. ALL of it!

We're obviously trying to buy friends and all that it's gotten us is a 6 *TRILLION* dollar deficit. But we still don't have ONE friend in the world. Let em rot!

Instead of building up potential enemies, we should be building up ourselves!!

[Sicon]

Even in the twenty-first century, Americans prefer a plain talking Texas cowboy who expresses himself in sentence fragments to a Harvard educated liberal who speaks in nuanced paragraphs.

Kerry is about as "nuanced" as using an 8-pound sledgehammer to break an egg. I don't know about anyone else, but Kerry seems like a colossal moron to me. But leave it to a state that would keep Chappaquiddick Ted in the Senate for 30 years to also keep electing a pathetic, self-serving tool like Kerry as well.

[lilmsdangrus]

btt

[Yardstick]

Bump for later. I love FrontPageMag.