From the BBC - "Death To America"

[den]

BBC's Washington correspondent Justin Webb looks at the anti-American movement.

Part 1: "A pattern was emerging and has never seriously been altered. A pattern of willingness to condemn America for the tiniest indiscretion - or to magnify those indiscretions - while leaving the murderers, dictators, and thieves who run other nations oddly untouched."

Part 2: "In other words, in Latin America as elsewhere in the world, is anti-Americanism a smoke screen, a very convenient smoke screen, [to] hide the reality of local failure?"

I think nearly all anti-Americans are hypocrits. On one hand they spout antiUS rhetoric, while with the other hand the take whatever aid, trade and technology the US offers. I'm glad to see someone in the BBC is thinking the same.

Comments

[annvole.livejournal.com]

I noticed a difference with Canadians... us Canadians are proud of the fact that we are not Americans but we also rarely put down the Americans. I get the anti-American foreigners showing up in bars and such and they are always cut down for dissing the Americans but praised for making light fun at the self-pride of the Americans. It is like the Allah picture thing in some Scandinavian country... nobody really cared until it could be used to rally angry people and burn embassies. Americans are an easy target like the tortoise and hare story... everyone knows the proud hare is going to get it for his pride. Nobody denies that the hare is superior.

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

us Canadians are proud of the fact that we are not Americans but we also rarely put down the Americans.

Ever been on a university campus? ;)