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{{Short description|Dislike of the United States and Americans}} | |||
The many disparate phenomena that have been labelled "]" have little in common other than some degree of opposition to the US. It is misleading to place together under one label all people, ideologies, and attitudes opposed to various US policies or habits, particulary since America's people themselves hold very diverse values. | |||
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'''Anti-Americanism''' (also called '''anti-American sentiment''' and '''Americanophobia''') is a term that can describe several sentiments and positions including opposition to, fear of, distrust of, prejudice against or hatred toward the ], its ], its ], or ] in general.<ref>{{cite book |last=Chiozza |first=Giacomo |title=Anti-Americanism and the World Order |publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press |location=Baltimore, Maryland |date=2009}}</ref> Anti-Americanism can be contrasted with ], which refers to support, love, or admiration for the United States. | |||
Some people believe anti-Americanism is rooted in ] as much as in any legitimate grievance. They note that similar feelings have been held towards every other nation that has gained prominence over its contemporaries. Example include ] (]), ], Imperial ], and the ]. | |||
Political scientist Brendon O'Connor at the ] in ] suggests that "anti-Americanism" cannot be isolated as a consistent phenomenon, since the term originated as a rough composite of ]s, ]s, and criticisms which evolved into more politically-based criticisms. French scholar Marie-France Toinet says that use of the term "anti-Americanism" is "only fully justified if it implies systematic opposition – a sort of allergic reaction – to America as a whole."<ref name="OConnor">{{cite journal |last=O'Connor |first=Brendan |title=A Brief History of Anti-Americanism from Cultural Criticism to Terrorism |pages=77–92 |journal=Australasian Journal of American Studies |volume=23 |number=1 |publisher=] |date=July 2004 |url= http://www.anzasa.arts.usyd.edu.au/a.j.a.s/Articles/1_04/OConnor.pdf |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130521145809/http://www.anzasa.arts.usyd.edu.au/a.j.a.s/Articles/1_04/OConnor.pdf |archive-date=21 May 2013 |jstor=41053968}}</ref> Some, such as ] and ], have argued that the application of the term "anti-American" to other countries or their populations is 'nonsensical', as it implies that disliking the American government or its policies is socially undesirable or even comparable to a crime.<ref name=":02">{{Cite web|last=Chomsky|first=Noam|date=1993|title=Totalitarian Culture in a Free Society|url=https://archive.org/details/NoamChomsky-TotalitarianCultureInAFreeSociety-1993|access-date=2021-01-27|website=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Snow|first=Nancy|title=The Arrogance of American Power: What U.S. Leaders Are Doing Wrong and Why It's Our Duty to Dissent|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2006|isbn=0-7425-5373-6|location=Lanham, MD|pages=27ff|oclc=69992247}}</ref> In this regard, the term has been likened to the propagandistic usage of the term "]" in the ].<ref name=":02" /> | |||
:''"It's quite easy to explain why America is unpopular in Europe. It's because you are rich, powerful and unbeatable. Everyone hates you if you are rich, powerful and unbeatable. A hundred years ago everyone hated the British Empire because it ruled the world. Now it is the turn of the Americans. It comes with the job. The only difference is that we British seemed to quite enjoy being disliked, whereas you Americans don't like it at all."'' (], circa 1958) | |||
Discussions on anti-Americanism have in most cases lacked a precise explanation of what the sentiment entails (other than a general disfavor), which has led the term to be used broadly and in an impressionistic manner, resulting in the inexact impressions of the many expressions described as anti-American.<ref>O'Connor, Brendan, p 89.</ref> Author and ] William Russell Melton argues that criticism largely originates from the perception that the U.S. wants to act as a "]".<ref>William Russell Melton. ''The New American Expat: thriving and surviving overseas in the post-9/11 world''. (Intercultural Press 2005. p. XIX.)</ref> | |||
Many critics of the United States, however, have many very specific criticisms, listed below. Legitimate criticism of America should never be confused with xenophobia, as all countries are criticised at certain times. | |||
Negative or critical views of the United States or its influence have been widespread in ], ], ],<ref name="B92_2009"/> ],<ref name="Gallup2012"> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713155508/http://www.gallup.com/file/poll/161309/US_Global_Leadership_Report_03-13_mh2.pdf |date=13 July 2015 }} '']''</ref> ],<ref>{{Cite web|last=Moy|first=Will|title=America: seen as the number one threat to world peace, says one survey|url=https://fullfact.org/news/america-world-peace/|access-date=2020-09-12|website=]|date=11 May 2018|archive-date=21 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921170023/https://fullfact.org/news/america-world-peace/|url-status=live}}</ref> ],<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018|title=Rating World Leaders: 2016-2017 The U.S. vs. Germany, China and Russia (page 12)|url=https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000161-0647-da3c-a371-867f6acc0001|website=Gallup|access-date=12 September 2020|archive-date=13 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201213192250/https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000161-0647-da3c-a371-867f6acc0001|url-status=live}}</ref> and the ],<ref name="Pew Research Center Poll">{{cite web|url=http://www.pewglobal.org/database/indicator/1/|title=Public Opinion of the U.S.|access-date=29 April 2019|publisher=Pew Research Center|date=April 2018|archive-date=24 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224224240/http://www.pewglobal.org/database/indicator/1/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="bbcpoll">{{cite web |title=BBC World Service poll |agency=BBC |website=GlobeScan |date=30 June 2017 |url=http://www.globescan.com/images/images/pressreleases/bbc2017_country_ratings/BBC2017_Country_Ratings_Poll.pdf |access-date=6 July 2018 |archive-date=8 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210608143515/https://globescan.com/images/images/pressreleases/bbc2017_country_ratings/BBC2017_Country_Ratings_Poll.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> but remain low in ], ], ], ],<ref>{{cite web |title= U.S. Image Suffers as Publics Around World Question Trump's Leadership |date= 26 June 2017 |url= https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2017/06/26/tarnished-american-brand/ |publisher= pewresearch.org |access-date= 13 October 2021 |archive-date= 25 July 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190725003532/https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2017/06/26/tarnished-american-brand/ |url-status= live }}</ref> the ], and certain countries in ].<ref name="Pew Research Center Poll"/> In ], anti-Americanism is mainly present in the ] and ].<ref>{{cite web|author=Philippe Roger|url=https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/723682.html|title=The American Enemy, The History of French Anti-Americanism|date=|access-date=1 October 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.commentary.org/articles/t-fyvel/realities-behind-british-anti-americanismthe-minority-leading-the-national-pastime/ | title=Realities behind British "Anti-Americanism":The Minority Leading the National Pastime | date=December 1952 }}</ref> Anti-American sentiment (though action is uncommon) is prevalent in ]. | |||
A survey conducted in 2003 on behalf of journalists in 10 countries explored anti-Americanism, and revealed a huge gap between how Americans view themselves, and how they are viewed by others. This gap has widened dramatically during the presidency of George W. Bush. 96% of Americans believe that people in other countries want to live in the United States. By contrast, an average of 19% of people in other countries said that they would move to the United States if they had the opportunity. Details of this study are available at http://www.cbc.ca/news/america/ . | |||
Anti-Americanism has also been identified with the term ''Americanophobia'',<ref name="Gulddal2007">{{cite journal | last=Gulddal | first=Jesper | title='The one great Hyperpower in the Sky': anti-Americanism in contemporary European literature | journal=Cambridge Review of International Affairs | publisher=Informa UK Limited | volume=20 | issue=4 | year=2007 | issn=0955-7571 | doi=10.1080/09557570701680720 | pages=677–692| hdl=1959.13/927709 | s2cid=144151095 | hdl-access=free }}</ref><ref name="OConnorGriffiths2007">{{cite book | last1=O'Connor | first1=B. | last2=Griffiths | first2=M. | title=Anti-Americanism: Causes and sources | publisher=Greenwood World Pub. | series=Anti-Americanism: History, Causes, and Themes | year=2007 | isbn=978-1-84645-024-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MVPlvgCOUbIC | access-date=1 August 2022 | pages=7–21}}</ref><ref name="Guerlain2007">{{cite journal | last=Guerlain | first=Pierre | title=A Tale of Two Anti-Americanisms | journal=European Journal of American Studies | publisher=OpenEdition | volume=2 | issue=2 | date=17 October 2007 | issn=1991-9336 | doi=10.4000/ejas.1523 | page=| doi-access=free }}</ref> which ] defines as "hatred of the U.S. or ]".<ref name="MW">{{cite dictionary|url= https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Americanophobia |title=Americanophobia|dictionary=]|access-date=1 August 2022}}</ref><ref name=":4">Denis Lacorne, "Anti-Americanism and Americanophobia: A French Perspectives." (2005).</ref> | |||
== Possible causes of Anti-American feelings: == | |||
==Etymology== | |||
=== American economic philosophy === | |||
In the online ], the term "anti-Americanism" is defined as "Hostility to the interests of the United States".<ref name="Oxforddictionaries.com">{{cite web |title=anti-americanism: definition of anti-Americanism in English by Oxford dictionaries |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=11 August 2014 |url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/anti-americanism |access-date=28 April 2019 |archive-date=2 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211202141816/https://www.lexico.com/definition/anti-americanism }}</ref> | |||
America has always been a ] nation with a strong focus on self-sufficiency, competitive markets, and ]. Some countries and people do not share these philosophies, and believe American capitalism is a deeply flawed system that creates massive inequalities. They accuse America of perpetuating and promoting this flawed economic system across the globe, and fighting against the forces of ], ], and ]. During the ] this was often the primary criticism of the United States, especially in countries with Communist, or pro-Communist regimes. | |||
In the first edition of Webster's ] (1828) the term "anti-American" was defined as "opposed to America, or to the true interests or government of the United States; opposed to the revolution in America".<ref>{{cite web |title=The ARTFL Project – Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913+1828) |publisher=Machaut.uchicago.edu |url=http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?resource=Webster%27s&word=antiamerican&use1913=on&use1828=on |access-date=11 May 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120305190842/http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?resource=Webster%27s&word=antiamerican&use1913=on&use1828=on |archive-date=5 March 2012 }}</ref> | |||
=== American domestic policy === | |||
In France the use of the noun form ''antiaméricanisme'' has been cataloged from 1948,<ref name="ReferenceA">Le Petit Robert {{ISBN|2-85036-668-4}}</ref> entering ordinary political language in the 1950s.<ref name="introductory excerpt">Roger, Phillipe. ''The American Enemy: The History of French Anti-Americanism,'' {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829162427/http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/723682.html |date=29 August 2017 }}, University of Chicago Press, 2005.</ref> | |||
In some countries, particularly in ], American retention of ] contributes to the general view that the United States continues to engage in barbarous practices. All European countries except ] have abolished capital punishment. Europeans often profess being shocked by the widespread popular support it continues to have in the United States. Especially in Europe, people perceive a contradiction between America's insistence on ] around the world and refusing to abolish the death penalty domestically. | |||
==Rationale== | |||
There is also a widespread belief outside America, that American society is obsessed by violence. Foreigners, especially Europeans, are often perplexed by America's liberal laws on gun ownership, and interpret this, along with the relatively high rates of murder and violent crime, plus the often violent content of American films and TV programmes, as meaning that American society has widespread tolerance and acceptance of violence. | |||
Bradley Bowman, a former professor at the ], argues that United States military facilities overseas and the forces stationed there serve as a "major catalyst for anti-Americanism and radicalization." Other studies have found a link between the presence of the US bases and ] recruitment. These bases are often cited by opponents of repressive governments to provoke anger, protest, and nationalistic fervor against the ruling class and the United States. This in turn, according to JoAnn Chirico, raises concerns in Washington that a democratic transition could lead to the closure of bases, which often encourages the United States to extend its support for authoritarian leaders. This study suggests that the outcome could be an intensifying cycle of protest and repression supported by the United States.{{sfn|Vine|2017}} In 1958, ] discussed with his staff what he described as a "campaign of hatred against us" in the Arab world, "not by the governments but by the people." The ], concluded that was due to a perception that the U.S. supports corrupt and brutal governments and opposes political and economic development "to protect its interest in Near East oil". | |||
The ] reached a similar conclusion after surveying the views of wealthy and Western Muslims after ].{{sfn|Chomsky|2001|p=112-113}} | |||
In this vein, the head of the ] terrorism program believes that the American support for repressive regimes such as ] and ] is undoubtedly a major factor in anti-American sentiment in the Arab world.{{sfn|Chomsky|2003|pp=142-143}} | |||
==Interpretations== | |||
The ] is also considered an oppressive activity by many who are socially ], both within and outside of the United States. It has resulted in an enormous prison population, much of it composed of nonviolent and lower-class drug offenders. A significant minority of the American population views the War on Drugs as a second ]. It has also resulted in damaging international pressure and intervention directed against other countries involved in the drug trade, such as Colombia. | |||
{| class="wikitable sortable floatright plainrowheaders" style="border:1px black; float:right; margin-left:1em;" | |||
|+ style="background:#f8cccc;" colspan="2"|Results of 2021 ] poll<ref name="Morning Consult">{{cite web |title=How the World Sees America Amid Its Chaotic Withdrawal from Afghanistan |agency=Morning Consult |date=26 August 2021 |url=https://morningconsult.com/2021/08/26/united-states-favorability-global-countries-afghanistan/ |access-date=31 August 2021 |archive-date=31 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831092800/https://morningconsult.com/2021/08/26/united-states-favorability-global-countries-afghanistan/ |url-status=live }}</ref> "Do you have | |||
a favorable or unfavorable view of the U.S.?"<br />(default-sorted by decreasing negativity of each country) | |||
! scope="col" | Country polled | |||
! scope="col" | <small>Positive</small> | |||
! scope="col" | <small>Negative</small> | |||
! scope="col" | <small>Neutral</small> | |||
! scope="col" | <small>Difference</small> | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | {{flagcountry|China}} | |||
| {{Percentage bar|18|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|77|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|5|c=#F5F5DC|width=50}} || <span style="color:red;">-59</span> | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | {{flagcountry|Canada}} | |||
| {{Percentage bar|41|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|44|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|15|c=#F5F5DC|width=50}} || <span style="color:red;">-3</span> | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | {{flagcountry|Russia}} | |||
| {{Percentage bar|41|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|42|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|17|c=#F5F5DC|width=50}} || <span style="color:red;">-1</span> | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | {{flagcountry|United Kingdom}} | |||
| {{Percentage bar|42|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|39|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|19|c=#F5F5DC|width=50}} || <span style="color:green;">+3</span> | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | {{flagcountry|Germany}} | |||
| {{Percentage bar|46|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|38|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|16|c=#F5F5DC|width=50}} || <span style="color:green;">+8</span> | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | {{flagcountry|Australia}} | |||
| {{Percentage bar|49|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|35|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|16|c=#F5F5DC|width=50}} || <span style="color:green;">+14</span> | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | {{flagcountry|Spain}} | |||
| {{Percentage bar|51|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|34|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|15|c=#F5F5DC|width=50}} || <span style="color:green;">+17</span> | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | {{flagcountry|France}} | |||
| {{Percentage bar|50|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|26|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|24|c=#F5F5DC|width=50}} || <span style="color:green;">+24</span> | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | {{flagcountry|Italy}} | |||
| {{Percentage bar|54|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|29|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|17|c=#F5F5DC|width=50}} || <span style="color:green;">+25</span> | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | {{flagcountry|Japan}} | |||
| {{Percentage bar|53|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|23|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|24|c=#F5F5DC|width=50}} || <span style="color:green;">+30</span> | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | {{flagcountry|South Korea}} | |||
| {{Percentage bar|60|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|25|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|15|c=#F5F5DC|width=50}} || <span style="color:green;">+35</span> | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | {{flagcountry|Mexico}} | |||
| {{Percentage bar|67|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|14|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|19|c=#F5F5DC|width=50}} || <span style="color:green;">+53</span> | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | {{flagcountry|Brazil}} | |||
| {{Percentage bar|72|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|12|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|16|c=#F5F5DC|width=50}} || <span style="color:green;">+60</span> | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | {{flagcountry|United States}} | |||
| {{Percentage bar|78|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|17|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|5|c=#F5F5DC|width=50}} || <span style="color:green;">+61</span> | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | {{flagcountry|India}} | |||
| {{Percentage bar|79|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|10|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|11|c=#F5F5DC|width=50}} || <span style="color:green;">+69</span> | |||
|- | |||
|} | |||
In a poll conducted {{as of|2017|alt=in 2017}} by the ] of 19 countries, four of the countries rated U.S. influence positively, while 14 leaned negatively, and one was divided. | |||
Americans have the highest per-capita consumption of resources and energy in the world, and the fact that the U.S. government does not take decisive action to curb this use creates hostility. | |||
Anti-Americanism had risen in the late 2010s in Canada, Latin America, the Middle East, and the European Union, due in part to the strong worldwide unpopularity of the ]'s policies, though anti-Americanism is noted to be low in numerous countries of central and eastern Europe due to stronger ] amongst numerous former ] ] of the Soviet Union and strong support for ] and remaining within the ] alliance.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/international-view-of-trump-735190/|title=Good News: International Confidence in American Leadership Has Plummeted|first1=Ryan|last1=Bort|magazine=]|date=9 October 2018|access-date=13 June 2021|archive-date=13 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613145847/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/international-view-of-trump-735190/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Greenwood |first=Shannon |date=2020-02-10 |title=NATO Seen Favorably Across Member States |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/02/09/nato-seen-favorably-across-member-states/ |access-date=2023-04-28 |website=Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project |language=en-US}}</ref> Following the ] of ] as new president, overall global views of the United States have returned to being positive overall once more.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/06/10/americas-image-abroad-rebounds-with-transition-from-trump-to-biden/|title=America's Image Abroad Rebounds With Transition From Trump to Biden|date=10 June 2021|access-date=13 June 2021|archive-date=13 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613145723/https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/06/10/americas-image-abroad-rebounds-with-transition-from-trump-to-biden/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
===American foreign policy=== | |||
Interpretations of anti-Americanism have often been polarized. Anti-Americanism has been described by Hungarian-born American sociologist ] as "a relentless critical impulse toward American social, economic, and political institutions, traditions, and values".<ref name="Hollander2007">{{cite web |last=Hollander |first=Paul |title=The Politics of Envy |work=The New Criterion |date=November 2002 |url= http://www.travelbrochuregraphics.com/extra/politics_of_envy.htm |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100906002655/http://www.travelbrochuregraphics.com/extra/politics_of_envy.htm |archive-date=6 September 2010}}</ref><ref>Jay Nordlinger, {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811012059/http://old.nationalreview.com/nordlinger/nordlinger200407221016.asp |date=11 August 2011}}, 22 July 2004, National Review Online.</ref> | |||
One of the major reasons for anti-Americanism is American ]. Both before and after it became the most powerful nation in the world, America has often opposed or attacked governments and countries, while sometimes changing its position towards a country or government over time. While the interference with foreign countries itself has angered many, apparent inconsistency in the policies - seemingly to fit American political or economic interests - has angered many more. Often cited is the United States support of ]i president ] during his ]. When the Senate passed a bill to condemn the Iraqi use of poison gas then president Ronald Reagan threatened to veto the bill if it passed the House. They also remark that the United States supported the ] ] during that country's occupation by the Soviet Union, and that it subsequently supported the ] until 1998. To exacerbate matters, George W. Bush's use of the word "crusade" to characterize his war on terrorism has not escaped the attention of many ]. | |||
] newspaper publisher and political scientist ] suggests five classic aspects of the phenomenon: reducing Americans to ], believing the United States to have an irredeemably evil nature, ascribing to the U.S. establishment a vast conspiratorial power aimed at utterly ], holding the U.S. responsible for all the evils in the world, and seeking to limit the influence of the U.S. by destroying it or by cutting oneself and one's society off from its polluting products and practices.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Mead |first=Walter Russell |title=Through Our Friends' Eyes – Defending and Advising the Hyperpower |magazine=] |date=May–June 2006 |url= http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20060501fareviewessay85311a/walter-russell-mead/through-our-friends-eyes-defending-and-advising-the-hyperpower.html |access-date=12 April 2008 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080706145354/http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20060501fareviewessay85311a/walter-russell-mead/through-our-friends-eyes-defending-and-advising-the-hyperpower.html |archive-date=6 July 2008 }} Review of Josef Joffe's ''Überpower: The Imperial Temptation of America.''</ref> Other advocates of the significance of the term argue that anti-Americanism represents a coherent and dangerous ] current, comparable to ].<ref>{{cite web |last=Markovits |first=Andrei S. |title=European Anti-Americanism (and Anti-Semitism): Ever Present Though Always Denied |work=Post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism: Web Publications |publisher=Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs |date=August 2005 |url= http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-markovits-05.htm |access-date=1 May 2016 |url-status=unfit |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051401/http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-markovits-05.htm |archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref> Anti-Americanism has also been described as an attempt to frame the consequences of ] choices as evidence of a specifically American moral failure, as opposed to what may be unavoidable failures of a complicated foreign policy that comes with ] status.<ref>Kagan, Robert. ''Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order'' (2003)</ref> | |||
Another major cause of anti-American sentiment, especially in the Muslim world, is what many people around the world see as America's blind support for ]. | |||
American intervention in the Arab-Israeli conflict is widely seen as being unfair and biased towards Israel and against the ]. For instance, America is quick to criticise Palestinian terror attacks against Israeli civillians, but usually turns a blind eye towards attacks by the Israeli army against Palestinian civillians, and refuses to criticise Israeli wrongdoings. This issue causes huge anger and resentment against America throughout the Muslim world, who believe that America is, as they see it, propping up Israeli tyranny against muslims. There is also a widespread belief in the Arab world that America's support for Israel is motivated by a racist bias against Arabs. | |||
Its status as an "]" is a greatly contended suspect, however. Brendon O'Connor notes that studies of the topic have been "patchy and impressionistic," and often one-sided attacks on anti-Americanism as an irrational position.<ref name="OConnor"/> American academic ], a prolific critic of the U.S. and its policies, asserts that the use of the term within the U.S. has parallels with methods employed by ] states or ]s; he compares the term to "]", a label used by the ] to suppress dissident or critical thought, for instance.<ref> {{webarchive |url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20021113190538/http://www.zmag.org/chomskypa.htm |date=13 November 2002}} Preparatory to Porto: Alegre ''Zmagazine''</ref><ref name="Chomsky_1994_interview">{{cite web |last1=Leistyna |first1=Pepi |last2=Sherblom |first2=Stephen |title=On Violence and Youth – Noam Chomsky interviewed by Pepi Leistyna and Stephen Sherblom |publisher=chomsky.info, quoting Harvard Educational Review, Vol. 65, No. 2, Summer 1995 |year=1994 |url= http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/1994----02.htm |access-date=5 January 2008 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080109110410/http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/1994----02.htm |archive-date=9 January 2008 }}</ref><ref name="Chomsky_2004">{{Cite news |title=Noam Chomsky on the State of the Nation, Iraq and the Election |work=Democracy Now! |date=21 October 2004 |url=http://www.democracynow.org/2004/10/21/noam_chomsky_on_the_state_of |access-date=5 January 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080109092943/http://www.democracynow.org/2004/10/21/noam_chomsky_on_the_state_of |archive-date=9 January 2008 }}</ref><ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130819064733/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewP5tNLBb2E |date=19 August 2013 }}, YouTube.</ref> | |||
Another cause of resentment against America in the ] is that America supports regimes in many Middle-Eastern countries such as ], ], and ] that are unpopular with many people in those countries, and are seen as oppressive and tyrannical. | |||
{{blockquote|The concept "anti-American" is an interesting one. The counterpart is used only in totalitarian states or military dictatorships... Thus, in the old Soviet Union, dissidents were condemned as "anti-Soviet". That's a natural usage among people with deeply rooted totalitarian instincts, which identify state policy with the society, the people, the culture. In contrast, people with even the slightest concept of democracy treat such notions with ridicule and contempt.<ref name="Chomsky_2002">{{cite web |last=Martin |first=Jacklyn |title=Is Chomsky 'anti-American'? Noam Chomsky |publisher=chomsky.info, re-quoting The Herald |date=9 December 2002 |url=http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/20021209.htm |access-date=5 December 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071220091256/http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/20021209.htm |archive-date=20 December 2007 }}</ref>}} | |||
America has frequently supported dictatorships, coups or insurgent movements in ], and has on many occasions even invaded Latin American countries "for their own good" on the pretext of preventing the spread of ] in ] or stemming the drug trade. This self-appointed status as saviour has roots that go back to the paternalistic ]. | |||
Some have attempted to recognize both positions. French academic Pierre Guerlain has argued that the term represents two very different tendencies: "One systematic or essentialist, which is a form of prejudice targeting all Americans. The other refers to the way criticisms of the United States are labeled 'anti-American' by supporters of U.S. policies in an ideological bid to discredit their opponents".<ref>{{cite journal |title=Pierre Guerlain, ''A Tale of Two Anti-Americanisms'' |journal=European Journal of American Studies |publisher=European Journal of American Studies, ejas.revues.org |year=2007 |volume=2 |issue=2 |doi=10.4000/ejas.1523 |url=http://ejas.revues.org/document1523.html |access-date=11 May 2012 |archive-date=26 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100226180357/http://ejas.revues.org/document1523.html |url-status=live |last1=Guerlain |first1=Pierre |doi-access=free }}</ref> Guerlain argues that these two "ideal types" of anti-Americanism can sometimes merge, thus making discussion of the phenomenon particularly difficult. Other scholars have suggested that a plural of anti-Americanisms, specific to country and time period, more accurately describe the phenomenon than any broad generalization.<ref>{{cite book|last1 = Katzenstein|first1 = Peter|first2 = Robert|last2 = Keohane|chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Jy9bDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA273|chapter = Conclusion: Anti-Americanisms and the Polyvalence of America|title = Anti-Americanisms in World Politics|location = Ithaca|publisher = Cornell University Press|date = 2011|isbn = 9780801461651|access-date = 8 November 2020|archive-date = 2 December 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211202141814/https://books.google.com/books?id=Jy9bDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA273|url-status = live}}</ref> The widely used "anti-American sentiment", meanwhile, less explicitly implies an ideology or belief system. | |||
The American ] provided significant support for the ] military coup in ] by General ]. Many of Pinochet's officers, some of whom were also informants for the CIA, were involved in systematic and widespread human rights abuses. This has caused considerable resentment of the United States particularly on the part of leftists who were fond of ], the elected Marxist president that Pinochet deposed. | |||
Globally, increases in perceived anti-American attitudes appear to correlate with particular policies or actions,<ref>Rodman, Peter W. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050908130300/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2751/is_2000_Summer/ai_63649343 |date=8 September 2005 }}, ''The National Interest,'' Washington, D.C., vol. 601, Summer 2001</ref> such as the ] and ]<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060526213422/http://www.wws.princeton.edu/ppns/papers/speulda.pdf |date=26 May 2006 }} | |||
The U.S. also provided support for the ], a guerilla force which attempted to overthrow ]'s ] government. U.S. President ], after failing to achieve necessary ] support to legally fund the Contras, resorted to funding them through arms sales to ], in violation of U.S. law, resulting in the ]. These incidents, again, have fueled resentment especially of American ]. Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair have been seen as symbols of the evils of American conservatism. | |||
By Nicole Speulda, The Princeton Project on National Security, Princeton University, 2005</ref> wars. For this reason, critics sometimes argue the label is a propaganda term that is used to dismiss any censure of the United States as irrational.<ref>O'Connor, Brendan, op. cit., p 78: "... Cold War (1945–1989) ... In this period the false and disingenuous labeling of objections to American policies as 'anti-Americanism' became more prominent."</ref> American historian Max Paul Friedman has written that throughout American history the term has been misused to stifle domestic dissent and delegitimize any foreign criticism.<ref>{{cite book|last=Friedman|first=Max Paul|title=Rethinking Anti-Americanism: The History of an Exceptional Concept in American Foreign Relations|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2012|isbn=9780521683425}}</ref> According to an analysis by German historian Darius Harwardt, the term is nowadays mostly used to stifle debate by attempting to discredit viewpoints that oppose American policies.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Harwardt |first=Darius |title=Verehrter Feind: Amerikabilder deutscher Rechtsintellektueller in der Bundesrepublik |publisher=Campus Verlag |year=2019 |isbn=978-3-593-51111-5 |location=Frankfurt, Germany |pages=57ff., 241ff |language=de |oclc=1124800558}}</ref> | |||
== History == | |||
The official (American government) view, which is shared by many Americans -- particularly more conservative Americans -- is that American influence (or interference) in Latin American countries was necessary to stop the spread of tyrannical Communism. Others, particularly American ], would argue that America's main primary interest was economic, and that it was willing to do anything, including supporting the overthrow of democratically-elected governments and assisting death squads in carrying out large scale murder, to further American corporations with interests in the region. | |||
=== 18th and 19th centuries === | |||
==== Degeneracy thesis ==== | |||
In the mid- to late-eighteenth century, a theory emerged among some European intellectuals which stated that the landmasses of the ] were inherently inferior to that of Europe. Proponents of the so-called "degeneracy thesis" held the view that climatic extremes, humidity and other atmospheric conditions in America physically weakened both men and animals.<ref name=hatingamerica>{{cite book |first=Barry |last=Rubin |author-link=Barry Rubin |author2=Rubin, Judith Colp |title=Hating America: A History |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |isbn=0-19-530649-X}}</ref>{{rp|3–19}} American author James W. Ceaser and French author Philippe Roger have interpreted this theory as "a kind of prehistory of anti-Americanism"<ref name=Ceaser>{{cite journal | url=http://www.thepublicinterest.com/archives/2003summer/article1.html | title=A genealogy of anti-Americanism | author=Ceaser, James W. | journal=] | date=Summer 2003 | access-date=3 May 2005 | archive-date=22 February 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222050520/http://www.thepublicinterest.com/archives/2003summer/article1.html | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=Granthem>{{cite journal | last =Grantham | first =Bill |date=Summer 2003 | title =Brilliant Mischief: The French on Anti-Americanism | journal =] | volume =20 | issue =2 | pages =95–101 | doi =10.1215/07402775-2003-3011 |url=http://www.worldpolicy.org/journal/articles/wpj03-2/grantham.html|access-date=16 May 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080430075751/http://www.worldpolicy.org/journal/articles/wpj03-2/grantham.html| archive-date = 30 April 2008}}</ref> and have (in the words of Philippe Roger) been a historical "constant" since the 18th century, or again an endlessly repetitive "semantic block". Others, like ], have examined what lay hidden behind this 'fashionable' ideology.<ref>Denis Lacorne, {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524043828/http://www.ceri-sciencespo.com/archive/mars05/artdl.pdf |date=24 May 2011 }}, March 2005.</ref> Purported evidence for the idea included the smallness of ], dogs that ceased to bark, and venomous plants;<ref name=Meunier>{{cite web | last =Meunier | first =Sophie | author-link =Sophie Meunier | date =March 2005 | title =Anti-Americanism in France | publisher =], ] | url =http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/pdfs/Meunier.pdf | access-date =18 May 2008 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20080527224611/http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/pdfs/Meunier.pdf | archive-date =27 May 2008 }}</ref> one theory put forth was that the New World had emerged from the ] later than the ].<ref name=Popkin>{{cite journal|last=Popkin |first=Richard H. |date=January 1978 |title=The Dispute of the New World: The History of a Polemic, 1750–1900 (review) |journal=] |volume=16 |issue=1 |pages=115–118 |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_philosophy/v016/16.1popkin.pdf |access-date=27 May 2008 |quote=Jefferson, who was U.S. ambassador to Paris after the Revolution, was pushed by the rampant anti-Americanism of some of the French intellectuals to publish the only book of his that appeared in his lifetime, the ] (1782–1784) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528141305/http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=%2Fjournals%2Fjournal_of_the_history_of_philosophy%2Fv016%2F16.1popkin.pdf |archive-date=28 May 2008 |url-status=live |doi=10.1353/hph.2008.0035 |s2cid=147006780 }}</ref> ] were also held to be feeble, small, and without ardor.<ref name=Goldstein>{{cite web |first=James A. |last=Goldstein |url=http://lsr.nellco.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1019&context=rwu/rwufp |title=Aliens in the Garden |access-date=22 May 2008 |publisher=nellco.org (Posted with permission of the author) |work=Roger Williams University School of Law Faculty Papers }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> | |||
The theory was originally proposed by ], a leading French naturalist, in his '']'' (1766).<ref name=Goldstein/> The French writer ] joined Buffon and others in making the argument.<ref name=Meunier/> ] ], court philosopher to ] became its leading proponent.<ref name=Ceaser/> While Buffon focused on the American biological environment, de Pauw attacked the people who were native to the continent.<ref name=Popkin/> James Ceaser has noted that the denunciation of America as inferior to Europe was partially motivated by the German government's fear of mass ]; de Pauw was called upon to convince the Germans that the new world was inferior. De Pauw is also known to have influenced the philosopher ] in a similar direction.<ref>{{cite book|first1 = Brendan|last1 = O'Connor|last2 = Griffiths|first2 = Martin|title = Anti-Americanism – Historical Perspectives|year = 2007|page = 8| publisher=Greenwood Publishing |isbn = 9781846450259|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=KF0pySH-ozsC&pg=PA8|access-date = 8 November 2020|archive-date = 26 January 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210126131052/https://books.google.com/books?id=KF0pySH-ozsC&pg=PA8|url-status = live}}</ref> | |||
America's treatment and use of international institutions such as the ] is often seen as self-serving and hypocritical in other countries. Critics point to non-payment of UN dues and ignoring of ] decisions against America on the one hand, and to enthusiastic embrace of international trials against foreign (but not alleged domestic) ] and UN sanction mechanisms against official enemies on the other. America's ] power in the ] has repeatedly been used to prevent censure of ], thereby angering ] countries and those supporting them in the Israel-Arab conflict. | |||
De Pauw said that the New World was unfit for human habitation because it was, "so ill-favored by nature that all it contains is either degenerate or monstrous". He asserted that, "the earth, full of putrefaction, was flooded with lizards, snakes, serpents, reptiles and insects". Taking a long-term perspective, he announced that he was, "certain that the conquest of the New World...has been the greatest of all misfortunes to befall mankind."<ref>C. Vann Woodward, ''The Old World's New World'' (1991) p 6</ref> | |||
Some countries, such as France, also dislike very much the fact America has used the veto power in the ] more often than any other country, but consider it an offensive move that their allies could use the veto against an American proposition. They claim being allies does not necessary imply blindly accepting any American proposition they disagree with. | |||
The theory made it easier for its proponents to argue that the natural environment of the United States would prevent it from ever producing a true culture. Echoing de Pauw, the ] ] wrote in 1770, "America has not yet produced a good poet, an able mathematician, one man of genius in a single art or a single science".<ref>{{cite book|author=James W. Ceaser|title=Reconstructing America: The Symbol of America in Modern Thought|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t5kvAruS5H0C&pg=PA26|year=1997|publisher=Yale U.P.|page=26. Note: Ceaser writes in his endnote to this sentence (p. 254), that "...in later editions of his work, Raynal exempted North America, but not South America, from this criticism"|isbn=0300084536|access-date=29 October 2015|archive-date=5 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105152107/https://books.google.com/books?id=t5kvAruS5H0C&pg=PA26|url-status=live}}</ref> The theory was debated and rejected by early American thinkers such as ], ], and ]; Jefferson, in his '']'' (1781), provided a detailed rebuttal of de Buffon from a scientific point of view.<ref name=Ceaser/> Hamilton also vigorously rebuked the idea in ] (1787).<ref name=Goldstein/> | |||
The political and financial ($4 billion annually) American support for Israel is another major source of anti-Americanism in the Arab world. | |||
One critic, citing Raynal's ideas, suggests that it was specifically extended to the ] that would become the United States.<ref>{{cite journal | last =Danzer | first =Gerald A. |date=February 1974 | title =Has the Discovery of America Been Useful or Hurtful to Mankind? Yesterday's Questions and Today's Students | journal =The History Teacher | volume =7 | issue =2 |pages=192–206| doi =10.2307/491792 | jstor =491792}}</ref>{{clarify|date=August 2014<!-- is the critic spoken of here Gerald Danzer, or someone (perhaps Jeremy Bellknap, perhaps someone else) of whom Professor Danzer writes in the paper? Where in the paper is the idea "specifically extended to the English colonies that would become the United States"?-->}} | |||
The continuing ] against ] is seen by a broad range of people as vindictive - and hypocritical in the face of ] retaining most-favoured-nation trading status. The ] ], an attempt to force all other countries to participate in the embargo by allowing American citizens and corporations to sue foreigners who do business with Cuba, was interpreted by American liberals as an offense against national sovereignty, and a violation of ] rules. And while ] suspended central portions of that act, and ] has continued its suspension, the act's mere existence is offensive to many. | |||
Roger suggests that the idea of degeneracy posited a symbolic, as well as a scientific, America that would evolve beyond the original thesis. He argues that Buffon's ideas formed the root of a "stratification of negative discourses" that has recurred throughout the history of the two countries' relationship (and been matched by persistent ] in the United States).<ref name=Granthem/> | |||
The U.S. government annually certifies whether other countries cooperate in its War On Drugs; countries which do not cooperate are sanctioned economically and diplomatically. This annual review is seen as offensive by many foreign countries, most notably by ]. | |||
==== Culture ==== | |||
Many small and poor countries -- which lack ]s -- consider America's efforts to prevent the further proliferation of nuclear weapons to be a thinly veiled attempt to maintain its military advantage. America and most Western countries counter that these efforts benefit all because proliferation would destabilize many conflict regions, most of them involving poor countries. | |||
{{2018 Eurobarometer - Positive views on the U.S. influence in the EU}} | |||
According to Brendan O'Connor, some Europeans criticized Americans for lacking "taste, grace and civility," and having a brazen and arrogant character.<ref name="OConnor"/> British author ] observed in her 1832 book '']'', that the greatest difference between the ] and ] was "want of refinement", explaining: "that polish which removes the coarser and rougher parts of our nature is unknown and undreamed of" in America.<ref>{{cite book|last=Trollope|first=Fanny|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10345/pg10345-images.html|title=Domestic Manners of the Americans|date=2003-11-30|publisher=]|access-date=2019-06-28|archive-date=25 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225210915/http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10345/pg10345-images.html|url-status=live}}<br /> | |||
] pledged in ] that their ] programme would include safeguards to protect the civil liberties of ''American'' Citizens. No such undertaking was made in respect of the rights of citizens of any other country. Such behaviour might be taken as supporting the view that Americans consider foreigners to be less worthy of respect than themselves. | |||
Also reprinted in 2004 as: | |||
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Some countries, like ], dislike US to be involved in what it considered as its internal affairs. For example, US selling weapons to ] and its deep involvement in the Taiwan issue has been seen as offensive by the Chinese government. China is also not happy that while the U.S. government always criticizes on China's ] status, it chooses to neglect human right problems in many other countries and also in the United States itself. | |||
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--></ref><ref name="Rubin">{{cite web |last=Rubin |first=Judy |title=The Five Stages of Anti-Americanism |publisher=Foreign Policy Research Institute |date=4 September 2004 |url= http://www.fpri.org/enotes/20040904.americawar.colprubin.5stagesantiamericanism.html |access-date=15 May 2008 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080513201350/http://www.fpri.org/enotes/20040904.americawar.colprubin.5stagesantiamericanism.html |archive-date=13 May 2008}}</ref> According to one source, her account "succeeded in angering Americans more than any book written by a foreign observer before or since".<ref name="Michael Shea 1986">David Frost and Michael Shea (1986) ''The Rich Tide: Men, Women, Ideas and Their Transatlantic Impact''. London, Collins: 239</ref> English writer ]'s critical account in his ''Diary in America, with Remarks on Its Institutions'' (1839) also proved controversial, especially in ] where an effigy of the author, along with his books, was burned.<ref name="Michael Shea 1986"/> Other writers critical of American culture and manners included the bishop ] in France and ] in England.<ref name="OConnor"/> Dickens' novel '']'' (1844) is a ferocious satire on American life.<ref name="hatingamerica"/>{{rp|42}} | |||
Sources of American resentment are evident following the ] and the ensuing European class struggles. In 1869, after a visit to his country of birth, the Swedish immigrant, ] observed that, <blockquote>"...the ignorance, prejudice and hatred toward America and everything pertaining to it among the aristocracy, and especially the office holders, was as unpardonable as it was ridiculous. It was claimed by them that all was humbug in America, that it was the paradise of scoundrels, cheats, and rascals, and that nothing good could possibly come out of it."<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Meyer |first1=Cynthia Nelson |last2=Barton |first2=H. Arnold |date=1996 |title=A Folk Divided: Homeland Swedes and Swedish Americans, 1840-1940. |journal=International Migration Review |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=823 |doi=10.2307/2547650 |jstor=2547650 |s2cid=161744379 |issn=0197-9183|url=https://pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/annals-of-iowa/article/id/7161/ }}</ref> </blockquote>After seven years in the US, ], a graduate of Lund University and native Swede, returned to Sweden in 1885. He complained that, in upper-class circles, if he "told something about America, it could happen that in reply (he) was informed that this could not possibly be so or that the matter was better understood in Sweden."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Engberg |first=Martin J. |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.34599 |title=Svensk-amerikanska hönsboken : handledning i skötseln af höns, ankor, gäss, kalkoner, pärlhöns och påfåglar: utarbetad efter senaste och tillförlitligaste amerikanska metoder |date=1903 |publisher=Engberg-Holmberg Pub. Co |location=Chicago|doi=10.5962/bhl.title.34599 }}</ref> The dedication of the Statue of Liberty in 1886 solidified The "]" as a beacon to the "huddled masses" and their rejection of the "storied pomp" of the old world.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cunningham |first=John T. |title=Ellis Island: immigration's shining center |date=2003 |publisher=Arcadia |isbn=978-0-7385-2428-3 |location=Charleston, SC |oclc=53967006}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Auster |first=Paul |title=Collected prose: autobiographical writings, true stories, critical essays, prefaces, and collaborations with artists |date=2005 |publisher=Picador |isbn=978-0-312-42468-8 |location=New York |oclc=57694273}}</ref> | |||
===American Funding of paramilitary groups=== | |||
] observed in 2003: "By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ] – voracious, preachy, mercenary, and bombastically chauvinist – was firmly in place in Europe".<ref name="Schama">{{cite magazine |last=Schama |first=Simon |title=The Unloved American |magazine=The New Yorker |date=10 March 2003 |url= https://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/03/10/030310fa_fact |access-date=23 May 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080619033559/http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/03/10/030310fa_fact |archive-date=19 June 2008}}</ref> O'Connor suggests that such prejudices were rooted in an idealized image of European refinement and that the notion of high European culture pitted against American vulgarity has not disappeared.<ref name="OConnor" /> | |||
America has a history of supplying funds for paramilitary groups which are called ]s by the donors and their allies, but regarded as ] or ] by the victims and their allies. Such funding may be provided by the government, by private citizens, or by a combination of the two. | |||
==== Politics and ideology ==== | |||
It has been widely alleged that the American government has been arming and training right-wing paramilitary groups in ] who have been accused of widespread human rights violations, to deal with left-wing rebels who control much of that country. | |||
The young United States also faced criticism on political and ideological grounds. Ceaser argues that the ] strain of European thought and literature, hostile to the ] view of ] and obsessed with history and national character, disdained the ] American project. The German poet ] commented: "With the expression ''Bodenlosigkeit'' (absence of ground), I think I am able to indicate the general character of all American institutions; what we call Fatherland is here only a property insurance scheme". Ceaser argues in his essay that such comments often repurposed the language of degeneracy, and the prejudice came to focus solely on the United States and not Canada nor Mexico.<ref name="Ceaser"/> Lenau had ] to the United States in 1833 and found that the country did not live up to his ideals, leading him to return to Germany the following year. His experiences in the U.S. were the subject of a novel titled ''The America-exhaustion'' (''Der Amerika-Müde'') (1855) by fellow German ].<ref>''The Reader's Encyclopedia'' (1974) edited by William Rose Bennet: 556</ref> | |||
The nature of American ] was also questioned. The sentiment was that the country lacked " monarch, aristocracy, strong traditions, official religion, or rigid class system," according to Judy Rubin, and its democracy was attacked by some Europeans in the early nineteenth century as degraded, a travesty, and a failure.<ref name="Rubin"/> The ], which was loathed by many European conservatives, also implicated the United States and the idea of creating a constitution on abstract and universal principles.<ref name="Ceaser"/> That the country was intended to be a bastion of liberty was also seen as fraudulent given that it had been established with ].<ref name="Schama"/> "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes?" asked ] in 1775.<ref>{{cite news |last=Staples |first=Brent |title=Give Us Liberty |work=The New York Times |date=4 June 2006 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/books/review/04staples.html |access-date=26 May 2008 |archive-date=6 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306221901/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05EFDA113EF937A35755C0A9609C8B63&sec=&spon= |url-status=live }}</ref> He famously stated, that "I am willing to love all mankind, except an American".<ref name="Rubin"/> | |||
Even a close ally like the ] has been the target of such action: there is a long history of Americans openly raising funds for both the ] and the ]. Funds for these groups are commonly raised by ]s, such as (it has sometimes been alleged) members of the ], who feel a patriotic sense of involvement in ] in ]. (It should be noted that no American government has ever approved of or supported this activity, and that, in general, America has tried to help resolve problems in Ireland, rather than add to them.) | |||
=== 20th century === | |||
Funds have also been raised for the far right-wing ] by the ], in a manner denounced as illegal on both sides of the ] by the ] in America and by ] MPs in the United Kingdom. | |||
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==== Intellectuals ==== | ||
] in Stockholm, Sweden, 1965]] | |||
] was vehemently anti-American. Historian ] says that in "slashing away at Americans wholesale; quite indiscriminately, with imaginative ferocity, Freud was ventilating some inner need". Gay suggests that Freud's anti-Americanism was not really about the United States at all.<ref>{{cite book|author=C. Vann Woodward|title=The Old World's New World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gW64cHXNrRsC&pg=PA33|year=1992|page=33|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA |isbn=9780199879144|access-date=29 October 2015|archive-date=5 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105152107/https://books.google.com/books?id=gW64cHXNrRsC&pg=PA33|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
Numerous authors went on the attack. French writer ] denounced the United States. German poet ] wrote, "I no longer love Paris, partly because it is disfiguring and ] itself".<ref name="C. Vann Woodward 1992 34">{{cite book|author=C. Vann Woodward|title=The Old World's New World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gW64cHXNrRsC&pg=PA33|year=1992|page=34|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA |isbn=9780199879144|access-date=29 October 2015|archive-date=5 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105152107/https://books.google.com/books?id=gW64cHXNrRsC&pg=PA33|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
Religion, especially in its more conservative or fundamentalist forms, is stronger in America than in much of the rest of the Western world. People who fear or dislike religious extremism, conservatism, or religion in general are believed by American conservatives to have anti-American attitudes as a result. | |||
==== Communist critiques ==== | |||
Some countries resent very much hearing some americans stating America moral superiority over the rest of the world, and reject the vision of some American leaders seeing the role of America as being the nation responsible for preserving the world from what they see as "Evil". They are further pushed by American Congress adopting the resolution of a day of prayer to ensure the divine protection of America against terrorism and its soldiers, which lead them to see Bush as a illuminate leading a religious croisage. They question the official position of separation of church and state. | |||
Until its demise in 1991, the ] and other ] emphasized ] as the great enemy of ], and identified the United States as the leader of capitalism. They sponsored anti-Americanism among followers and sympathizers. Russell A. Berman notes that in the mid-19th century, "] himself largely admired the dynamism of American capitalism and democracy and did not participate in the anti-Americanism that came to be the hallmark of Communist ideology in the twentieth century".<ref>{{cite book|author=Russell A. Berman|title=Anti-Americanism in Europe: A Cultural Problem|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8687I9FjRm8C&pg=PT58|year=2004|publisher=Hoover Press|page=58|isbn=9780817945121|access-date=29 October 2015|archive-date=5 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105152107/https://books.google.com/books?id=8687I9FjRm8C&pg=PT58|url-status=live}}</ref> O'Connor argues that, "communism represented the starkest version of anti-Americanism – a coherent world view that challenged the ], private property, ], and ]".<ref>{{cite book|author=Brendan O'Conner|title=The Rise of Anti-Americanism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=au8edbGaTGQC&pg=PA183|year=2005|publisher=Psychology Press|page=183|isbn=9780203028780|access-date=29 October 2015|archive-date=5 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105152107/https://books.google.com/books?id=au8edbGaTGQC&pg=PA183|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
The USA was and is heavily criticised by contemporary socialist nations and movements for ], especially as a reaction to ]. In the ] for example, Anti-Americanism comes not only from ideological opposition to the USA and its actions, but also as a result of ] and ].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Why does North Korea hate the United States? Let's go back to the Korean War. |newspaper=] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/05/17/why-does-north-korea-hate-the-united-states-lets-go-back-to-the-korean-war/ |access-date=2023-08-07}}</ref> | |||
Authors in the ], such as ] and ] criticized the U.S. and reached a large audience, especially on the left.<ref name="C. Vann Woodward 1992 34"/> In his ''Anti-Americanism'' (2003), French writer ] argues that anti-Americanism emerges primarily from ], and this critique also comes from non-communist, totalitarian regimes. | |||
In contrast, people from cultures that have still stronger religious beliefs, Islamic cultures in particular, find offensive the vision of an America religious tolerance and diversity, and its official ]. | |||
America was criticised and denounced by Communists such as ] during the Russian Civil War. Galiev particularly emphasised native genocide of America and the institution of ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://anti-imperialism.org/2016/08/08/two-articles-by-mirsaid-sultan-galiev-1919/ |title=Archived copy |website=anti-imperialism.org |access-date=15 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629112952/https://anti-imperialism.org/2016/08/08/two-articles-by-mirsaid-sultan-galiev-1919/ |archive-date=29 June 2020 }}</ref> American treatment of minority groups such as natives and African-Americans would go on to be a continued point of opposition and criticism to the USA ]. | |||
===American hypocrisy=== | |||
The ] regime imposed an official anti-American ideology that was reflected in all its media and all the schools. Anyone who expressed support for the West would be investigated by the ].{{Citation needed|date=December 2018}} The official line followed ] theory of ] as the highest and last stage of capitalism, and in ] theory of ] as the dictatorship of the most ] elements of ]. The official party line stated that the United States had caused the breakup of the coalition against ]. It was now the bulwark of reaction worldwide, with a heavy reliance on warmongering for the benefit of the "terrorist international of murderers on ]".<ref>Rainer Schnoor, "The Good and the Bad America: Perceptions of the United States in the GDR," in Detlef Junker, et al. eds. ''The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945–1968: A Handbook, Vol. 2: 1968–1990'' (2004) pp 618–626, quotation on page 619.</ref> East Germans were told they had a heroic role to play as a front-line against the Americans.{{Citation needed|date=December 2018}} However, Western media outlets such as the American ] broadcasts, and ] media may have limited Anti-Americanism. The official communist media ridiculed the modernism and cosmopolitanism of American culture, and denigrated the features of the American way of life, especially jazz music and ].{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}} | |||
US politicians and industrial leaders are fond of citing principles such as ], ] and ], which are held to be universally beneficial. However in practice their actions often do not support such principles. Free trade is perceived as being restricted to protecting uncompetitive industry, e.g., the imposition of ] of up to 30% in March ], or earlier examples for agricultural products. Democracy is undermined by the American support for repressive regimes and other actions as described above. | |||
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==== Fascist critiques ==== | ||
{{Further|Melting pot}} | |||
Drawing on the ideas of ] (1816–1882), ] decried the supposed degenerating effect of ] on the ] of the American population. The ] philosopher ] argued that race mixture in the United States made it inferior to racially pure nations.<ref name=hatingamerica/>{{rp|91–2}} | |||
] was another factor in these critiques. The view that the U.S. was controlled by a ] through a ] was common in countries ruled by fascists before and during ].<ref name=hatingamerica/>{{rp|91–7}} Jews, the assumed puppet masters behind supposed American plans for world domination, were also seen as using jazz in a crafty plan to eliminate racial distinctions;<ref name=hatingamerica/>{{rp|91–7}} ] dismissed the threat of the United States as a credible enemy of ] because of its incoherent racial mix; he saw Americans as a "mongrel race", "half-Judaized" and "half-Negrified".<ref name=hatingamerica/>{{rp|94–7}} | |||
Popular culture -- contemporary music, ], films, books, and more recently, web sites and other computer-based media -- is one of America's most successful and probably its most visible export. There is an enormous American "trade surplus" in cultural matters. In countries without strong cultural protection laws, American music, films, and television programs appear far more frequently than other countries' music, films, and television programs appear in the United States. | |||
In an address to the ] on 11 December 1941, Hitler declared war on the United States and lambasted U.S. President ]: | |||
In many countries, such media carry a large body of material that embodies values considerably different from those of much of the viewing public. From a common European intellectual perspective, many American dramatic narratives are overly violent, schizophrenic about sex (combining prudery and exploitation), and portray simplistic attitudes to good and evil. In fairness, most of the American population agrees with them on at least some of such complaints. Also, there is some amount of ambivalence among Europeans on such issues. | |||
{{blockquote|He was strengthened in this by the circle of Jews surrounding him, who, with Old Testament-like fanaticism, believe that the United States can be the instrument for preparing another ] for the European nations that are becoming increasingly ]. It was the Jew, in his full Satanic vileness, who rallied around this man , but to whom this man also reached out.<ref>Saul Friedlander (2008) ''The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939–1945''. London, Phoenix: 279</ref>}}In 1944, as war was basically lost, the SS published a virulent article in their weekly ''Das Schwarze Korps'' titled "Danger of Americanism" which criticized and characterized the American ], as it was thought to be owned by the Jews: "Americanism is a splendid method of depoliticization. The Jews have used ] and ], magazines and smut, ] and ], and every perverse desire, to keep the American people so distracted that they pay no attention to their own fate".<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Danger of Americanism|url=https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/sk03.htm|access-date=2021-10-31|website=research.calvin.edu|archive-date=19 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019232829/https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/sk03.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Landa|first=Ishay|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4FFHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT307|title=Fascism and the Masses: The Revolt Against the Last Humans, 1848-1945|publisher=Routledge|year=2018|isbn=978-1-351-17997-3|language=en|access-date=31 October 2021|archive-date=31 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211031050706/https://books.google.com/books?id=4FFHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT307|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
Another concern is the sheer volume of American cultural export, irrespective of any specific concerns with content, which has profound homogonising effects on societies, limiting opportunities for diverse and original perspectives. | |||
===== "Liberators" poster ===== | |||
Meanwhile, other societies, notably ]ic societies see popular Western culture, and popular American culture above all, as ] for a secular, sexually and socially libertine society. As such, they also object to American values portrayed in popular culture, though the American values they perceive as present are almost precisely the opposite of those which European cultural critics dislike. | |||
] ] poster aimed at the Dutch, from a Norwegian World War II poster by ]]] | |||
The "Liberators" poster that was distributed by the Nazis to a Dutch audience in 1944 displays multiple elements of anti-American attitudes promoted by the Nazis. The title ''Liberators'' refers to a common Allied justification for attacking Germany (and possibly the American ] bombers as well), and the poster depicts this "liberation" as the destruction of European cities. The artist was ], a ] who worked for the ] in ]. | |||
America's political, business, and diplomatic establishment largely views culture as a commodity to be freely traded just like any other, and heavily lobbies foreign governments to remove trade barriers erected to protect non-American cultures. American lack of understanding of foreign sensitivities to ] is a source of great resentment. | |||
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Motifs contained in this poster include: | |||
At least in part because popular culture products have become such a significant export industry for the United States, the United States has been steadily increasing the restrictiveness of its ] laws to help support its entertainment industry at the expense of several previously protected rights. Examples include enforcing the use of ] ] to restrict the import of DVDs from foreign markets (permitted by "first sale" doctrine) or the use of "copy prevention" techniques on ]s to prevent music from being converted to other formats for use by the CD's owner. This has led to significant pressures upon other nations to do likewise, to such an extent that in January ] the U.S. imposed punitive economic sanctions on ] because they failed to pass stricter domestic copyright laws. China, on the other hand, continued to retain most-favored-nation trading status despite being widely recognized as the largest center of intellectual property violation in the world. See also: ], ] | |||
* The decadence of ]s (scantily-clad "]" and "Miss Victory", "The World's Most Beautiful Leg") – or more generally, the putative sexual laxness of American women. The "]" beauty pageant in ] had expanded during the war and was used to sell ]s.<ref>{{cite book|author=Susan Dworkin|title=Miss America, 1945: Bess Myerson and the Year That Changed Our Lives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ifd8I17iWbgC&pg=PA97|year=1999|publisher=Newmarket Press|pages=97–98|isbn=9781557043818|access-date=29 October 2015|archive-date=5 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105152107/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ifd8I17iWbgC&pg=PA97|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
===The American way of life=== | |||
* Gangsterism and ] (the arm of an escaped convict holding a ]). Gangsterism had become a theme of anti-Americanism in the 1930s.<ref>{{cite book|author=Philippe Roger|title=The American Enemy: The History of French Anti-Americanism|url=https://archive.org/details/americanenemysto0000roge|url-access=registration|year=2005|publisher=U. of Chicago Press|page=|isbn=9780226723686}}</ref> | |||
* Anti-black violence (a ] noose, a ] hood). The lynching of blacks had attracted European denunciations by the 1890s.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Noralee Frankel|author2=Nancy Schrom Dye|title=Gender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=btZ7N4qAJhYC&pg=PA156|year=1991|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|page=156|isbn=0813127823|access-date=29 October 2015|archive-date=5 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105152107/https://books.google.com/books?id=btZ7N4qAJhYC&pg=PA156|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Alexander Stephan|title=The Americanization of Europe: Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanization After 1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sgCqwXmGxNYC&pg=PA104|year=2006|publisher=Berghahn Books|page=104|isbn=9781845450854|access-date=29 October 2015|archive-date=5 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105152107/https://books.google.com/books?id=sgCqwXmGxNYC&pg=PA104|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
* General violence of American society, in addition to the above (boxing-glove which grasps the money-bag). The theme of a violent American frontier was well known in the 19th century.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jason Pierce|title=Making the White Man's West: Whiteness and the Creation of the American West|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PG4siz5bDCIC&pg=PA91|year=2008|page=91|isbn=9780549963516|access-date=29 October 2015|archive-date=5 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105152107/https://books.google.com/books?id=PG4siz5bDCIC&pg=PA91|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
* Americans as Indian savages and as a mockery of American genocide over Natives as well as land-theft, since it is a chieftain symbol here used as a fashion trinket. ("Miss America" wears plains-Indian head-dress). | |||
* The capitalism, pure ] and ] of America, to the detriment of any spirit or soul (money bag with "$" symbol). The materialism of America contrasted with the spiritual depth of European high culture is a common trope, especially in ].<ref>{{cite book|author=Thomas Ekman Jørgensen|title=Transformations and Crises: The Left and the Nation in Denmark and Sweden, 1956–1980|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9dS3lKQJkxYC&pg=PA66|year=2008|publisher=Berghahn Books|pages=66–67|isbn=9781845453664|access-date=29 October 2015|archive-date=5 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105152107/https://books.google.com/books?id=9dS3lKQJkxYC&pg=PA66|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
* Anti-semitism appears in most Nazi-generated images of America. A Jewish banker is seen behind the money. | |||
* The presence of ] equals its "mongrelization", adding undesirably "primitive" elements to American popular culture, and constituting a potential danger to the white race (a stereotypically-caricatured black couple dancing the "] – Triumph of Civilization" in birdcage, which is portrayed as a degraded animalistic ritual). The degradation of culture, especially through ], resonated with European anxieties, especially in Germany.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Frank Trommler|author2=Elliott Shore|title=The German-American Encounter: Conflict and Cooperation Between Two Cultures, 1800–2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h0703VRj7tUC&pg=PA275|year=2001|publisher=Berghahn Books|page=275|isbn=9781571812902|access-date=29 October 2015|archive-date=5 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105152107/https://books.google.com/books?id=h0703VRj7tUC&pg=PA275|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
* Decadence of American popular culture, and its pernicious influence on the rest of the world (dancing of jitterbug, hand holds phonograph record, figure of a European gullible "all-ears" dupe in lower foreground). The growing popularity of American music and dancing among young people had ignited a "]" among conservative Europeans.<ref>{{cite book|title=Dutch Culture in a European Perspective: 1950, prosperity and welfare. 4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JZfvCVndvXoC&pg=PA406|year=2004|publisher=Uitgeverij Van Gorcum|page=406|isbn=9789023239666|access-date=29 October 2015|archive-date=5 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105152107/https://books.google.com/books?id=JZfvCVndvXoC&pg=PA406|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
* Indiscriminate ] (bloodied bomb for foot, metal legs, military aircraft wings), threatening the European cultural landmarks at lower right. | |||
** Hence the suggested falsity of American claims to be "Liberators" (the ] was also the name of a U.S. bomber plane). | |||
* Nazis denounced American ] and war fervor (a business-suited arm literally "beating the drum" of militarism, "Miss Victory" and her drum-majorette cap and boots).<ref>{{cite book|author=Samuel D. G. Heath|title=The American Poet: Weedpatch Gazette for 2003|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=teQluAzCbUcC&pg=PA132|year=2009|publisher=iUniverse|page=132|isbn=9781440139581|access-date=29 October 2015|archive-date=5 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105152107/https://books.google.com/books?id=teQluAzCbUcC&pg=PA132|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
* The malevolent influence of American ] (Masonic apron descending from drum) was a theme among conservative ], as in ].<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul Preston|title=Franco: a biography|url=https://archive.org/details/francobiography00pres|url-access=registration|year=1994|publisher=BasicBooks|page=|isbn=9780465025152}}</ref> | |||
* Demonization of national symbols of the United States ("Miss Victory" waves the reverse side of 48-star U.S. flag, and the ] – of small red disk within white star on large blue disk – is shown on one of the wings). | |||
=== 21st century === | |||
Americans are well-known for their pride in their ] as well as their country's achievements, and for their allegiance to at least some of the ideals of the ] of the country, now often taken for granted in most of the industrialized world, such as freedom and equal justice under the law. It is not infrequently said that American ] is the first patriotism founded on a set of political ideals, rather than on ] or ]. Patriotism in the U.S. often appears offensively arrogant to the rest of the world. For example, American politicians sometimes call America the "greatest nation that has ever existed on the face of the Earth". It is worth noting in this connection that patriotism and nationalism exist all throughout the world, but is moderated in most countries by extensive foreign media content (something that the US does not have), and that no other country has been as successful in the wholesale export of its view through the modern mass media. | |||
==== September 11 attacks ==== | |||
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In a book called ''The Rise of Anti-Americanism'', published in 2006, Brendon O'Connor and Martin Griffiths said that the ] were "quintessential anti-American acts, which satisfy all of the competing definitions of Anti-Americanism".<ref>{{Harvnb|O'Connor|Griffiths|2006|p=}}</ref> They ask, "If 9/11 can be construed as the exemplar of anti-Americanism at work, does it make much sense to imply that all anti-Americans are complicit with terrorism?"<ref>{{Harvnb|O'Connor|Griffiths|2006|p=}}</ref> Most leaders in Islamic countries, including Afghanistan, condemned the attacks. ]'s ] was a notable exception, with an immediate official statement that "the American cowboys are reaping the fruit of their ]".<ref>{{cite news|title=Attacks draw mixed response in Mideast |url=http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/09/12/mideast.reaction/index.html |publisher=CNN |date=12 September 2001 |access-date=30 March 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070813060324/http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/09/12/mideast.reaction/index.html |archive-date=13 August 2007 }}</ref> | |||
Europe was highly sympathetic to the United States after the 9/11 attack. ] unanimously supported the United States, treating an attack on the U.S. as an attack on all of them after ] of the ] was invoked for the very first time. NATO and American troops ]. When the United States decided to ], it won some support in Europe, especially from the ], but also intense opposition, led by the ] and ]. ] argues that there was still fundamental agreement on such basic issues of support for democracy and ]. However, there emerged a growing gap between an American "], individualistic, market outlook, and the more ], ], ] mentality in Europe."<ref>{{Cite book|first=Konrad|last=Jarausch|title=Out of Ashes: A new history of Europe in the 20th century|date=2015|pages=759–60}}</ref> | |||
The fact that girls in America are educated along with boys, that women can go out in public unescorted by male relatives, and that women have the same rights as men, including the right to vote and to serve in the armed forces, is also at odds with many religious or cultural traditions of some democratic and non-democratic countries. Such rights however are neither exclusive to, nor originated in, America but are common in much of the Western world, it is thus unlikely that such concerns are sufficient motivation for specifically anti-American sentiment. | |||
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==== U.S. computer technology ==== | ||
A growing dimension of anti-Americanism is fear of the pervasiveness of U.S. Internet technology.{{citation needed|date=June 2021}} This can be traced from the very first computers which were either British (]) or German (]) through to the ] itself (invented by Englishman ]). In all these cases the U.S. has commercialized all these innovations. | |||
Americanization has advanced through widespread ] and smart phone technology since 2008 and a large fraction of the new apps and hardware were designed in the United States. In Europe, there is growing concern about excessive Americanization through Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple and Uber, among many other U.S. Internet-based corporations. European governments have increasingly expressed concern regarding privacy issues, as well as antitrust and taxation issues regarding the new American giants. There is fear that they are significantly ], and posting information that may violate European privacy laws.<ref>See "Google under fire in Europe over user privacy concerns" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222053056/https://www.thestar.com/business/2015/04/08/google-under-fire-in-europe-over-user-privacy-concerns.html |date=22 December 2017 }}</ref> '']'' in 2015 reported "deep concerns in Europe's highest policy circles about the power of U.S. technology companies."<ref>Tom Fairless, "Europe's Digital Czar Slams Google, Facebook," {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708170812/https://www.wsj.com/articles/europes-digital-czar-slams-google-facebook-over-selling-personal-data-1424789664 |date=8 July 2017 }}</ref> | |||
The American way of life is seen by ] everywhere as wasteful and environmentally irresponsible. There are significant bodies of research that support this conclusion. Some Americans defend themselves by claiming that this criticism stems more from envy than from a genuine concern for the environment; however, statistics indicate that the 4% of the worlds population within the United States does use a disproportionately massive amount of the world's resources; it also creates 25% of the world's pollution. In ], the U.S. Senate voted 95-0 that the United States should not become a party to the ] unless developing nations are subject to scheduled limits or reductions of greenhouse gases. This refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol is often quoted as an example of America's irresponsibility in this area. | |||
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==== Mitigation of anti-Americanism ==== | ||
Sometimes developments help neutralize anti-Americanism. In 2015, the ] went on the attack against corruption at ], arresting many top world ] leaders long suspected of bribery and corruption. In this case the U.S. government's self-defined role as "policeman of the world" won widespread international support.<ref>Noah Barkin, "World's policeman wins rare applause for FIFA crackdown," {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017222304/http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/28/us-soccer-fifa-usa-power-idUSKBN0OD1Z720150528 |date=17 October 2015 }}</ref> | |||
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==Regional anti-Americanism== | ||
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=== Europe === | |||
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Recent polls has shown anti-Americanism in Europe to be increasing following the ] and due to U.S policies in the recent years. Eurobarometer survey conducted among European Union countries revealed that Europeans view America as a higher risk to Global Peace than Iran and North Korea.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anti-Americanism: Causes and Characteristic |date=April 2010 |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2003/12/10/anti-americanism-causes-and-characteristics/}}</ref> | |||
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==== Eastern Europe ==== | |||
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] in largely Russian-speaking ] ], Ukraine, 9 May 2014]] | |||
Russia has a long history of anti-Americanism, dating back to the ] of 1917. As early as in 1919, leader of ] ] was recorded addressing ] soldiers where he claimed that "capitalists of England, France and America are waging war against Russia". The image of ] was also used by the ] to portray ] forces as foreign-sponsored.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://teatr.audio/lenin-obraschenie-k-krasnoy-armii|title=Ленин – Обращение к Красной Армии|trans-title=Lenin – Address to the Red Army|access-date=27 May 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://redavantgarde.com/collection/show-collection/131-antanta-.html|title=Антанта|trans-title=Entente|access-date=27 May 2023}}</ref> | |||
In 2013, 30% of Russians had a "very unfavorable" or "somewhat unfavorable" view of Americans and 40% viewed the U.S. in a "very unfavorable" or "somewhat unfavorable" light, up from 34% in 2012.<ref name="pew"/> Recent {{When|date=March 2024}} polls from the ] show that 71% of Russians have at least a somewhat negative attitude toward the U.S., up from 38% in 2013.<ref>" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726064859/https://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2014/06/05/anti-american-sentiment-on-the-rise-in-russia/ |date=26 July 2020 }}". ''The Wall Street Journal''. 5 June 2014.</ref> It is the largest figure since the ]. In 2015, a new poll by the Levada center showed that 81% of Russians now hold unfavorable views of the United States, presumably as a result of U.S. and ] imposed against Russia because of the ]. Anti-Americanism in Russia is reportedly at its highest since the end of the ].<ref>Sarah E. Mendelson, "Generation Putin: What to Expect from Russia's Future Leaders." ''Foreign Affairs'' 94 (2015) p 150.</ref><ref>Eric Shiraev and Vladislav Zubok, ''Anti-Americanism in Russia: From Stalin to Putin'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000)</ref> A December 2017 survey conducted by the ] and its Russian partner, the Levada Center, showed that 78% of "Russians polled said the United States meddles "a great deal" or "a fair amount" in Russian politics", only 24% of Russians say they hold a positive view of the United States, and 81% of "Russians said they felt the United States was working to undermine Russia on the world stage."<ref>" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210209194358/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/02/07/more-russians-are-sure-of-the-u-s-meddling-in-their-politics-than-the-other-way-around-poll-finds/ |date=9 February 2021 }}". ''The Washington Post''. 7 February 2018.</ref> | |||
Survey results published by the ] indicate that, as of August 2018, Russians increasingly viewed the United States positively following the ] in July 2018. ''The Moscow Times'' reported that "For the first time since 2014, the number of Russians who said they had "positive" feelings towards the United States (42 percent) outweighed those who reported "negative" feelings (40 percent)."<ref>{{cite news |title=Anti-Americanism Wanes in Russia After Putin-Trump Summit, Survey Says |url=https://themoscowtimes.com/news/anti-americanism-wanes-russia-after-putin-trump-summit-survey-says-62425 |work=] |date=August 2, 2018 |access-date=5 February 2019 |archive-date=10 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190110013950/https://themoscowtimes.com/news/anti-americanism-wanes-russia-after-putin-trump-summit-survey-says-62425 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Favorable Attitudes Toward U.S., EU Rising In Russia, Poll Finds |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/favorable-attitudes-toward-u-s-eu-on-the-rise-in-russia-levada-poll-finds/29407171.html |work=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |date=August 2, 2018 |access-date=5 February 2019 |archive-date=26 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210826172823/https://www.rferl.org/a/favorable-attitudes-toward-u-s-eu-on-the-rise-in-russia-levada-poll-finds/29407171.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In February 2020, 46% of Russians polled said they had a negative view of the United States.<ref>{{cite news |title=4 in 5 Russians View West as a Friend – Poll |url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/02/18/4-in-5-russians-view-west-as-a-friend-poll-a69322 |work=The Moscow Times |date=18 February 2020 |access-date=22 May 2020 |archive-date=14 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614142015/https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/02/18/4-in-5-russians-view-west-as-a-friend-poll-a69322 |url-status=live }}</ref> According to the ], "57% of Russians ages 18 to 29 see the U.S. favorably, compared with only 15% of Russians ages 50 and older."<ref>{{cite news |title=How people around the world see the U.S. and Donald Trump in 10 charts |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/01/08/how-people-around-the-world-see-the-u-s-and-donald-trump-in-10-charts/ |work=Pew Research Center |date=8 January 2020 |access-date=22 May 2020 |archive-date=19 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819022140/https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/01/08/how-people-around-the-world-see-the-u-s-and-donald-trump-in-10-charts/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2019, only 20% of Russians viewed U.S. President ] positively.<ref>{{cite news |title=1. Little trust in Trump's handling of international affairs |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/01/08/little-trust-in-trumps-handling-of-international-affairs/ |work=Pew Research Center |date=8 January 2020 |access-date=22 May 2020 |archive-date=16 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816095706/https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/01/08/little-trust-in-trumps-handling-of-international-affairs/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Only 14% of Russians expressed net approval of ].<ref>{{cite news |title=Few in other countries approve of Trump's major foreign policies, but Israelis are an exception |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/02/03/few-in-other-countries-approve-of-trumps-major-foreign-policies-but-israelis-are-an-exception/ |work=Pew Research Center |date=3 February 2020 |access-date=22 May 2020 |archive-date=5 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210905063037/https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/02/03/few-in-other-countries-approve-of-trumps-major-foreign-policies-but-israelis-are-an-exception/ |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
====Western Europe==== | |||
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In a 2003 article, historian David Ellwood identified what he called three great roots of anti-Americanism: | |||
* Representations, images and stereotypes (from the birth of the Republic onwards) | |||
* The challenge of economic power and the American model of modernization (principally from the 1910s and 1920s on) | |||
* The organized projection of U.S. political, strategic and ideological power (from World War II on) | |||
He went on to say that expressions of the phenomenon in the last 60 years have contained ever-changing combinations of these elements, the configurations depending on internal crises within the groups or societies articulating them as much as anything done by American society in all its forms.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hnn.us/articles/1426.html |title=Anti-Americanism: Why Do Europeans Resent Us? |author=David Ellwood |publisher=George Mason university : History News Network |date=5 May 2003 |access-date=1 March 2010 |archive-date=7 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210907110547/http://hnn.us/articles/1426.html |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
In 2004, Sergio Fabbrini wrote that the perceived post-] unilateralism of the ] fed deep-rooted anti-American feeling in Europe, bringing it to the surface. In his article, he highlighted European fears surrounding the Americanization of the economy, culture and political process of Europe.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Fabbrini |first=Sergio |title=Layers of Anti-Americanism: Americanization, American Unilateralism and Anti-Americanism in a European Perspective |journal=European Journal of American Culture |date=September 2004 |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=79–94 |doi=10.1386/ejac.23.2.79/0 }}</ref> Fabbrini in 2011 identified a cycle in anti-Americanism: modest in the 1990s, it grew explosively between 2003 and 2008, then declined after 2008. He sees the current version as related to images of American foreign policy-making as unrestrained by international institutions or world opinion. Thus it is the unilateral policy process and the arrogance of policy makers, not the specific policy decisions, that are decisive.<ref>Sergio Fabbrini, "Anti-Americanism and US foreign policy: Which correlation?," ''International Politics'' (Nov 2010) 47#6 pp. 557–573.</ref> | |||
During the ] administration, public opinion of America declined in most European countries. A ] Global Attitudes Project poll showed "favorable opinions" of America between 2000 and 2006 dropping from 83% to 56% in the United Kingdom, from 62% to 39% in France, from 78% to 37% in Germany and from 50% to 23% in Spain. In Spain, unfavorable views of Americans rose from 30% in 2005 to 51% in 2006 and positive views of Americans dropped from 56% in 2005 to 37% in 2006.<ref>{{cite web | |||
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In Europe in 2002, vandalism of American companies was reported in Athens, Zürich, ], Moscow and elsewhere. In Venice, 8 to 10 masked individuals claiming to be anti-globalists attacked a McDonald's restaurant.<ref>{{Cite report | |||
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In Athens, at the demonstrations commemorating the ] there was a march toward the U.S. embassy to emphasize the U.S. backing of the ] attended by many people each year. | |||
Ruth Hatlapa, a PhD candidate at the ], and Andrei S. Markovits, a professor of Political Science at the ], describe President Obama's image as that of an angel – or more precisely, a rock star – in Europe in contrast to Bush's devilish image there; they argue, however, that "Obamamania" masks a deep-seated distrust and disdain of America.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Hatlapa | first1 = Ruth | last2 = Markovits | first2 = Andrei | year = 2010 | title = Obamamania and Anti-Americanism as Complementary Concepts in Contemporary German Discourse | journal = German Politics and Society | volume = 28 | issue = 1| pages = 69–94 | doi=10.3167/gps.2010.280105}}</ref> | |||
=====France===== | |||
In France, the term ] is often used in expressions of anti-Americanism or ]. French writers have also used it in more nuanced ways in discussions about French decline, especially as an alternative model to which France should aspire, how France should adjust to its two most prominent global competitors, and how it should deal with social and economic modernization.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Chabal | first1 = Emile | date = Spring 2013 | title = The Rise of the Anglo-Saxon: French Perceptions of the Anglo-American World in the Long Twentieth Century | journal = French Politics, Culture & Society | volume = 31 | issue = 1| pages = 24–46 | doi=10.3167/fpcs.2013.310102}}</ref> | |||
The ] in ] and the ] of 1956 caused dismay among the French right, which was already angered by the lack of American support during ]. For the Socialists and Communists of the ], it was the ] and U.S. imperialism that were the sources of resentment.<ref name="test">{{cite book|author=Brendon O'Connor|title=Anti-Americanism: In the 21st century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YJkMN0hjOw8C|year=2007|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-84645-027-3|page=|access-date=29 October 2015|archive-date=5 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105152107/https://books.google.com/books?id=YJkMN0hjOw8C|url-status=live}}</ref> Much later, the alleged ] affair further dirtied the previously favorable image. In 2008, 85% of the French people considered the American government and banks to be most liable for the ].<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091010002832/http://www.csa-fr.com/dataset/data2008/opi20081002-l-opinion-des-francais-sur-la-crise-financiere-internationale.htm|date=10 October 2009}}</ref> | |||
In her contribution to the book ''Anti-Americanisms in World Politics'' edited by Peter Katzenstein and Robert Keohane in 2006, ] wrote about French anti-Americanism. She contends that although it has a long history (older than the U.S. itself) and is the most easily recognizable anti-Americanism in Europe, it may not have had real policy consequences on the United States and thus may have been less damaging than more pernicious and invisible anti-Americanism in other countries.<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170726062910/http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4604 |date=26 July 2017 }}, Cornell University Press.</ref> | |||
In 2013, 36% viewed the U.S. in a "very unfavorable" or "somewhat unfavorable" light.<ref name="pew">{{cite web|title=Opinion of the United States|url=http://www.pewglobal.org/database/custom-analysis/|publisher=Pew Research Center|access-date=23 December 2013|archive-date=22 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210622020858/https://www.pewresearch.org/global/database/custom-analysis/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
Richard Kuisel, an American scholar, has explored how France partly embraced American consumerism while rejecting much of American power and values. He wrote in 2013 that: | |||
{{blockquote|America functioned as the "other" in configuring French identity. To be French was not to be American. Americans were conformists, materialists, racists, violent, and vulgar. The French were individualists, idealists, tolerant, and civilized. Americans adored wealth; the French worshiped {{sic}} ''la douceur de vivre.'' This caricature of America, which was already broadly endorsed at the beginning of the century, served to reinforce French national identity. At the end of the twentieth century, the French strategy America as a foil, as a way of defining themselves as well as everything from their social policies to their notion of what constituted culture.<ref>Richard Kuisel, "The French Way: How France Embraced and Rejected American Values and Power," ''H-France Forum'' (Spring 2013) 8#4 pp 41–45 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160825182224/http://h-france.net/forum/forumvol8/Kuisel5.pdf |date=25 August 2016 }}, referencing his major book, ''The French Way: How France Embraced and Rejected American Values and Power'' (2012) {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180805144243/https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7sm7n |date=5 August 2018 }}</ref>}} | |||
In October 2016, French President ] said: "When the (European) Commission goes after Google or digital giants which do not pay the taxes they should in Europe, America takes offence. And yet, they quite shamelessly demand 8 billion from BNP or 5 billion from Deutsche Bank." French bank ] was fined in 2014 for violating ].<ref>{{cite news |title=France's Hollande criticises huge U.S. fines against corporate Europe |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/france-politics-usa-idUSL8N1CI3B9 |work=Reuters |date=October 12, 2016 |access-date=9 January 2019 |archive-date=8 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308201655/https://www.reuters.com/article/france-politics-usa-idUSL8N1CI3B9 |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
=====Germany===== | |||
{{Main|Anti-American sentiment in Germany}} | |||
] missiles in Europe, ], ], 1981]] | |||
German naval planners in the 1890–1910 era denounced the ] as a self-aggrandizing legal pretension to dominate the Western hemisphere. They were even more concerned with the ], because it would lead to full American hegemony in the Caribbean. The stakes were laid out in the German war aims proposed by the Navy in 1903: a "firm position in the West Indies," a "free hand in South America," and an official "revocation of the ]" would provide a solid foundation for "our trade to the ], ] and South America."<ref>{{cite book|author=Dirk Bönker|title=Militarism in a Global Age: Naval Ambitions in Germany and the United States before World War I|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w3Nhk1cMHoYC&pg=PA61|year=2012|publisher=Cornell U.P.|page=61|isbn=978-0801464355|access-date=2 November 2016|archive-date=23 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161223035931/https://books.google.com/books?id=w3Nhk1cMHoYC&pg=PA61|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
During the Cold War, anti-Americanism was the official government policy in ], and dissenters were punished. In West Germany, anti-Americanism was the common position on the left, but the majority praised America as a protector against communism and a critical ally in rebuilding the nation.<ref>Dan Diner, ''America in the eyes of the Germans: an essay on anti-Americanism'' (Markus Wiener Publishers, 1996).</ref> Germany's refusal to support the American-led ] was often seen as a manifestation of anti-Americanism.<ref>Tuomas Forsberg, "German foreign policy and the war on Iraq: anti-Americanism, pacifism or emancipation?." ''Security Dialogue'' (2005) 36#2 pp: 213–231. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210907112623/https://dk-media.s3.amazonaws.com/AA/AT/gambillingonjustice-com/downloads/275731/German_foreign_policy_and_the_war_on_Iraq-_anti-Americanism__pacifism_or_emancipation.pdf |date=7 September 2021 }}</ref> Anti-Americanism had been muted on the right since 1945, but re-emerged in the 21st century especially in the ] (AfD) party that began in opposition to European Union, and now has become both anti-American and anti-immigrant. Annoyance or distrust of the Americans was heightened in 2013 by revelations of ], including Chancellor Merkel.<ref>"Ami go Home," {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210907115334/https://www.economist.com/europe/2015/02/05/ami-go-home |date=7 September 2021 }}</ref> | |||
In the affair surrounding '']'' journalist ], U.S. Ambassador to Germany ] wrote to the magazine complaining about an anti-American institutional bias ("Anti-Amerikanismus") and asked for an independent investigation.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Connolly|first1=Kate|last2=Le Blond|first2=Josie|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/23/anti-america-bias-der-spiegel-scandal-relotius|title=Der Spiegel takes the blame for scandal of reporter who faked stories|work=The Guardian|date=23 December 2018|access-date=9 January 2019|archive-date=28 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210828162415/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/23/anti-america-bias-der-spiegel-scandal-relotius|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article185986368/Fall-Relotius-US-Botschaft-wirft-Spiegel-eklatanten-Anti-Amerikanismus-vor.html|title=US-Botschaft wirft "Spiegel" "eklatanten Anti-Amerikanismus" vor|newspaper=]|date=December 22, 2018|language=de|access-date=9 January 2019|archive-date=7 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210907112627/https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article185986368/Fall-Relotius-US-Botschaft-wirft-Spiegel-eklatanten-Anti-Amerikanismus-vor.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Grenell wrote that "These fake news stories largely focus on U.S. policies and certain segments of the American people."<ref>{{cite news |title=Der Spiegel to press charges against reporter who made up article about Fergus Falls, Minnesota |url=http://www.startribune.com/der-spiegel-to-press-charges-against-reporter-who-made-up-article-about-fergus-falls-minnesota/503414652/ |work=Star Tribune |date=24 December 2018 |access-date=9 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412065306/http://www.startribune.com/der-spiegel-to-press-charges-against-reporter-who-made-up-article-about-fergus-falls-minnesota/503414652/ |archive-date=12 April 2019 }}</ref> | |||
German historian Darius Harwardt has noted that from 1980 onwards, the term has seen an increase in usage in ], for example to discredit those that wish to close ].<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stone |first=Jon |date=2018-07-11 |title=Germans actually want Donald Trump to pull US troops out of Germany, poll finds |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/us-troops-germany-public-opinion-pull-out-nato-summit-merkel-a8442021.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131094648/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/us-troops-germany-public-opinion-pull-out-nato-summit-merkel-a8442021.html |archive-date=31 January 2021 |access-date=2021-01-27 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref> | |||
===== Greece ===== | |||
Although the Greeks have generally held a favorable attitude towards America and still do today, with 56.5% holding a favorable view in 2013<ref>{{cite web |title= Greece and the United States |url= https://kaparesearch.com/en/survey-on-greece-us-relations-2016/ |publisher= kaparesearch.com |access-date= 13 October 2021 |archive-date= 27 October 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211027175636/https://kaparesearch.com/en/survey-on-greece-us-relations-2016/ |url-status= live }}</ref> and 63% in 2021,<ref>{{cite web |title= America's Image Abroad Rebounds With Transition From Trump to Biden |date= 10 June 2021 |url= https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/06/10/americas-image-abroad-rebounds-with-transition-from-trump-to-biden/ |publisher= pewresearch.org |access-date= 13 October 2021 |archive-date= 15 October 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211015061225/https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/06/10/americas-image-abroad-rebounds-with-transition-from-trump-to-biden/ |url-status= live }}</ref> Donald Trump was highly unpopular in Greece, with 73% having no confidence in him to do the right thing in world affairs.<ref>{{cite web |title= 1. Little trust in Trump's handling of international affairs |date= 8 January 2020 |url= https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/01/08/little-trust-in-trumps-handling-of-international-affairs/ |publisher= pewresearch.org |access-date= 13 October 2021 |archive-date= 16 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210816095706/https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/01/08/little-trust-in-trumps-handling-of-international-affairs/ |url-status= live }}</ref> ] however is popular among the Greek public, with 67% having confidence in the American president.<ref>{{cite web |title= Most have confidence in Biden to do the right thing internationally |url= https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/06/10/americas-image-abroad-rebounds-with-transition-from-trump-to-biden/pg_2021-06-10_us-image_00-021/ |publisher= pewresearch.org |access-date= 13 October 2021 |archive-date= 29 October 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211029173551/https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/06/10/americas-image-abroad-rebounds-with-transition-from-trump-to-biden/pg_2021-06-10_us-image_00-021/ |url-status= live }}</ref> | |||
=====Netherlands===== | |||
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Although the Dutch have generally held a favorable attitude toward America, there were negative currents in the aftermath of World War II as the Dutch blamed American policy as the reason why their ] were able to gain ]. They credit their rescue from the Nazis in 1944–45 to the ].<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Teitler | first1 = G. | year = 1987 | title = Sea Power on the Decline: Anti-Americanism and the Royal Netherlands Navy, 1942–1952 | journal = European Contributions to American Studies | volume = 11 | pages = 72–84}}</ref> Postwar attitudes continued the perennial ambiguity of anti-Americanism: the love-hate relationship, or willingness to adopt American cultural patterns while at the same time voicing criticism of them.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Kroes | first1 = Rob | year = 1987 | title = The Great Satan Versus the Evil Empire: Anti-Americanism in the Netherlands | journal = European Contributions to American Studies | volume = 11 | pages = 37–50}}</ref> In the 1960s, anti-Americanism revived largely in reaction against the Vietnam War. Its major early advocates were non-party-affiliated, left-wing students, journalists, and intellectuals. Dutch public opinion polls (1975–83) indicate a stable attitude toward the United States; only 10% of the people were deeply anti-American.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Koch | first1 = Koen | year = 1987 | title = Anti-Americanism and the Dutch Peace Movement | journal = European Contributions to American Studies | volume = 11 | pages = 97–111}}</ref> The most strident rhetoric came from the left wing of Dutch politics and can largely be attributed to the consequences of Dutch participation in NATO.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = DeGraaf | first1 = Bob | year = 1987 | title = Bogey or Saviour? The Image of the United States in the Netherlands during the Interwar Period | journal = European Contributions to American Studies | volume = 11 | pages = 51–71}}</ref> | |||
=====United Kingdom===== | |||
{{See also|Special Relationship#Public opinion}} | |||
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According to a Pew Global Attitudes Project poll, during the ] administration "favorable opinions" of America between 2000 and 2006 fell from 83% to 56% in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=252 |title=America's Image Slips, But Allies Share U.S. Concerns Over Iran, Hamas | Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project |date=13 June 2006 |publisher=Pewglobal.org |access-date=18 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061008020203/http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=252 |archive-date=8 October 2006 }}</ref> | |||
News articles and blogs have discussed the negative experiences of Americans living in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4881474.stm |work=BBC News |title=Anti-Americanism 'feels like racism' |date=16 April 2006 |access-date=4 November 2006 |archive-date=23 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823063856/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4881474.stm |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Anti-Americanism in Britain |url=http://www.anamericangirlinlondon.co.uk/?p=85 |publisher=An American Girl in London – blog |access-date=8 April 2015 |date=24 February 2013 }}{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web |title=Anti-American sentiment: Why is it acceptable? |url=http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2328026 |publisher=The Student Room – blog |access-date=8 April 2015 |date=21 April 2013 |archive-date=27 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227055749/https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2328026 |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
Anti-American sentiment became more widespread in the United Kingdom following the ] and the ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Report of the Working Group on Anti-Americanism|url=http://www.princeton.edu/~ppns/conferences/reports/fall/AA.pdf|publisher=The Princeton Project on National Security|access-date=8 April 2015|date=September 2005|page=24|archive-date=19 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180119073407/https://www.princeton.edu/~ppns/conferences/reports/fall/AA.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Book Review: The Long History of British Disdain for America|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703779704576074342437747736|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=8 April 2015|date=22 January 2011|archive-date=8 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308160000/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703779704576074342437747736|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
=====Ireland===== | |||
Negative sentiment towards American tourists is implied to have risen around 2012 and 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pressreader.com/canada/toronto-star/20120308/296580378364924|title=PressReader - Toronto Star: 2012-03-08 - Canadians' dream destinations|via=PressReader|access-date=10 November 2019|archive-date=10 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191110183258/https://www.pressreader.com/canada/toronto-star/20120308/296580378364924|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/no-loud-americans-sign-in-county-kerry-ireland-slammed-by-local-residents-9627337.html|title='No loud Americans' sign in County Kerry slammed by locals|date=2014-07-24|website=The Independent|language=en|access-date=2019-11-10|archive-date=6 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200706095624/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/no-loud-americans-sign-in-county-kerry-ireland-slammed-by-local-residents-9627337.html|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
=====Spain===== | |||
{{Main|Anti-American sentiment in Spain}} | |||
Anti-American sentiment is perceived to be deeply entrenched within elements of Spanish society, with several surveys conducted concerning the topic tending to back up that assertion. ] ranks among the highest countries in terms of the level of anti-Americanism in ]. According to a ] study, feelings towards the United States in Spain were among the least favourable in ], second only to ]. The sentiment has not only been historically a left-wing phenomenon, but the United States is viewed very negatively by right-wing factions in Spain as well. | |||
=== Asia === | |||
Anti-Americanism in the Middle East and parts of Asia has substantially increased due to U.S sanctions and military involvement in countries like Afghanistan and Iraq worsening relations and public opinion. However East and South Asian countries like the Philippines, South Korea and India remains the most Pro-American countries.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stokes |first=Bruce |title=Which countries don't like America and which do |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/07/15/which-countries-dont-like-america-and-which-do/ |access-date=2023-03-23 |website=Pew Research Center |date=15 July 2014 |language=en-US}}</ref> | |||
==== East Asia ==== | |||
=====China===== | |||
{{Main|Anti-American sentiment in China}} | |||
{{See also|May 24 incident}} | |||
China has a history of anti-Americanism beginning with the general disdain for foreigners in the early 19th century that culminated in the ] of 1900, which the U.S. helped in militarily suppressing. | |||
During the ] and World War II, the U.S. provided economic and military assistance to the ] government against the Japanese invasion. In particular, the "]" (American diplomats known for their knowledge of China) also attempted to establish diplomatic contacts with ]'s communist regime ], with a goal of fostering unity between the Nationalists and Communists.<ref>John Service, ''The Amerasia Papers: Some Problems in the History of US – China Relations'' (Berkeley, CA: Center for Chinese Studies, U of California Press, 1971), 191 – 192.</ref> However, relations soured after communist victory in the ] and the relocation of the Chiang government to ], together with the start of the ] and rise of ] in U.S. politics. The newly communist China and the U.S. fought a major undeclared ] and, as a result, President ] began advocating a policy of containment and sent the ] to deter a possible communist invasion of Taiwan.<ref>{{cite web|title=Harry S Truman, "Statement on Formosa," January 5, 1950|url=http://china.usc.edu/harry-s-truman-%E2%80%9Cstatement-formosa%E2%80%9D-january-5-1950|publisher=]|access-date=7 May 2017|archive-date=16 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816232642/http://china.usc.edu/harry-s-truman-%E2%80%9Cstatement-formosa%E2%80%9D-january-5-1950|url-status=live}}</ref> The U.S. signed the ] with Taiwan which lasted until 1979 and, during this period, the communist government in Beijing was not diplomatically recognized by the U.S. By 1950, virtually all American diplomatic staff had left mainland China, and one of Mao's political goals was to identify and destroy factions inside China that might be favorable to capitalism.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Qiu Xu | first1 = Guang | year = 2000 | title = U.S. Air Aid and the CCP's Anti-American Campaign, 1945–1949 | journal = Air Power History | volume = 47 | issue = 1| pages = 24–39}}</ref><ref>Michael M. Sheng, "Chinese Communist Policy Toward the United States and the Myth of the 'Lost Chance,' 1948–1950," ''Modern Asian Studies'' 28 (1994); ], ''China's Road to the Korean War: The Making of the Sino-American Confrontation'' (Columbia University Press, 1994)</ref> | |||
Mao initially ridiculed the U.S. as "]" occupiers of Taiwan, "the enemy of the people of the world and has increasingly isolated itself" and "monopoly capitalist groups",<ref>{{cite web |author=Mao Tse Tung |url=http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch06.htm |title=Quotations from Mao Tse Tung – Chapter 6 |publisher=Marxists.org |access-date=11 May 2012 |archive-date=16 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816041622/https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch06.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> and it was argued that Mao never intended friendly relations with the U.S.<ref>Michael M. Sheng, ''Battling Western Imperialism: Mao, Stalin, and the United States'' (Princeton University Press, 1997) ch 1</ref> However, due to the ] and increasing tension between China and the Soviet Union, US President ] signaled a diplomatic rapprochement with communist China, and ].<ref>{{cite web|last=Nixon|first=Richard|title=Announcement of the President's Trip to China|url=http://china.usc.edu/ShowArticle.aspx?articleID=2258|work=US-China documents collection|publisher=USC US-China Institute|access-date=24 July 2011|archive-date=11 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111171025/http://china.usc.edu/ShowArticle.aspx?articleID=2258|url-status=live}}</ref> Diplomatic relations between the two countries were eventually restored in 1979. After Mao's death, ] embarked on economic reforms, and hostility diminished sharply, while large-scale trade and investments, as well as cultural exchanges became major factors. Following the ], the U.S. placed economic and military sanctions upon China, although official diplomatic relations continued.<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210909200418/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/05/world/the-west-condemns-the-crackdown.html |date=9 September 2021 }}, New York Times, 5 June 1989.</ref> | |||
], 1999]] | |||
In 2013, 53% of Chinese respondents in a ] survey had a "very unfavorable" or "somewhat unfavorable" view of the U.S.<ref name="pew"/> Relations improved slightly near the end of Obama's term in 2016, with 44% of Chinese respondents expressing an unfavorable view of the U.S compared to 50% of respondents expressing a favorable view.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2016-06-28|title=A Look at America's International Image|url=https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2016/06/28/americas-international-image/|access-date=2020-09-12|website=Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project|language=en-US|archive-date=13 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613145926/https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2016/06/28/americas-international-image/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
There has been a significant increase in anti-Americanism since U.S. President ] launched a ] against China, with Chinese media airing ] films.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://thediplomat.com/2019/06/the-dangerous-reprise-of-chinese-korean-war-propaganda/|title=The Dangerous Reprise of Chinese Korean War Propaganda|last=Diplomat|first=Andrew Kuech, The|website=The Diplomat|language=en-US|date=14 June 2019|access-date=2019-07-25|archive-date=7 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210907121451/https://thediplomat.com/2019/06/the-dangerous-reprise-of-chinese-korean-war-propaganda/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/world/asia/china-propaganda-trade.html|title=China's Propaganda Machine Takes Aim at U.S. Over Trade War|last=Hernández|first=Javier C.|date=2019-05-14|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-07-25|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=9 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210909213325/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/world/asia/china-propaganda-trade.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In May 2019, '']'' said that "the trade war with the U.S. at the moment reminds Chinese of military struggles between China and the U.S. during the Korean War."<ref name=":0" /> | |||
=====Japan===== | |||
] in ], 8 November 2009]] | |||
In Japan, objections to the behavior and presence of American military personnel are sometimes reported as anti-Americanism, such as the ].<ref name="CNNOkinawa">{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9510/okinawa_protest/index.html|title=Thousands rally against U.S. bases in Okinawa|access-date=11 April 2008|publisher=CNN|date=21 October 1995|archive-date=11 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210611055447/http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9510/okinawa_protest/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2002/08/01/kor_ed1_.php |title=Road deaths ignite Korean anti-Americanism |access-date=11 April 2008 |work=International Herald Tribune |date=1 August 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070915160744/http://www.iht.com/articles/2002/08/01/kor_ed1_.php |archive-date=15 September 2007 }}</ref> {{as of|2008}}, the ongoing U.S. military presence on ] remained a contentious issue in Japan.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/27/rice/ |title=Rice soothes Japan on rape case |access-date=13 March 2008 |publisher=CNN |date=27 February 2008 |archive-date=11 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210611055449/http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/27/rice/ |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
While protests have arisen because of specific incidents, they are often reflective of deeper historical resentments. Robert Hathaway, director of the Wilson Center's Asia program, suggests: "The growth of anti-American sentiment in both Japan and South Korea must be seen not simply as a response to American policies and actions, but as reflective of deeper domestic trends and developments within these Asian countries".<ref name="WilsonProgram">{{Cite web | |||
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|title=The Making of "Anti-American" Sentiment in Korea and Japan | |||
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|archive-date=17 October 2007 | |||
}}</ref> In Japan, a variety of threads have contributed to anti-Americanism in the post-war era, including ] on the left, ] on the right, and opportunistic worries over American influence in Japanese economic life.<ref>{{cite book |title=Korean Attitudes Toward the United States: Changing Dynamics |chapter=Anti-Americanism in Japan |last=Glosserman |first=Bob |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EB4PbvOcbP8C&q=Japan+anti-Americanism&pg=PA34 |year=2005 |publisher=M. E. Sharpe |isbn=0-7656-1435-9 |pages=34–45 |access-date=8 November 2020 |archive-date=31 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231002041/https://books.google.com/books?id=EB4PbvOcbP8C&q=Japan+anti-Americanism&pg=PA34 |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
From the ] until today, most conservatives, including the ],<ref name="Hitoshi Tanaka">{{cite book |author1=Hitoshi Tanaka |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qeXkDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT21 |title=Historical Narratives of East Asia in the 21st Century: Overcoming the Politics of National Identity |quote=... Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform, founded in 1997, shared “anti-American conservative” convictions, rather than a “pro-American conservative” attitude similar to the LDP's political stance. |date=2020 |publisher=Routledge| isbn=978-1-000-05317-3 }}</ref> have a pro-American view; there are "]" who are critical of this and seek to preserve Japan's independent foreign policy or cultural values. | |||
=====South Korea===== | |||
{{See also|Anti-American sentiment in Korea}} | |||
Speaking to the Wilson Center, ] notes that while the majority of South Koreans support the American alliance "anti-Americanism also represents the collective venting of accumulated grievances that in many instances have lain hidden for decades".<ref name=WilsonProgram/> In the 1990s, scholars, policy makers, and the media noted that anti-Americanism was motivated by the rejection of authoritarianism and a resurgent nationalism, this nationalist anti-Americanism continued into the 2000s fueled by a number of incidents such as the ].<ref>Korea's democratisation, Ed Samuel S. Kim, Cambridge university press 2003, Page 135 and 136</ref> During the early 1990s, ], prostitutes for American soldiers became a symbol of anti-American nationalism.<ref name="Cho91">{{cite book |last= Cho |first= Grace |title= Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=VagzEDjnZpcC&q=yanggongju%20caste&pg=PA103 |publisher= ] |year= 2008 |isbn= 978-0816652754 |page= 91 |access-date= 8 November 2020 |archive-date= 18 August 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210818004323/https://books.google.com/books?id=VagzEDjnZpcC&q=yanggongju%20caste&pg=PA103 |url-status= live }}</ref> | |||
"Dear American" is an anti-American song sung by ].<ref>{{cite news|last=Imam|first=Jareen|title=PSY apologizes for viral anti-American lyrics|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/07/showbiz/psy-apology-irpt/index.html|publisher=CNN|access-date=11 December 2012|date=10 December 2012|archive-date=2 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210902000922/https://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/07/showbiz/psy-apology-irpt/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> "]" is an anti-American ] written by South Korean singer and activist Yoon Min-suk. Strongly anti-U.S. foreign policy and anti-Bush, the song was written in 2002 at a time when, following the ] Olympic controversy and ] in which two Korean middle school students died after being struck by a U.S. Army vehicle, anti-American sentiment in South Korea reached high levels.<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924151928/http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2010/02/20/ohno-reviled-athlete-south-korea/ |date=24 September 2015 }}, Fox News, 20 February 2010.</ref> However, by 2009, a majority of South Koreans were reported as having a favorable view of the United States.<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190523043654/https://www.pewglobal.org/database/?indicator=1 |date=23 May 2019 }}, Pew Global Attitudes Project.</ref> In 2014, 58% of South Koreans had a favorable view of the U.S., making South Korea one of the world's most pro-American countries.<ref name=bbcpoll /> | |||
=====North Korea===== | |||
] in 2009]] | |||
] have been hostile ever since the ], and the former's more recent development of ] has further increased tension between the two nations.<ref name="NWTNKorea">{{cite news |title=In Focus: North Korea's Nuclear Threats |newspaper=The New York Times |date=16 April 2013 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/04/12/world/asia/north-korea-questions.html |access-date=16 April 2013 |archive-date=7 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210907121731/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/04/12/world/asia/north-korea-questions.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The United States currently maintains a ], and President ] had previously described North Korea as part of the "]". | |||
In North Korea, July is the "Month of Joint Anti-American Struggle," with festivities to denounce the U.S.<ref name="NKH">{{cite book |title=North Korea Handbook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JIlh9nNeadMC&pg=PA369 |year=2003 |publisher=M.E. Sharpe |page=369 |isbn=9780765635235 |access-date=29 October 2015 |archive-date=5 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105152107/https://books.google.com/books?id=JIlh9nNeadMC&pg=PA369 |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
====Southeast Asia==== | |||
] take to the streets to demonstrate against the '']'' film.]] | |||
=====Philippines===== | |||
] | |||
Anti-American sentiment has existed in the Philippines, owing primarily to the ] of more than 100 years ago, and the ]. One of the country's most recognizable patriotic hymns, {{langx|es|]|label=none}} ({{lit|Our Fatherland}}; {{langx|tl|Bayan Ko|lit=My Country}}), written during the Philippine–American War, makes reference to "the ] … who with vile treason subjugates ".<ref name="pedrosa2014">{{cite news|last=Navarro Pedrosa|first=Carmen|author-link=Carmen Pedrosa|date=2014-06-01|title=A Small 'Correction' Reveals an Important Detail|url=http://www.philstar.com/opinion/2014/06/01/1329687/small-correction-reveals-important-detail |newspaper=]}}</ref> The song then exhorts the invaded and later occupied nation to "free self from the traitor."<ref name="pedrosa2014" /> Mojarro (2020) wrote that, during the US occupation, "Filipino intellectuals and patriots fully rejected US tutelage of Philippine politics and the economy,"<ref name="mojarro2020">{{cite web|last=Mojarro Romero|url=https://www.manilatimes.net/2020/09/01/opinion/columnists/how-good-were-filipino-writers-in-spanish/761878|date=2020-09-01|title=How Good Were Filipino Writers in Spanish?|newspaper=]|first=Jorge}}</ref> adding that "The ] was understood then as a tool of cultural and political resistance."<ref name="mojarro2020" /> ] himself refused to learn ], having "felt betrayed by the Americans whom ]] considered allies against Spain".<ref name="custodio2016">{{cite web|url=https://www.manilatimes.net/2016/10/10/supplements/manila-times-owners/290511|newspaper=]|first=Arlo|last=Custodio|title=The Manila Times Owners|date=2016-10-10}}</ref> | |||
Statesman and internationally renowned ] writer ] had once dared to oppose the ] interests of the US in the Philippines, such as when he campaigned against the US military bases in his country. During the 1957 presidential campaign, the ] (CIA) conducted black propaganda operations to ensure his defeat, including the distribution of condoms with holes in them and marked with "Courtesy of Claro M. Recto" on the labels.<ref name=WorstBook>The Worst Book of 2002. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081208052845/http://main.nc.us/books/books.cgi?theworstbookof2002 |date=2008-12-08 }}, by Max Boot. 2003 Retrieved March 17, 2009</ref><ref name=Simbulan>Simbulan, Roland. . 18 Aug. 2000. Retrieved March 17, 2009.</ref> The CIA is also suspected of involvement in his death by ] less than three years later. Recto, who had no known heart disease, met with two mysterious "Caucasians" wearing business suits before he died. US government documents later showed that a plan to murder Recto with a vial of poison was discussed by CIA Chief of Station Ralph Lovett and US Ambassador Admiral ] years earlier.<ref name=WorstBook/><ref name=Simbulan/> | |||
In October 2012, American ships were found dumping toxic wastes into Subic Bay, spurring anti-Americanism and setting the stage for multiple rallies.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.philstar.com/breaking-news/2012/11/14/866561/dumping-us-toxic-wastes-phl-triggers-anti-american-rhetoric |title=Dumping of US toxic wastes in Phl triggers anti-American rhetoric | Breaking News, Other Sections, Home |publisher=philstar.com |date=14 November 2012 |access-date=18 August 2014 |archive-date=7 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210907121732/https://www.philstar.com/breaking-news/2012/11/14/866561/dumping-us-toxic-wastes-phl-triggers-anti-american-rhetoric |url-status=live }}</ref> When U.S. president Barack Obama toured Asia, in mid to late April 2014 to visit Malaysia, South Korea, Japan, and the Philippines, hundreds of Filipino protests demonstrated in ] shouting anti-Obama slogans, with some even burning mock U.S. flags.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/anti-obama-protesters-clash-police-manila |title=Anti-Obama protesters clash with police in Manila |date=April 23, 2014 |website=bigstory.ap.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141207183332/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/anti-obama-protesters-clash-police-manila |archive-date=7 December 2014}}</ref> | |||
The controversial ] adds further fuel to anti-American sentiment, especially among ]. US military personnel have also been tried and convicted for rapes and murders committed on Philippine soil against civilians.<ref name=bauzón&al2014>{{cite news|url=https://www.manilatimes.net/2014/10/15/news/top-stories/us-marine-charged-murder-transgenders-slay/134607/|title=US Marine Charged with Murder in Transgender's Slay|newspaper=]|first1=Bernice Camille|last1=Bauzón|first2=Joel|last2=M. Sy-Egco|date=2014-10-15}}</ref> These service personnel would later either be freed by the justice system or receive a presidential pardon.<ref name=MTed2020>{{cite web|url=https://www.manilatimes.net/2020/09/10/opinion/editorial/was-pemberton-pardon-a-clever-geopolitical-move/766705/|newspaper=]|date=2020-09-10|title=Was Pemberton Pardon a Clever Geopolitical Move?}}</ref> | |||
However, despite these incidents, a poll conducted in 2011 by the BBC found that 90% of Filipinos have a favorable view of the U.S., higher than the view of the U.S. in any other country.<ref name="worldpublicopinion.org"> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121123070720/http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/pdf/mar11/BBCEvalsUS_Mar11_rpt.pdf |date=23 November 2012 }}, 7 March 2011.</ref> According to a Pew Research Center Poll released in 2014, 92% of Filipinos viewed the U.S. favorably, making the Philippines the most pro-American nation in the world. The election of ] in 2016, along with persistently high approval ratings thereafter,<ref name=cruz2022>{{cite news|url=https://www.manilatimes.net/2022/02/07/news/duterte-maintains-very-goodnet-satisfaction-rating-sws/1832105|last=Cruz|first=Kaithreen|date=2022-02-07|title=Duterte Maintains 'Very Good' Net Satisfaction Rating —SWS|newspaper=]}}</ref> nevertheless herald a new era marked by ] and a resurgent anti-Americanism founded on what had by then been long-unattended historical grievances.<ref name=parameswaran2016>{{cite web|url=https://thediplomat.com/2016/11/why-the-philippines-rodrigo-duterte-hates-america/|title=Why the Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte Hates America|date=2016-11-01|first=Prashanth|last=Parameswaran|magazine=]}}</ref><ref name=vinay2017>{{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2017-03-15/a-look-at-global-neo-nationalism-after-brexit-and-donald-trumps-election|magazine=]|title=How Neo-Nationalism Went Global|last=Vinay|first=Karoline Postel|date=2017-03-15}}</ref> | |||
====South Asia==== | |||
=====Afghanistan===== | |||
{{Main|Anti-American sentiment in Afghanistan}} | |||
] have led to growing anti-Americanism.<ref>Michael J. Boyle, "The costs and consequences | |||
of drone warfare," ''International Affairs'' 89#1 (2013), pp. 1–29.</ref> | |||
=====Pakistan===== | |||
{{Main|Anti-American sentiment in Pakistan}} | |||
Negative attitudes toward the U.S.'s influence on the world has risen in ] as a result of ] introduced by ] and continued by ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0708/p99s01-duts.html|title=Fresh drone attacks in Pakistan reignite debate|author=Liam Stack|date=8 July 2009|work=The Christian Science Monitor|access-date=26 October 2014|archive-date=11 July 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090711170322/http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0708/p99s01-duts.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-01-22-pakistan-aziz_x.htm |title=Pakistan seeks to quell anti-American sentiments |work=USA Today |date=23 January 2006 |access-date=11 May 2012 |archive-date=25 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111025144213/http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-01-22-pakistan-aziz_x.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> In a poll surveying opinions toward the United States, Pakistan scored as the most negatively aligned nation, jointly alongside ].<ref name="B92_2009">{{cite web|url=http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2009&mm=07&dd=07&nav_id=60329 |title=Strongest anti-American sentiment in Serbia, Pakistan |publisher=B92.net |access-date=11 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608092000/http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2009&mm=07&dd=07&nav_id=60329 |archive-date=8 June 2011 }}</ref> | |||
====Middle East==== | |||
After ], admiration was expressed for ] ]'s promulgation of democracy, freedom and self-determination in the ] and, during ], the high ideals of the ] received favorable notice.<ref name="Tamim Ansary 2009">Tamim Ansary (2009) ''Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes'': 333</ref> According to ], in ''Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes'' (2009), early views of America were mostly positive in the ] and the ].<ref name="Tamim Ansary 2009"/> | |||
Just as they do elsewhere in the world, spikes in anti-Americanism in the region correlate with the adoption or the reiteration of certain policies by the ], in special its support for ] in the ] and the ].<ref>{{cite report|url=http://www.pewglobal.org/2007/03/14/americas-image-in-the-world-findings-from-the-pew-global-attitudes-project/|title=America's Image in the World: Findings from the Pew Global Attitudes Project|date=14 March 2007|access-date=16 July 2013|publisher=Pew Research|archive-date=2 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130602043427/http://www.pewglobal.org/2007/03/14/americas-image-in-the-world-findings-from-the-pew-global-attitudes-project/|url-status=live}}</ref> In regards to ], a ] poll noted that while most ] (93%) polled opposed the attacks, 'radicals' (7%) supported it, citing in their favor, not religious view points, but disgust at ].<ref name=gallup937>{{cite news|url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iZlsZRgzHmgwj6sKpA7PR5F5Ecsw |title=Major survey challenges Western perceptions of Islam |date=26 February 2008 |access-date=16 July 2013 |publisher=Agence Free Presse |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603084234/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iZlsZRgzHmgwj6sKpA7PR5F5Ecsw |archive-date=3 June 2013 }}</ref> In effect, when targeting U.S. or other Western assets in the region, radical armed groups in the Middle East, ] included, have made reference to U.S. policies and alleged ] to justify their attacks. For example, to explain the ] (in which 19 ] were killed), Bin Laden, although proven to have not committed the attack, named U.S. support for Israel in instances of attacks against Muslims, such as the ] and the ], as the reasons behind the attack.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RfM5eJkh3ygC&q=sabra%20shatila%20%20facts&pg=PA235|title=The Structures of Love: Art and Politics Beyond the Transference|isbn=9781438439747|access-date=26 October 2014|last1=Penney|first1=James|date=28 April 2012|publisher=State University of New York Press |archive-date=17 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210817143929/https://books.google.com/books?id=RfM5eJkh3ygC&q=sabra%20shatila%20%20facts&pg=PA235|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
Al-Qaeda also cited the ] on and ] in the ] (1991–2003), which exacted a large toll in the Arab country's civilian population, as a justification to kill Americans.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/980223-fatwa.htm |title=World Islamic Front Statement Urging Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders |publisher=Fas.org |date=23 February 1998 |access-date=18 August 2014 |archive-date=21 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100421110549/http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/980223-fatwa.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
Although right-wing scholars (e.g. ]) have given prominence to the role that religiosity, culture and backwardness play in inflaming anti-Americanism in the region, the poll noted that radicalism among Arabs or Muslims isn't correlated with poverty, backwardness or religiosity. Radicals were in fact shown to be better educated and wealthier than 'moderates'.<ref name=gallup937 /> | |||
There is also, however, a cultural dimension to anti-Americanism among religious and conservative groups in the Middle East. It may have its origins with ]. Qutb, an ] who was the leading intellectual of the ], studied in ] from 1948 to 1950, and wrote a book, ''The America I Have Seen'' (1951) based on his impressions. In it he decried everything in America from individual freedom and taste in music to Church socials and haircuts.<ref>David Von Drehle, ''Smithsonian Magazine''</ref> Wrote Qutb, "They danced to the tunes of the ], and the dance floor was replete with tapping feet, enticing legs, arms wrapped around waists, lips pressed to lips, and chests pressed to chests. The atmosphere was full of desire..."<ref name="Siegel2003-05-06">Siegel, Robert {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509085250/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1253796 |date=9 May 2021 }}, NPR, ''All Things Considered'', 6 May 2003. Retrieved 29 April 2007.</ref> He offered a distorted chronology of American history and was disturbed by its sexually liberated women: "The American girl is well acquainted with her body's seductive capacity. She knows it lies in the face, and in expressive eyes, and thirsty lips. She knows seductiveness lies in the round breasts, the full buttocks, and in the shapely thighs, sleek legs – and she shows all this and does not hide it".<ref name="Siegel2003-05-06" /> He was particularly disturbed by ], which he called the American's preferred music, and which "was created by ]es to satisfy their love of noise and to whet their sexual desires ..."<ref>''Amrika allati Ra'aytu'' (The America that I Have Seen) quoted on Calvert (2000)</ref> Qutb's writings influenced generations of militants and radicals in the Middle East who viewed America as a cultural temptress bent on overturning traditional customs and morals, especially with respect to the relations between the sexes. | |||
Qutb's ideas influenced ], an anti-American extremist from ], who was the founder of the ]st organization ].<ref>{{cite book |first = Michael |last = Scheuer |title = Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama Bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America |page = 110 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=EMu742Y4tuMC&pg=PA110 |isbn = 9781574885521 |publisher = Potomac Books, Inc. |date = 2002 |access-date = 8 November 2020 |archive-date = 18 September 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210918100300/https://books.google.com/books?id=EMu742Y4tuMC&pg=PA110 |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>Abdel Bari Atman (2007) ''The Secret History of Al-Qa'ida''. London: Abacus: 34-5, 65–7</ref> In conjunction with several other Islamic militant leaders, bin Laden issued two ] – ] – that Muslims should kill military personnel and civilians of the United States until the United States government withdraw military forces from ] and withdraw support for Israel.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/terrorism/international/fatwa_1996.html |title=Bin Laden'S Fatwa |publisher=Pbs.org |date=20 August 1998 |access-date=11 May 2012 |archive-date=8 January 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070108175653/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/terrorism/international/fatwa_1996.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/terrorism/international/fatwa_1998.html|title=Online NewsHour: Al Qaeda's 1998 Fatwa |publisher=]|access-date=21 August 2006| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060901093550/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/terrorism/international/fatwa_1998.html| archive-date= 1 September 2006 | url-status= live}}</ref> | |||
After the 1996 fatwa, entitled "Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places", bin Laden was put on a criminal file by the U.S. ] (FBI) under an ] statute which forbids instigating violence and attempting to overthrow the U.S. government.<ref>Lawrence Wright (2007) ''The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11''. London, Penguin: 4–5</ref><ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070108175653/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/terrorism/international/fatwa_1996.html |date=8 January 2007 }}, translation by ]</ref> He has also been indicted in ] for his alleged involvement in the ] in ], ] and ], ], and was on the FBI's ] list.<ref name="cbc-2004">{{cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/bin-laden-claims-responsibility-for-9-11-1.513654 |title=Bin Laden claims responsibility for 9/11 |publisher=CBC News |date=29 October 2004 |access-date=2 November 2006| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20061025044652/https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/bin-laden-claims-responsibility-for-9-11-1.513654| archive-date= 25 October 2006 | url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1550477.cms |title=Osama claims responsibility for 9/11 |work=The Times of India |date=24 May 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071225185732/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1550477.cms |archive-date=25 December 2007 }}</ref> On 14 January 2009, bin Laden vowed to continue the fight and open up new fronts against the U.S. on behalf of the Islamic world.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jY32dmO87b2tbtDi0F-xCtrJTWNgD95N2DEG0|title=Bin Laden Jihad call|access-date=10 November 2016}}{{dead link|date=June 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> | |||
In 2002 and in mid-2004, ] polled the favorable/unfavorable ratings of the U.S. in Saudi Arabia, ], ], ], ], and the ] (UAE). In Zogby's 2002 survey, 76% of Egyptians had a negative attitude toward the United States, compared with 98% in 2004. In Morocco, 61% viewed the country unfavorably in 2002, but in two years, that number had jumped to 88 percent. In Saudi Arabia, such responses rose from 87% in 2002 to 94% in 2004. Attitudes were virtually unchanged in Lebanon but improved slightly in the UAE, from 87% who said in 2002 that they disliked the United States to 73% in 2004.<ref name="Zogby">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7080-2004Jul22.html|title=Poll Shows Growing Arab Rancor at U.S|first=Dafna|last=Linzer|date=23 July 2004|newspaper=The Washington Post|page=A26|access-date=24 August 2017|archive-date=20 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200420213830/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7080-2004Jul22.html|url-status=live}}</ref> However, most of these countries mainly objected to foreign policies that they considered unfair.<ref name="Zogby"/> | |||
=====Iran===== | |||
{{Main|Anti-American sentiment in Iran}} | |||
] on 4 November 2015, against the ], ], and ]]] | |||
The chant "]" (]: مرگ بر آمریکا) has been in use in ] since at least the ] in 1979,<ref>Robert Tait, {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210609064248/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/02/usa.iran |date=9 June 2021 }}, 2 February 2006, The Guardian.</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Philip Herbst|title=Talking terrorism: a dictionary of the loaded language of political violence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WL-IYCCe58EC|year=2003|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-32486-4|page=|access-date=29 October 2015|archive-date=5 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105152107/https://books.google.com/books?id=WL-IYCCe58EC|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Asadzade |first1=Peyman |title=Faith or Ideology? Religiosity, Political Islam, and Anti-Americanism in Iran |journal=Journal of Global Security Studies |volume=4 |issue=4 |url=https://academic.oup.com/jogss/article-abstract/4/4/545/5366463 |access-date=21 April 2020 |archive-date=26 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726085931/https://academic.oup.com/jogss/article-abstract/4/4/545/5366463 |url-status=live }}</ref> along with other phrases often represented as anti-American. A 1953 ] which involved the ] was cited as a grievance.<ref>Tamim Ansary (2009) ''Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes'': 334</ref> State-sponsored murals characterized as anti-American dot the streets of ].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Michael Dumper|author2=Bruce E. Stanley|title=Cities of the Middle East and North Africa: a historical encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3SapTk5iGDkC|year=2007|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-57607-919-5|page=|access-date=29 October 2015|archive-date=22 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122203322/https://books.google.com/books?id=3SapTk5iGDkC|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Nathan Gonzalez|title=Engaging Iran: the rise of a Middle East powerhouse and America's strategic choice|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IKRq123CSlIC|year=2007|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-275-99742-7|pages=|access-date=29 October 2015|archive-date=5 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105152107/https://books.google.com/books?id=IKRq123CSlIC|url-status=live}}</ref> It has been suggested that under ] anti-Americanism was little more than a way to distinguish between domestic supporters and detractors, and even the phrase "]"<ref>Sanger, David E.: "Bombs Away?", Upfront, The New York Times, 16</ref> which has previously been associated with anti-Americanism, appears to now signify both the American and ] governments.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/5599270/What-has-Ayatollah-Khamenei-of-Iran-got-against-little-old-Britain.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | first=Boris | last=Johnson | title=What has Ayatollah Khamenei of Iran got against little old Britain? | date=22 June 2009 | access-date=5 April 2018 | archive-date=11 August 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180811110408/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/5599270/What-has-Ayatollah-Khamenei-of-Iran-got-against-little-old-Britain.html | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=254041 |title=World News " UK is Tehran's 'Great Satan' |newspaper=Gulf Daily News |date=25 June 2009 |access-date=11 May 2012 |archive-date=19 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150419114609/http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=254041 |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
The ] that lasted from 1979 to 1981, in which fifty-two ] were held hostage in ] for 444 days, was also a demonstration of anti-Americanism, one which considerably worsened ] between the U.S. and Iran.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyguy.com/iran-us_hostage_crisis.html|title=Iran–U.S. Hostage Crisis (1979–1981)|access-date=26 October 2014|archive-date=26 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170126080445/http://www.historyguy.com/iran-us_hostage_crisis.html|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
=====Jordan===== | |||
Anti-Americanism is felt very strongly in ] and has been on the rise since at least 2003. Despite the fact that Jordan is one of America's closest allies in the Middle East and the ] is pro-American and pro-Western, the anti-Americanism of ] is among the highest in the world. Anti-Americanism rose dramatically after the ], when a United States-led coalition invaded ] to remove ] from power. According to several Pew Research Attitudes polls conducted since 2003, 99% of Jordanians viewed the U.S. unfavorably and 82% of Jordanians viewed American people unfavorably. Although 2017 data indicates negative attitudes towards the U.S. and American people have gone down to 82% and 61% respectively, rates of anti-Americanism in Jordan are still among the highest in the world.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pewglobal.org/database/?indicator=1&country=223&response=Favorable|title=Opinion of the United States|date=22 April 2010|work=Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project|access-date=26 October 2014|archive-date=30 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330044008/https://www.pewglobal.org/database/?indicator=1&country=223&response=Favorable|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
=====Palestinian territories===== | |||
In July 2013, ] Cleric Ismat Al-Hammouri, a leader of the ]-based ], called for the destruction of America, ], ] and ] to conquer and destroy the enemies of the "Nation of Islam". He warned: "We warn you, oh America: Take your hands off the Muslims. You have wreaked havoc in ], and before that, in ] and in ], and now in Egypt. Who do you think we are, America? We are the nation of Islam — a giant and mighty nation, which extends from east to west. Soon, we will teach you a political and military lesson, ] willing. Allah Akbar. All glory to Allah".<ref name=warningstowest>{{cite web|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/imam-calls-for-us-and-europes-destruction-from-temple-mount-pulpit/|title=imam calls for destruction of US and europe|work=The Times of Israel|access-date=26 October 2014|archive-date=22 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210822220319/https://www.timesofisrael.com/imam-calls-for-us-and-europes-destruction-from-temple-mount-pulpit/|url-status=live}}</ref> Al-Hammouri also warned U.S. president Barack Obama that there is an impending rise of a united Muslim empire that will instill religious law on all of its subjects.<ref name="warningstowest"/> | |||
=====Saudi Arabia===== | |||
In Saudi Arabia, anti-American sentiment was described as "intense"<ref name=bradley-expo-169 | |||
>{{cite book|last=Bradley|first=John R.|title=Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis|url=https://archive.org/details/saudiarabiaexpos00brad|url-access=registration|date=2005|publisher=Palgrave | |||
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|isbn=9781403964335|quote=In the climate of intense anti-American sentiment in Saudi Arabia after September 11, it is certainly true that any association with U.S.-inspired 'reform' ... is fast becoming a hindrance rather than a help.}}</ref> and "at an all-time high".{{When|date=March 2024}}<ref name=bradley-expo-211>{{cite book|last=Bradley|first=John R.|title=Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis|url=https://archive.org/details/saudiarabiaexpos00brad|url-access=registration|date=2005|publisher=Palgrave|page= | |||
|isbn=9781403964335|quote=Anti-U.S. sentiment inside Saudi Arabia is now at an all-time high, following the outrages at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad and Washington's continued support for Israel's often brutal suppression of the Palestinians.}}</ref> | |||
According to the survey taken by the ] of "educated ] between the ages of 25 and 41" taken shortly after the 9/11 attacks "concluded that 95 percent" of those surveyed supported Bin Laden's cause.<ref name=SCIOLINO>{{cite news|last1=SCIOLINO|first1=ELAINE|title=Don't Weaken Arafat, Saudi Warns Bush|newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/world/don-t-weaken-arafat-saudi-warns-bush.html|access-date=20 October 2014|agency=New York Times|date=January 27, 2002|quote=A classified American intelligence report taken from a Saudi intelligence survey in mid-October of educated Saudis between the ages of 25 and 41 concluded that 95 percent of them supported Mr. bin Laden's cause, according to a senior administration official with access to intelligence reports.|archive-date=8 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908104001/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/world/don-t-weaken-arafat-saudi-warns-bush.html|url-status=live}}</ref> (Support for Bin Laden reportedly waned by 2006 and by then, the ] become considerably more pro-American, after Al-Qaeda linked groups staged ] inside Saudi Arabia.<ref name=TRT>{{cite web|title=Saudi Arabians Overwhelmingly Reject Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Saudi Fighters in Iraq, and Terrorism; Also among most pro-American in Muslim world. Results of a New Nationwide Public Opinion Survey of Saudi Arabia|url=http://www.ka.com.tr/Creator/UploadCenter/Files/TFTSaudiArabiaSurveyDecember20072.pdf|publisher=Terror Free Tomorrow|access-date=20 October 2014|archive-date=27 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227092046/http://www.ka.com.tr/Creator/UploadCenter/Files/TFTSaudiArabiaSurveyDecember20072.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>) The proposal at the Defense Policy Board to 'take ] out of ]' was spread as the secret US plan for the kingdom.<ref name=bradley-expo-85>{{cite book|last=Bradley|first=John R.|title=Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis|url=https://archive.org/details/saudiarabiaexpos00brad|url-access=registration|date=2005|publisher=Palgrave | |||
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|isbn=9781403964335|quote=In a region obsessed with conspiracy theories, many Saudis, both Sunni and Shiite, think that Washington has plans to split off the Eastern Province into a separate entity and seize control of its oil reserves after Iraq has stabilized. | |||
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=====Turkey===== | |||
In 2009, during U.S. president ]'s visit to Turkey, anti-American protestors held signs saying "Obama, new president of the ] that is the enemy of the world's people, your hands are also bloody. Get out of our country."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bianet.org/english/world/113680-protests-as-obama-leaves-turkey |title=Protests as Obama Leaves Turkey |publisher=Bianet.org |access-date=11 May 2012 |archive-date=11 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120611055332/http://bianet.org/english/world/113680-protests-as-obama-leaves-turkey |url-status=live }}</ref> Protestors also shouted phrases such as ] and "Obama go home".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/04/obama_go_home_protestors_say.html |title='Obama go home,' protestors say |publisher=Swamppolitics.com |date=6 April 2009 |access-date=11 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120507151034/http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/04/obama_go_home_protestors_say.html |archive-date=7 May 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/05/AR2009040500720.html |title=Hope, Criticism Greet Obama in Turkey |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=11 May 2012 |first=Kevin |last=Sullivan |date=6 April 2009 |archive-date=15 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115173818/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/05/AR2009040500720.html |url-status=live }}</ref> A 2017 Pew Research poll indicated that 67% of Turkish respondents held unfavourable views of Americans and 82% disapproved of the spread of American ideas and customs in their country; both percentages were the highest out of all the nations surveyed.<ref name=":2" /> | |||
Anti-American sentiment in Turkey had existed since the mid-1940s.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bilgiç |first1= Tuba|date= 2015 |title=The Roots of Anti-Americanism in Turkey 1945-1960 |url=https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/234238 |journal= Bilig|pages=1 |access-date= 2022-12-09}}</ref> However, Anti-Americanism began to spread primarily in the 1950s due to views that America had begun to dominate Turkey and spread its cultural influence into the middle class.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bilgiç |first1= Tuba|date= 2015 |title=The Roots of Anti-Americanism in Turkey 1945-1960 |url=https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/234238 |journal= Bilig|pages=1 |access-date= 2022-12-09}}</ref> | |||
Leftist figures such as Mehmet Ali Aybar, who would later become the Chairman of the ], opposed collaboration with the USA and Turkey, on the grounds that US economic aid would turn Turkey into an "Anglo-Saxon satellite state" as early as 1947.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bilgiç |first1= Tuba|date= 2015 |title=The Roots of Anti-Americanism in Turkey 1945-1960 |url=https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/234238 |journal= Bilig|pages=6 |access-date= 2022-12-09}}</ref> The Turkish revolutionary and Maoist ] considered Turkey to be an American semi-colony.<ref>{{cite book| last = Kaypakkaya | first = Ibrahim| title = Ibrahim Kaypakkaya selected works | publisher = Nisan Publishing| date = 2014 | pages = 90 (47 on pdf) | language = English | url = https://www.marxists.org/archive/kaypakkaya/works/ibrahim-kaypakkaya-sw-2014.pdf}}</ref> However, there were also growing Anti-American sentiments on the Turkish Right. Conservative newspapers such as Büyük Doğu and Kuvvet also held views that America would in the future meddle in Turkish domestic affairs. Anti-American sentiment spread among more of the public when a law was passed in Turkey that authorized only US officials, to exercise criminal jurisdiction over American personnel in cases where a criminal act had been committed.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bilgiç |first1= Tuba|date= 2015 |title=The Roots of Anti-Americanism in Turkey 1945-1960 |url=https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/234238 |journal= Bilig|pages=13 |access-date= 2022-12-09}}</ref> While this on its own did not lead to Anti-American sentiment spreading, it did mean that any incidents resulting from the actions of American personnel would have a considerable impact on popular views towards America. Such incidents often led to anger and resentment to American personnel and America by extension. | |||
Anti-Americanism in Turkey saw a significant rise as a result of the Johnson Letter in the 1960s, which stated that the US was against an invasion of Cyprus, and stated that the USA would not come to the aid of Turkey if an invasion of Cyprus led to war with the Soviet Union. Many Turks saw the letter as tantamount to outright veto power over Turkish affairs by the USA.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bolukbasi |first1=Suha|date= 1993 |title=The Johnson Letter Revisited|journal=Middle Eastern Studies |volume= 29 |issue=3 |pages=505–525 |doi=10.1080/00263209308700963 |jstor=4283581}}</ref> | |||
=== The Americas === | |||
All the countries of ] and ] (including ], the ], and ]n countries) are often referred to as "]" in the ]. In the U.S. and most countries outside Latin America, the terms "America" and "American" typically refer only to the United States of America and its citizens respectively. In the 1890s Cuban writer ] in an essay, "Our America," alludes to his objection to this usage.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Mauricio Augusto Font|author2=Alfonso W. Quiroz|title=The Cuban Republic and José Martí: Reception and Use of a National Symbol|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EQd86Hwmj3kC&pg=PA118|year=2006|publisher=Lexington Books|page=118|isbn=9780739112250|access-date=24 July 2017|archive-date=26 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726075419/https://books.google.com/books?id=EQd86Hwmj3kC&pg=PA118|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
====Latin America==== | |||
{{See also|Latin America|Monroe Doctrine|Manifest Destiny|Roosevelt Corollary|Banana Wars|Operation Condor|Latin America–United States relations}} | |||
]'' (1896) criticizing U.S. behavior regarding ] by ], just prior to the ]. Upper text reads (in old ]): "Uncle Sam's craving", and below: "To keep the island so it won't get lost."]] | |||
Anti-Americanism in Latin America has deep roots and is a key element of the concept of Latin American identity, "specifically anti-U.S. expansionism and ] ]."<ref>Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo, ''Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2017, p. 35.</ref> An 1828 exchange between ], the U.S. ] rebuked President ] of ], saying "... the strongest of all governments is that which is most free", calling on Bolívar to encourage the development of a ]. In response, Bolívar wrote, "The United States ... seem destined by Providence to plague America with torments in the name of freedom", a phrase that achieved fame in Latin America.<ref>{{Citation |last=Bolívar |first=Simón |editor=Bushnell, David |title=El Libertador: Writings of Simón Bolívar. |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2003 |pages=172–173 |url=http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon7/simon-bolivar-el-libertador-writings-of-simon-bolivar-david-bushnell-editor-1.pdf |access-date=March 12, 2019 |archive-date=27 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210627213749/http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon7/simon-bolivar-el-libertador-writings-of-simon-bolivar-david-bushnell-editor-1.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
]'s ] interventionism]] | |||
The ] of 1898, which escalated ] from ], turned the U.S. into a world power and made ] a ] of the United States via the ] to the Cuban constitution and the ]. The U.S. action was consistent with the ] espoused by ]'s ] that led to ] in ] and the ], also prompted hatred of the U.S. in other regions of the Americas.<ref>Volker Skierka (2004) ''Fidel Castro A Biography''. Cambridge: Polity Press: 4</ref> A very influential formulation of Latin-American anti-Americanism, engendered by the 1898 war, was the Uruguayan journalist ]'s essay ''Ariel'' (1900) in which the spiritual values of the South American ] are contrasted to the brutish mass-culture of the American ]. This essay had enormous influence throughout ] in the 1910s and 1920s, and prompted resistance to what was seen as American ].<ref>Edwin Williamson (1992) ''The Penguin History of Latin America'': 305</ref> Perceived racist attitudes of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants of the North toward the ] also caused resentment.<ref>Thomas Skidmore and Peter Smith (1997) ''Modern Latin America''. Oxford University Press: 364–65</ref> | |||
], 27 January 2005]] | |||
The Student Reform that began in the Argentine ] in 1918, boosted the idea of anti-imperialism throughout Latin America, and played a fundamental role for launching the concept that was to be developed over several generations. Already in 1920, the ] issued a manifesto entitled ''Denunciation of Imperialism''.<ref>The University Reform (1918–1930). Caracas (Venezuela): Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1978, p. 29</ref> | |||
Since the 1940s, ] have been tense, when the U.S. feared the regime of ] was too close to ]. In 1954, American support for the ] against the democratically elected President ] fueled anti-Americanism in the region.<ref name="Peter Winn 2006">Peter Winn (2006)'' Americas: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean''. University of California Press: 472, 478, 482</ref><ref name="George Pendle 1976">George Pendle (1976) ''A History of Latin America''. London: Penguin: 180-86</ref><ref name="Why the world loves to Hate America">{{cite news |work=Financial Times |last1=Naím |first1=Moisés |title=Why the world loves to hate America |url=https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=872 |access-date=27 December 2021 |date=27 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227024847/https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=872 |archive-date=February 27, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref> This ]-sponsored coup prompted a former president of that country, ] to write a fable entitled ''The Shark and the Sardines'' (1961) in which a predatory shark (representing the United States) overawes the sardines of Latin America.<ref name="hatingamerica"/>{{rp|114}} | |||
Vice-President ]'s tour of South America in 1958 prompted a spectacular eruption of anti-Americanism. The tour became the focus of violent protests which climaxed in ], ] where Nixon ].<ref name="pol">{{cite news|last1=Glass|first1=Andrew|title=Vice President Nixon's motorcade attacked in Venezuela, May 13, 1958|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/vice-president-nixons-motorcade-attacked-in-venezuela-may-13-1958-106584|access-date=March 13, 2017|work=]|date=May 13, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314153747/http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/vice-president-nixons-motorcade-attacked-in-venezuela-may-13-1958-106584|archive-date=March 14, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> In response, President ] assembled troops at ] and a fleet of battleships in the Caribbean to intervene to rescue Nixon if necessary.<ref name="glory">{{cite book |last=Manchester |first=William |author-link=William Manchester |title=]: A Narrative History of America |publisher=] |location=New York |year=1984 |isbn=0-553-34589-3}}</ref>{{rp|826–34}} | |||
], the late revolutionary leader of Cuba, tried throughout his career to co-ordinate long-standing Latin American resentments against the USA through military and propagandist means.<ref>George Anne Geyer (1991) ''Guerilla Prince: The Untold Story of Fidel Castro''. Little Brown and Company</ref><ref>Volker Skierka (2004) ''Fidel Castro A Biography''. Cambridge: Polity Press</ref> He was aided in this goal by the failed ] of Cuba in 1961, planned and implemented by the American government against his regime. This disaster damaged American credibility in the Americas and gave a boost to its critics worldwide.<ref name="glory"/>{{rp|893–907}} According to Rubin and Rubin, Castro's Second Declaration of ], in February 1962, "constituted a declaration of war on the United States and the enshrinement of a new theory of anti-Americanism".<ref name="hatingamerica"/>{{rp|115}} Castro called America "a vulture...feeding on humanity".<ref name="glory"/>{{rp|862}} The ] maintained resentment and Castro's colleague, the famed revolutionary ], expressed his hopes during the ] of "creating a Second or a Third Vietnam" in the Latin American region against the designs of what he believed to be ].<ref>Edwin Williamson (1992) ''The Penguin History of Latin America'': 325</ref> | |||
], ], one of the iconic images from the ] and more generally ]. Photo by ], 1961.]] | |||
{{blockquote|The United States hastens the delivery of arms to the puppet governments they see as being increasingly threatened; it makes them sign pacts of dependence to legally facilitate the shipment of instruments of repression and death and of troops to use them.| ], 9 April 1961<ref>Cuba: {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190813172007/https://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1961/04/09.htm |date=13 August 2019 }} by Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Spoken: April 9, 1961</ref>}} | |||
Many subsequent U.S. interventions against countries in the region, including democracies, and support for military dictatorships solidified Latin American anti-Americanism. These include the ], the ], the ] and ] coup d'états, ], ], the ], the support of the ], the training of future military men, subsequently seen as war criminals, in the ], the refusal to extradite convicted terrorist ], and U.S. support for dictators such as Paraguayan ], Haitian ], and pre-1989 Panamanian ].<ref>{{cite news |title=CIA acknowledges involvement in Allende's overthrow, Pinochet's rise |work=CNN |date=19 September 2000 |url= http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/americas/09/19/us.cia.chile.ap/ |access-date=5 December 2007 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071108203027/http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/americas/09/19/us.cia.chile.ap/ |archive-date=8 November 2007}}</ref><ref name="Peter Winn 2006"/><ref name="George Pendle 1976"/><ref name="Why the world loves to Hate America"/> | |||
Many Latin Americans perceived that ] reforms were failures in the 1980s and 1990s and intensified their opposition to the ].<ref>BBC News. "How the US 'lost' Latin America". {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318045020/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4861320.stm |date=18 March 2009 }}. Retrieved 10 January 2007.</ref> This led to a resurgence in support for ], support for ] in the region, the ] of key industries and ] of government.<ref>Foreign Affairs. ''Latin America's Left Turn''. {{webarchive |url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080302030540/http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20060501faessay85302/jorge-g-castaneda/latin-america-s-left-turn.html |date=2 March 2008}}. Retrieved 10 January 2007.</ref> America's tightening of the economic embargo on Cuba in 1996 and 2004 also caused resentment amongst Latin American leaders and prompted them to use the ] and the ]-based ]s as meeting places rather than the United States-dominated ].<ref>Peter Winn (2006) ''Americas: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean''. University of California Press: 645</ref> This trend has been reinforced through the creation of a ] such as ] and the ], and a strong opposition to the materialization of the Washington-sponsored ] at the 2005 ]. | |||
Polls compiled by the ] showed in 2006 Argentine public opinion was quite negative regarding America's role in the world.<ref>{{cite web |title=World Publics Reject US Role as the World Leader |work=The Chicago Council on Public Affairs |date=April 2007 |url= http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/pdf/apr07/CCGA+_ViewsUS_article.pdf |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130420044914/http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/pdf/apr07/CCGA+_ViewsUS_article.pdf |archive-date=20 April 2013 }}</ref> In 2007, 26% of Argentines had a favorable view of the American people, with 57% having an unfavorable view. Argentine public opinion of the United States and U.S. policies improved during the ], and {{as of|2010|lc=y}} was divided about evenly (42% to 41%) between those who viewed these favorably or unfavorably. The ratio remained stable by 2013, with 38% of Argentines having a favorable view and 40% having an unfavorable view.<ref name="pew_2012">*{{cite web |title=Argentina: Opinion of Americans, of the United States (Unfavorable) – Indicators Database Global Attitudes Project |publisher=Pew Research Center, Pewglobal.org |url=http://www.pewglobal.org/database/?indicator=1&country=11 |year=2012 |access-date=4 April 2013 |archive-date=22 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130422043130/http://www.pewglobal.org/database/?indicator=1&country=11 |url-status=live }} | |||
*{{cite web |title=Response: Unfavorable |publisher=Pew Research Center |url=http://www.pewglobal.org/database/indicator/2/country/11/response/Unfavorable/ |access-date=18 August 2014 |archive-date=11 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311005940/http://www.pewglobal.org/database/indicator/2/country/11/response/Unfavorable/ |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
Furthermore, the renewal of the concession for the U.S. military base in ] was met by considerable criticism, derision, and even doubt by the supporters of such an expansion.<ref>Lawrence Reichard, {{webarchive |url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080908074543/http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0112/011218.htm |date=8 September 2008}}, {{webarchive |url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081209072430/http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/ |date=9 December 2008}}, Issue 391, December 2008 – January 2009.</ref> The near-war sparked by the ] was expressed by a high-level Ecuadorean military officer as being carried under American auspices. The officer said "a large proportion of senior officers," share "the conviction that the United States was an accomplice in the attack" (launched by the Colombian military on a ] camp in Ecuador, near the Colombian border).<ref>Kintto Lucas, {{webarchive |url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081018190828/http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41687 |date=18 October 2008}}, ].</ref> The Ecuadorean military retaliated by stating the 10-year lease on the base, which expired in November 2009, would not be renewed and that the U.S. military presence was expected to be scaled down starting three months before the expiration date.<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081029222646/http://www.coha.org/2008/08/after-the-lease-on-the-ecuadorian-military-base-at-manta-expires-where-will-the-us-turn-next/ |date=29 October 2008 }}, .</ref> | |||
=====Mexico===== | |||
In the 1836 ], the ] seceded from ]<ref>{{cite news |last=Soto |first=Miguel |title=The Aftermath of War, A Legacy of the U.S.-Mexican War |publisher=Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México via PBS |date=14 March 2006 |url=https://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/aftermath/legacy.html |access-date=11 May 2012 |archive-date=18 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190918142502/http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/aftermath/legacy.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and nine years later, encouraged by the ] and ], the United States annexed the ] - at its request, but against vehement opposition by Mexico, which refused to recognize the independence of Texas - and began their expansion into ].<ref name="bazant">{{cite book |last=Bazant |first=Jan |title=A Concise History of Mexico: From Hidalgo to Cárdenas 1805–1940 |publisher=] |location=Cambridge |year=1977 |isbn=978-0-521-29173-6}}</ref> {{rp|53–4, 57–8}} Mexican anti-American sentiment was further inflamed by the resulting 1846–1848 ], in which Mexico lost more than half of its territory to the United States.<ref name="bazant"/>{{rp|57–8}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/aftermath/legacy.html |title=The Mexican-American War: Aftermath |publisher=Pbs.org |date=14 March 2006 |access-date=11 May 2012 |archive-date=18 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190918142502/http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/aftermath/legacy.html |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
The Chilean writer ] predicted in ''America in Danger'' (1856) that the loss of Texas and northern Mexico to "the talons of the eagle" was just a foretaste of an American bid for world domination.<ref name="hatingamerica"/>{{rp|104}} An early exponent of the concept of Latin America, Bilbao excluded ] and ] from it, as well as Mexico, because "Mexico lacked a real republican consciousness, precisely because of its complicated relationship with the United States."<ref>Tenorio-Trillo, ''Latin America'', p. 6.</ref> Interventions by the U.S. prompted a later ruler of Mexico, ], to lament: "Poor Mexico, so far from God, and so close to the United States".<ref name="hatingamerica"/>{{rp|104}} Mexico's ], opened in 1981, is a testament to Mexico's sense of grievance with the United States.<ref name="hatingamerica"/>{{rp|121}} | |||
In Mexico during the regime of liberal ] (1876-1911), policies favored foreign investment, especially American, who sought profits in agriculture, ranching, mining, industry, and infrastructure such as railroads. Their dominance in agriculture and their acquisition of vast tracts of land at the expense of Mexican small holders and indigenous communities was a cause for peasant mobilization in the ] (1910–20). The program of the ] (1906), explicitly called for policies against foreign ownership in Mexico, with the slogan "Mexico for the Mexicans." ] in the postrevolutionary period had a major impact on these U.S. holdings, where many were expropriated.<ref>Dwyer, John J. ''The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico''. Durham: Duke University Press 2008</ref><ref>Hart, John Mason. ''Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War''. Berkeley: University of California Press 2002.</ref> | |||
=====Venezuela===== | |||
] slums, Venezuela, often feature political murals with anti-U.S. messages.]] | |||
Since the start of the ] administration, ] deteriorated markedly, as Chávez became highly critical of the ]. Chávez was known for his anti-American rhetoric. In a speech at the UN General Assembly, Chávez said that Bush promoted "a false democracy of the elite" and a "democracy of bombs".<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210909170751/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5365142.stm |date=9 September 2021 }}, BBC News, 10 September 2006.</ref> Chávez opposed the ] in 2003<ref>{{cite web |title=Venezuela's Chavez Says Iraq War Creates Uncertainty |publisher=China.org.cn |location=People's Republic of China |url=http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/81082.htm |date=2003-11-28 |access-date=9 January 2019 |archive-date=17 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210817234709/http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/81082.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> and also condemned the ], calling it an attempt by the West and the U.S. to control the oil in ].<ref>{{cite news |last=James |first=Ian |title=Chavez, allies lead push for Libya mediation |agency=Associated Press |newspaper=Mercury News |url=http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_17615753 |date=14 March 2011}}{{Dead link|date=February 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> | |||
In 2015, the Obama administration signed an executive order which imposed targeted sanctions on seven Venezuelan officials whom the White House argued were instrumental in human rights violations, persecution of political opponents and significant public corruption and said that the country posed an "unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States."<ref>{{cite news |title=Seven Venezuelan officials targeted by US |publisher=BBC |date=10 March 2015 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-31804925 |ref=BBC |access-date=21 July 2018 |archive-date=8 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908121641/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-31804925 |url-status=live }}</ref> ] responded to the sanctions in a couple of ways. He wrote an open letter in a full page ad in ''The New York Times'' in March 2015, stating that Venezuelans were "friends of the American people" and called President Obama's action of making targeted sanctions on the alleged human rights abusers a "unilateral and aggressive measure".<ref name="FOXson">{{cite news |title=Venezuelan president's son, Nicolas Maduro Jr., showered in dollar bills as economy collapses |publisher=] |location=United States |date=19 March 2015 |url= http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2015/03/19/venezuelan-president-son-nicolas-maduro-jr-showered-in-dollar-bills-as-economy/ |access-date=20 March 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150321054912/http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2015/03/19/venezuelan-president-son-nicolas-maduro-jr-showered-in-dollar-bills-as-economy/ |archive-date=21 March 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Venezuela launches anti-American, in-your-face propaganda campaign in the U.S. |publisher=] |location=United States |date=18 March 2015 |url= http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2015/03/18/venezuela-launches-anti-american-in-your-face-propaganda-campaign-in-us/ |access-date=20 March 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150402175059/http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2015/03/18/venezuela-launches-anti-american-in-your-face-propaganda-campaign-in-us/ |archive-date=2 April 2015 }}</ref> Examples of accusations of human rights abuses from the United States to Maduro's government included the murder of ], a political activist, prior to legislative elections in Venezuela.<ref>{{cite news |title=Venezuela lashes U.S., opposition amid blame over activist's slaying |work=Reuters |date=27 November 2015 |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-election-idUSKBN0TG1IB20151127 |access-date=30 November 2015 |archive-date=29 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151129124302/http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/27/us-venezuela-election-idUSKBN0TG1IB20151127 |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
Maduro threatened to sue the United States over an executive order issued by the Obama Administration that declared Venezuela to be a threat to American security.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Vyas |first=Kejal |title=Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Says He Will Sue U.S. |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuelan-president-nicolas-maduro-says-he-will-sue-u-s-1446164940 |access-date=30 November 2015 |issn=0099-9660 |archive-date=8 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908154959/https://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuelan-president-nicolas-maduro-says-he-will-sue-u-s-1446164940 |url-status=live }}</ref> He also planned to deliver 10 million signatures, denouncing the United States' decree declaring the situation in Venezuela an "extraordinary threat to US national security".<ref>{{cite web |title=Expresidentes iberoamericanos piden cambios en Venezuela |language=es |work=Panamá América |date=6 April 2015 |url=http://www.panamaamerica.com.pa/mundo/expresidentes-iberoamericanos-piden-cambios-en-venezuela-971211 |access-date=27 April 2016 |archive-date=22 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210322035707/https://www.panamaamerica.com.pa/mundo/expresidentes-iberoamericanos-piden-cambios-en-venezuela-971211 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="GPsanctions">{{cite news |last1=Tegel |first1=Simeon |title=Venezuela's Maduro is racing to collect 10 million signatures against Obama |work=] |date=2 April 2015 |url=http://www.globalpost.com/article/6505442/2015/04/02/venezuela-maduro-petition-obama |access-date=6 April 2015 |archive-date=27 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527193840/http://www.globalpost.com/article/6505442/2015/04/02/venezuela-maduro-petition-obama |url-status=live }}</ref> and ordered all schools in the country to hold an "anti-imperialist day" against the United States with the day's activities including the "collection of the signatures of the students, and teaching, administrative, maintenance and cooking personnel".<ref name="GPsanctions" /> Maduro further ordered state workers to apply their signatures in protest, with some workers reporting that firings of state workers occurred due to their rejection of signing the executive order protesting the "Obama decree".<ref name="GPsanctions" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Trabajadores petroleros que no firmen contra el decreto Obama serán despedidos |language=es |publisher=Diario las Americas |url=http://www.diariolasamericas.com/4848_venezuela/3027321_trabajadores-petroleros-firmen-decreto-obama-despedidos.html |access-date=27 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160720195602/http://www.diariolasamericas.com/4848_venezuela/3027321_trabajadores-petroleros-firmen-decreto-obama-despedidos.html |archive-date=20 July 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Despiden a dos trabajadores de Corpozulia por negarse a firmar contra decreto Obama |language=es |publisher=La Patilla |date=2015-04-01 |url=http://www.lapatilla.com/site/2015/04/01/despiden-a-dos-trabajadores-de-corpozulia-por-negarse-a-firmar-contra-decreto-obama/ |access-date=27 April 2016 |archive-date=10 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010132911/https://www.lapatilla.com/site/2015/04/01/despiden-a-dos-trabajadores-de-corpozulia-por-negarse-a-firmar-contra-decreto-obama/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Confirman despido de dos trabajadores de Corpozulia por no firmar contra decreto Obama |language=es |publisher=El Propio |url= http://www.elpropio.com/actualidad/Confirman-trabajadores-Corporzulia-decreto-Obama_0_711528845.html |access-date=27 April 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160304185804/http://www.elpropio.com/actualidad/Confirman-trabajadores-Corporzulia-decreto-Obama_0_711528845.html |archive-date=4 March 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Denuncian despidos por negarse a firmar contra decreto Obama |language=es |work=Diario El Vistazo |url=http://diarioelvistazo.com/tag/denuncian-despidos-por-negarse-a-firmar-contra-decreto-obama/ |access-date=27 April 2016 |archive-date=8 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908155122/https://diarioelvistazo.com/tag/denuncian-despidos-por-negarse-a-firmar-contra-decreto-obama/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Martín |first=Sabrina |title=Bajo amenazas, chavismo recolecta firmas contra Obama en Venezuela |language=es |work=PanAm Post |date=2015-03-26 |url=http://es.panampost.com/sabrina-martin/2015/03/26/bajo-amenazas-chavismo-recolecta-firmas-contra-obama-en-venezuela/ |access-date=27 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150412171207/http://es.panampost.com/sabrina-martin/2015/03/26/bajo-amenazas-chavismo-recolecta-firmas-contra-obama-en-venezuela/ |archive-date=12 April 2015 }}</ref> There were also reports that members of ] and their families were ordered to sign against the United States decree.<ref name="GPsanctions" /> | |||
==== Canada ==== | |||
{{See also|Canada–United States relations#Anti-Americanism|label 1=Canada–United States relations}} | |||
] and his boys," with Canada depicted in the background. Anti-American rhetoric in Canada during the period typically depicted the US as disorderly in contrast to Canada.]] | |||
Canadian Anti-Americanism manifests itself in a variety of ways, ranging from political to cultural.<ref name="Anon. x583">{{cite web | title=Anti-Americanism in Canada," in Brendon O'Connor, ed., Anti-Americanism: History, Causes, and Themes| volume=3 | url=https://nossalk.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/nossal_2007_anti-americanism-oconnor.pdf | publisher =Oxford/Westport: Greenwood World Publishing}|pages=59, 76|year=2007|author=]}}</ref> Anti-Americanism in Canada has unique historic roots.<ref name="Doran Sewell 1988 pp. 105–119">{{cite journal | last1=Doran | first1=Charles F. | last2=Sewell | first2=James Patrick | title=Anti-Americanism in Canada? | journal=The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science | publisher= | volume=497 | year=1988 | issn=0002-7162 | jstor=1045764 | pages=105–119 | doi=10.1177/0002716288497001009 | s2cid=143609335 | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/1045764}}</ref> When the ] was called in 1774, an invitation was sent to ] and ]. However Canadians expressed little interest in joining the Congress, and the following year the ] ], but was defeated at the ]. Although the American ] later pre-approved Canada as a U.S. state, public opinion had turned against them. Soon 40,000 ] arrived from the United States, including 2,000 ]s, many of whom had fought for ] against the American revolutionaries. To them, the republic they left behind was violent and anarchic;<ref>Nossal, Kim Richard, "Anti-Americanism in Canada", ''Anti-Americanism: comparative perspectives'' (2007), ed. Brendon O'Connor, pp. 62–66</ref> with Canadian imperialists repeatedly warning against ] and ] as little more than mob rule.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Sara Jeannette Duncan|author2=Misao Dean|title=The Imperialist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=54osezQz_eQC&pg=PA19|year=2005|publisher=Broadview Press|page=19|access-date=29 October 2015|archive-date=5 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105152107/https://books.google.com/books?id=54osezQz_eQC&pg=PA19|url-status=live}}</ref> Several transgressions that took place in ] by the US Army during the ] resulted in a "deep prejudice against the United States," to emerge in the colony after the conflict.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Routledge Handbook of American Military and Diplomatic History: The Colonial Period to 1877|publisher=Routledge|year=2014|isbn=978-1-3178-1335-4|page=196|last1=Frentzos|first1=Christos G.|last2=Thompson|first2=Antonio S.}}</ref> | |||
In the early 20th century, Canadian textbooks portrayed the United States in a negative fashion. The theme was the United States had abandoned the ], and as a result, America was disorderly, greedy, and selfishly individualistic. By the 1930s, there was less concern with the United States, and more attention given to Canada's peaceful society, and its efforts on behalf of civilization in World War I. Close cooperation in the ] led to a much more favorable image. In the 1945-1965 era, the friendly and peaceful border was stressed. Textbooks emphasized the role of the United States as an international power and champion of freedom with Canada as its influential partner.<ref>Amy Von Heyking, "Talking about Americans: The image of the United States in English-Canadian schools, 1900–1965." ''History of Education Quarterly'' 46.3 (2006): 382-408.</ref> | |||
In 1945-65, there was wide consensus in Canada on foreign and defense policies. Bothwell, Drummond and English state: | |||
{{blockquote|That support was remarkably uniform geographically and racially, both coast to coast and among French and English. From the CCF on the left to the Social Credit on the right, the political parties agreed that NATO was a good thing, and communism a bad thing, that a close association with Europe was desirable, and that the Commonwealth embodied a glorious past.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Robert Bothwell|author2=Ian M. Drummond|author3=John English|title=Canada Since 1945: Power, Politics, and Provincialism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DMaS5cb7s8QC&pg=PA131|year=1989|publisher=U of Toronto Press|page=131|isbn=9780802066725|access-date=13 June 2018|archive-date=24 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200124233938/https://books.google.com/books?id=DMaS5cb7s8QC&pg=PA131|url-status=live}}</ref>}} | |||
However the consensus did not last. By 1957 the ] had alienated Canada from both Britain and France; politicians distrusted American leadership, businessmen questioned American financial investments; and intellectuals ridiculed the values of American television and Hollywood offerings that all Canadians watched. "Public support for Canada's foreign policy big came unstuck. Foreign-policy, from being a winning issue for the Liberals, was fast becoming a losing one."<ref>Bothwell et al., p. 131</ref> Apart from the far left, which admired the USSR, anti-Americanism was first adopted by a few leading historians. As the Cold War grew hotter after 1947, ] grew increasingly hostile to the United States. He warned repeatedly that Canada was becoming a subservient colony to its much more powerful southern neighbor. "We are indeed fighting for our lives," he warned, pointing especially to the "pernicious influence of American advertising....We can only survive by taking persistent action at strategic points against American imperialism in all its attractive guises."<ref>{{cite book|author=Harold A. Innis|title=Changing Concepts of Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BuO00eQGdXUC&pg=PA13|year=2004|pages=13–14|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9780742528185|access-date=19 February 2016|archive-date=26 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726070018/https://books.google.com/books?id=BuO00eQGdXUC&pg=PA13|url-status=live}}</ref> His anti-Americanism influenced some younger scholars, including ].<ref>{{cite book|author=Donald Wright|title=Donald Creighton: A Life in History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1CSSCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT239|year=2015|pages=174–75|publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=9781442620308|access-date=19 February 2016|archive-date=26 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726055154/https://books.google.com/books?id=1CSSCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT239|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
Anti-American sentiment in Canadian television programming was highlighted in a ] from 2008. While the cable noted that anti-American sentiment in Canadian programming was not a "public diplomatic crisis," it was "noteworthy as an indication of the kind of insidious negative popular stereotyping we are increasingly up against in Canada".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbc-shows-anti-u-s-melodrama-wikileaks-1.902016|title=CBC shows anti-U.S. 'melodrama':WikiLeaks|publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=13 March 2021|work=CBC News|archive-date=8 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908121327/https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbc-shows-anti-u-s-melodrama-wikileaks-1.902016|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
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The ] correlated with a resurgence in anti-American attitudes among the Canadian population. In 2017, ] found that 30% of Canadians viewed ] negatively, and that 58% of Canadians opposed the spread of American ideas and customs.<ref name=":2">{{cite web|date=2017-06-26|title=The tarnished American brand|url=https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2017/06/26/tarnished-american-brand/|access-date=2019-12-08|website=Pew Research Center|page=2|archive-date=25 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725003532/https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2017/06/26/tarnished-american-brand/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
In 2018, a ] and inflammatory comments by Trump provoked substantial backlash within Canada. An annual Pew Research survey found historic Canadian dissatisfaction with the United States, with 56% of Canadians surveyed having negative views of the United States, and 39% having positive views.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pewglobal.org/2018/10/01/americas-international-image-continues-to-suffer/ |title=America's international image continues to suffer |date=2018-10-01 |website=Pew Research Center |access-date=2019-02-17 |archive-date=31 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331131841/https://www.pewglobal.org/2018/10/01/americas-international-image-continues-to-suffer/ |url-status=live }}</ref> There was widespread media coverage of organized ]s against American goods and tourism.<ref>{{cite news |last=Northam |first=Jackie |date=2018-06-28 |title='Canadians Are Livid' About Trump And Are Hitting Back By Boycotting U.S. Goods |url=https://www.npr.org/2018/06/28/623518328/canadians-are-livid-about-trump-and-are-hitting-back-by-boycotting-u-s-goods |work=National Public Radio |access-date=2019-02-17 |archive-date=8 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908121638/https://www.npr.org/2018/06/28/623518328/canadians-are-livid-about-trump-and-are-hitting-back-by-boycotting-u-s-goods |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Moore |first=Lela |date=2018-07-11 |title=Angry About Tariffs and Insults, Canadians Vow to Boycott U.S. Goods and Travel |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/reader-center/canadians-boycott-us.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=2019-02-17 |archive-date=8 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908160508/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/reader-center/canadians-boycott-us.html |url-status=live }}</ref> A September 2018 ] survey found that Donald Trump was more disliked by Canadians than any major Canadian political leader, with only 9% approval and 80% disapproval nationally.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://abacusdata.ca/election-2015-started-as-a-three-party-race-countdown-to-2019-begins-with-the-ndp-well-back/ |title=Election 2015 started as a three party race. Countdown to 2019 begins with the NDP well back. |date=2018-09-20 |website=Abacus Data |access-date=2019-02-17 |archive-date=14 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210814130418/https://abacusdata.ca/election-2015-started-as-a-three-party-race-countdown-to-2019-begins-with-the-ndp-well-back/ |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
The shooting down of ] by ] in January 2020, which killed 57 Canadians, was widely viewed in Canada as unnecessary collateral damage amidst deteriorating ], a view echoed by prime minister ].<ref>{{cite news |last=Connolly |first=Amanda |date=2020-01-13 |title=Without recent escalations, Iran plane crash victims would be 'home with their families': Trudeau |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/6404191/justin-trudeau-iran-plane-crash-2020/ |work=Global News |access-date=2020-01-26 |archive-date=2 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210902230903/https://globalnews.ca/news/6404191/justin-trudeau-iran-plane-crash-2020/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Gilmore |first=Scott |date=2020-01-09 |title=Donald Trump gets impeached—57 Canadians die |url=https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/donald-trump-gets-impeached-63-canadians-die/ |work=Maclean's |access-date=2020-01-26 |archive-date=8 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908121335/https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/donald-trump-gets-impeached-63-canadians-die/ |url-status=live }}</ref> An ] poll found that 29% of Canadians viewed the United States as wholly responsible for the attack by means of instigation, with 48% saying that they shared the blame with Iran and only 19% blaming Iran alone.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ekospolitics.com/index.php/2020/01/directional-outlook-and-public-response-to-growing-iran-u-s-tensions/ |title=Directional Outlook and Public Response to Growing Iran-U.S. Tensions |date=2020-01-16 |website=EKOS Politics |publisher=EKOS Research Associates |access-date=2020-01-26 |archive-date=12 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612025737/https://www.ekospolitics.com/index.php/2020/01/directional-outlook-and-public-response-to-growing-iran-u-s-tensions/ |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
As a result of the 2020 ], Canada closed its border with the United States on March 21 of that year, and crossing the border was restricted to essential travel. However, US travelers may cross the border if they claim to be driving to the American state of ]. By June, there were multiple reports of Americans using this as a false pretext to enter Canada and stay for vacation.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Cecco|first=Leyland|date=2020-06-17|title=Americans reportedly find 'loophole' to violate Canada's Covid-19 border closure|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/17/americans-reportedly-find-loophole-violate-canadas-covid-19-border-closure|access-date=2020-08-25|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=8 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908121325/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/17/americans-reportedly-find-loophole-violate-canadas-covid-19-border-closure|url-status=live}}</ref> This led to instances of verbal and physical attacks on drivers with U.S. license plates. Physical attacks typically consisted of damage to cars with these plates, sometimes with a threatening note left behind. Some of these attacks occurred in resort towns such as ], ]; its Mayor, Phil Harding, suggested these incidents stem from 'Canadians' fear of contracting COVID-19 from Americans as a result of the situation in the United States'.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Aguilar|first=Bryann|date=2020-06-17|title='Go home': Drivers with U.S. licence plates harassed in Muskoka|url=https://www.cp24.com/news/go-home-drivers-with-u-s-licence-plates-harassed-in-muskoka-1.4989231|access-date=2020-08-25|website=CP24|language=en|archive-date=18 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818052350/https://www.cp24.com/news/go-home-drivers-with-u-s-licence-plates-harassed-in-muskoka-1.4989231|url-status=live}}</ref> In August 2020, a poll found that 80% of Canadians wanted the border to remain closed for the rest of the year.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Al-Arshani|first=Sarah|title=Poll finds that 80% of Canadians want the US-Canada border to stay closed for the rest of the year, as the coronavirus pandemic rages on in the US|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/canadians-want-border-us-to-stay-closed-end-2020-2020-8|access-date=2020-08-25|website=Business Insider|archive-date=8 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908121328/https://www.businessinsider.com/canadians-want-border-us-to-stay-closed-end-2020-2020-8|url-status=live}}</ref> A separate poll conducted by Leger and the ] found that only 34% of respondents expressed trust in Americans, compared to 72.5% for the inverse. Additionally, 66% of Canadians said they worried about cases spreading from the United States as opposed to 19% of Americans worrying about Canadian cases spreading south.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-05-05|title=Americans trust Canadians more than they trust themselves, poll suggests|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/05/05/americans-trust-canadians-more-than-they-trust-themselves-poll-suggests.html|access-date=2020-08-25|website=thestar.com|language=en|archive-date=8 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908121325/https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/05/05/americans-trust-canadians-more-than-they-trust-themselves-poll-suggests.html|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
=====Canadian political rhetoric===== | |||
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Anti-Americanism, as a political tactic, was sometimes used by the Conservatives to attack the supposed Liberal Party affinity for Americans, as in ].<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Johnston | first1 = Richard | last2 = Percy | first2 = Michael B. | year = 1980 | title = Reciprocity, Imperial Sentiment, and Party Politics in the 1911 Election | journal = Canadian Journal of Political Science | volume = 13 | issue = 4| pages = 711–729 | jstor=3230240 | doi=10.1017/s0008423900034004| s2cid = 154189040 }}</ref> Canada's first prime minister, ], viewed American politicians as greedy and exploitative. He staunchly opposed free trade with the United States, calling it "veiled treason" in his manifesto for the ], which occurred during trade disagreements with the U.S.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/election-1891-a-question-of-loyalty-feature |title=Election 1891: A Question of Loyalty |last=Marsh |first=James |date=2011-02-01 |website=The Canadian Encyclopedia |publisher=Historica Canada |access-date=2019-02-17 |archive-date=8 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908121333/https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/election-1891-a-question-of-loyalty-feature |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
Anti-Americanism thus remained a fixture in Canadian partisan politics, as employed by such leaders as prime minister ] in the 1950s. He was aided in his attacks by the prominent historian ], who also wrote ''The Take-Over'' (1978), a novel about an American takeover.<ref>J.L. Granatstein. ''Yankee Go Home: Canadians and Anti-Americanism'' (1997) pp. 121–45</ref> | |||
Canadian intellectuals who wrote about the U.S. in the first half of the 20th century identified the United States as the world center of modernity, and deplored it. Imperialists explained that Canadians had narrowly escaped American conquest, with its rejection of tradition, its worship of "progress" and technology, and its mass culture; they explained that Canada was much better because of its commitment to orderly government and social harmony. There were a few ardent defenders of the nation to the south, notably liberal and socialist intellectuals such as ] and Jean-Charles Harvey (1891–1967).<ref>Damien-Claude Bélanger, ''Prejudice and Pride: Canadian Intellectuals Confront the United States, 1891–1945'' (University of Toronto Press, 2011), pp. 16, 180</ref> | |||
Brendon O'Connor and Martin Griffiths state in their book ''Anti-Americanism'' that they would at first glance think that Canadians seem as likely as others to embrace characteristics that are characterized as anti-American. O'Conner and Griffiths include such actions as criticizing Americans as a people, or the U.S. as a country as being anti-American often demonizing, denigrating and resorting to stereotypes. | |||
They have also written that the anti-Americanism found in Canada had unique qualities: nowhere else has it been so entrenched for so long, nor so central to the political culture as in Canada.<ref name="Brendon O'Connor 2007 https://books.google.com/books?id=Jq4FMb47AnEC&pg=PA71 71">{{cite book|author=Brendon O'Connor|title=Anti-Americanism: Comparative perspectives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jq4FMb47AnEC|year=2007|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-84645-026-6|page=|access-date=29 October 2015|archive-date=5 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105152107/https://books.google.com/books?id=Jq4FMb47AnEC|url-status=live}}</ref> Historian ] thinks that a low level attenuated form of anti-Americanism permeates Canadian political culture, though "designed primarily as a means to differentiate Canadians from Americans".<ref name="Brendon O'Connor 2007 https://books.google.com/books?id=Jq4FMb47AnEC&pg=PA71 71" /> Although ] has suggested that anti-Americanism was dead in Canada, John Herd Thompson and Stephen J. Randall in their book ''Canada and the United States'' (2002) states that there is anecdotal evidence that it still flourishes, and that it continues to nourish the Canadian sense of identity.<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Herd Thompson|author2=Stephen J. Randall|title=Canada and the United States: ambivalent allies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UVGHdmbzUTwC|year=2008|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-2403-6|page=|access-date=29 October 2015|archive-date=5 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105152107/https://books.google.com/books?id=UVGHdmbzUTwC|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
] is a leading Canadian author. In her ]n novel ] all the horrible developments take place in the United States near Boston, while Canada is portrayed as the only hope for an escape. This reflects her status of being "in the vanguard of Canadian anti-Americanism of the 1960s and 1970s."<ref>{{cite book|last=Reingard M. Nischik|title=Margaret Atwood: Works and Impact|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s_xIap0GDbwC&pg=PA6|year=2000|publisher=Camden House|pages=6, 143|isbn=9781571131393|access-date=29 October 2015|archive-date=5 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105152107/https://books.google.com/books?id=s_xIap0GDbwC&pg=PA6|url-status=live}}</ref> Critics have seen Gilead (the U.S.) as a repressive regime and the mistreated Handmaid as Canada.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Tandon|first1=Neeru|last2=Chandra|first2=Anshul|title=Margaret Atwood: A Jewel in Canadian Writing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2nKLIv_C8hgC&pg=PA154|year=2009|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist|pages=154–55|isbn=9788126910151|access-date=29 October 2015|archive-date=5 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105152107/https://books.google.com/books?id=2nKLIv_C8hgC&pg=PA154|url-status=live}}</ref> During the debate in 1987 over a free trade agreement between Canada and the United States, Atwood spoke out against the deal, and wrote an essay opposing the agreement.<ref>{{cite web|author=Wenchi Lin |url=https://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/worldlit/canada/handmaid.html |title=handmaid |publisher=www.eng.fju.edu.tw |access-date=30 January 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160128154355/http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/worldlit/canada/handmaid.html |archive-date=28 January 2016 }}</ref> | |||
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Liberal Canadian Prime Minister ] was opposed to the Iraq War and refused to allow Canada to participate in it. A 2003 poll found that 71% of Canadians approved of this decision, while 27% disapproved. Conservative Prime Minister ] initially supported the Iraq War when elected in 2006 but by 2008, he had changed his mind and stated that the war was "a mistake".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/03/19/canada-iraq-war_n_2902305.html|title=Canada's 'No' To Iraq War a Defining Moment for Prime Minister|date=19 March 2013|access-date=18 March 2016|archive-date=20 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130720005603/http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/03/19/canada-iraq-war_n_2902305.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ekospolitics.com/articles/torstar-24-03-2003c.html|title=Canadians Back Chrétien on War, Poll Finds|newspaper=Toronto Star|first=Tim|last=Harper|date=22 March 2003|access-date=21 December 2017|archive-date=11 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411132414/https://www.ekospolitics.com/articles/torstar-24-03-2003c.html|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
United States President ] was "deeply disliked" by a majority of Canadians according to the ''Arizona Daily Sun''. A 2004 poll found that more than two-thirds of Canadians favored Democrat ] over Bush in the ], with Bush's lowest approval ratings in Canada being in the province of ], where just 11% of the population supported him.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://azdailysun.com/poll-deep-anti-bush-sentiment-in-canada/article_1c8749cf-9704-5e02-9c7c-159214c9a5f5.html|title=Poll: Deep Anti-Bush Sentiment in Canada|newspaper=Arizona Daily Sun|date=19 October 2004|agency=Associated Press|access-date=21 December 2017|archive-date=26 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170726071915/http://azdailysun.com/poll-deep-anti-bush-sentiment-in-canada/article_1c8749cf-9704-5e02-9c7c-159214c9a5f5.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Canadian public opinion of ] was more positive. A 2012 poll found that 65% of Canadians would vote for Obama in the ] "if they could", while only 9% of Canadians would vote for his Republican opponent ]. The same study found that 61% of Canadians felt that the Obama administration had been "good" for America, while only 12% felt that it had been "bad". The study also found that a majority of members of all three major Canadian political parties supported Obama, and that Obama had slightly higher approval ratings in Canada in 2012 than he did in 2008. John Ibbitson of '']'' stated in 2012 that Canadians generally supported Democratic presidents over Republican candidates, citing how President ] was "never liked" in Canada and that Canadians generally did not approve of Prime Minister ]'s friendship with President ].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/who-do-canadians-want-to-vote-for-barack-obama/article4219652/|title=Who Do Canadians Want to Vote For? Barack Obama|newspaper=The Globe and Mail|date=31 May 2012|first=John|last=Ibbitson|access-date=21 December 2017|archive-date=8 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908121325/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/who-do-canadians-want-to-vote-for-barack-obama/article4219652/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
During the ] in 2020, United States president ] briefly prevented the export of ] to Canada.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2020-04-03|title=Trump 'wants to stop mask exports to Canada'|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52161032|access-date=2020-08-25|archive-date=14 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210914223007/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52161032|url-status=live}}</ref> This prompted many retaliatory statements from provincial politicians. ], ], likened it to letting one family member starve while another feasts.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Premier infuriated by Trump, says Canada helped US amid 9/11|url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/premier-infuriated-trump-canada-helped-us-amid-911-69988768|access-date=2020-08-25|website=ABC News|language=en|archive-date=14 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210914094950/https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/premier-infuriated-trump-canada-helped-us-amid-911-69988768|url-status=live}}</ref> ] ] compared the mask export ban to the reluctance of the United States to join the fight against fascism in ].<ref>{{Cite web|title=COVID-19: Kenney calls on Albertans to make wartime effort against virus|url=https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/covid-19-kenney-calls-on-albertans-to-make-wartime-effort-against-virus|access-date=2020-08-25|website=Edmonton Journal|language=en-CA|archive-date=8 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908121330/https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/covid-19-kenney-calls-on-albertans-to-make-wartime-effort-against-virus|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
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==== Australia ==== | |||
The Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition (AABCC) was formed on the basis of lobbying and protests that developed over the years from the 1960s when the majority of U.S. bases in Australia were established.<ref name="Ending War Building Peace">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jfevcY8rtwMC&q=australian%20anti%20bases%20campaign%20coalition&pg=PA123 |title=Ending War, Building Peace |page=123 |author1=Lynda-ann Blanchard |author2=Leah Chan |publisher=Sydney University Press |year=2009 |isbn=9781920899431 |access-date=8 November 2020 |archive-date=26 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126131055/https://books.google.com/books?id=jfevcY8rtwMC&q=australian%20anti%20bases%20campaign%20coalition&pg=PA123 |url-status=live }}</ref> It was founded by the New South Wales branch of the PND (People For Nuclear Disarmament).<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hefnfJYMvmQC&q=australian%20anti%20bases%20campaign%20coalition&pg=PA238|title=The ANZUS Crisis, Nuclear Visiting and Deterrence|page=238|author=Michael Pugh|publisher=Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge|year=1989|isbn=9780521343558|access-date=8 November 2020|archive-date=18 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210918104702/https://books.google.com/books?id=hefnfJYMvmQC&q=australian+anti+bases+campaign+coalition&pg=PA238|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1974, several hundred people traveled to ] from around Australia to protest and occupy the base.<ref name="Ending War Building Peace"/> Anti-Americanism supposedly exists among school teachers in Australia, which has been condemned by conservative politicians such as Treasurer ], who criticized the teaching history in Australian schools.<ref name="australianpolitics">{{cite web |url=http://australianpolitics.com/2005/08/20/costello-decries-anti-american-sentiment-amongst-teachers.html |title=Costello Decries Anti-American Sentiment Amongst Teachers |publisher=australianpolitics.com |date=20 August 2005 |access-date=3 September 2012 |archive-date=11 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011151741/http://australianpolitics.com/2005/08/20/costello-decries-anti-american-sentiment-amongst-teachers.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article25842007 |title=Anti-American sentiment |publisher=trove.nla.gov.au |date=9 January 1941 |access-date=3 September 2012 |archive-date=24 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224015209/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/25842007 |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
According to an article published by '']'' magazine, Australians muttered stories about George W. Bush over glasses of beer and despaired of ] in coffee shops, lamenting the so-called ] activities.<ref name="THE MONTHLY"/> According to the same article, ], an American who had ] his Australian citizenship over two decades prior,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Given |first=Jock |title=Foreign Ownership of Media and Telecommunications: an Australian story |journal=Media & Arts Law Review |volume=7 |issue=4 |page=253 |date=December 2002 |url=http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/cmcl/malr/7-4-1%20Foreign%20Ownership%20Formatted%20for%20web.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060827081638/http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/cmcl/malr/7-4-1%20Foreign%20Ownership%20Formatted%20for%20web.pdf |archive-date=27 August 2006 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| title = The World's Billionaires No.73 Rupert Murdoch| newspaper = Forbes| date = 7 October 2007| url = https://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/10/07billionaires_Rupert-Murdoch_639W.html| access-date = 8 October 2009| archive-date = 31 March 2019| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190331013947/https://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/10/07billionaires_Rupert-Murdoch_639W.html}}</ref> said during a November 2006 visit to Australia that "he was worried about a 'regrettable' anti-American sentiment in Australia."<ref name="THE MONTHLY">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.themonthly.com.au/monthly-essays-john-button-americas-australia-instructions-generation-456 |title=America's Australia: Instructions for a Generation |author=John Button |magazine=The Monthly |date=February 2007 |access-date=3 September 2012 |archive-date=22 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130122081607/http://www.themonthly.com.au/monthly-essays-john-button-americas-australia-instructions-generation-456 |url-status=live }}</ref> In a poll taken by U.S. magazine '']'' with 1000 Australians, 15 percent of Australians described themselves as "anti-American". Another 67 percent held neutral views of America, and 17 percent said they were "pro-American". In the survey, 71 percent of Australians said they would not like to live in the US.<ref>Knott, Matthew. " {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010212127/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24463588-5013948,00.html |date=10 October 2008 }}", ''The Australian Online''. Retrieved 25 October 2008</ref><ref>" {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210075540/http://www.rd.com/your-america-inspiring-people-and-stories/presidential-election-08-global-poll-australia/article102157.html |date=10 December 2008 }}", ''Reader's Digest Online'', Retrieved on 3 December 2008.</ref> Another poll in 2012 by ] had 30 percent of Australian respondents holding negative views of American tourists.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.traveller.com.au/worlds-most-annoying-tourists-named-1umob|title=World's most annoying tourists named|last=Fraser|first=Jane E.|date=2012-03-15|website=Traveller|language=en-au|access-date=2019-11-10|archive-date=8 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908155001/https://www.traveller.com.au/worlds-most-annoying-tourists-named-1umob|url-status=live}}</ref> A 2016 Pew Research poll also had 69% of Australian respondents associating Americans with arrogance and 68% associating them with violence, percentages which were slightly higher than most countries surveyed.<ref name=":1" /> | |||
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* {{cite book |last1=Chomsky |first1=Noam |title=9-11 Was There an Alternative |date=2001 |publisher=The Open Media}} | |||
* {{cite book |last1=Chomsky |first1=Noam |title=Hegemony or survival: America's quest for global dominance |date=2003 |publisher=Henry Holt and Company, LLC |isbn=0-8050-7400-7}} | |||
==Further reading== | |||
* {{cite book|editor1=Barclay, David E. |editor2=Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt |title=Transatlantic Images and Perceptions: Germany and America since 1776|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aK_FZzejQGQC&pg=PR7|year=2003|isbn=9780521534420|publisher=Cambridge University Press}} | |||
* {{cite journal|first=Gerrit-Jan|last=Berendse|title=German Anti-Americanism in Context|journal=Journal of European Studies|volume=33|date=December 2003|issue=3|doi=10.1177/0047244103040422|page=333|s2cid=145571701| issn=0047-2441}} | |||
* {{cite book|author-link=Ian Buruma|first=Ian|last=Buruma|author2=Margalit, Avishai|author-link2=Avishai Margalit|title=]: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies|year=2005|isbn=1-59420-008-4|publisher=Penguin Press|location=New York}} | |||
* {{cite book|first=John|last=Dean|author2=Gabilliet, Jean-Paul|title=European Readings of American Popular Culture|publisher=Greenwood Press|year=1996}} | |||
* {{cite journal|last=Fabbrini|first=Sergio|title=Layers of Anti-Americanism: Americanization, American Unilateralism and Anti-Americanism in a European Perspective|journal=European Journal of American Culture|date=September 2004|volume=23|issue=2|pages=79–94|doi=10.1386/ejac.23.2.79/0| issn=1466-0407}} | |||
* Friedman, Max Paul. ''Rethinking Anti-Americanism: The History of an Exceptional Concept in American Foreign Relations'' (Cambridge University Press, 2012) | |||
* {{cite journal | last=Gienow-Hecht | first=Jessica C. E.| title=Always blame the Americans: Anti-Americanism in Europe in the Twentieth Century | journal=American Historical Review | publisher=Oxford University Press (OUP) | volume=111 | issue=4 | pages=1067–1091 | date=1 Oct 2006 |url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/ahr.111.4.1067 |access-date= | issn=0002-8762 | doi=10.1086/ahr.111.4.1067 |jstor=10.1086/ahr.111.4.1067 }} | |||
* {{cite book|first=J. L.|last=Granatstein|author-link=J. L. Granatstein|title=Yankee Go Home? Canadians and Anti-Americanism|year=1996|publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=978-0-00-255301-8}} | |||
* {{cite journal|last=Hodgson|first=Godfrey|title=Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism|journal=]|year=2004|volume=2|issue=1|pages=27–38|issn=1479-4012|doi=10.1080/14794010408656805|s2cid=144389005}} | |||
* {{Cite book|title=Anti-Americanism: Irrational and Rational|last=Hollander|first=Paul|publisher=Transaction Publishers|year=1992}} | |||
* {{cite book|first=Paul|last=Hollander|title=Understanding Anti-Americanism: Its Origins and Impact at Home and Abroad|year=2004}} | |||
* {{cite journal|last=Ickstadt|first=Heinz|title=Uniting a Divided Nation: Americanism and Anti-americanism in Post-war Germany|journal=European Journal of American Culture|year=2004|volume=23|issue=2|pages=157–170|doi=10.1386/ejac.23.2.157/0 | issn=1466-0407}} | |||
* {{cite book|first=Josef|last=Joffe|title=Überpower: The Imperial Temptation|url=https://archive.org/details/umluberpowerimpe00joff_0|url-access=registration|year=2006|isbn=0-393-33014-1|publisher=W. W. Norton|location=New York}}<!--Reviewed: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/15/AR2006061501114.html--> | |||
* {{cite book|author-link=Chalmers Johnson|first=Chalmers Ashby|last=Johnson|title=Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire|isbn=0-8050-7559-3|publisher=Henry Holt|year=2004}} | |||
* Kamalipour, Yahya R. ed. (1999) ''Images of the U.S. around the World: A Multicultural Perspective'' | |||
* {{cite book|last=Katzenstein|first=Peter J.|author2=Robert O. Keohane|year=2005|title=Anti-americanisms in World Politics|publisher=Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences|location=Cornell University Press|isbn=0-8014-7351-9}} | |||
* Lacorne, Denis and Tony Judt, eds. ''With Us or Against Us: Studies in Global Anti-Americanism'' (2007) , essays by scholars in Europe and Asia | |||
* {{cite book|last=Larson|first=Eric Victor|author2=Levin, Norman D.|author3=Baik, Seonhae|author4=Savych, Bogdan|title=Ambivalent Allies? A Study of South Korean Attitudes toward the U.S.|publisher=Rand|year=2004|isbn=0-8330-3584-3}} | |||
* {{cite book|first=Andrei S.|last=Markovits|title=Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America|publisher=Princeton UP|year=2007|isbn=978-0-691-12287-8|url=https://archive.org/details/uncouthnationwhy00mark}} | |||
* {{cite book|editor=Nakaya, Andrea C.|title=]|publisher=]|location=Farmington Hills, Michigan|year=2005}} | |||
* {{cite journal|first=Brendon|last=O'Connor|title=A Brief History of Anti-Americanism: From Cultural Criticism to Terrorism |journal= Australasian Journal of American Studies |volume=23|issue=1 |date=July 2004 |page=82 | url= | issn=1838-9554 | jstor=41053968 }} | |||
* {{cite book|editor1-first=Brendon|editor1-last=O'Connor|editor2-first=Martin|editor2-last=Griffiths|title=The Rise of anti-Americanism|publisher=Routledge|year=2005}} | |||
* {{cite book|editor=O'Connor, Brendon|title=Anti-Americanism: History, Causes, Themes|publisher=Greenwood Press|year=2007|isbn=978-1-84645-004-4|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/antiamericanismh0000unse}} | |||
* {{cite book|editor=O'Connor, B.|editor2=Griffiths, M. |year=2007 |title=Anti-Americanism: Comparative perspectives |volume=3 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing}} | |||
* {{cite book|last1=O'Connor|first1=Brendon|last2=Griffiths|first2=Martin|title=The rise of anti-Americanism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJLIIZN8szYC|year=2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-36906-0}} | |||
* Pells, Richard. ''Not like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated and Transformed American Culture since World War II'' (1997) | |||
* {{cite book|first=Jean-François|last=Revel|author-link=Jean-François Revel|title=Europe's Anti-American Obsession|work=The View from Abroad|publisher=The American Enterprise Institute|url=http://theamericanenterprise.org/issues/articleid.17764/article_detail.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031204174924/http://theamericanenterprise.org/issues/articleid.17764/article_detail.asp|archive-date=4 December 2003|year=2003|access-date=4 December 2003}} | |||
* {{cite book|first=Jean-François|last=Revel|author-link=Jean-François Revel|title=Anti-Americanism|url=https://archive.org/details/antiamericanism00reve|url-access=registration|location=San Francisco|publisher=Encounter Books|isbn=1-59403-060-X|year=2003}} | |||
* {{cite book|first=Barry|last=Rubin|author-link=Barry Rubin|author2=Rubin, Judith Colp|title=Hating America: A History|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-19-530649-X}} <!----> | |||
* Shiraev, Eric, and Vladimir Zubok. (2000) ''Anti-Americanism in Russia: From Stalin to Putin'' | |||
* {{cite book|first=Julia|last=Sweig|url=https://archive.org/details/friendlyfirelosi00swei|title=Friendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century|publisher=PublicAffairs|year=2006|isbn=1-58648-300-5|access-date=28 March 2006}} | |||
* {{cite journal|first=Charles J.|last=Swindells|title=Anti-Americanism and Its Discontents|journal=New Zealand International Review|volume=30|issue=1|year=2005|pages=8–12|issn=0110-0262|jstor=45235363}} | |||
* {{cite book|first=Frank|last=Trommler|author2=McVeigh, Joseph|title=America and the Germans: An Assessment of a Three-Hundred-Year History|chapter=Volume 2: The Relationship in the Twentieth Century|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|year=1990}} | |||
* {{cite book|author=Woodward, C. Vann|title=The Old World's New World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N3wcbe4CEjwC|year=1992|isbn=9780199874323|publisher=Oxford University Press}} | |||
===France=== | |||
*''Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire'' by Chalmers Johnson | |||
* Armus, Seth D. ''French Anti-Americanism (1930-1948): Critical Moments in a Complex History'' (2007) 179pp. | |||
*''Anti-americanism'' by Paul Hollander | |||
* {{cite journal |last1=Boyce |first1=Robert |author1-link=Robert Boyce (historian) |title=When "Uncle Sam" became 'Uncle Shylock': Sources and Strength of French Anti-Americanism, 1919-1932 |journal=Histoire@Politique |date=April 2013 |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=29–51 |doi=10.3917/hp.019.0004 |url=http://www.histoire-politique.fr/index.php?numero=19&rub=dossier&item=178 |access-date= |language=English |issn=1954-3670}} | |||
* {{cite book|first=Richard Z.|last=Chesnoff|title=The Arrogance of the French: Why They Can't Stand Us – and Why the Feeling Is Mutual|publisher=Sentinel|date=April 2005|isbn=1-59523-010-6|url=https://archive.org/details/arroganceoffren00ches}} | |||
* {{cite journal | last=Kennedy | first=Sean | year=2009 | title=André Siegfried and the Complexities of French Anti-Americanism | journal=French Politics, Culture & Society | volume=27 | issue=2 | pages=1–22| issn=1537-6370 | jstor=42843597 | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/42843597 | doi=10.3167/fpcs.2009.270201 | access-date= }} | |||
* {{cite book | last=Kuisel | first=Richard F. | title=The French Way: How France Embraced and Rejected American Values and Power | publisher=Princeton University Press | year=2013 | isbn=978-0-691-16198-3 | jstor=j.ctt7sm7n | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7sm7n | access-date= }} | |||
* Kuisel, Richard F. ''Seducing the French: the dilemma of Americanization'' (U of California Press, 1993). | |||
* Lacorne, Denis, et al. eds. ''The Rise and Fall of Anti-Americanism: A Century of French Perception'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 1990) 18 essays by French scholars in English translation. | |||
* {{cite web | last=Lacorne | first=Denis | title=Anti-Americanism and Americanophobia: A French Perspectives | publisher=Sciences Po | date=2005 | url=https://hal-sciencespo.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01065572/document |id={{HAL|hal-01065572}} | access-date=}} | |||
** also in Denis Lacorne and Tony Judt, eds. ''With Us or Against Us: Studies in Global Anti-Americanism'' (2007) pp 35–58 | |||
* {{cite journal |last1=Matsumoto |first1=Reiji. |title=From Model to Menace: French Intellectuals and American Civilization |journal=The Japanese Journal of American Studies |date=2004 |volume=15 |pages=163–85 |url=http://sv121.wadax.ne.jp/~jaas-gr-jp/jjas/PDF/2004/No.15-163.pdf |access-date=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412082533/http://sv121.wadax.ne.jp/~jaas-gr-jp/jjas/PDF/2004/No.15-163.pdf |archive-date=12 April 2019}} | |||
* {{cite journal | last=Meunier | first=Sophie | date=1 Jan 2005 | title=Anti-Americanisms in France | journal='French Politics, Culture & Society | volume=23 | issue=2 | issn=1537-6370 | jstor=42843400 | pages=126–141 | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/42843400 | access-date= | doi=10.3167/153763705780980010 }} | |||
* Miller, John J., and Mark Molesky. ''Our oldest enemy: A history of America's disastrous relationship with France'' (Broadway Books, 2007). | |||
* {{cite journal |last1=Ray |first1=Leonard |title=Anti-Americanism and left-right ideology in France |journal=French Politics |date=1 September 2011 |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=201–221 |doi=10.1057/fp.2011.13 |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/fp.2011.13 |access-date= |language=en |issn=1476-3427}} | |||
* Roger, Philippe. ''The American Enemy: the history of French anti-Americanism'' (U of Chicago Press, 2005) | |||
* Rolls, Alistair, and Deborah Walker. ''French and American noir: dark crossings'' (2009). | |||
* {{cite web|first=Fabrice|last=Serodes|url=http://www.sens-public.org/article.php3?id_article=174|title=L'anglophobie est morte! Vive l'antiaméricanisme?|year=2005|access-date=18 November 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060913091214/http://www.sens-public.org/article.php3?id_article=174|archive-date=13 September 2006}} | |||
* {{cite book|first=David|last=Strauss|title=Menace in the West: The Rise of French Anti-Americanism in Modern Times|publisher=Greenwood Press|year=1978|isbn=0-313-20316-4|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/menaceinwestrise0000stra}} | |||
* {{cite journal | last=Verhoeven | first=Tim | title=Shadow and Light: Louis-Xavier Eyma (1816–76) and French Opinion of the United States during the Second Empire | journal=The International History Review | publisher=Taylor & Francis, Ltd. | volume=35 | issue=1 | year=2013 | jstor=24701343| issn=0707-5332 | doi=10.1080/07075332.2012.742449 | pages=143–161 | url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07075332.2012.742449 | access-date= }} | |||
* {{cite journal |last1=Willging |first1=Jennifer |title=Of GMOs, McDomination and Foreign Fat: Contemporary Franco-American Food Fights |journal=French Cultural Studies |date=June 2008 |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=199–226 |doi=10.1177/0957155808089665 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0957155808089665 |access-date= |language=en |issn=0957-1558}} | |||
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* Friedman, Max Paul. ''Rethinking Anti-Americanism: The History of an Exceptional Concept in American Foreign Relations'' (Cambridge University Press; 2012) 358 pages. Scholarly history of the concept of anti-Americanism and considers how the idea has affected American politics. | |||
* {{cite journal | last1 = Klautke | first1 = Egbert | year = 2011 | title = Anti-Americanism in Twentieth-Century Europe | url = http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1303252/1/Americanization_Revised_May_2011_Historical_Journal.pdf| journal = Historical Journal | volume = 64 | issue = 4| pages = 1125–1139 | doi = 10.1017/S0018246X11000276| s2cid = 154765941 | issn=0018-246X }} | |||
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Dislike of the United States and Americans
Anti-Americanism (also called anti-American sentiment and Americanophobia) is a term that can describe several sentiments and positions including opposition to, fear of, distrust of, prejudice against or hatred toward the United States, its government, its foreign policy, or Americans in general. Anti-Americanism can be contrasted with pro-Americanism, which refers to support, love, or admiration for the United States.
Political scientist Brendon O'Connor at the United States Studies Centre in Australia suggests that "anti-Americanism" cannot be isolated as a consistent phenomenon, since the term originated as a rough composite of stereotypes, prejudices, and criticisms which evolved into more politically-based criticisms. French scholar Marie-France Toinet says that use of the term "anti-Americanism" is "only fully justified if it implies systematic opposition – a sort of allergic reaction – to America as a whole." Some, such as Noam Chomsky and Nancy Snow, have argued that the application of the term "anti-American" to other countries or their populations is 'nonsensical', as it implies that disliking the American government or its policies is socially undesirable or even comparable to a crime. In this regard, the term has been likened to the propagandistic usage of the term "anti-Sovietism" in the USSR.
Discussions on anti-Americanism have in most cases lacked a precise explanation of what the sentiment entails (other than a general disfavor), which has led the term to be used broadly and in an impressionistic manner, resulting in the inexact impressions of the many expressions described as anti-American. Author and expatriate William Russell Melton argues that criticism largely originates from the perception that the U.S. wants to act as a "world policeman".
Negative or critical views of the United States or its influence have been widespread in Russia, China, Serbia, Pakistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus, and the Greater Middle East, but remain low in Israel, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, and certain countries in central and eastern Europe. In Western Europe, anti-Americanism is mainly present in the United Kingdom and France. Anti-American sentiment (though action is uncommon) is prevalent in Canada.
Anti-Americanism has also been identified with the term Americanophobia, which Merriam-Webster defines as "hatred of the U.S. or American culture".
Etymology
In the online Oxford Dictionaries, the term "anti-Americanism" is defined as "Hostility to the interests of the United States".
In the first edition of Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828) the term "anti-American" was defined as "opposed to America, or to the true interests or government of the United States; opposed to the revolution in America".
In France the use of the noun form antiaméricanisme has been cataloged from 1948, entering ordinary political language in the 1950s.
Rationale
Bradley Bowman, a former professor at the United States Military Academy, argues that United States military facilities overseas and the forces stationed there serve as a "major catalyst for anti-Americanism and radicalization." Other studies have found a link between the presence of the US bases and al-Qaeda recruitment. These bases are often cited by opponents of repressive governments to provoke anger, protest, and nationalistic fervor against the ruling class and the United States. This in turn, according to JoAnn Chirico, raises concerns in Washington that a democratic transition could lead to the closure of bases, which often encourages the United States to extend its support for authoritarian leaders. This study suggests that the outcome could be an intensifying cycle of protest and repression supported by the United States. In 1958, Eisenhower discussed with his staff what he described as a "campaign of hatred against us" in the Arab world, "not by the governments but by the people." The United States National Security Council, concluded that was due to a perception that the U.S. supports corrupt and brutal governments and opposes political and economic development "to protect its interest in Near East oil". The Wall Street Journal reached a similar conclusion after surveying the views of wealthy and Western Muslims after September 11 attacks. In this vein, the head of the Council of Foreign Relations terrorism program believes that the American support for repressive regimes such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia is undoubtedly a major factor in anti-American sentiment in the Arab world.
Interpretations
Country polled | Positive | Negative | Neutral | Difference |
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China | 18% | 77% | 5% | -59 |
Canada | 41% | 44% | 15% | -3 |
Russia | 41% | 42% | 17% | -1 |
United Kingdom | 42% | 39% | 19% | +3 |
Germany | 46% | 38% | 16% | +8 |
Australia | 49% | 35% | 16% | +14 |
Spain | 51% | 34% | 15% | +17 |
France | 50% | 26% | 24% | +24 |
Italy | 54% | 29% | 17% | +25 |
Japan | 53% | 23% | 24% | +30 |
South Korea | 60% | 25% | 15% | +35 |
Mexico | 67% | 14% | 19% | +53 |
Brazil | 72% | 12% | 16% | +60 |
United States | 78% | 17% | 5% | +61 |
India | 79% | 10% | 11% | +69 |
In a poll conducted in 2017 by the BBC World Service of 19 countries, four of the countries rated U.S. influence positively, while 14 leaned negatively, and one was divided.
Anti-Americanism had risen in the late 2010s in Canada, Latin America, the Middle East, and the European Union, due in part to the strong worldwide unpopularity of the Donald Trump administration's policies, though anti-Americanism is noted to be low in numerous countries of central and eastern Europe due to stronger anti-communist sentiment amongst numerous former Warsaw Pact satellite states of the Soviet Union and strong support for joining and remaining within the NATO alliance. Following the 2020 election of Joe Biden as new president, overall global views of the United States have returned to being positive overall once more.
Interpretations of anti-Americanism have often been polarized. Anti-Americanism has been described by Hungarian-born American sociologist Paul Hollander as "a relentless critical impulse toward American social, economic, and political institutions, traditions, and values".
German newspaper publisher and political scientist Josef Joffe suggests five classic aspects of the phenomenon: reducing Americans to stereotypes, believing the United States to have an irredeemably evil nature, ascribing to the U.S. establishment a vast conspiratorial power aimed at utterly dominating the globe, holding the U.S. responsible for all the evils in the world, and seeking to limit the influence of the U.S. by destroying it or by cutting oneself and one's society off from its polluting products and practices. Other advocates of the significance of the term argue that anti-Americanism represents a coherent and dangerous ideological current, comparable to anti-Semitism. Anti-Americanism has also been described as an attempt to frame the consequences of U.S. foreign policy choices as evidence of a specifically American moral failure, as opposed to what may be unavoidable failures of a complicated foreign policy that comes with superpower status.
Its status as an "-ism" is a greatly contended suspect, however. Brendon O'Connor notes that studies of the topic have been "patchy and impressionistic," and often one-sided attacks on anti-Americanism as an irrational position. American academic Noam Chomsky, a prolific critic of the U.S. and its policies, asserts that the use of the term within the U.S. has parallels with methods employed by totalitarian states or military dictatorships; he compares the term to "anti-Sovietism", a label used by the Kremlin to suppress dissident or critical thought, for instance.
The concept "anti-American" is an interesting one. The counterpart is used only in totalitarian states or military dictatorships... Thus, in the old Soviet Union, dissidents were condemned as "anti-Soviet". That's a natural usage among people with deeply rooted totalitarian instincts, which identify state policy with the society, the people, the culture. In contrast, people with even the slightest concept of democracy treat such notions with ridicule and contempt.
Some have attempted to recognize both positions. French academic Pierre Guerlain has argued that the term represents two very different tendencies: "One systematic or essentialist, which is a form of prejudice targeting all Americans. The other refers to the way criticisms of the United States are labeled 'anti-American' by supporters of U.S. policies in an ideological bid to discredit their opponents". Guerlain argues that these two "ideal types" of anti-Americanism can sometimes merge, thus making discussion of the phenomenon particularly difficult. Other scholars have suggested that a plural of anti-Americanisms, specific to country and time period, more accurately describe the phenomenon than any broad generalization. The widely used "anti-American sentiment", meanwhile, less explicitly implies an ideology or belief system.
Globally, increases in perceived anti-American attitudes appear to correlate with particular policies or actions, such as the Vietnam and Iraq wars. For this reason, critics sometimes argue the label is a propaganda term that is used to dismiss any censure of the United States as irrational. American historian Max Paul Friedman has written that throughout American history the term has been misused to stifle domestic dissent and delegitimize any foreign criticism. According to an analysis by German historian Darius Harwardt, the term is nowadays mostly used to stifle debate by attempting to discredit viewpoints that oppose American policies.
History
18th and 19th centuries
Degeneracy thesis
In the mid- to late-eighteenth century, a theory emerged among some European intellectuals which stated that the landmasses of the New World were inherently inferior to that of Europe. Proponents of the so-called "degeneracy thesis" held the view that climatic extremes, humidity and other atmospheric conditions in America physically weakened both men and animals. American author James W. Ceaser and French author Philippe Roger have interpreted this theory as "a kind of prehistory of anti-Americanism" and have (in the words of Philippe Roger) been a historical "constant" since the 18th century, or again an endlessly repetitive "semantic block". Others, like Jean-François Revel, have examined what lay hidden behind this 'fashionable' ideology. Purported evidence for the idea included the smallness of American fauna, dogs that ceased to bark, and venomous plants; one theory put forth was that the New World had emerged from the Biblical flood later than the Old World. Native Americans were also held to be feeble, small, and without ardor.
The theory was originally proposed by Comte de Buffon, a leading French naturalist, in his Histoire Naturelle (1766). The French writer Voltaire joined Buffon and others in making the argument. Dutchman Cornelius de Pauw, court philosopher to Frederick II of Prussia became its leading proponent. While Buffon focused on the American biological environment, de Pauw attacked the people who were native to the continent. James Ceaser has noted that the denunciation of America as inferior to Europe was partially motivated by the German government's fear of mass emigration; de Pauw was called upon to convince the Germans that the new world was inferior. De Pauw is also known to have influenced the philosopher Immanuel Kant in a similar direction.
De Pauw said that the New World was unfit for human habitation because it was, "so ill-favored by nature that all it contains is either degenerate or monstrous". He asserted that, "the earth, full of putrefaction, was flooded with lizards, snakes, serpents, reptiles and insects". Taking a long-term perspective, he announced that he was, "certain that the conquest of the New World...has been the greatest of all misfortunes to befall mankind."
The theory made it easier for its proponents to argue that the natural environment of the United States would prevent it from ever producing a true culture. Echoing de Pauw, the French Encyclopedist Abbé Raynal wrote in 1770, "America has not yet produced a good poet, an able mathematician, one man of genius in a single art or a single science". The theory was debated and rejected by early American thinkers such as Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson; Jefferson, in his Notes on the State of Virginia (1781), provided a detailed rebuttal of de Buffon from a scientific point of view. Hamilton also vigorously rebuked the idea in Federalist No. 11 (1787).
One critic, citing Raynal's ideas, suggests that it was specifically extended to the Thirteen Colonies that would become the United States.
Roger suggests that the idea of degeneracy posited a symbolic, as well as a scientific, America that would evolve beyond the original thesis. He argues that Buffon's ideas formed the root of a "stratification of negative discourses" that has recurred throughout the history of the two countries' relationship (and been matched by persistent Francophobia in the United States).
Culture
Country polled | Positive | Negative | Neutral | Difference |
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Germany | 21% | 75% | 4 | -54 |
Luxembourg | 28% | 65% | 7 | -37 |
Netherlands | 32% | 67% | 1 | -35 |
France | 29% | 63% | 8 | -34 |
Belgium | 33% | 65% | 2 | -32 |
Sweden | 37% | 61% | 2 | -24 |
Denmark | 37% | 60% | 3 | -23 |
Slovenia | 39% | 57% | 4 | -18 |
Finland | 40% | 56% | 4 | -16 |
Austria | 42% | 54% | 4 | -12 |
Malta | 32% | 43% | 25 | -11 |
Spain | 40% | 51% | 9 | -11 |
EU-28 | 45% | 49% | 6 | -4 |
United Kingdom | 44% | 48% | 8 | -4 |
Greece | 50% | 48% | 2 | 2 |
Ireland | 50% | 46% | 4 | 4 |
Slovakia | 48% | 42% | 10 | 6 |
Cyprus | 51% | 43% | 6 | 7 |
Portugal | 50% | 41% | 9 | 9 |
Czech Republic | 55% | 41% | 4 | 14 |
Estonia | 53% | 38% | 9 | 15 |
Latvia | 53% | 33% | 14 | 20 |
Italy | 59% | 35% | 6 | 24 |
Bulgaria | 60% | 32% | 8 | 28 |
Croatia | 67% | 31% | 2 | 36 |
Hungary | 68% | 26% | 6 | 42 |
Lithuania | 74% | 21% | 5 | 53 |
Romania | 78% | 15% | 7 | 63 |
Poland | 79% | 14% | 7 | 65 |
According to Brendan O'Connor, some Europeans criticized Americans for lacking "taste, grace and civility," and having a brazen and arrogant character. British author Frances Trollope observed in her 1832 book Domestic Manners of the Americans, that the greatest difference between the English and Americans was "want of refinement", explaining: "that polish which removes the coarser and rougher parts of our nature is unknown and undreamed of" in America. According to one source, her account "succeeded in angering Americans more than any book written by a foreign observer before or since". English writer Captain Marryat's critical account in his Diary in America, with Remarks on Its Institutions (1839) also proved controversial, especially in Detroit where an effigy of the author, along with his books, was burned. Other writers critical of American culture and manners included the bishop Talleyrand in France and Charles Dickens in England. Dickens' novel Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) is a ferocious satire on American life.
Sources of American resentment are evident following the Revolutions of 1848 and the ensuing European class struggles. In 1869, after a visit to his country of birth, the Swedish immigrant, Hans Mattson observed that,
"...the ignorance, prejudice and hatred toward America and everything pertaining to it among the aristocracy, and especially the office holders, was as unpardonable as it was ridiculous. It was claimed by them that all was humbug in America, that it was the paradise of scoundrels, cheats, and rascals, and that nothing good could possibly come out of it."
After seven years in the US, Ernst Skarstedt, a graduate of Lund University and native Swede, returned to Sweden in 1885. He complained that, in upper-class circles, if he "told something about America, it could happen that in reply (he) was informed that this could not possibly be so or that the matter was better understood in Sweden." The dedication of the Statue of Liberty in 1886 solidified The "New Colossus" as a beacon to the "huddled masses" and their rejection of the "storied pomp" of the old world.
Simon Schama observed in 2003: "By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ugly American – voracious, preachy, mercenary, and bombastically chauvinist – was firmly in place in Europe". O'Connor suggests that such prejudices were rooted in an idealized image of European refinement and that the notion of high European culture pitted against American vulgarity has not disappeared.
Politics and ideology
The young United States also faced criticism on political and ideological grounds. Ceaser argues that the Romantic strain of European thought and literature, hostile to the Enlightenment view of reason and obsessed with history and national character, disdained the rationalistic American project. The German poet Nikolaus Lenau commented: "With the expression Bodenlosigkeit (absence of ground), I think I am able to indicate the general character of all American institutions; what we call Fatherland is here only a property insurance scheme". Ceaser argues in his essay that such comments often repurposed the language of degeneracy, and the prejudice came to focus solely on the United States and not Canada nor Mexico. Lenau had immigrated to the United States in 1833 and found that the country did not live up to his ideals, leading him to return to Germany the following year. His experiences in the U.S. were the subject of a novel titled The America-exhaustion (Der Amerika-Müde) (1855) by fellow German Ferdinand Kürnberger.
The nature of American democracy was also questioned. The sentiment was that the country lacked " monarch, aristocracy, strong traditions, official religion, or rigid class system," according to Judy Rubin, and its democracy was attacked by some Europeans in the early nineteenth century as degraded, a travesty, and a failure. The French Revolution, which was loathed by many European conservatives, also implicated the United States and the idea of creating a constitution on abstract and universal principles. That the country was intended to be a bastion of liberty was also seen as fraudulent given that it had been established with slavery. "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes?" asked Samuel Johnson in 1775. He famously stated, that "I am willing to love all mankind, except an American".
20th century
Intellectuals
Sigmund Freud was vehemently anti-American. Historian Peter Gay says that in "slashing away at Americans wholesale; quite indiscriminately, with imaginative ferocity, Freud was ventilating some inner need". Gay suggests that Freud's anti-Americanism was not really about the United States at all.
Numerous authors went on the attack. French writer Louis-Ferdinand Celine denounced the United States. German poet Rainer Marie Rilke wrote, "I no longer love Paris, partly because it is disfiguring and Americanizing itself".
Communist critiques
Until its demise in 1991, the Soviet Union and other communist nations emphasized capitalism as the great enemy of communism, and identified the United States as the leader of capitalism. They sponsored anti-Americanism among followers and sympathizers. Russell A. Berman notes that in the mid-19th century, "Marx himself largely admired the dynamism of American capitalism and democracy and did not participate in the anti-Americanism that came to be the hallmark of Communist ideology in the twentieth century". O'Connor argues that, "communism represented the starkest version of anti-Americanism – a coherent world view that challenged the free market, private property, limited government, and individualism". The USA was and is heavily criticised by contemporary socialist nations and movements for imperialism, especially as a reaction to United States involvement in regime change. In the DPRK for example, Anti-Americanism comes not only from ideological opposition to the USA and its actions, but also as a result of allegations of biological warfare in the Korean War and bombing of North Korea.
Authors in the West, such as Bertolt Brecht and Jean-Paul Sartre criticized the U.S. and reached a large audience, especially on the left. In his Anti-Americanism (2003), French writer Jean François Revel argues that anti-Americanism emerges primarily from anti-capitalism, and this critique also comes from non-communist, totalitarian regimes.
America was criticised and denounced by Communists such as Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev during the Russian Civil War. Galiev particularly emphasised native genocide of America and the institution of slavery. American treatment of minority groups such as natives and African-Americans would go on to be a continued point of opposition and criticism to the USA throughout the 20th century.
The East German regime imposed an official anti-American ideology that was reflected in all its media and all the schools. Anyone who expressed support for the West would be investigated by the Stasi. The official line followed Lenin's theory of imperialism as the highest and last stage of capitalism, and in Dimitrov's theory of fascism as the dictatorship of the most reactionary elements of financial capitalism. The official party line stated that the United States had caused the breakup of the coalition against Hitler. It was now the bulwark of reaction worldwide, with a heavy reliance on warmongering for the benefit of the "terrorist international of murderers on Wall Street". East Germans were told they had a heroic role to play as a front-line against the Americans. However, Western media outlets such as the American Radio Free Europe broadcasts, and West German media may have limited Anti-Americanism. The official communist media ridiculed the modernism and cosmopolitanism of American culture, and denigrated the features of the American way of life, especially jazz music and rock and roll.
Fascist critiques
Further information: Melting potDrawing on the ideas of Arthur de Gobineau (1816–1882), European fascists decried the supposed degenerating effect of immigration on the racial mix of the American population. The Nazi philosopher Alfred Rosenberg argued that race mixture in the United States made it inferior to racially pure nations.
Anti-Semitism was another factor in these critiques. The view that the U.S. was controlled by a Jewish conspiracy through a Jewish lobby was common in countries ruled by fascists before and during World War II. Jews, the assumed puppet masters behind supposed American plans for world domination, were also seen as using jazz in a crafty plan to eliminate racial distinctions; Adolf Hitler dismissed the threat of the United States as a credible enemy of Germany because of its incoherent racial mix; he saw Americans as a "mongrel race", "half-Judaized" and "half-Negrified".
In an address to the Reichstag on 11 December 1941, Hitler declared war on the United States and lambasted U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt:
He was strengthened in this by the circle of Jews surrounding him, who, with Old Testament-like fanaticism, believe that the United States can be the instrument for preparing another Purim for the European nations that are becoming increasingly anti-Semitic. It was the Jew, in his full Satanic vileness, who rallied around this man , but to whom this man also reached out.
In 1944, as war was basically lost, the SS published a virulent article in their weekly Das Schwarze Korps titled "Danger of Americanism" which criticized and characterized the American entertainment industry, as it was thought to be owned by the Jews: "Americanism is a splendid method of depoliticization. The Jews have used jazz and movies, magazines and smut, gangsterism and free love, and every perverse desire, to keep the American people so distracted that they pay no attention to their own fate".
"Liberators" poster
The "Liberators" poster that was distributed by the Nazis to a Dutch audience in 1944 displays multiple elements of anti-American attitudes promoted by the Nazis. The title Liberators refers to a common Allied justification for attacking Germany (and possibly the American B-24 Liberator bombers as well), and the poster depicts this "liberation" as the destruction of European cities. The artist was Harald Damsleth, a Norwegian who worked for the NS in occupied Norway.
Motifs contained in this poster include:
- The decadence of beauty pageants (scantily-clad "Miss America" and "Miss Victory", "The World's Most Beautiful Leg") – or more generally, the putative sexual laxness of American women. The "Miss America" beauty pageant in Atlantic City had expanded during the war and was used to sell war bonds.
- Gangsterism and gun violence (the arm of an escaped convict holding a submachine gun). Gangsterism had become a theme of anti-Americanism in the 1930s.
- Anti-black violence (a lynching noose, a Ku Klux Klan hood). The lynching of blacks had attracted European denunciations by the 1890s.
- General violence of American society, in addition to the above (boxing-glove which grasps the money-bag). The theme of a violent American frontier was well known in the 19th century.
- Americans as Indian savages and as a mockery of American genocide over Natives as well as land-theft, since it is a chieftain symbol here used as a fashion trinket. ("Miss America" wears plains-Indian head-dress).
- The capitalism, pure materialism and commercialism of America, to the detriment of any spirit or soul (money bag with "$" symbol). The materialism of America contrasted with the spiritual depth of European high culture is a common trope, especially in Scandinavia.
- Anti-semitism appears in most Nazi-generated images of America. A Jewish banker is seen behind the money.
- The presence of blacks in America equals its "mongrelization", adding undesirably "primitive" elements to American popular culture, and constituting a potential danger to the white race (a stereotypically-caricatured black couple dancing the "Jitterbug – Triumph of Civilization" in birdcage, which is portrayed as a degraded animalistic ritual). The degradation of culture, especially through miscegenation, resonated with European anxieties, especially in Germany.
- Decadence of American popular culture, and its pernicious influence on the rest of the world (dancing of jitterbug, hand holds phonograph record, figure of a European gullible "all-ears" dupe in lower foreground). The growing popularity of American music and dancing among young people had ignited a "moral panic" among conservative Europeans.
- Indiscriminate U.S. military violence (bloodied bomb for foot, metal legs, military aircraft wings), threatening the European cultural landmarks at lower right.
- Hence the suggested falsity of American claims to be "Liberators" (the Liberator was also the name of a U.S. bomber plane).
- Nazis denounced American jingoism and war fervor (a business-suited arm literally "beating the drum" of militarism, "Miss Victory" and her drum-majorette cap and boots).
- The malevolent influence of American Freemasons (Masonic apron descending from drum) was a theme among conservative Catholics, as in Spain.
- Demonization of national symbols of the United States ("Miss Victory" waves the reverse side of 48-star U.S. flag, and the WW2-era Army Air Corps roundel – of small red disk within white star on large blue disk – is shown on one of the wings).
21st century
September 11 attacks
In a book called The Rise of Anti-Americanism, published in 2006, Brendon O'Connor and Martin Griffiths said that the September 11 attacks were "quintessential anti-American acts, which satisfy all of the competing definitions of Anti-Americanism". They ask, "If 9/11 can be construed as the exemplar of anti-Americanism at work, does it make much sense to imply that all anti-Americans are complicit with terrorism?" Most leaders in Islamic countries, including Afghanistan, condemned the attacks. Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist Iraq was a notable exception, with an immediate official statement that "the American cowboys are reaping the fruit of their crimes against humanity".
Europe was highly sympathetic to the United States after the 9/11 attack. NATO unanimously supported the United States, treating an attack on the U.S. as an attack on all of them after Article 5 of the NATO treaty was invoked for the very first time. NATO and American troops entered Afghanistan. When the United States decided to invade and overthrow the Iraqi regime in 2003, it won some support in Europe, especially from the British government, but also intense opposition, led by the German and French governments. Konrad Jarausch argues that there was still fundamental agreement on such basic issues of support for democracy and human rights. However, there emerged a growing gap between an American "libertarian, individualistic, market outlook, and the more statist, collectivist, welfare mentality in Europe."
U.S. computer technology
A growing dimension of anti-Americanism is fear of the pervasiveness of U.S. Internet technology. This can be traced from the very first computers which were either British (Colossus) or German (Z1) through to the World Wide Web itself (invented by Englishman Tim Berners-Lee). In all these cases the U.S. has commercialized all these innovations.
Americanization has advanced through widespread high speed Internet and smart phone technology since 2008 and a large fraction of the new apps and hardware were designed in the United States. In Europe, there is growing concern about excessive Americanization through Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple and Uber, among many other U.S. Internet-based corporations. European governments have increasingly expressed concern regarding privacy issues, as well as antitrust and taxation issues regarding the new American giants. There is fear that they are significantly evading taxes, and posting information that may violate European privacy laws. The Wall Street Journal in 2015 reported "deep concerns in Europe's highest policy circles about the power of U.S. technology companies."
Mitigation of anti-Americanism
Sometimes developments help neutralize anti-Americanism. In 2015, the United States Department of Justice went on the attack against corruption at FIFA, arresting many top world soccer leaders long suspected of bribery and corruption. In this case the U.S. government's self-defined role as "policeman of the world" won widespread international support.
Regional anti-Americanism
Europe
Recent polls has shown anti-Americanism in Europe to be increasing following the Iraq War and due to U.S policies in the recent years. Eurobarometer survey conducted among European Union countries revealed that Europeans view America as a higher risk to Global Peace than Iran and North Korea.
Eastern Europe
Russia
Main articles: Anti-American sentiment in Russia and Russia–United States relationsRussia has a long history of anti-Americanism, dating back to the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. As early as in 1919, leader of Soviet Russia Vladimir Lenin was recorded addressing Red Army soldiers where he claimed that "capitalists of England, France and America are waging war against Russia". The image of Uncle Sam was also used by the Bolsheviks to portray White Russian forces as foreign-sponsored.
In 2013, 30% of Russians had a "very unfavorable" or "somewhat unfavorable" view of Americans and 40% viewed the U.S. in a "very unfavorable" or "somewhat unfavorable" light, up from 34% in 2012. Recent polls from the Levada center survey show that 71% of Russians have at least a somewhat negative attitude toward the U.S., up from 38% in 2013. It is the largest figure since the collapse of the USSR. In 2015, a new poll by the Levada center showed that 81% of Russians now hold unfavorable views of the United States, presumably as a result of U.S. and international sanctions imposed against Russia because of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Anti-Americanism in Russia is reportedly at its highest since the end of the Cold War. A December 2017 survey conducted by the Chicago Council and its Russian partner, the Levada Center, showed that 78% of "Russians polled said the United States meddles "a great deal" or "a fair amount" in Russian politics", only 24% of Russians say they hold a positive view of the United States, and 81% of "Russians said they felt the United States was working to undermine Russia on the world stage."
Survey results published by the Levada-Center indicate that, as of August 2018, Russians increasingly viewed the United States positively following the Russia–U.S. summit in Helsinki in July 2018. The Moscow Times reported that "For the first time since 2014, the number of Russians who said they had "positive" feelings towards the United States (42 percent) outweighed those who reported "negative" feelings (40 percent)." In February 2020, 46% of Russians polled said they had a negative view of the United States. According to the Pew Research Center, "57% of Russians ages 18 to 29 see the U.S. favorably, compared with only 15% of Russians ages 50 and older." In 2019, only 20% of Russians viewed U.S. President Donald Trump positively. Only 14% of Russians expressed net approval of Donald Trump's policies.
Western Europe
In a 2003 article, historian David Ellwood identified what he called three great roots of anti-Americanism:
- Representations, images and stereotypes (from the birth of the Republic onwards)
- The challenge of economic power and the American model of modernization (principally from the 1910s and 1920s on)
- The organized projection of U.S. political, strategic and ideological power (from World War II on)
He went on to say that expressions of the phenomenon in the last 60 years have contained ever-changing combinations of these elements, the configurations depending on internal crises within the groups or societies articulating them as much as anything done by American society in all its forms.
In 2004, Sergio Fabbrini wrote that the perceived post-9/11 unilateralism of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq fed deep-rooted anti-American feeling in Europe, bringing it to the surface. In his article, he highlighted European fears surrounding the Americanization of the economy, culture and political process of Europe. Fabbrini in 2011 identified a cycle in anti-Americanism: modest in the 1990s, it grew explosively between 2003 and 2008, then declined after 2008. He sees the current version as related to images of American foreign policy-making as unrestrained by international institutions or world opinion. Thus it is the unilateral policy process and the arrogance of policy makers, not the specific policy decisions, that are decisive.
During the George W. Bush administration, public opinion of America declined in most European countries. A Pew Research Center Global Attitudes Project poll showed "favorable opinions" of America between 2000 and 2006 dropping from 83% to 56% in the United Kingdom, from 62% to 39% in France, from 78% to 37% in Germany and from 50% to 23% in Spain. In Spain, unfavorable views of Americans rose from 30% in 2005 to 51% in 2006 and positive views of Americans dropped from 56% in 2005 to 37% in 2006.
In Europe in 2002, vandalism of American companies was reported in Athens, Zürich, Tbilisi, Moscow and elsewhere. In Venice, 8 to 10 masked individuals claiming to be anti-globalists attacked a McDonald's restaurant. In Athens, at the demonstrations commemorating the 17 November Uprising there was a march toward the U.S. embassy to emphasize the U.S. backing of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974 attended by many people each year.
Ruth Hatlapa, a PhD candidate at the University of Augsburg, and Andrei S. Markovits, a professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, describe President Obama's image as that of an angel – or more precisely, a rock star – in Europe in contrast to Bush's devilish image there; they argue, however, that "Obamamania" masks a deep-seated distrust and disdain of America.
France
In France, the term "Anglo-Saxon" is often used in expressions of anti-Americanism or Anglophobia. French writers have also used it in more nuanced ways in discussions about French decline, especially as an alternative model to which France should aspire, how France should adjust to its two most prominent global competitors, and how it should deal with social and economic modernization.
The First Indochina War in Indochina and the Suez Crisis of 1956 caused dismay among the French right, which was already angered by the lack of American support during Dien Bien Phu in 1954. For the Socialists and Communists of the French left, it was the Vietnam War and U.S. imperialism that were the sources of resentment. Much later, the alleged weapons of mass destruction in Iraq affair further dirtied the previously favorable image. In 2008, 85% of the French people considered the American government and banks to be most liable for the 2007–2008 financial crisis.
In her contribution to the book Anti-Americanisms in World Politics edited by Peter Katzenstein and Robert Keohane in 2006, Sophie Meunier wrote about French anti-Americanism. She contends that although it has a long history (older than the U.S. itself) and is the most easily recognizable anti-Americanism in Europe, it may not have had real policy consequences on the United States and thus may have been less damaging than more pernicious and invisible anti-Americanism in other countries.
In 2013, 36% viewed the U.S. in a "very unfavorable" or "somewhat unfavorable" light.
Richard Kuisel, an American scholar, has explored how France partly embraced American consumerism while rejecting much of American power and values. He wrote in 2013 that:
America functioned as the "other" in configuring French identity. To be French was not to be American. Americans were conformists, materialists, racists, violent, and vulgar. The French were individualists, idealists, tolerant, and civilized. Americans adored wealth; the French worshiped [sic] la douceur de vivre. This caricature of America, which was already broadly endorsed at the beginning of the century, served to reinforce French national identity. At the end of the twentieth century, the French strategy America as a foil, as a way of defining themselves as well as everything from their social policies to their notion of what constituted culture.
In October 2016, French President François Hollande said: "When the (European) Commission goes after Google or digital giants which do not pay the taxes they should in Europe, America takes offence. And yet, they quite shamelessly demand 8 billion from BNP or 5 billion from Deutsche Bank." French bank BNP Paribas was fined in 2014 for violating U.S. sanctions against Iran.
Germany
Main article: Anti-American sentiment in GermanyGerman naval planners in the 1890–1910 era denounced the Monroe Doctrine as a self-aggrandizing legal pretension to dominate the Western hemisphere. They were even more concerned with the possible American canal in Panama, because it would lead to full American hegemony in the Caribbean. The stakes were laid out in the German war aims proposed by the Navy in 1903: a "firm position in the West Indies," a "free hand in South America," and an official "revocation of the Monroe Doctrine" would provide a solid foundation for "our trade to the West Indies, Central and South America."
During the Cold War, anti-Americanism was the official government policy in East Germany, and dissenters were punished. In West Germany, anti-Americanism was the common position on the left, but the majority praised America as a protector against communism and a critical ally in rebuilding the nation. Germany's refusal to support the American-led 2003 invasion of Iraq was often seen as a manifestation of anti-Americanism. Anti-Americanism had been muted on the right since 1945, but re-emerged in the 21st century especially in the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party that began in opposition to European Union, and now has become both anti-American and anti-immigrant. Annoyance or distrust of the Americans was heightened in 2013 by revelations of American spying on top German officials, including Chancellor Merkel.
In the affair surrounding Der Spiegel journalist Claas Relotius, U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell wrote to the magazine complaining about an anti-American institutional bias ("Anti-Amerikanismus") and asked for an independent investigation. Grenell wrote that "These fake news stories largely focus on U.S. policies and certain segments of the American people."
German historian Darius Harwardt has noted that from 1980 onwards, the term has seen an increase in usage in German politics, for example to discredit those that wish to close American military bases in Germany.
Greece
Although the Greeks have generally held a favorable attitude towards America and still do today, with 56.5% holding a favorable view in 2013 and 63% in 2021, Donald Trump was highly unpopular in Greece, with 73% having no confidence in him to do the right thing in world affairs. Joe Biden however is popular among the Greek public, with 67% having confidence in the American president.
Netherlands
Although the Dutch have generally held a favorable attitude toward America, there were negative currents in the aftermath of World War II as the Dutch blamed American policy as the reason why their colonies in Southeast Asia were able to gain independence. They credit their rescue from the Nazis in 1944–45 to the Canadian Army. Postwar attitudes continued the perennial ambiguity of anti-Americanism: the love-hate relationship, or willingness to adopt American cultural patterns while at the same time voicing criticism of them. In the 1960s, anti-Americanism revived largely in reaction against the Vietnam War. Its major early advocates were non-party-affiliated, left-wing students, journalists, and intellectuals. Dutch public opinion polls (1975–83) indicate a stable attitude toward the United States; only 10% of the people were deeply anti-American. The most strident rhetoric came from the left wing of Dutch politics and can largely be attributed to the consequences of Dutch participation in NATO.
United Kingdom
See also: Special Relationship § Public opinionAccording to a Pew Global Attitudes Project poll, during the George W. Bush administration "favorable opinions" of America between 2000 and 2006 fell from 83% to 56% in the United Kingdom.
News articles and blogs have discussed the negative experiences of Americans living in the United Kingdom.
Anti-American sentiment became more widespread in the United Kingdom following the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan.
Ireland
Negative sentiment towards American tourists is implied to have risen around 2012 and 2014.
Spain
Main article: Anti-American sentiment in SpainAnti-American sentiment is perceived to be deeply entrenched within elements of Spanish society, with several surveys conducted concerning the topic tending to back up that assertion. Spain ranks among the highest countries in terms of the level of anti-Americanism in Europe. According to a German Marshall Fund study, feelings towards the United States in Spain were among the least favourable in Europe, second only to Turkey. The sentiment has not only been historically a left-wing phenomenon, but the United States is viewed very negatively by right-wing factions in Spain as well.
Asia
Anti-Americanism in the Middle East and parts of Asia has substantially increased due to U.S sanctions and military involvement in countries like Afghanistan and Iraq worsening relations and public opinion. However East and South Asian countries like the Philippines, South Korea and India remains the most Pro-American countries.
East Asia
China
Main article: Anti-American sentiment in China See also: May 24 incidentChina has a history of anti-Americanism beginning with the general disdain for foreigners in the early 19th century that culminated in the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, which the U.S. helped in militarily suppressing.
During the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, the U.S. provided economic and military assistance to the Chiang Kai-shek government against the Japanese invasion. In particular, the "China Hands" (American diplomats known for their knowledge of China) also attempted to establish diplomatic contacts with Mao Zedong's communist regime in their stronghold in Yan'an, with a goal of fostering unity between the Nationalists and Communists. However, relations soured after communist victory in the Chinese Civil War and the relocation of the Chiang government to Taiwan, together with the start of the Cold War and rise of McCarthyism in U.S. politics. The newly communist China and the U.S. fought a major undeclared war in Korea, 1950–53 and, as a result, President Harry S. Truman began advocating a policy of containment and sent the United States Seventh Fleet to deter a possible communist invasion of Taiwan. The U.S. signed the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty with Taiwan which lasted until 1979 and, during this period, the communist government in Beijing was not diplomatically recognized by the U.S. By 1950, virtually all American diplomatic staff had left mainland China, and one of Mao's political goals was to identify and destroy factions inside China that might be favorable to capitalism.
Mao initially ridiculed the U.S. as "paper tiger" occupiers of Taiwan, "the enemy of the people of the world and has increasingly isolated itself" and "monopoly capitalist groups", and it was argued that Mao never intended friendly relations with the U.S. However, due to the Sino-Soviet split and increasing tension between China and the Soviet Union, US President Richard Nixon signaled a diplomatic rapprochement with communist China, and embarked on an official visit in 1972. Diplomatic relations between the two countries were eventually restored in 1979. After Mao's death, Deng Xiaoping embarked on economic reforms, and hostility diminished sharply, while large-scale trade and investments, as well as cultural exchanges became major factors. Following the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, the U.S. placed economic and military sanctions upon China, although official diplomatic relations continued.
In 2013, 53% of Chinese respondents in a Pew survey had a "very unfavorable" or "somewhat unfavorable" view of the U.S. Relations improved slightly near the end of Obama's term in 2016, with 44% of Chinese respondents expressing an unfavorable view of the U.S compared to 50% of respondents expressing a favorable view.
There has been a significant increase in anti-Americanism since U.S. President Donald Trump launched a trade war against China, with Chinese media airing Korean War films. In May 2019, Global Times said that "the trade war with the U.S. at the moment reminds Chinese of military struggles between China and the U.S. during the Korean War."
Japan
In Japan, objections to the behavior and presence of American military personnel are sometimes reported as anti-Americanism, such as the 1995 Okinawa rape incident. As of 2008, the ongoing U.S. military presence on Okinawa remained a contentious issue in Japan.
While protests have arisen because of specific incidents, they are often reflective of deeper historical resentments. Robert Hathaway, director of the Wilson Center's Asia program, suggests: "The growth of anti-American sentiment in both Japan and South Korea must be seen not simply as a response to American policies and actions, but as reflective of deeper domestic trends and developments within these Asian countries". In Japan, a variety of threads have contributed to anti-Americanism in the post-war era, including pacifism on the left, nationalism on the right, and opportunistic worries over American influence in Japanese economic life.
From the postwar until today, most conservatives, including the Liberal Democratic Party, have a pro-American view; there are "anti-American conservative" who are critical of this and seek to preserve Japan's independent foreign policy or cultural values.
South Korea
See also: Anti-American sentiment in KoreaSpeaking to the Wilson Center, Katharine Moon notes that while the majority of South Koreans support the American alliance "anti-Americanism also represents the collective venting of accumulated grievances that in many instances have lain hidden for decades". In the 1990s, scholars, policy makers, and the media noted that anti-Americanism was motivated by the rejection of authoritarianism and a resurgent nationalism, this nationalist anti-Americanism continued into the 2000s fueled by a number of incidents such as the IMF crisis. During the early 1990s, Western princess, prostitutes for American soldiers became a symbol of anti-American nationalism.
"Dear American" is an anti-American song sung by Psy. "Fucking USA" is an anti-American protest song written by South Korean singer and activist Yoon Min-suk. Strongly anti-U.S. foreign policy and anti-Bush, the song was written in 2002 at a time when, following the Apolo Ohno Olympic controversy and an incident in Yangju in which two Korean middle school students died after being struck by a U.S. Army vehicle, anti-American sentiment in South Korea reached high levels. However, by 2009, a majority of South Koreans were reported as having a favorable view of the United States. In 2014, 58% of South Koreans had a favorable view of the U.S., making South Korea one of the world's most pro-American countries.
North Korea
Relations between North Korea and the United States have been hostile ever since the Korean War, and the former's more recent development of nuclear weapons and long range missiles has further increased tension between the two nations. The United States currently maintains a military presence in South Korea, and President George W. Bush had previously described North Korea as part of the "Axis of Evil".
In North Korea, July is the "Month of Joint Anti-American Struggle," with festivities to denounce the U.S.
Southeast Asia
Philippines
Anti-American sentiment has existed in the Philippines, owing primarily to the Philippine–American War of more than 100 years ago, and the 1898–1946 period of US colonial rule. One of the country's most recognizable patriotic hymns, Nuestra patria (lit. 'Our Fatherland'; Tagalog: Bayan Ko, lit. 'My Country'), written during the Philippine–American War, makes reference to "the Anglo-Saxon … who with vile treason subjugates ". The song then exhorts the invaded and later occupied nation to "free self from the traitor." Mojarro (2020) wrote that, during the US occupation, "Filipino intellectuals and patriots fully rejected US tutelage of Philippine politics and the economy," adding that "The Spanish language was understood then as a tool of cultural and political resistance." Manuel L. Quezon himself refused to learn English, having "felt betrayed by the Americans whom considered allies against Spain".
Statesman and internationally renowned Hispanophone writer Claro Mayo Recto had once dared to oppose the national security interests of the US in the Philippines, such as when he campaigned against the US military bases in his country. During the 1957 presidential campaign, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) conducted black propaganda operations to ensure his defeat, including the distribution of condoms with holes in them and marked with "Courtesy of Claro M. Recto" on the labels. The CIA is also suspected of involvement in his death by heart attack less than three years later. Recto, who had no known heart disease, met with two mysterious "Caucasians" wearing business suits before he died. US government documents later showed that a plan to murder Recto with a vial of poison was discussed by CIA Chief of Station Ralph Lovett and US Ambassador Admiral Raymond Spruance years earlier.
In October 2012, American ships were found dumping toxic wastes into Subic Bay, spurring anti-Americanism and setting the stage for multiple rallies. When U.S. president Barack Obama toured Asia, in mid to late April 2014 to visit Malaysia, South Korea, Japan, and the Philippines, hundreds of Filipino protests demonstrated in Manila shouting anti-Obama slogans, with some even burning mock U.S. flags.
The controversial Visiting Forces Agreement adds further fuel to anti-American sentiment, especially among Philippine Muslims. US military personnel have also been tried and convicted for rapes and murders committed on Philippine soil against civilians. These service personnel would later either be freed by the justice system or receive a presidential pardon.
However, despite these incidents, a poll conducted in 2011 by the BBC found that 90% of Filipinos have a favorable view of the U.S., higher than the view of the U.S. in any other country. According to a Pew Research Center Poll released in 2014, 92% of Filipinos viewed the U.S. favorably, making the Philippines the most pro-American nation in the world. The election of Rodrigo Duterte in 2016, along with persistently high approval ratings thereafter, nevertheless herald a new era marked by neonationalism and a resurgent anti-Americanism founded on what had by then been long-unattended historical grievances.
South Asia
Afghanistan
Main article: Anti-American sentiment in AfghanistanDrone strikes have led to growing anti-Americanism.
Pakistan
Main article: Anti-American sentiment in PakistanNegative attitudes toward the U.S.'s influence on the world has risen in Pakistan as a result of U.S. drone attacks on the country introduced by George W. Bush and continued by Barack Obama. In a poll surveying opinions toward the United States, Pakistan scored as the most negatively aligned nation, jointly alongside Serbia.
Middle East
After World War I, admiration was expressed for American President Woodrow Wilson's promulgation of democracy, freedom and self-determination in the Fourteen Points and, during World War II, the high ideals of the Atlantic Charter received favorable notice. According to Tamim Ansary, in Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes (2009), early views of America were mostly positive in the Middle East and the Muslim World.
Just as they do elsewhere in the world, spikes in anti-Americanism in the region correlate with the adoption or the reiteration of certain policies by the U.S. government, in special its support for Israel in the occupation of Palestine and the Iraq War. In regards to 9/11, a Gallup poll noted that while most Muslims (93%) polled opposed the attacks, 'radicals' (7%) supported it, citing in their favor, not religious view points, but disgust at U.S. policies. In effect, when targeting U.S. or other Western assets in the region, radical armed groups in the Middle East, Al-Qaeda included, have made reference to U.S. policies and alleged crimes against humanity to justify their attacks. For example, to explain the Khobar Towers bombing (in which 19 American airmen were killed), Bin Laden, although proven to have not committed the attack, named U.S. support for Israel in instances of attacks against Muslims, such as the Sabra and Shatila massacre and the Qana massacre, as the reasons behind the attack.
Al-Qaeda also cited the U.S. sanctions on and bombing of Iraq in the Iraqi no-fly zones (1991–2003), which exacted a large toll in the Arab country's civilian population, as a justification to kill Americans.
Although right-wing scholars (e.g. Paul Hollander) have given prominence to the role that religiosity, culture and backwardness play in inflaming anti-Americanism in the region, the poll noted that radicalism among Arabs or Muslims isn't correlated with poverty, backwardness or religiosity. Radicals were in fact shown to be better educated and wealthier than 'moderates'.
There is also, however, a cultural dimension to anti-Americanism among religious and conservative groups in the Middle East. It may have its origins with Sayyid Qutb. Qutb, an Egyptian who was the leading intellectual of the Muslim Brotherhood, studied in Greeley, Colorado from 1948 to 1950, and wrote a book, The America I Have Seen (1951) based on his impressions. In it he decried everything in America from individual freedom and taste in music to Church socials and haircuts. Wrote Qutb, "They danced to the tunes of the gramophone, and the dance floor was replete with tapping feet, enticing legs, arms wrapped around waists, lips pressed to lips, and chests pressed to chests. The atmosphere was full of desire..." He offered a distorted chronology of American history and was disturbed by its sexually liberated women: "The American girl is well acquainted with her body's seductive capacity. She knows it lies in the face, and in expressive eyes, and thirsty lips. She knows seductiveness lies in the round breasts, the full buttocks, and in the shapely thighs, sleek legs – and she shows all this and does not hide it". He was particularly disturbed by jazz, which he called the American's preferred music, and which "was created by Negroes to satisfy their love of noise and to whet their sexual desires ..." Qutb's writings influenced generations of militants and radicals in the Middle East who viewed America as a cultural temptress bent on overturning traditional customs and morals, especially with respect to the relations between the sexes.
Qutb's ideas influenced Osama bin Laden, an anti-American extremist from Saudi Arabia, who was the founder of the Jihadist organization Al-Qaeda. In conjunction with several other Islamic militant leaders, bin Laden issued two fatawa – in 1996 and then again in 1998 – that Muslims should kill military personnel and civilians of the United States until the United States government withdraw military forces from Islamic countries and withdraw support for Israel.
After the 1996 fatwa, entitled "Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places", bin Laden was put on a criminal file by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under an American Civil War statute which forbids instigating violence and attempting to overthrow the U.S. government. He has also been indicted in United States federal court for his alleged involvement in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, and was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. On 14 January 2009, bin Laden vowed to continue the fight and open up new fronts against the U.S. on behalf of the Islamic world.
In 2002 and in mid-2004, Zogby International polled the favorable/unfavorable ratings of the U.S. in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). In Zogby's 2002 survey, 76% of Egyptians had a negative attitude toward the United States, compared with 98% in 2004. In Morocco, 61% viewed the country unfavorably in 2002, but in two years, that number had jumped to 88 percent. In Saudi Arabia, such responses rose from 87% in 2002 to 94% in 2004. Attitudes were virtually unchanged in Lebanon but improved slightly in the UAE, from 87% who said in 2002 that they disliked the United States to 73% in 2004. However, most of these countries mainly objected to foreign policies that they considered unfair.
Iran
Main article: Anti-American sentiment in IranThe chant "Death to America" (Persian: مرگ بر آمریکا) has been in use in Iran since at least the Iranian revolution in 1979, along with other phrases often represented as anti-American. A 1953 coup which involved the CIA was cited as a grievance. State-sponsored murals characterized as anti-American dot the streets of Tehran. It has been suggested that under Ayatollah Khomeini anti-Americanism was little more than a way to distinguish between domestic supporters and detractors, and even the phrase "Great Satan" which has previously been associated with anti-Americanism, appears to now signify both the American and British governments.
The Iran hostage crisis that lasted from 1979 to 1981, in which fifty-two Americans were held hostage in Tehran for 444 days, was also a demonstration of anti-Americanism, one which considerably worsened mutual perceptions between the U.S. and Iran.
Jordan
Anti-Americanism is felt very strongly in Jordan and has been on the rise since at least 2003. Despite the fact that Jordan is one of America's closest allies in the Middle East and the Government of Jordan is pro-American and pro-Western, the anti-Americanism of Jordanians is among the highest in the world. Anti-Americanism rose dramatically after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, when a United States-led coalition invaded Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein from power. According to several Pew Research Attitudes polls conducted since 2003, 99% of Jordanians viewed the U.S. unfavorably and 82% of Jordanians viewed American people unfavorably. Although 2017 data indicates negative attitudes towards the U.S. and American people have gone down to 82% and 61% respectively, rates of anti-Americanism in Jordan are still among the highest in the world.
Palestinian territories
In July 2013, Palestinian Cleric Ismat Al-Hammouri, a leader of the Jerusalem-based Hizb ut-Tahrir, called for the destruction of America, France, Britain and Rome to conquer and destroy the enemies of the "Nation of Islam". He warned: "We warn you, oh America: Take your hands off the Muslims. You have wreaked havoc in Syria, and before that, in Afghanistan and in Iraq, and now in Egypt. Who do you think we are, America? We are the nation of Islam — a giant and mighty nation, which extends from east to west. Soon, we will teach you a political and military lesson, Allah willing. Allah Akbar. All glory to Allah". Al-Hammouri also warned U.S. president Barack Obama that there is an impending rise of a united Muslim empire that will instill religious law on all of its subjects.
Saudi Arabia
In Saudi Arabia, anti-American sentiment was described as "intense" and "at an all-time high".
According to the survey taken by the Saudi intelligence service of "educated Saudis between the ages of 25 and 41" taken shortly after the 9/11 attacks "concluded that 95 percent" of those surveyed supported Bin Laden's cause. (Support for Bin Laden reportedly waned by 2006 and by then, the Saudi population become considerably more pro-American, after Al-Qaeda linked groups staged attacks inside Saudi Arabia.) The proposal at the Defense Policy Board to 'take Saudi out of Arabia' was spread as the secret US plan for the kingdom.
Turkey
In 2009, during U.S. president Barack Obama's visit to Turkey, anti-American protestors held signs saying "Obama, new president of the American imperialism that is the enemy of the world's people, your hands are also bloody. Get out of our country." Protestors also shouted phrases such as "Yankee go home" and "Obama go home". A 2017 Pew Research poll indicated that 67% of Turkish respondents held unfavourable views of Americans and 82% disapproved of the spread of American ideas and customs in their country; both percentages were the highest out of all the nations surveyed.
Anti-American sentiment in Turkey had existed since the mid-1940s. However, Anti-Americanism began to spread primarily in the 1950s due to views that America had begun to dominate Turkey and spread its cultural influence into the middle class.
Leftist figures such as Mehmet Ali Aybar, who would later become the Chairman of the Turkish Worker's Party, opposed collaboration with the USA and Turkey, on the grounds that US economic aid would turn Turkey into an "Anglo-Saxon satellite state" as early as 1947. The Turkish revolutionary and Maoist İbrahim Kaypakkaya considered Turkey to be an American semi-colony. However, there were also growing Anti-American sentiments on the Turkish Right. Conservative newspapers such as Büyük Doğu and Kuvvet also held views that America would in the future meddle in Turkish domestic affairs. Anti-American sentiment spread among more of the public when a law was passed in Turkey that authorized only US officials, to exercise criminal jurisdiction over American personnel in cases where a criminal act had been committed. While this on its own did not lead to Anti-American sentiment spreading, it did mean that any incidents resulting from the actions of American personnel would have a considerable impact on popular views towards America. Such incidents often led to anger and resentment to American personnel and America by extension.
Anti-Americanism in Turkey saw a significant rise as a result of the Johnson Letter in the 1960s, which stated that the US was against an invasion of Cyprus, and stated that the USA would not come to the aid of Turkey if an invasion of Cyprus led to war with the Soviet Union. Many Turks saw the letter as tantamount to outright veto power over Turkish affairs by the USA.
The Americas
All the countries of North and South America (including Canada, the United States of America, and Latin American countries) are often referred to as "The Americas" in the Anglosphere. In the U.S. and most countries outside Latin America, the terms "America" and "American" typically refer only to the United States of America and its citizens respectively. In the 1890s Cuban writer José Martí in an essay, "Our America," alludes to his objection to this usage.
Latin America
See also: Latin America, Monroe Doctrine, Manifest Destiny, Roosevelt Corollary, Banana Wars, Operation Condor, and Latin America–United States relationsAnti-Americanism in Latin America has deep roots and is a key element of the concept of Latin American identity, "specifically anti-U.S. expansionism and Catholic anti-Protestantism." An 1828 exchange between William Henry Harrison, the U.S. minister plenipotentiary rebuked President Simón Bolívar of Gran Colombia, saying "... the strongest of all governments is that which is most free", calling on Bolívar to encourage the development of a democracy. In response, Bolívar wrote, "The United States ... seem destined by Providence to plague America with torments in the name of freedom", a phrase that achieved fame in Latin America.
The Spanish–American War of 1898, which escalated Cuba's war of independence from Spain, turned the U.S. into a world power and made Cuba a protectorate of the United States via the Platt Amendment to the Cuban constitution and the 1903 Cuban–American Treaty of Relations. The U.S. action was consistent with the Big Stick ideology espoused by Theodore Roosevelt's corollary to the Monroe Doctrine that led to numerous interventions in Central America and the Caribbean, also prompted hatred of the U.S. in other regions of the Americas. A very influential formulation of Latin-American anti-Americanism, engendered by the 1898 war, was the Uruguayan journalist José Enrique Rodó's essay Ariel (1900) in which the spiritual values of the South American Ariel are contrasted to the brutish mass-culture of the American Caliban. This essay had enormous influence throughout Spanish America in the 1910s and 1920s, and prompted resistance to what was seen as American cultural imperialism. Perceived racist attitudes of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants of the North toward the populations of Latin America also caused resentment.
The Student Reform that began in the Argentine University of Cordoba in 1918, boosted the idea of anti-imperialism throughout Latin America, and played a fundamental role for launching the concept that was to be developed over several generations. Already in 1920, the Federación Universitaria Argentina issued a manifesto entitled Denunciation of Imperialism.
Since the 1940s, U.S. relations with Argentina have been tense, when the U.S. feared the regime of General Peron was too close to Nazi Germany. In 1954, American support for the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état against the democratically elected President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán fueled anti-Americanism in the region. This CIA-sponsored coup prompted a former president of that country, Juan José Arévalo to write a fable entitled The Shark and the Sardines (1961) in which a predatory shark (representing the United States) overawes the sardines of Latin America.
Vice-President Richard Nixon's tour of South America in 1958 prompted a spectacular eruption of anti-Americanism. The tour became the focus of violent protests which climaxed in Caracas, Venezuela where Nixon was almost killed by a raging mob as his motorcade drove from the airport to the city. In response, President Dwight D. Eisenhower assembled troops at Guantanamo Bay and a fleet of battleships in the Caribbean to intervene to rescue Nixon if necessary.
Fidel Castro, the late revolutionary leader of Cuba, tried throughout his career to co-ordinate long-standing Latin American resentments against the USA through military and propagandist means. He was aided in this goal by the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba in 1961, planned and implemented by the American government against his regime. This disaster damaged American credibility in the Americas and gave a boost to its critics worldwide. According to Rubin and Rubin, Castro's Second Declaration of Havana, in February 1962, "constituted a declaration of war on the United States and the enshrinement of a new theory of anti-Americanism". Castro called America "a vulture...feeding on humanity". The United States embargo against Cuba maintained resentment and Castro's colleague, the famed revolutionary Che Guevara, expressed his hopes during the Vietnam War of "creating a Second or a Third Vietnam" in the Latin American region against the designs of what he believed to be U.S. imperialism.
The United States hastens the delivery of arms to the puppet governments they see as being increasingly threatened; it makes them sign pacts of dependence to legally facilitate the shipment of instruments of repression and death and of troops to use them.
— Che Guevara, 9 April 1961
Many subsequent U.S. interventions against countries in the region, including democracies, and support for military dictatorships solidified Latin American anti-Americanism. These include the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état, the 1965–1966 occupation of the Dominican Republic, the 1971 Bolivian and 1973 Chilean coup d'états, U.S. involvement in Argentina's Dirty War, U.S. involvement in Operation Condor, the Salvadoran Civil War, the support of the Contras, the training of future military men, subsequently seen as war criminals, in the School of the Americas, the refusal to extradite convicted terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, and U.S. support for dictators such as Paraguayan Alfredo Stroessner, Haitian François Duvalier, and pre-1989 Panamanian Manuel Noriega.
Many Latin Americans perceived that neo-liberalism reforms were failures in the 1980s and 1990s and intensified their opposition to the Washington consensus. This led to a resurgence in support for Pan-Americanism, support for popular movements in the region, the nationalization of key industries and centralization of government. America's tightening of the economic embargo on Cuba in 1996 and 2004 also caused resentment amongst Latin American leaders and prompted them to use the Rio Group and the Madrid-based Ibero-American Summits as meeting places rather than the United States-dominated OAS. This trend has been reinforced through the creation of a series of regional political bodies such as Unasur and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, and a strong opposition to the materialization of the Washington-sponsored Free Trade Area of the Americas at the 2005 4th Summit of the Americas.
Polls compiled by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs showed in 2006 Argentine public opinion was quite negative regarding America's role in the world. In 2007, 26% of Argentines had a favorable view of the American people, with 57% having an unfavorable view. Argentine public opinion of the United States and U.S. policies improved during the Obama administration, and as of 2010 was divided about evenly (42% to 41%) between those who viewed these favorably or unfavorably. The ratio remained stable by 2013, with 38% of Argentines having a favorable view and 40% having an unfavorable view.
Furthermore, the renewal of the concession for the U.S. military base in Manta, Ecuador was met by considerable criticism, derision, and even doubt by the supporters of such an expansion. The near-war sparked by the 2008 Andean diplomatic crisis was expressed by a high-level Ecuadorean military officer as being carried under American auspices. The officer said "a large proportion of senior officers," share "the conviction that the United States was an accomplice in the attack" (launched by the Colombian military on a FARC camp in Ecuador, near the Colombian border). The Ecuadorean military retaliated by stating the 10-year lease on the base, which expired in November 2009, would not be renewed and that the U.S. military presence was expected to be scaled down starting three months before the expiration date.
Mexico
In the 1836 Texas Revolution, the Mexican province of Texas seceded from Mexico and nine years later, encouraged by the Monroe Doctrine and manifest destiny, the United States annexed the Republic of Texas - at its request, but against vehement opposition by Mexico, which refused to recognize the independence of Texas - and began their expansion into Western North America. Mexican anti-American sentiment was further inflamed by the resulting 1846–1848 Mexican–American War, in which Mexico lost more than half of its territory to the United States.
The Chilean writer Francisco Bilbao predicted in America in Danger (1856) that the loss of Texas and northern Mexico to "the talons of the eagle" was just a foretaste of an American bid for world domination. An early exponent of the concept of Latin America, Bilbao excluded Brazil and Paraguay from it, as well as Mexico, because "Mexico lacked a real republican consciousness, precisely because of its complicated relationship with the United States." Interventions by the U.S. prompted a later ruler of Mexico, Porfirio Diaz, to lament: "Poor Mexico, so far from God, and so close to the United States". Mexico's National Museum of Interventions, opened in 1981, is a testament to Mexico's sense of grievance with the United States.
In Mexico during the regime of liberal Porfirio Díaz (1876-1911), policies favored foreign investment, especially American, who sought profits in agriculture, ranching, mining, industry, and infrastructure such as railroads. Their dominance in agriculture and their acquisition of vast tracts of land at the expense of Mexican small holders and indigenous communities was a cause for peasant mobilization in the Mexican Revolution (1910–20). The program of the Liberal Party of Mexico (1906), explicitly called for policies against foreign ownership in Mexico, with the slogan "Mexico for the Mexicans." Land reform in Mexico in the postrevolutionary period had a major impact on these U.S. holdings, where many were expropriated.
Venezuela
Since the start of the Hugo Chávez administration, relations between Venezuela and the United States deteriorated markedly, as Chávez became highly critical of the U.S. foreign policy. Chávez was known for his anti-American rhetoric. In a speech at the UN General Assembly, Chávez said that Bush promoted "a false democracy of the elite" and a "democracy of bombs". Chávez opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and also condemned the NATO–led military intervention in Libya, calling it an attempt by the West and the U.S. to control the oil in Libya.
In 2015, the Obama administration signed an executive order which imposed targeted sanctions on seven Venezuelan officials whom the White House argued were instrumental in human rights violations, persecution of political opponents and significant public corruption and said that the country posed an "unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States." Nicolás Maduro responded to the sanctions in a couple of ways. He wrote an open letter in a full page ad in The New York Times in March 2015, stating that Venezuelans were "friends of the American people" and called President Obama's action of making targeted sanctions on the alleged human rights abusers a "unilateral and aggressive measure". Examples of accusations of human rights abuses from the United States to Maduro's government included the murder of Luis Manuel Díaz, a political activist, prior to legislative elections in Venezuela.
Maduro threatened to sue the United States over an executive order issued by the Obama Administration that declared Venezuela to be a threat to American security. He also planned to deliver 10 million signatures, denouncing the United States' decree declaring the situation in Venezuela an "extraordinary threat to US national security". and ordered all schools in the country to hold an "anti-imperialist day" against the United States with the day's activities including the "collection of the signatures of the students, and teaching, administrative, maintenance and cooking personnel". Maduro further ordered state workers to apply their signatures in protest, with some workers reporting that firings of state workers occurred due to their rejection of signing the executive order protesting the "Obama decree". There were also reports that members of Venezuelan armed forces and their families were ordered to sign against the United States decree.
Canada
See also: Canada–United States relationsCanadian Anti-Americanism manifests itself in a variety of ways, ranging from political to cultural. Anti-Americanism in Canada has unique historic roots. When the Continental Congress was called in 1774, an invitation was sent to Quebec and Nova Scotia. However Canadians expressed little interest in joining the Congress, and the following year the Continental Army invaded Canada, but was defeated at the Battle of Quebec. Although the American Articles of Confederation later pre-approved Canada as a U.S. state, public opinion had turned against them. Soon 40,000 loyalist refugees arrived from the United States, including 2,000 Black Loyalists, many of whom had fought for the Crown against the American revolutionaries. To them, the republic they left behind was violent and anarchic; with Canadian imperialists repeatedly warning against American-style republicanism and democracy as little more than mob rule. Several transgressions that took place in Upper Canada by the US Army during the War of 1812 resulted in a "deep prejudice against the United States," to emerge in the colony after the conflict.
In the early 20th century, Canadian textbooks portrayed the United States in a negative fashion. The theme was the United States had abandoned the British Empire, and as a result, America was disorderly, greedy, and selfishly individualistic. By the 1930s, there was less concern with the United States, and more attention given to Canada's peaceful society, and its efforts on behalf of civilization in World War I. Close cooperation in the Second World War led to a much more favorable image. In the 1945-1965 era, the friendly and peaceful border was stressed. Textbooks emphasized the role of the United States as an international power and champion of freedom with Canada as its influential partner.
In 1945-65, there was wide consensus in Canada on foreign and defense policies. Bothwell, Drummond and English state:
That support was remarkably uniform geographically and racially, both coast to coast and among French and English. From the CCF on the left to the Social Credit on the right, the political parties agreed that NATO was a good thing, and communism a bad thing, that a close association with Europe was desirable, and that the Commonwealth embodied a glorious past.
However the consensus did not last. By 1957 the Suez Crisis had alienated Canada from both Britain and France; politicians distrusted American leadership, businessmen questioned American financial investments; and intellectuals ridiculed the values of American television and Hollywood offerings that all Canadians watched. "Public support for Canada's foreign policy big came unstuck. Foreign-policy, from being a winning issue for the Liberals, was fast becoming a losing one." Apart from the far left, which admired the USSR, anti-Americanism was first adopted by a few leading historians. As the Cold War grew hotter after 1947, Harold Innis grew increasingly hostile to the United States. He warned repeatedly that Canada was becoming a subservient colony to its much more powerful southern neighbor. "We are indeed fighting for our lives," he warned, pointing especially to the "pernicious influence of American advertising....We can only survive by taking persistent action at strategic points against American imperialism in all its attractive guises." His anti-Americanism influenced some younger scholars, including Donald Creighton.
Anti-American sentiment in Canadian television programming was highlighted in a leaked American diplomatic cable from 2008. While the cable noted that anti-American sentiment in Canadian programming was not a "public diplomatic crisis," it was "noteworthy as an indication of the kind of insidious negative popular stereotyping we are increasingly up against in Canada".
The presidency of Donald Trump correlated with a resurgence in anti-American attitudes among the Canadian population. In 2017, Pew Research found that 30% of Canadians viewed Americans negatively, and that 58% of Canadians opposed the spread of American ideas and customs.
In 2018, a trade war and inflammatory comments by Trump provoked substantial backlash within Canada. An annual Pew Research survey found historic Canadian dissatisfaction with the United States, with 56% of Canadians surveyed having negative views of the United States, and 39% having positive views. There was widespread media coverage of organized boycotts against American goods and tourism. A September 2018 Abacus Data survey found that Donald Trump was more disliked by Canadians than any major Canadian political leader, with only 9% approval and 80% disapproval nationally.
The shooting down of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 by Iran in January 2020, which killed 57 Canadians, was widely viewed in Canada as unnecessary collateral damage amidst deteriorating Iran-US relations, a view echoed by prime minister Justin Trudeau. An EKOS Research poll found that 29% of Canadians viewed the United States as wholly responsible for the attack by means of instigation, with 48% saying that they shared the blame with Iran and only 19% blaming Iran alone.
As a result of the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic, Canada closed its border with the United States on March 21 of that year, and crossing the border was restricted to essential travel. However, US travelers may cross the border if they claim to be driving to the American state of Alaska. By June, there were multiple reports of Americans using this as a false pretext to enter Canada and stay for vacation. This led to instances of verbal and physical attacks on drivers with U.S. license plates. Physical attacks typically consisted of damage to cars with these plates, sometimes with a threatening note left behind. Some of these attacks occurred in resort towns such as Muskoka Lakes, Ontario; its Mayor, Phil Harding, suggested these incidents stem from 'Canadians' fear of contracting COVID-19 from Americans as a result of the situation in the United States'. In August 2020, a poll found that 80% of Canadians wanted the border to remain closed for the rest of the year. A separate poll conducted by Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies found that only 34% of respondents expressed trust in Americans, compared to 72.5% for the inverse. Additionally, 66% of Canadians said they worried about cases spreading from the United States as opposed to 19% of Americans worrying about Canadian cases spreading south.
Canadian political rhetoric
Anti-Americanism, as a political tactic, was sometimes used by the Conservatives to attack the supposed Liberal Party affinity for Americans, as in the 1911 elections. Canada's first prime minister, John A. Macdonald, viewed American politicians as greedy and exploitative. He staunchly opposed free trade with the United States, calling it "veiled treason" in his manifesto for the 1891 election, which occurred during trade disagreements with the U.S.
Anti-Americanism thus remained a fixture in Canadian partisan politics, as employed by such leaders as prime minister John G. Diefenbaker in the 1950s. He was aided in his attacks by the prominent historian Donald Creighton, who also wrote The Take-Over (1978), a novel about an American takeover.
Canadian intellectuals who wrote about the U.S. in the first half of the 20th century identified the United States as the world center of modernity, and deplored it. Imperialists explained that Canadians had narrowly escaped American conquest, with its rejection of tradition, its worship of "progress" and technology, and its mass culture; they explained that Canada was much better because of its commitment to orderly government and social harmony. There were a few ardent defenders of the nation to the south, notably liberal and socialist intellectuals such as F. R. Scott and Jean-Charles Harvey (1891–1967).
Brendon O'Connor and Martin Griffiths state in their book Anti-Americanism that they would at first glance think that Canadians seem as likely as others to embrace characteristics that are characterized as anti-American. O'Conner and Griffiths include such actions as criticizing Americans as a people, or the U.S. as a country as being anti-American often demonizing, denigrating and resorting to stereotypes. They have also written that the anti-Americanism found in Canada had unique qualities: nowhere else has it been so entrenched for so long, nor so central to the political culture as in Canada. Historian Kim Richard Nossal thinks that a low level attenuated form of anti-Americanism permeates Canadian political culture, though "designed primarily as a means to differentiate Canadians from Americans". Although Jack Granatstein has suggested that anti-Americanism was dead in Canada, John Herd Thompson and Stephen J. Randall in their book Canada and the United States (2002) states that there is anecdotal evidence that it still flourishes, and that it continues to nourish the Canadian sense of identity.
Margaret Atwood is a leading Canadian author. In her dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale (1986) all the horrible developments take place in the United States near Boston, while Canada is portrayed as the only hope for an escape. This reflects her status of being "in the vanguard of Canadian anti-Americanism of the 1960s and 1970s." Critics have seen Gilead (the U.S.) as a repressive regime and the mistreated Handmaid as Canada. During the debate in 1987 over a free trade agreement between Canada and the United States, Atwood spoke out against the deal, and wrote an essay opposing the agreement.
Liberal Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien was opposed to the Iraq War and refused to allow Canada to participate in it. A 2003 poll found that 71% of Canadians approved of this decision, while 27% disapproved. Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper initially supported the Iraq War when elected in 2006 but by 2008, he had changed his mind and stated that the war was "a mistake".
United States President George W. Bush was "deeply disliked" by a majority of Canadians according to the Arizona Daily Sun. A 2004 poll found that more than two-thirds of Canadians favored Democrat John Kerry over Bush in the 2004 presidential election, with Bush's lowest approval ratings in Canada being in the province of Quebec, where just 11% of the population supported him. Canadian public opinion of Barack Obama was more positive. A 2012 poll found that 65% of Canadians would vote for Obama in the 2012 presidential election "if they could", while only 9% of Canadians would vote for his Republican opponent Mitt Romney. The same study found that 61% of Canadians felt that the Obama administration had been "good" for America, while only 12% felt that it had been "bad". The study also found that a majority of members of all three major Canadian political parties supported Obama, and that Obama had slightly higher approval ratings in Canada in 2012 than he did in 2008. John Ibbitson of The Globe and Mail stated in 2012 that Canadians generally supported Democratic presidents over Republican candidates, citing how President Richard Nixon was "never liked" in Canada and that Canadians generally did not approve of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's friendship with President Ronald Reagan.
During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, United States president Donald Trump briefly prevented the export of N-95 masks to Canada. This prompted many retaliatory statements from provincial politicians. Doug Ford, premier of Ontario, likened it to letting one family member starve while another feasts. Alberta premier Jason Kenney compared the mask export ban to the reluctance of the United States to join the fight against fascism in World War II.
Oceania
Australia
The Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition (AABCC) was formed on the basis of lobbying and protests that developed over the years from the 1960s when the majority of U.S. bases in Australia were established. It was founded by the New South Wales branch of the PND (People For Nuclear Disarmament). In 1974, several hundred people traveled to North West Cape from around Australia to protest and occupy the base. Anti-Americanism supposedly exists among school teachers in Australia, which has been condemned by conservative politicians such as Treasurer Peter Costello, who criticized the teaching history in Australian schools.
According to an article published by The Monthly magazine, Australians muttered stories about George W. Bush over glasses of beer and despaired of neoconservatism in coffee shops, lamenting the so-called Ugly American activities. According to the same article, Rupert Murdoch, an American who had renounced his Australian citizenship over two decades prior, said during a November 2006 visit to Australia that "he was worried about a 'regrettable' anti-American sentiment in Australia." In a poll taken by U.S. magazine Reader's Digest with 1000 Australians, 15 percent of Australians described themselves as "anti-American". Another 67 percent held neutral views of America, and 17 percent said they were "pro-American". In the survey, 71 percent of Australians said they would not like to live in the US. Another poll in 2012 by LivingSocial had 30 percent of Australian respondents holding negative views of American tourists. A 2016 Pew Research poll also had 69% of Australian respondents associating Americans with arrogance and 68% associating them with violence, percentages which were slightly higher than most countries surveyed.
See also
- American exceptionalism
- Anti-Western sentiment
- Global arrogance
- Americanism (ideology)
- Covert U.S. regime change actions
- Criticism of the United States government
- Dedollarisation
- Euston Manifesto
- How the World Sees America
- Human rights in the United States
- Military history of the United States
- Monetary hegemony
- Opposition to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War
- Opposition to the Iraq War
- Pro-Americanism
- Racism in the United States
- United States and state terrorism
- Washington Obkom
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France
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Historiography
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