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Removed poorly sourced sentence about Russia

I removed a sentence and the two sources, references 91 and 92, that were given. 92 is a dead link, and 91 is over 10 years old, so does not contain the "latest polls". It is obviously way out-of-date if you look at the Google translate, since it includes Belorussia and China among Russia's main enemies. Currently Belorussia is supporting Putin's war against Ukraine, and China is also more an ally than an enemy. NightHeron (talk) NightHeron (talk) 20:36, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

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Change the misspelled word "Paraguyan" to "Paraguayan", only. Wuwei Emerald (talk) 17:10, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

Done. Thanks. NightHeron (talk) 18:00, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

Move: Anti-Americanism → Anti-American sentiment

The country-specific articles use "sentiment" rather than "-ism", e.g. Anti-American sentiment in Germany, etc. ―Emperor ÖSMAN IXXVMD (talk) 08:52, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

Oppose The term is used much more broadly than conveyed by "sentiment". For example, according to the lead sentence, sentiments and positions including opposition to its foreign policy. NightHeron (talk) 09:27, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

Mild Oppose I say "mild" in that the suggestion isn't egregiously wrong, and if there were consensus for it that would seem fine to me. However, per NightHeron, the term "Anti-Americanism" is generally broader in usage and this seems to be reasonably well explained in the lead. Also noting that "Anti-American sentiment" is already a redirect to this article, so anyone looking for sentiments is going to find it. CAVincent (talk) 10:24, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

Comment: It literally says Anti-Americanism (also called anti-American sentiment or Americanophobia) is ....

(BTW, sorry for the late response.)

―Emperor ÖSMAN IXXVMD (talk) 10:42, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

Support This would be in line with pretty much all other articles on xenophobia. I'll start a move discussion?

Alexanderkowal (talk) 16:30, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

The Southeast Asia part contains a picture of a protest against the Islamophobic film "Innocence of Muslims" in Malaysia. However this is not an example of Anti Americanism. That is more like protesting against the movie than America itself.

The picture is not a good example of Anti Americanism in Southeast Asia.Malaysia is rarely anti American. It's more criticizing the American support of Israel and some incidents that happen during the War on Terror Kaukênteo (talk) 09:38, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

I agree, and I would support removing that photo from the article. There's a more general problem with this article, in that several of the photos are really about protests against specific actions by the US (and one is about German anti-Dutch propaganda in 1944). The assumption that these protests were due to "anti-Americanism" is unsupported by sources and constitutes WP:SYNTH. This article adopts an overly broad definition of the term "anti-Americanism". It's okay to say (with a source) that angry criticism of US actions is often perceived by many Americans as "anti-Americanism". But that's a perception, not a fact. Max Paul Friedman (reference ) has sharply criticized the tendency to label any criticism of the US as anti-Americanism. NightHeron (talk) 11:36, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

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2605:B100:903:5615:96CA:E801:DC51:58AC (talk) 20:23, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Add Canada to list of countries that despise Americans.

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. PianoDan (talk) 20:35, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

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Request to add Pro-Americanism under a suitable paragraph or See also. 223.25.74.34 (talk) 04:10, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Done It might be a good idea to put it in the lead. —Panamitsu (talk) 04:46, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

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It has been proposed in this section that Anti-Americanism be renamed and moved to Anti-American sentiment.

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Anti-Americanism → Anti-American sentiment – This would be in line with almost all other articles on xenophobia, such as Anti-Albanian sentiment, Anti-African sentiment, Anti-Afghan sentiment, Anti-Armenian sentiment, Anti-Assyrian sentiment, Anti-Azerbaijani sentiment, and that is just those beginning with 'A'. It is very commonly used in academia, although I don't know whether it is marginally more common than the status quo. Alexanderkowal (talk) 16:48, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

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