Comments on: Anti-Americanism in Europe Fueled by Ignorance

By: No More Rocket Ships

No More Rocket Ships — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:12:31 +0000

“McDonald’s success is spreading throughout the rest of Europe, too, where sales growth is outpacing that in America. McDonald’s is now one of the biggest private-sector employers on the continent, with a workforce of some 300,000.”

This is NOT a good thing. Seriously, we’re talking about McDonald’s here. Are there actually adults who think their food is good?

By: SCFC JACK

SCFC JACK — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:44:19 +0000

Firstly I find a lot of what you wrote hard to believe as I live in Brittain and nobody I’ve met believes polygamy is legal in the USA secondly the point you made about pollution is irrelivant because the USA are second only to China in C02 emitions therfore a figure expressed as a percentage isn’t a fair representation of the USA’s efforts to reduce pollution thirdly your point about anti-American propaganda in the media couldn’t be futher from the truth in my opinion I am a free minded minority who refuses to accept the positive potrayal of the USA in the British media.

By: Facts Only

Facts Only — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:17:45 +0000

Some of the most uninformed people in the world are Europeans. They believe all the anti-Amerian propaganda their media throws at them, and they think they are so much more educated because of it! And they wonder why Americans laugh at them and never take them seriously. Americans certainly don’t waste nearly as much time obsessing over the world the way the world does them. Deep down, this is why europeans suffer from such a bad inferiority complex.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:12:39 +0000

umm im american and “Seventy percent of Britons think the United States has done a worse job than the European Union in reducing carbon emissions since 2000″ is actually true, did you read the kyoto protocol? the one we americans didnt sign?? lol

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By: ignorance

ignorance — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:26:04 +0000

God, an I wonder why America is the laughing stock of the world.

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By: Not Economically Viable

Not Economically Viable — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:22:07 +0000

I have seldom read such arrant drivel as some of the “arguments” on this board. I am English (not “British” – as it says on my passport; British is a manufactured identity to suit past political needs, it is a meaningless one now) and my wife is American. We live in the UK but have also lived in the US. I can confirm that Americans are, generally, ignorant about the UK, Europe and, indeed, everywhere else. I do not condemn them for a moment. Why? Well, since the US news media barely mentions foreign affairs, where do they get their information? Since most Americans get so little time off work, one week being the norm across most of the southern states, overseas travel is all but impossible. So, where would they get their personal experience? As for people in Britain being knowledgeable about the US, that is a joke. They are filled with ludicrously exaggerated stereotypes and propaganda by the media. Their personal experience generally comes from two weeks at Disneyworld or some other south Florida resort, or maybe a long weekend shopping trip to New York City. The truly knowledgeable are hard to find, though they do exist in small numbers. Real anti-Americanism here is the province of the burgeoning Muslim population, who regard the US as the puppet and tool of an international Zionist conspiracy. Lower-intensity anti-Americanism is rife among the Neo-Marxist Left, who are to be found in every university, town hall and every branch of the UK government. You can usually recognise them by the name of their political party ” The Labour Party”. (Despite this, the upper echelons of Labour can usually be relied upon to do Washington’s bidding, e.g. Iraq, Afghanistan, Serbia, etc., when few others will. An odd dichotomy, no?) Nobody else really gives the US a second thought. I hope this clarifies matters somewhat.

By: aramkr

aramkr — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:38:02 +0000

No one seems to recognize that it is utterly natural for the people of the US, the most powerful and influential nation on the planet, to be less informed and interested in the myriad less dominant regions of the world than visa versa. It’s like wondering why the Sun is more visible from the earth and the earth is from the Sun. And if that sounds chauvanist, tough.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:11:50 +0000

I agree that there is a lot of ignorant Anti-Americanism in Europe. I feel sorry for all the genuinely wonderful American travelers, who have to counter it.

But as a European who lived in the US and would love to do so again, let me communicate how the rest of the West as well as probably the entire Rest sees the impending Iran conflict.

First of all, see it against the backdrop that Iran shares borders with two countries that are occupied by one of their archenemies, Iraq and Afghanistan. Now how would that make the US feel? The US media never mentions that aspect.

So the US censors Iran for possibly developing nuclear capacities, even though its intelligence services are shouting out it isn’t so. The irony is that a super power that may have reduced some of its nuclear stockpiles but basically owns more nuclear weapons that the rest of the world combined – weapons that are by the way also continuously becoming more technically sophisticated and which the US government has implicated it would use on a limited scale – cites the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty, which it constantly violates.

We are witnessing a massive war crime in the making, a war of aggression. None of the presidential candidates demonstrate the sanity to “take the military option of the table”, but at least one is willing to “talk to the Mullahs”.

The lack of understanding in the US about Anti-Americanism stems from the fact that abuses by the US, like the torture and killing of journalists by US forces, carpet bombings, cluster bombs, use of uranium-depleted munitions etc. are underreported. Granted, they are also underreported in Europe, and Europe is clearly much more complicit than its population thinks.

Europe’s view on the US, on the other hand, can be explained by the lack of knowledge by Europeans about the genuine generosity, tolerance, embracement of multi-culturalism, resourcefulness and ingenuity of ordinary US citizens. Too bad the European public does not take the time to find out that there is an America beyond its leadership!