No doubt that prejudices against American culture and society exist at the level of individual prejudice, but is it ever translated into policy, is "anti-Americanism" the basis for mass popular movements or for governmental action?
Certainly in China, for instance, there is a high level of popular resentment or opposition to U.S. Government actions (The Belgrade embassy bombing for instance) but I don't think that would translate into rampant anti-American bigotry and certainly not the basis for Chinese Government action. SR
P.S. (Inserting the question of anti-semitism on the left into the debate is simply a red herring and a cheap rhetorical trick.) -------------- Original message -------------- From: Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com>
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> Anti-Americanism is not even necessarily a "leftist"
> anti-imperialist phenomenon. In Germany, you have a
> long tradition of elitist, right-wing
> Anti-Americanism, reaching back to the 19th century,
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> Americans are a "people without culture" lacking such
> European refinements like Goethe or Leonardo da Vinci.
> This usually also entails criticizing the "mass
> culture" of American society and lack of "history"
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> anti-semitic topoi such as the "money hunger" of
> Americans and such.
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