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Strangely enough, half of the countries where the survey was made (Germany, France, Italy, UK, Canada & the USA) are English speaking countries which are not especially renown for their fondness of France.
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Most of the worldwide anti-American feeling is focused towards the American government, not the American people. The Muslims are upset because of your support to Israel, your military bases in Saudi Arabia and of course the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The South Americans are pissed off because of what you did in Nicaragua, Panama, Ecuador and all the military coups you've instigated there. The South Koreans and the Japanese are annoyed with you because every other month a marine rapes a teenager and gets away with it. And I suppose some Vietnamese are rightfully outraged because of what Agent Orange, one of the defoliant deployed during the Vietnam war, is doing to their children. Basically the biggest USA supporters are in Africa.
The fact that the American government main purpose is to ruthlessly promote its own interests around the world (rather than peace, development and free market as the propaganda goes) was until recently known only to those who had to suffer the consequences of American "interventions" as well as those who didn't buy the "U.S.A. as a world cop" marketing ploy. Today, most people who have followed the run-up to the Iraq invasion are aware that yet again, another dominant power takes advantage of its dominant position to ensure that it stays that way, by any means necessary. Five centuries from now, historians (if there are any left) will probably describe the U.S.A. as a formidable merchant country which did its best to extend its influence, like many other countries before it.
Let's hope that, when America eventually loses its leadership, the fall won't be too violent and that the global hostility against America will have declined.
The fact that the American government main purpose is to ruthlessly promote its own interests around the world (rather than peace, development and free market as the propaganda goes) was until recently known only to those who had to suffer the consequences of American "interventions" as well as those who didn't buy the "U.S.A. as a world cop" marketing ploy. Today, most people who have followed the run-up to the Iraq invasion are aware that yet again, another dominant power takes advantage of its dominant position to ensure that it stays that way, by any means necessary. Five centuries from now, historians (if there are any left) will probably describe the U.S.A. as a formidable merchant country which did its best to extend its influence, like many other countries before it.
Let's hope that, when America eventually loses its leadership, the fall won't be too violent and that the global hostility against America will have declined.
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Sorry for the omission. Having said that two thirds of Canadians speaks English exclusively. French speakers only amount for a less than a quarter of Canada population and I don't think they were part of those who complained French tourists wouldn't speak the local language.