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> Why does everybody hate everything associated
> with Americans and America, except Americans?
Not everybody does but in other parts of the world its the American fast food, porn, excess and the aggressive culture that gets people down.
Having said that, there is an element of jealousy there... people always make jibes about Microsoft because they're the biggest and most successful. Same applies here in some respect.
In China and in the Middle East they hate the Internet because they believe its an instrument by which we proliferate that culture into their homes. For China I guess theyre worried about democracy too.
I think some of their complaints are justified when America, for example, takes unilateral military actions or makes policy decisions based on self interest but most of it is fairly trivial and in my opinion, irrelevant.
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