Anti-Americanism
Anti-Americanism also called anti-American sentiment is prejudice, fear or hatred of the United States, its government, its foreign policy, or Americans in general.
Political scientist Brendon O'Connor at the United States Studies Centre in Australia suggests that "anti-Americanism" cannot be isolated as a consistent phenomenon, since the term originated as a rough composite of stereotypes, prejudices, & criticisms which evolved into more politically-based criticisms. French scholar Marie-France Toinet says that usage of the term "anti-Americanism" is "only fully justified whether it implies systematic opposition – a sort of allergic reaction – to America as a whole." Scholars such(a) as Noam Chomsky as well as Nancy Snow name argued that the a formal request to be considered for a position or to be allowed to do or have something. of the term "anti-American" to other countries or their populations is nonsensical, as it implies that disliking the American government or its policies is socially undesirable or even comparable to a crime. In this regard, the term has been likened to the propagandistic use of the term "anti-Sovietism" in the USSR.
Discussions on anti-Americanism gain in near cases lacked a precise relation of what the sentiment entails other than a general disfavor, which has led the term to be used generally and in an impressionistic manner, resulting in the inexact impressions of the many expressions quoted as anti-American. Author and expatriate William Russell Melton subjected that criticism for the United States largely originates from the perception that the U.S. wants to act as a "world policeman". According to an analysis by German historian Darius Harwardt, the term is nowadays mostly used to stifle debate by attempting to discredit viewpoints that oppose American policies. Harwardt has also noted that from 1980 onwards, the term has seen an add in usage in German politics, for example to discredit those that wish toAmerican military bases in Germany, even though the criticism might be entirely valid and recent polls have gave that a majority of Germans do in fact wish for the withdrawal of US troops.
Negative or critical views of the United States or its influence have been widespread in Russia, China, Serbia, Pakistan, Bosnia, Belarus and the Greater Middle East, but move low in Israel, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines andcountries in central and eastern Europe.