I suspect that we are hated now for many of the same reasons that the British were hated for so long.

White Man's Burden

Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.

Take up the White Man's burden--
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.

Take up the White Man's burden--
The savage wars of peace--
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.

Take up the White Man's burden--
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper--
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go mark them with your living,
And mark them with your dead.

Take up the White Man's burden--
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard--
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--
"Why brought he us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?"

Take up the White Man's burden--
Ye dare not stoop to less--
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloke your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your gods and you.

Take up the White Man's burden--
Have done with childish days--
The lightly proferred laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!

I would suppose that those Iraqis that hate us (I am not referring to the jihadis or the Baathists) hate us because they see us as the cause of their all of their problems. There is also the undeniable influence of their religion and racial pride.

The Koreans? Most of the Koreans that I have met do not hate the US, unless you are speaking about the North Koreans. Who knows about them? It's kind of hard to take an opinion poll up there, what with the Glorious Leader's thugs with AK's everywhere. I would imagine, though, that any North Korean who would say he hated the US would risk life and limb if he thought he could get himself and his family over here.

I am sure there were plenty of folks over in the Soviet Union that "hated" us the same way, as well.

I think a BETTER question would be why the Western Europeans (as well as our good neighbors to the north) hate us so...

Another good question would be, should we care?

"It is better to suffer the hatred of evil men than their company"