I got 7 right. McGrath is correct, but actually I think Mister Rushdie is not.

Anti-Americanism is as ill-conceived a mental disease as fearing black cats or distrusting people with moustaches, or blaming one's own condition on "them".

It is a collectivity without merit in substance -- used, instead, as a way of generalizing fear and infecting it into others with useless and semantically senseless generalizations. This is something that any human, regardless of his nationality, will do if he is too oppressed, too indroctrinated or too stupid to think for himself clearly. But it certainly doesn't give it any further merit that it is a popular dysfunction.

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