I like many Americans I've met.

Americans often don't help their own cause with some of the attitudes that SOME Americans hold. Some often seem not to give a damn for anyone else, oh except when worrying about what others think of Americans. In those cases, the interest isn't in others but remains self-regarding.

Your media don't help (likewise much of the education system) in apparently having little interest in anywhere much outside the States (except when those other places are seen as a threat to the U.S. ,same sense of self-regard). So many Americans appear to have been brainwashed, and don't know it,(by definition?).

And great music, songs, films, books, photos, ideas and people have come from the USA, too.

And there is tons of pro-American sentiment in the UK too. Lots of people here wouldn't be without Friends, US films and pop, that wierd sugar-and-water drink, beefburgers and all the rest.

Americans are like everybody else insofar as they have their pros and their cons, their particular qualities and weaknesses.

Insofar as the sentiment is anti, I would recommend Americans to consider that any of the reasons had some validity, and weren't merely negative (envy etc.etc.). Rabbi Burns had a famous line or two on the subject of how others see us, which , naturally, I won't quote.


   Ivor