From: Jonathan Davis (jonathan.davis@lineone.net)
Date: Mon Sep 15 2003 - 07:36:14 MDT
That the term has wide use does not render it meaningless.
Anti-American means: 1. Opposed or hostile to the government, official
policies, or people of the United States, their aims, or interests, or to
their institutions.
2. To be against America or Americans. 3. Predisposed to hostility towards
America, Americans or things American.
That the USA is disliked for simply being powerful is a point I have also
made elsewhere. That said, to surrender to anti-American prejudice is
logically unsound and generally unhelpful (you know I am not referring to
you here).
Regards
Jonathan
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Kharin
Sent: 15 September 2003 13:24
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: Re:virus: The Ideohazard 1.1
"Whilst most nations would not expect to be unconditionally loved, neither
would they expect to be reflexively hated. "
Then they must be singularly naive. On the whole, I am inclined to agree
with Niall Ferguson that the US has effectively become an imperial power but
is reluctant to accept the full philosophical implications of that, one of
which happens to be that imperial powers are not generally well liked. That
is an occupational hazard and one I doubt that too many previous Empires
concerned themselves with.
"Anti-Americanism is simply an abstraction of being anti-American . It means
what it says. "
Well, what does it mean or say? Since I have heard the term reflexively used
to cover anything from European dislike of American popular culture to Asian
dislike of American business practises one is left suspecting the term to be
devoid of content.
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