Are Americans Universally Hated?
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| Country polled | Positive | Negative | Neutral | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 China |
-59 | |||
 Canada |
-3 | |||
 Russia |
-1 | |||
 United Kingdom |
+3 | |||
 Germany |
+8 | |||
 Australia |
+14 | |||
 Spain |
+17 | |||
 France |
+24 | |||
 Italy |
+25 | |||
 Japan |
+30 | |||
 South Korea |
+35
|
 Mexico |
+53 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Brazil |
+60 | |||
 United States |
+61 | |||
 India |
+69 |
| Country polled | Favorable | Unfavorable | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
 Sweden |
-60 | ||
| Australia |
-42 | ||
 Turkey |
-42 | ||
 Netherlands |
-40 | ||
| Mexico |
-40 | ||
| Spain |
-33 | ||
| Germany |
-33 | ||
| Canada |
-30 | ||
| France |
-23 | ||
 Greece |
-8 | ||
| Italy |
-5 | ||
 Indonesia |
0 | ||
| United Kingdom |
+1 | ||
 South Africa |
+8 | ||
| Japan |
+11 | ||
 Poland |
+18 | ||
| South Korea |
+20 | ||
| Brazil |
+21 | ||
 Argentina |
+22 | ||
 Hungary |
+23 | ||
 Kenya |
+28 | ||
| India |
+35 | ||
 Nigeria |
+61 | ||
 Israel |
+67 |
In a poll conducted in 2017 by the BBC World Service of 19 countries, four of the countries rated U.S. influence positively, while 14 leaned negatively, and one was divided.[46]
Anti-Americanism had risen in the late 2010s in Canada, Latin America, the Middle East, and the European Union, due in part to the strong worldwide unpopularity of the first Donald Trump administration‘s policies, though anti-Americanism is noted to be low in numerous countries of central and eastern Europe due to stronger anti-communist sentiment amongst numerous former Warsaw Pact satellite states of the Soviet Union and strong support for joining and remaining within the NATO alliance.[47][48] Following the 2020 election of Joe Biden as the new US president, overall global views of the United States have returned to being positive overall once more.[49]
Interpretations of anti-Americanism have often been polarized. Anti-Americanism has been described by the Hungarian-born American sociologist Paul Hollander as “a relentless critical impulse toward American social, economic, and political institutions, traditions, and values”.[50][51]
The German newspaper publisher and political scientist Josef Joffe suggests five classic aspects of the phenomenon: reducing Americans to stereotypes, believing the United States to have an irredeemably evil nature, ascribing to the U.S. establishment a vast conspiratorial power aimed at utterly dominating the globe, holding the U.S. responsible for all the evils in the world, and seeking to limit the influence of the U.S. by destroying it or by cutting oneself and one’s society off from its polluting products and practices.[52] Other advocates of the significance of the term argue that anti-Americanism represents a coherent and dangerous ideological current, comparable to antisemitism.[53] Anti-Americanism has also been described as an attempt to frame the consequences of U.S. foreign policy choices as evidence of a specifically American moral failure, as opposed to what may be unavoidable failures of a complicated foreign policy that comes with superpower status.[54]
The term status as an “-ism” has been a greatly contested subject, however. Brendon O’Connor notes that studies of the topic have been “patchy and impressionistic,” and often one-sided attacks on anti-Americanism as an irrational position.[2] The American academic Noam Chomsky, a prolific critic of the U.S. and its policies, asserts that the use of the term within the U.S. has parallels with methods employed by totalitarian states or military dictatorships; he compares the term to “anti-Sovietism“, a label used by the Kremlin to suppress dissident or critical thought, for instance.[55][56][57][58]
The concept “anti-American” is an interesting one. The counterpart is used only in totalitarian states or military dictatorships. … Thus, in the old Soviet Union, dissidents were condemned as “anti-Soviet”. That’s a natural usage among people with deeply rooted totalitarian instincts, which identify state policy with the society, the people, the culture. In contrast, people with even the slightest concept of democracy treat such notions with ridicule and contempt.[59]
Some have attempted to recognize both positions. French academic Pierre Guerlain has argued that the term represents two very different tendencies: “One systematic or essentialist, which is a form of prejudice targeting all Americans. The other refers to the way criticisms of the United States are labeled ‘anti-American’ by supporters of U.S. policies in an ideological bid to discredit their opponents”.[60] Guerlain argues that these two “ideal types” of anti-Americanism can sometimes merge, thus making discussion of the phenomenon particularly difficult. Other scholars have suggested that a plural of anti-Americanisms, specific to country and time period, more accurately describe the phenomenon than any broad generalization.[61] The widely used “anti-American sentiment”, meanwhile, less explicitly implies an ideology or belief system.
Globally, increases in perceived anti-American attitudes appear to correlate with particular policies or actions,[62] such as the Vietnam and Iraq[63] wars. For this reason, critics sometimes argue the label is a propaganda term that is used to dismiss any censure of the United States as irrational.[64] American historian Max Paul Friedman has written that throughout American history the term has been misused to stifle domestic dissent and delegitimize any foreign criticism.[65] 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.[66]
