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   'Death to US': Anti-Americanism examined
   He argues anti-Americanism is often a cover for hatreds with little
   Caracas and Washington but it begins where anti-Americanism began - in
   Protests against nuclear weapons often focus on American weapons
   American weapons. The anti-war rallies were against American-led wars.
   of willingness to condemn America for the tiniest indiscretion - or to
   And if anti-Americanism is alive and well among surprisingly
   Criticism of American power and American life lives on in Paris
   Anti-Americanism was born in France. And here's a fascinating fact: it
   nor does most of America.
   vision didn't fit the rest of the nation. America is ordinary. Go on
   say it out loud on the streets of Paris: "America is ordinary". It
   communities - and that is what the anti-Americans can't stand.
   with him. The source of anti-Americanism is plain they say. As one
   America
   that anti-Americanism is way more than that, that it's not simply
   reasonable opposition to the things America does.
   The kind of anti-Americanism fostered by French intellectuals down the
   centuries revolves around intense dislike of what America is - not
   Bernard-Henri Levy puts it like this: America became the nightmare
   there, American Vertigo, is a balanced and thoughtful piece of work.
   political debate on American power and American life. He describes a
   (just weeks before American GIs landed on the beaches of Normandy),
   mouthpiece of the right - wrote this: "The Americans represent a real
   with which the Russians may - in time - threaten us. The Americans may
   anti-Americanism we see in the world today.
   "Death to America": Anti-Americanism examined will be broadcast on
   Anti-Americanism 'feels like racism' 
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