I like NY, for the record. I found it kind of ironic that when I was there people somehow recognized me as "latino" and talked to me in Spanish.

You know, down here in the South we use to play with this US-America ambivalence by displacing Monroe's doctrine and saying "America for the [Latin] Americans". Or, in good Spanish, "Gringolándia un día será nuestra". :-)

I also love the way the historically ignorant discuss America as if it as monolithic as Europe. The American of the Civil War was vastly different from the America of WWI and WWII because of the historically unmatched immigration to the United States in that period.
Along the same vein the United States of the 21st century is not the United States of WWII because of the Immigration Act of 1965 that dramatically changed the ethnic mixture of the American pie, and for the better on both occasions I might add.

So to discuss American actions pre-Civil War as congruent with those of the Post WWII world just exposes the author's utter ignorance of history.

Or maybe that's bad Spanish, as dia no lleva aciento jajaja

I dunno TC, I'm trying to answer the question, which, I think, is about anti-americanism today...

I love Hispanic immigration to the United States. Open the borders and let anyone who wants to come if my philosophy. Welcome to America and have a great time!

I do agree with your point TC that the US is not the same today as it was years ago. Also Texas is a bit different than say, Vermont! Sweeping generalizations about the US do not hold ground to these realities. Nonetheless people who are anti-american do not see these and it doesn't really help in understanding why they feel that way, may they be right or wrong to feel it is another question. I don't think anti-americans feel this way out of stupidity though!

@TC

You know, I began this paragraph dispelling all of your misinformation and misconceptions about the Pax-Americana as you call it. Then I stopped. To argue with you would be similar to arguing with a wall. No matter how many facts are presented or good points are made, you will not change the wall's opinion on anything. It is solid. It is unwavering, and it perceives itself as the sole structure, holding up a ceiling waiting to fall upon everyone in the house. A wise man does not argue with a fool, because it will do neither of them any good.

I will merely restate that many Americans (read United States Americans) are not like TC. We realize that America, though we love and believe in her ideals, has made many mistakes. We realize that America has destroyed countries and killed millions. We also value the opinions of those outside America on both the world and America herself. Again, I apologize for the mad rantings of my countryman

Anti-americanism comes from people like TC going on vacation.

I apologize for butting in but I fail to see why a tirade on the greatness of the United States is central to the original question. It was "Is Anti-Americanism any different from Anglophobia or Francophobia that came befeore? Is is different from the fear of Russia or China? ". The question seems intended to be an objective comparison of Anti-Americanism and the fear of other nations. This is about what people think of the U.S., not whether it plays a positive or negative role in the world, right? I personally feel that (note that this is an opinion based on my limited experiences as an American citizen living abroad) it is not American ideals or economic power that is the cause of Anti-Americanism. The type of intense dislike being discussed here doesn't often arise simply based on economic competition. Also, most people I know tend to agree with American ideals. I think the real problem lies in the American sense of superiority and self-righteousness that makes the United States feel justified in doing whatever it considers necessary to defend democracy, freedom, etc. I don't feel that people can't accept the existence of a country wealthier than their own. Just my two cents.

Tettleton's Chew? More like Tenderloin Spew! LOL!

The flip side of that coin is envy and jealousy along with insecurity and inferiority, but as usual in the transparent anti-almost anything it is always the objects fault.

@nightlord, I agree with you, but to answer the question at the start of this topic.
Americans prevent anti-americanism to be similar to fear of other countries. In the rest of the world Americans' image is that they tend to think they're better in - next to - all ways, though a lot of non-Americans disagree. Due to the international nature of your country, this is viewed by many nationalistic Americans as anti-Americanism. G.W. Bush saying, "either you're with us, or you're with the terrorists" fueled this thought in some parts of the country. Unfortunately, in times of low economic growth or economic decline, such voices are the loudest.
So: if you think there's a lot of anti-Americanism or hate other countries, you're probably nationalistic.
Furthermore, America's sense of 'superiority' allows for imperialism - complete with colonies/sattelite states and intervening with foreign governments etc. - something the most Western-European countries unwillingly abolished at the end of WWII.
I really hope Libya/Egypt/Tunisia won't go along this path. If there people feel best represented by a Muslim-party, please let those people guide the country - though I fear a "mystical" disappearance of their leaders or an "unexpected" loss in the elections.

I find the suggestion that the reason why such genocides and dictators of the mid 20th C were soly because America chose isolationism, just laughable. Was America still isolationist when Yugoslavia imploded ? Who allowed Saddam Hussain to stay in power for so long ? Even in America's own back yard in the 80's some seriously bloody events happened, sometimes seemingly with the backing of the American Gvmt. Vietnam ? How well has America handled Afghanistan or Iraq ? In Iraq, it only took ten years for the allies to become as hated as Saddam was. And we were supposed to be helping them. The argument is so weak it's kind of funny.

Tsarwash, you seem historically uninformed to a huge degree.

I guess up are uaware that intervention after the collapse of Yugoslavia was a NATO operation carried out by the European member states of NATO without any type of meaningful role being played by the United States, and when the Serbs began committing genocide it so exposed the ineptness of Europe to deal with something in their own back yard that they demanded Clinton intervene.

Educate yourself so you won't look so ignorant.

Could you please point out whatever it is you mean by the totally ambigous statement "even in America's own backyard in the 80's some seriously bloody events happend?"

It is always the sign of a weak mind and argument when clarity and specific examples are absent.

Saddam, and his sons are dead. Kurds aren't being gassed. Shia's in southern Iraq aren't being slaughtered. There is a freely elected Iraqi government in Iraq.

Historic Buddhas aren't being blown up in Afghanistan. Bin Laden and Al Qaeda are not training mass murderers in camps all over the country.

Gosh, I'll take Iraq and Afghanistan in 2011 any day of both countries in 2001.

Tettleton's Chew, you seem historically uninformed to a huge degree.
Educate yourself so you won't look so ignorant.

Tettleton, answer my question about a corporation becoming another state, and also answer President Eden's question as to why you fucked his bitch?

I agree largham, TC should answer why he fucked President Eden's bitch. I want it explained with SPECIFIC EXAMPLES, but ones that aren't CHERRY PICKED. I also want it related back to the main topic of why we should be able to purchase raw milk.

I don't think one can call Europe inept for failing to deal with a single highly volatile situation. Would you call the U.S. intervention in Vietnam a successful operation?

Gosh Nighlord, lets just call Europe highly successful for allowing another genocide in Europe a half-century after the Holocaust.
Do you want cake or cookies with your milk at the party to celebrate Serbian massacres and concentration camps?

TC you seem to need to put down another's intelligence if you disagree with them, which is an unpleasant personality trait, and of course comes across as arrogant. You are an extremely unlikable person.
Which country's have the highest murder rates currently ? Is it in Europe ?

Tsar, you have to have intelligence first so you don't qualify.

@ TC, Cookies go well with Zyklon B so I'm guessing cake is better suited for Serbia

Yonni, common sense goes well with life.

I'm living proof that it isn't necessary

TC is that your answer ? That's pretty pathetic actually. Can you do anything else apart from insult people ?

I'm going to act as an internet psychologist here (http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/therapist.htm), but TC does seem to have problems. If we are really that dumb, brainwashed and lacking in common sense, then why does he keep posting here. Maybe TC just wants some love. Here, have a hug.

Pray that overwhelming arrogance isn't contagious, Largeham.

Lol, it was meant to be a joke. That said, I can be quite arrogant IRL.

Nightlord, would you call the Hanoi government a step forward for Vietnam in the last quarter century?