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Uncouth Nation - Why Europe Dislikes America (Paperback)
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Uncouth Nation - Why Europe Dislikes America (Paperback)
Series: The Public Square
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No survey can capture the breadth and depth of the anti-Americanism
that has swept Europe in recent years. From ultraconservative
Bavarian grandmothers to thirty-year-old socialist activists in
Greece, from globalization opponents to corporate
executives--Europeans are joining in an ever louder chorus of
disdain for America. For the first time, anti-Americanism has
become a European lingua franca. In this sweeping and provocative
look at the history of European aversion to America, Andrei
Markovits argues that understanding the ubiquity of
anti-Americanism since September 11, 2001, requires an appreciation
of such sentiments among European elites going back at least to
July 4, 1776. While George W. Bush's policies have catapulted
anti-Americanism into overdrive, particularly in Western Europe,
Markovits argues that this loathing has long been driven not by
what America does, but by what it is. Focusing on seven Western
European countries big and small, he shows how antipathies toward
things American embrace aspects of everyday life--such as sports,
language, work, education, media, health, and law--that remain far
from the purview of the Bush administration's policies. Aggravating
Europeans' antipathies toward America is their alleged helplessness
in the face of an Americanization that they view as inexorably
befalling them. More troubling, Markovits argues, is that this
anti-Americanism has cultivated a new strain of anti-Semitism.
Above all, he shows that while Europeans are far apart in terms of
their everyday lives and shared experiences, their not being
American provides them with a powerful common identity--one that
elites have already begun to harness in their quest to construct a
unified Europe to rival America.
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