Book :: Why Do People Hate America?

Hey everyone,

I am reading this book which I saw someone reading on the London Underground back in 2003. I had meaning to get this book for a long time, and I finally found it in one of the local bookshop here. It was kind of hidden at the back of the shelf, over shadowed by the other huge books. I picked it up and it is amazing so far. It's called Why Do People Hate America?

I haven't finished it yet, but what I have read so far is very insightful and the authors don't delve too much into politics, but keep everything on a human level. They start off by talking about what the events of 9-11 meant to the American people, and then goes on in the following chapter, why the Americans think people hate them, and why the people hate American so much. But the interesting thing they point out is that the rest of the world has a very strong love-hate relationship with the United States of America. Countries like Iran and Iraq have a hate relationship with Americans, yet these very people watch American movies and listen to American music or even go to the States for universities or jobs! So that is something really interesting.

Even I don't agree with the American's foreign policies in the Middle East, or for that matter, anywhere else in the world, and yet I watch American movies, wear American branded clothes and eat Happy Meals from McDonalds.

It is quite a sensitive issue for all concerned. I know some people who are so vocal about America and say stuff like Death to America, and these very people have their kids studying in the US. How hypocritical. There are some people I know who rejoice when they hear American soldiers being killed in Iraq, and these very people buy all things Americans.

Anyway, this book has already given me an insight into all that the United States has been doing in the political arena. For sure we know that America thinks it is a Superpower, or as the book calls it, a Hyperpower. America thinks it can dictate the rest of the world.

Ok, I have four more chapters to read. You all have a nice day!

Mansur