Hello.
Possibly this love-hate relationship is an inescapable mechanism concerning the relation between "smaller" countries and a country which dominates the smaller ones, be it culturally, technically, economically and military/politically. How not to admire American music, literature, art, fashion of the last half century? How not to buy American hi tech or to realize the American power in the political sphere? But at the same time this hurts.
Hm, I think this comes dangerously close to the "inferiority complex" theory that somehow "we" envy USA because they are so good and succesfull. I think this really only explains a very minor part of the anti-American (I actually don't like this expression) feeling around the world. And to repeat my point, I do actually think that USA is one of the countries in the world which people from the outside have the most nuanced views of, and generally there is a very broad understanding that everything is not "George Bush and MacDonalds" as Steve put it (Try to compare it with how people view Japan for example...) Bye, _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com