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8/11/07

DW: Expert: Roots of Europe's Resentment of US Go Back Centuries

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Europeans have developed a high level of anti-Americanism. Andrei Markovits, an American expert on Germany, says politics is just one of the many spheres where Europeans oppose the big and powerful United States.

Can it be changed? It can't be changed. It might become better with the end of the Iraq war, and Hillary [Clinton] as a president, but it won't disappear. Today, it is hard for young American students to be in Germany -- they constantly have to explain themselves. You basically have to start every conversation with "I hate Bush." For you to be seen as a half-way decent human being, that is the opening gambit. Americans need to constantly prove that they are the good, different American. This goes on all the time. It is a general discourse, which I don't think will disappear anytime soon.

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