v******a 发帖数: 45075 | 1 Why Do They Hate Us?: Two Books Take Aim at French Anti-Americanism
by Walter Russell Mead
From Foreign Affairs, March/April 2003
L'obsession anti-americaine: Son fonctionnement, ses causes, ses
inconsequences. Jean-Francois Revel. Paris: Plon, 2002, 299 pp. 120.00.
L'ennemi americain: Genealogie de l'antiamericanisme francais. Philippe Roger.
Paris: Seuil, 2002, 601 pp. 126.00.
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change," begins a
popular prayer in American self-help circl | v******a 发帖数: 45075 | 2 It's not a very long paper. As to the sentiments you described, it could well
be applied to (western) Europe as whole, fundamentally. For the rest of the
world, such as Islamic world, Asian countries (N & S Korea, China, Japan, in
particular), the story might be different.
This article surely shows one side of the thoughts of American elite
intellectuals, especially the majority of those "Eastern Establishment" upper
class people. The arrogance is abundant and evident, no less than that of "Old |
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