Monday, October 15, 2007

The European View

Thanks to Jack, who alerted me to a series of videos (one, two, three, four, five, six) on Europeans' views of America (& Americans) produced by the Center for New America. I think, if I'm reading this right, it was shown on PBS. The videos are entertaining and educational, in a way.

I love David McWilliams's comment (first video at 2'40") that "anti-Americanism has great rhetoric and no down-side risk".

As I watched the videos I was struck by two things:
  1. this stuff is really not all that new (I heard much the same when I came to Ireland for the 1986/87 academic year) and
  2. I shouldn't let it bother me.
So, I'm going to try not to let it bother me.