Anti this, Anti that

There is a lot of talk about Anti-Americanism in the US press. They sit around and talk about why there is this feeling going around in Europe that is a hate for the US. Then they go on to explain it as being some kind of jealousy because America is so great (this is American Exceptionalism (I prefer the term nationalism) at its best). I always find this idea really amusing. I have lived on both continents and I don´t really know what the Europeans would be so jealous about.

The thing that isn´t talked about so much is Anti-Europeanism that is coming back from the US. All these comments about Socialist European governments and this idea that the European Union is failing somehow are some of the most amusing sentiments around. However no one in the US is condemning these attitudes or even questioning them. Why do these sentiments exist? Probably due to a lack of experience. Most of these "haters" have never left the US for longer than a week or two of vacation and thus suffer from what I would call a nationalist tendencies. They know there is another mountain with another set of pastures that are somewhat different, but they never even bother to read up on it. So as long as they shout about anti-americanism, I will shout back with anti-europeanism.