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How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked
Times Books
May 2006
288 pages ISBN: 0805077219 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Political
America's leading nonpartisan pollster shows how we are
different--and how our exceptionalism feeds the rise in
anti-Americanism The precipitous rise in anti-Americanism is startling. To
understand why the world has turned against the United
States, the Pew Research Center, under the leadership of
Andrew Kohut, has undertaken an unprecedented survey of
world opinion--more than 91,000 respondents in fifty
nations. In America Against the World, Kohut and Bruce
Stokes unveil the sobering and surprising findings. America's image is at a low ebb: where once it was
considered the champion of democracy, America is now seen as
a self-absorbed, militant hyperpower. More than 70 percent
of non-Americans say that the world would be improved if
America faced a rival military power, and about half the
citizens of Lebanon, Jordan, and Morocco think that suicide
attacks on Americans in Iraq are justified. Where does this anti-Americanism come from? Kohut and Stokes
find that what pushed the world away is American
exceptionalism--our individualism and our go-it-alone
attitude. And it doesn't help that Americans' pervasive
religiosity and deep patriotism are often exaggerated by
America's critics. Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright argues in
her foreword that we cannot stop the spread of
anti-Americanism without truly understanding who we are.
America Against the World provides the insight to
take that step.
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