[Grimmy]

Actually AG, I was speaking in gross generalities, of course..but you are a bit nieve.

Anti Americanism is, very much, hard coded into the europers psyche.

I've posted several links to folk from "over the pond" that keep an eye on such things. One of the more popular magazines regularly has for its front cover the very same imagry depicting America and/or Americans as was used by the nazi's of the 1930s and 40s to depict the jews.

The public "education tv" channel in both germany and france are known to run constantly with grotesque spin against any and all things US.

The statement I made above about the unifying thread is actually a quote from a promenint french politico...one belived to be "conservative" but who often and loudly chants along with the A-A crowds.

btw, when I say europer, I specifically mean those who's ancestors were too stupid, lazy, scared or weak to leave the hell hole that was 18th and 19th century france and germany for other places like US, Canada, Central and South American states or Australia.

The sons and daughters of those that submitted to the romantics view of peasants vs aristocracy seem to remain stuck in that mold. The peasants..the common citizenry must waite to be told, in detail, what to think, where to go, what to do, how to do it, when to do it..and what to feel about it.