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The mail.(Letter to the Editor)
Jean-Francois Revel's "Europe's Anti-American Obsession" (December) is the best explanation of anti-Americanism I have read. And while he details foreign criticism so well, the saddest observation he makes is that "anti-Americanism continues to prosper among university, journalistic, and literary elites" in America as well.
Anti-Americans inside and outside the United States depend on the political and social ignorance of their citizens. Revel provides ample proof that people are prejudiced against us because they do not know much about us.
I am not sure of the truth of Revel's final statement that animosity strengthens us though I would like to think adversity makes us stronger.
Sam Grubbs
Wolfe City, Texas
Your issue "The View from Abroad" (December), contained a fascinating analysis of "the deepest anti-Americanism," which Karl Zinsmeister summarizes is "built on ideological bile and envy" (BIRD'S EYE, "New Friends For Old").
There is another way to explain this anti-Americanism. Philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand observed that people were either "first-handers" or "second-handers."
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Source: HighBeam Research, The mail.(Letter to the Editor)