anti-Americanism
Noun
Meaning
anti-Americanism (uncountable)
The fear or dislike of people, policies, culture or government of the United States.
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Americans, he laments, see Canadians “as a small-town bunch who don’t belong in the Big League,” and the administration knows well of the “anti-Americanism now rampant in Canada.”
In September 2001, Bush claimed that the motive behind the 9/11 attacks and other manifestations of anti-Americanism in the Middle East was that Islamic extremists “hate our freedoms.”
The history has been traced in detail by a leading Canadian historian J.L. Granatstein in Yankee Go Home: Canadians and Anti-Americanism (1997).
J. L. Granatstein, Yankee Go Home: Canadians and Anti-Americanism (1997) Canadian intellectuals who wrote about the U.S. in the first half of the 20th century identified America as the world center of modernity, and deplored it.