Antiamericanism

By Javier MPA

For some time, Europe has seen the development of a strong antiamericanism, a disporportionate hatred of everything american. We hear the word America and the only image that comes to our minds is Bushe’s. Well, and how would it be an antieuropean american? Can you imagine?…

We invented democracy, which is that word that you claim proudly everytime you say it. You say that american movies are rubbish, but they’re the only ones you go to the theater to see. You subsidize yours. You think we are bastards for having invented the Nuclear Bomb, when in fact we made it because it was necessary to avoid Hitler making it first (a european, by the way).

We helped you in the World War II and we won it together. We showed you what a telephone compny was and so an airline and we gave you our own money to let you make it, our own money, the only one you trusted. We put a man on the Moon at the same time you were making goats cheese. We pay for the military and you benefit for the fact that there are no wars in your coutries, nevertheless you demonize our army. You think that your education system is better, but we have the best universities. Some of you study there and then you come back to your country showing off. Your health care system is also better, but you use all the medicines we invent. You laugh of our election campaigns and the oly thing you do after is copying them.

I could go on, but it is not my way of thinking; it is the antiamericans way of thinking but the other way round. Don’t you think is not much impartial? Perhaps we are being a little unfair with americans and only able to say some clichés about them. We shouldn’t keep thinking that we are the centre of the world.