How many people frequently use an adjective crafted to describe all of the people that dislike you? For example: anti-Dylan.
I believe that something has gone wrong with our place in the friendly international community when this word "anti-American" has been accepted as a part of our vocabulary. Have other nations or communities arrived at the point where they must author such a word so as to easily make quick reference to "all the people who dislike us."
In fact, we never hear about anti-Chinese or anti-Norwegian. Granted, we are here in the United States and most of our discourse focuses on ourselves, but the point I wish to make is this:
The fact that we now have this word to use means that we have become to accustomed to hurting other people, making them angry, and disregarding their opinions, beliefs, values, or even rights.
We commonly refer to anti-Americanism, but rarely support real conversation in order to decipher why the sentiment even exists. Its not as mysterious as the news would have people believe; there exists a finite (albeit quite long) list of actions taken by our nation and habits of our people which have and now continue to upset people all across the world, but we don't even know (or care) what they are.
Because of that, we now have this word to make quick reference to all those people. If we want to fix the problem, we have to care to understand why. We must accept that other peoples are competent adults and stop treating the world as if we were one grown-up amongst children.
I believe that something has gone wrong with our place in the friendly international community when this word "anti-American" has been accepted as a part of our vocabulary. Have other nations or communities arrived at the point where they must author such a word so as to easily make quick reference to "all the people who dislike us."
In fact, we never hear about anti-Chinese or anti-Norwegian. Granted, we are here in the United States and most of our discourse focuses on ourselves, but the point I wish to make is this:
The fact that we now have this word to use means that we have become to accustomed to hurting other people, making them angry, and disregarding their opinions, beliefs, values, or even rights.
We commonly refer to anti-Americanism, but rarely support real conversation in order to decipher why the sentiment even exists. Its not as mysterious as the news would have people believe; there exists a finite (albeit quite long) list of actions taken by our nation and habits of our people which have and now continue to upset people all across the world, but we don't even know (or care) what they are.
Because of that, we now have this word to make quick reference to all those people. If we want to fix the problem, we have to care to understand why. We must accept that other peoples are competent adults and stop treating the world as if we were one grown-up amongst children.
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