Monk

I think the popularity of America bashing serves a dual purpose. It helps the rest of the world feel better when they realize that the US has its own problems and gets taken down a peg. But also I think everybody knows which side of the bread is buttered, so to speak. The US is the 500 pound gorilla in the room and in order to see any change in the rest of the world there has to be change in the US, first. Which is what really brings out the hatred is a certain amount of realizing that in terms of global democracy there is a lot of non-representation where the US acts and nobody else gets a say in affairs that greatly affect them.