Hating America: A History by Barry Rubin;Judith Colp Rubin

Author:Barry Rubin;Judith Colp Rubin
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2007-10-28T07:19:00+00:00

Such political outrage was often based on cultural distaste, while cultural distaste in turn was often grounded in fear of conquest. When de Beauvoir in 1952 was so stirred to hatred by seeing those two American soldiers enter a hotel in France, she reflected that they looked as if they were members of an arrogant occupation force. True dictatorship and corruption were seen as being more closely related to the forces of American cultural invasion than to the USSR's repressive tyranny.

As she mused in a 1960 book, in trying to understand her own attitude toward the United States:

We regarded America as the country where capitalist oppression had triumphed in the most vile fashion. We detested the exploitation, unemployment, racism and lynch-law there.... Nonetheless, leaving aside its good or evil aspects, there was something gigantic and unfettered about life there that we found fascinating. ... Ironically, we were attracted by America whose government we condemned, whilst the USSR, the scene of an experiment we found admirable, left us cold.55

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