ABSTRACT
Anti-Americanism can be found among the left as much as on the right, in underdeveloped countries as in industrialized societies. It is perhaps a less unique phenomenon than com monly thought. It is easy to think of similar phenomena such as anti-Germanism; the British and the French not being uni versally popular at the height of their power in Europe, let alone in Asia and Africa; and anti-Russianism, which runs rampant in most of the former Soviet Empire, while the Russian right bit terly complains about Russophobia. Anti-Chinese attitudes are rampant in Southeast Asia and there was, of course, the “yellow peril.” Small countries are likely to have fewer en emies than big ones, but this too is not always true.
