Steve Pope wrote:

> Yeah, I've lived abroad, I've traveled abroad and I can tell
> you in the past 40 years there has been a steady decline in affection
> for Americans, including a particularly steep drop in the last few.
> It is definitely not of case of "they'll hate us no matter what".
> Nowhere close to that.
>
> Steve

One apparently reason is that younger European generations don't have
first hand memories of the time American's stepped in during WW2 and
helped them during or after the war.