Goomba38 > wrote:

>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.

>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.

I'm sure that's part of it.

Steve