How the American Global Portrayal of Itself Initiates Hatred Towards “America”

America, the world’s first and only ‘hyper power’ has been the focal point of media and critical attention for a number of years. However since the events of September the 11th 2001 – now the universally dubbed “9/11” – America has been an even greater subject of criticism. This criticism towards America and Americans in general has been brought to great public attention mainly through the outburst of such writers as Naom Chomsky, Michael Moore and Naomi Klein, but what initiates this hatred, and what exactly do people hate when they hate “America”? The answer is to be found in America itself. It is present in its cultures, its global portrayal of itself to the world and the way in which it conducts its international policies.
Before we look at how America portrays itself to the world, we must investigate how the rest of the world is portrayed to America, and how America and Americans believe the rest of the world operates.
After the events of 9/11 it became a...