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Anti-Americanism (and I have been guilty of it myself at times) is really incoherent. Leftists criticise the US for its real or putative racism; rightists criticise the US for it being too multiethnic and based on the principal that "anyone can become American". Leftists criticise the US for its real or putative social, sexual and religious conservatism; rightists criticise the US for its supposed crassness and vulgarity. Leftists criticise the US for it being putatively the vanguard of extreme free-market capitalism (in truth, Britain is in some ways actually more 'extreme' than the US - the latter still has government-owned airports, railways and utilities, unlike the former); rightists criticise the US for it being putatively the vanguard of 'political correctness'. The US is damned both for its imperialistic politics AND for its isolationist culture, where they are accused of wanting to dominate countries they know little about.
I will admit that, as a linguist and a firm believer in linguistic diversity myself, I do deplore the fact that relatively few (White and Black) Americans speak foreign languages, and that the US has spearheaded the attempt to force English down everyone else's throats. Nevertheless, even here some nuance and balance is required. The truth is that Britain (a) has been at least equally culpable for forcing English down everyone else's throats as has the US - let us not forget how big the British Empire was and (b) is nowadays IMO a lot less accomodating towards foreign languages than the US is. Put simply, multilingual signs, menus, adverts and timetables are far more common in New York and Miami than in London and Birmingham, starting with the airports. Furthermore, when the French (and to a much smaller scale some other nations, like the Russians or Spaniards) complain about English-language imperialism and enact legislation to 'protect' their own languages, let's face it: this is just pure hypocrisy and jealousy - they are annoyed that English was just a tad more successful in taking over other countries than their own languages have been.
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