“Since Donald Trump took office as president, the image of the United States has suffered across many regions of the globe. As a new 13-nation Pew Research Center survey illustrates, America’s reputation has declined further over the past year among many key allies and partners. In several countries, the share of the public with a favorable view of the U.S. is as low as it has been at any point since the Center began polling on this topic nearly two decades ago…”
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“Its a young nation. It had every right to fight and gain its independence from the British Empire. It developed successfully, technologically and its citizens helped invent many great contributions to the modern world. It was reluctantly drawn into two world wars and sacrificed its men in war for peace and many will say to develop its global power. The USA helped forge independence for many European nations after the Great War. The USA’s greatest time could be said to be after WW2. The Marshall plan did help Europe. The Cold War was an unfortunate event, of course….”
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“I can’t speak for the whole world but I think I can comment reasonably well on behalf of the rest of the anglosphere. We (usually) don’t hate the USA, it just makes us uncomfortable and we don’t know why but it’s uncomfortable enough that we are disinclined to speak positively about America. The reason for this discomfort is essentially the Uncanny Valley effect in play. The USA, to people from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK is superficially familiar, its primary language is English, we share some cultural norms but it is so far removed linguistically, socially, politically, economically and religiously from the rest of us that we can’t help but get a niggling feeling that something is wrong with it….”
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