Anti-Americanism?

So Katy brought to my attention a really interesting article in Newsweek! Apparently Turkey is the most anti-American country. Truthfully I haven't seen a thing! My class had about a minute of applause for Obama when he was mentioned in class! Of course this article is based off of polls. Well for one thing it could be that the only people who went to respond to the poll were feeling negative or (what I think is more likely) is that Turks feel like they should hate America but when it comes to the American tv shows, music, movies, people, and language, that doesn't seem to be related to the "America" that they hate. I don't know if that makes much sense...I'll try to clarify. It's like they feel its their duty as Turks to hate America, but America is a foreign thing that attacks Iraq and hates Muslims, its not the people they meet, the tv they watch, the music they listen to, or the movies they see (Twilight mania is insane here). So in the end, don't believe everything you see in the polls! If someone posts a poll on a Harry Potter fan website "which is better: Harry Potter or Star Wars" most likely you'll get Harry Potter. I'm not saying thats what was done here and thats a generalized analogy but just reader beware! The End!

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