Dan: Having said that, let me restate that I don't consider this the majority view of Europeans. Most criticism I've personally heard has been measured and based on fact. I may not agree with it, but I can see a logical basis for it. An example of this is my using a dryer to dry my clothes all the way instead of just to slightly damp..and then hanging my clothes up was called wasteful. Another is the criticism of the cowboy approach Americans take to engineering by British engineers I've worked with.
Still, I see a reaction to Jews and Americans being "uppity." Dan M. Me: Not sure I entirely agree with Dan's explanations for the phenomenon - that's a new one and I'll have to think about it some mroe - but I do agree with his sentiments. If I _had_ to pin down a percentage in different country's I'd say, as a rough guess, 5-10% in England, Italy, and Germany, maybe 10-15% in France, things like that. Unfortunately but unsurprisingly that proportion is disproportionately concentrated in intellectual and media elites. Gautam (note the spelling, people :-)
