They hate us.

And it's only getting worse. I'm talking, of course, about the rest of the world's attitude toward the United States and its citizens. The article I'm referring to is entitled, "World opinion of U.S. sinking: Dislike of everything American on the rise". Here are a couple of passages:

Polls now show an ominous turn. Majorities around the world think Americans are greedy, violent and rude, and fewer than half in countries like Poland, Spain, Canada, China and Russia think Americans are honest.

"We found a rising antipathy toward Americans," said Bruce Stokes of the Pew Global Attitudes Project, which interviewed 93,000 people in 50 countries over a four-year span.
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Kohut finds a significant decline among those holding "favorable" views of the United States. In Brazil, 52 percent held a favorable view of the United States in 2002; by the following year that had dropped to 34 percent. In Russia, the pro-America portion of the population dropped from 61 percent to 36 percent over a year.

That's a big drop over a very short time.

I have friends overseas. And, let me tell you, it's embarrassing to be an American these days.