“Expressing one’s anti-European sentiment can be a way of building up and displaying one’s American identity and patriotism,” said Patrick Chamorel in a European University Institute study published in Italy in 2004. “Anti-Europeanism has always been part of American exceptionalism, which defined itself in contrast to European history, politics, and society.”
Why Americans love to hate Europeans
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