page_title: Anti-Americanism
section_title: Intellectuals
hierarchical_section_title: Anti-Americanism / History / 20th century / Intellectuals
caption_attribution_description: Från vänster: Cornelis Vreeswijk, Fred Åkerström och Gösta "Skepparen" Cervin på Vietnamdemonstration på Hötorget i Stockholm den 28 augusti 1965.
context_page_description: Anti-Americanism is a sentiment which espouses dislike of the American government or opposes its policies, especially its foreign policy, or espouses dislike or hatred of the American people and the United States in general.
  Political scientist Brendon O'Connor of the United States Studies Centre in Australia suggests that "anti-Americanism" cannot be isolated as a consistent phenomenon, since the term originated as a rough composite of stereotypes, prejudices, and criticisms which evolved into more politically-based criticisms. French scholar Marie-France Toinet says that use of the term "anti-Americanism" is "only fully justified if it implies systematic opposition – a sort of allergic reaction – to America as a whole."
  Discussions on anti-Americanism have in most cases lacked a precise explanation of what the sentiment entails, which has led to the term being used broadly and in an impressionistic manner, resulting in the inexact impressions of the many expressions described as anti-American. Author and expatriate William Russell Melton described that criticism for the United States largely originates from the perception that the U.S. wants to act as a "world policeman".
context_section_description: Sigmund Freud was vehemently anti-American. Historian Peter Gay says that in "slashing away at Americans wholesale; quite indiscriminately, with imaginative ferocity, Freud was ventilating some inner need". Gay suggests that Freud's anti-Americanism was not really about the United States at all.
  Numerous authors went on the attack. French writer Louis-Ferdinand Celine denounced the United States. German poet Rainer Marie Rilke wrote, "I no longer love Paris, partly because it is disfiguring and Americanizing itself".
caption: Protest march against the Vietnam War in Stockholm, Sweden, 1965
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