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by Ziauddin Sardar (Author), Merryl Wyn Davies (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Icon Books Ltd (8 Jul 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 184046383X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1840463835
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 81,568 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Required reading" --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.


Noam Chomsky

"Contains valuable information and insights that we should know, over here, for our own good, and the world's." --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Read this - and see the news in a different light, 13 Jul 2002
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This book is amazing. I bought it to try to understand why September 11th happened, to understand the reasons for Muslim anger at the US and to know more about the US involvement with the Israeli situation. I now know more than I may have wanted. Why Do People hate America uses recent and past history, cultural studies including analysis of film and TV and American and other commentary to show why the rest of the world is becoming exasperated with the US to the point of hatred. From small farmers with livelihoods ruined in the name of free trade to cultures watching their young people adopting attitudes drawn from Hollywood, the writers of this book list reasons why hatred of the US has grown. At no time do they condone violence or write in support of anyone promoting violence; however, they have no message of hope to offer to anyone hoping that the status quo will endure.

Read this book if you like to be challenged, if you like to think and if you know there is more to what is going on in the world than what you read in most papers.

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44 of 52 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I think you've missed the point..., 1 Jun 2004
By Lynn (Britain) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Why Do People Hate America? (Paperback)
People seem to be getting their knickers in a knot about this book being polemic but the facts remain that many people DO hate America. In many very fundamental ways this IS as a result of US foreign policy and the way in which the cultural artefacts (ie movies, music) that they export reinforce an often offensive image of 'white is right' and 'might is right'.

Professors Sardar and Davies are highly educated individuals who are underlining the way in which American culture CAN BE and IS interpreted by the outside world. This does not mean THEY hate America. It means they are able to recognise areas in which America let's itself down in the eyes of the world.

I have read blogs from US soldiers in Iraq saying that they read the book to remind themselves how 'outsiders' view them, to understand what has gone wrong and why America seems so loathed. Noam Chomsky himself has recommended American's read this book to see how the world perceives them. It is the blindness of the American superstate to opinions like those articulated by Sardar and Davies that causes them to continue blithely exporting the wrong message around the globe.

This is an important book precisely because it is polemic. The American culture machine roles out polemic material every day. Hatred is what breeds in retaliation.

Please do not continue to portray this book as 'Why People SHOULD Hate America'. The purpose of this book is to hold up a mirror to the flaws of the US. After September 11 many people did ask 'Why Do People Hate America?' Sardar and Davies are simply trying to offer a possible answer...

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42 of 50 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Some uncomfortable truths, 8 Jul 2002
By Timothy Edwards (London, UK) - See all my reviews
"Why do people hate America?" is a well written book that looks carefully at the question posed by its title.

The book is easy to get into, and can be read by both the casual reader and the academic without losing either audience. Each argument is carefully backed up by facts culled from a variety of sources. The book leads towards the conclusion that America is disliked not, as it likes to think, because it is successful, but rather due to it's double standards.

Whilst I will admit that I personally agreed with much of the authors' arguments, and actually found myself growing angry at many of the injustices listed in the book, I am aware that many potential readers may not share my views. The book looks at the question from every view point, from the far right to far left, the media and the US government's apparent understanding of the question. Whilst you may not agree with the conclusions drawn, ANYONE interested in the subject MUST read this book if only to understand what they disagree with. If you are a resident of the United States, that last statement is even more true.

I'm going away to read it again now.
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