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>>Calm down Tracy. Walter is only one Dutchman! I am the other one (here). And I am very very very grateful for what the allies have done for us. Please, do not generalize (hey, that's what I brought forward in this thread) us Dutchies, at least not in a negative way.
>>Having said that, it is a fact - and I hate to admit it - that there is this anti-american tendency in Europe. It must be because those who lived during WWII are now a minority and the young apparently haven't learned the lessons of WWII to the extend the elder had meant it. They have learned that the Americans only got involved a bit later and apparently make the jump in the head that it's then not really altruistic anymore. Bullsh*t indeed and your reply to Walter is very cool. Thanks.
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>For the record, I'm NOT, again NOT anti american. And the in the case of my statement, maybe indeed a bit harsh, but in the end it has some truth in it. The US was dragged into the war by both Japan and hitler where they stayed fairly neutral at the begining of the WAR. It was politics. This does by no means that I don't have huge respect for anyone that liberated us with or without paying their lives for it. See my reply to ed...
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>Yes I do critisize the US for quite a bit, but also admire the US for quite a lot as well. The latter seems the be undersnowed by the former though..

The fact is that currently the Europeans are less pro-American - actually more anti-American - than they were some decades ago. What can be the reason? Are the younger Europeans better educated and better informed than the older were? Perhaps. But I think that it's more complicated.