A 47-nation survey finds anti-Americanism extensive and growing

摘要

The loss of US prestige predicted by a Guatemala City newspaper editor (see above) is in fact well advanced, to judge from the results of a major international opinion poll by the Pew Research Center. Conducted in April and May and reported on 27~(th) June, the survey found that distrust of the US has intensified across the world. The largest such polling effort by Pew in five years covered 47 countries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, and gathered the opinions of more than 45,000 people. The survey focused on the global image of the US, which was broadly positive after the attacks on New York and Washington in 2001 but entered a steep decline with the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Favourable ratings of the US have decreased 'in 26 of the 33 countries for which trends are available,' Pew said. The Pew Research Center is a strictly non-advocacy 'fact tank' with headquarters in Washington, DC. The main findings of the organisation's Global Attitudes Project were summed up by Meg Bortin in the International Herald Tribune for 27~(th) June.