By Walter E. Williams
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
As I've documented in the past, many leftist teachers
teach our youngsters to hate our country. For example, University of Hawaii
Professor Haunani-Kay Trask counseled her students, "We need to think
very, very clearly about who the enemy is. The enemy is the United States of
America and everyone who supports it." Some universities hire former
terrorists to teach and indoctrinate students. Kathy Boudin, former Weather
Underground member and convicted murderer, is on the Columbia University School
of Social Work's faculty. Her Weather Underground comrade William Ayers teaches
at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Bernardine Dohrn, his wife, is a
professor at Northwestern University School of Law. Her stated mission is to
overthrow capitalism.
America's domestic haters have international company.
24/7 Wall St. published an article titled "Ten Countries That Hate America
Most." The list includes Serbia, Greece, Iran, Algeria, Egypt and
Pakistan. Ranking America published an article titled "The U.S. ranks 3rd
in liking the United States." Using data from the Pew Global Attitudes
Project, it finds that just 79 percent of Americans in 2011 had a favorable
view of Americans, compared with Japan and Kenya, which had 85 and 83 percent
favorable views, respectively. Most European nations held a 60-plus percent
favorable view of Americans, compared with countries such as Egypt, Pakistan
and Turkey, with less than 20 percent favorable views.
An interesting facet of foreigners liking or hating
America can be seen in a poll Gallup has been conducting since 2007 asking the
questions: "Ideally, if you had the opportunity, would you like to move
permanently to another country, or would you prefer to continue living in this
country? To which country would you like to move?" Guess to which country
most people would like to move. If you said "the good ol' US of A,"
go to the head of the class. Of the more than 640 million people who would like
to leave their own country, 23 percent -- or 150 million -- said they would
like to live in the United States. The U.S. has been "the world's most
desired destination for potential migrants since Gallup started tracking these
patterns in 2007." The United Kingdom comes in a distant second, with 7
percent (45 million). Other favorite permanent relocations are Canada (42
million), France (32 million) and Saudi Arabia (31 million), but all pale in
comparison with the U.S. as the preferred home.
The next question is: Where do people come from who want
to relocate to the U.S.? China has 22 million adults who want to permanently
relocate to the U.S., followed by Nigeria (15 million), India (10 million),
Bangladesh (8 million) and Brazil (7 million). The Gallup report goes on to
make the remarkable finding that "despite large numbers of people in
China, Nigeria, and India who want to migrate permanently to the U.S., these
countries are not necessarily the places where the U.S. is the most desired
destination. Gallup found that more than three in 10 adults in Liberia (37
percent) and Sierra Leone (30 percent) would move permanently to the U.S. if
they had the opportunity. More than 20 percent of adults in the Dominican
Republic (26 percent), Haiti (24 percent), and Cambodia (22 percent) also say
the same." That's truly remarkable in the cases of Liberia and Sierra
Leone, where one-third of the people would leave. That's equivalent to 105
million Americans wanting to relocate to another country.
The Gallup poll made no mention of the countries to which
people would least like to relocate. But I'm guessing that most of them would
be on Freedom House's list of the least free places in the world, such as
Uzbekistan, Georgia, China, Turkmenistan, Chad, Cuba and North Korea.
I'm wondering how the hate-America/blame-America-first
crowd might explain the fact that so many people in the world, if they had a
chance, would permanently relocate here. Maybe it's that they haven't been
exposed to enough U.S. university professors.
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