Learning to Hate Americans: How U.S. Media Shape Negative Attitudes Among Teenagers in Twelve Countries

When Melvin DeFleur and Margaret DeFleur, both professors of mass communication at Boston University, asked their foreign graduate students to conduct surveys of some 1,300 teenagers in their 12 home countries, they found that teenagers around the world believe that Americans are extremely violent and criminally inclined, and that American women are sexually immoral. They present the results of the survey, and place the blame for these negative attitudes on US mass media, especially Hollywood. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)