Word: americanophilia
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...marketed himself as a new brand of global CEO. His appetite for media attention, meanwhile, offered a refreshing change from France's older generation of clubby, secretive business chieftains. But Messier ignored the risk of over-exposure, and his hamming soon generated jealousy, resentment and disdain in France. His Americanophilia also rankled, especially after he moved to a $17.5 million Park Avenue apartment and poked a U.S. flag pin in his lapel. In December, when Messier announced yet another U.S. acquisition and pronounced "the French cultural exception" dead, his country's media and political establishment turned against him. Messier further...
...among younger people "who enjoy American products without a sense of guilt and without a sense of superiority." Emphatic agreement came from Historian Marcus Cunliffe of Manchester University, who reported that the younger intellectuals "if anything, are almost too pro-American: many younger English people have a sort of Americanophilia because they have established in their own minds the contrast between our allegedly soporific, boring, class-ridden culture and this crackling culture across the Atlantic." American jazz, painting, architecture, and highbrow paperbacks all suggest to young British intellectuals that the U.S. is "the country one must go to in order...
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