As far as I know (I don't know much about young people here) we don't have the same trend here in Europe, but I'm sorry to say we share the same impression.
I mean, maybe we don't (well, let's say 'not everyone') see the US as a 'capitalistic hell', but we all know the 'American Dream' comes with the heavy 'basically no social security' trade-off. Everybody here seems to despise taxes, but everybody loves being able to go to the hospital from time to time, for themselves or their kids, and I've basically almost never met someone whose dream was to emigrate to the US.
As for the foreign policy, yes, your actual government is clearly a PR disaster, but there's also some sort of silent consensus here on the fact that they're only speaking and doing without manners (brutally) the same things the US governments have been 'politely' doing for the last 60 years.
Exactamento; European members of NATO, and the EU economic semi-twin of NATO, are generally hypocrites on calling out US foreign policy adventurism while at the same time cheering for the hoped-for same results.
As far as I know (I don't know much about young people here) we don't have the same trend here in Europe, but I'm sorry to say we share the same impression.
I mean, maybe we don't (well, let's say 'not everyone') see the US as a 'capitalistic hell', but we all know the 'American Dream' comes with the heavy 'basically no social security' trade-off. Everybody here seems to despise taxes, but everybody loves being able to go to the hospital from time to time, for themselves or their kids, and I've basically almost never met someone whose dream was to emigrate to the US.
As for the foreign policy, yes, your actual government is clearly a PR disaster, but there's also some sort of silent consensus here on the fact that they're only speaking and doing without manners (brutally) the same things the US governments have been 'politely' doing for the last 60 years.
Exactamento; European members of NATO, and the EU economic semi-twin of NATO, are generally hypocrites on calling out US foreign policy adventurism while at the same time cheering for the hoped-for same results.