http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/ tag:newsweek.washingtonpost.com,2008:/postglobal/america/469 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Amar C. Bakshi explores how people around the world view the United States. http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/03/world_sees_america_thank_yous.html http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/03/world_sees_america_thank_yous.html Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500 To the many people who have made How the World Sees America possible, thank you. Amar C. Bakshi Notes from Amar http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/02/the_wall_between_the_us_and_me.html http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/02/the_wall_between_the_us_and_me.html Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:20:19 -0500 For my final post, I watch men and women, young and old, interact with the wall separating Mexico from the United States. Amar C. Bakshi General Lifestyles Notes from Amar http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/02/story_of_an_undocumented_drug.html http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/02/story_of_an_undocumented_drug.html Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:34:44 -0500 Hector migrated illegally to the U.S. from Mexico to earn money for his baby boy. He ended up a drug-runner. Amar C. Bakshi Business & Capitalism Lifestyles http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/02/nafta.html http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/02/nafta.html Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:30:00 -0500 Struggling Mexican corn farmers don't blame America or NAFTA for their suffering. They just want the same support that the American farmers enjoy. Amar C. Bakshi Business & Capitalism Environment http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/02/american_violence.html http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/02/american_violence.html Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:23:20 -0500 Mexican Lucha Libre wrestlers tell me American fans are particularly infatuated with violence. Amar C. Bakshi Sports http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/02/mexico_wages_cartoon_wars_over.html http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/02/mexico_wages_cartoon_wars_over.html Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:15:26 -0500 Renowned Mexican cartoonist Paco Calderon is accused of being too pro-American. To his critics he shouts, "Are you idiots?" Amar C. Bakshi Anti-Americanism Culture & Entertainment Politics http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/02/migrant_longing_for_bimbo_brea.html http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/02/migrant_longing_for_bimbo_brea.html Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:47:59 -0500 Let's call it de-Bimbofication -- the process by which, over successive generations, Mexican Americans lose their nostalgia for Bimbo-brand-breads and start buying American brands instead. Amar C. Bakshi Business & Capitalism http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/02/mexico_better_without_us.html http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/02/mexico_better_without_us.html Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:35:20 -0500 "If the United States did not exist, would Mexico be better off?" Leon Krauze asks his national radio audience of three million Mexicans. Their answers surprise him. Amar C. Bakshi Anti-Americanism Culture & Entertainment Sovereignty & Patriotism http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/02/us_and_mexico_soccer.html http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/02/us_and_mexico_soccer.html Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:38:25 -0500 The U.S. national soccer team is like a Playstation machine, say fans in Mexico City: all predictable, no passion. Amar C. Bakshi Sports http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/02/hyphenated_american.html http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/02/hyphenated_american.html Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:46:43 -0500 Hyphenated identities are uniquely American, this Venezuelan professor says, and they perpetuate U.S. racism. Amar C. Bakshi Lifestyles Politics http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/02/venezuela_guevara_student_bush.html http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/02/venezuela_guevara_student_bush.html Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:39:24 -0500 Cut the hostile rhetoric, Bush, and give this young leader a chance to change Venezuela from within. Amar C. Bakshi Anti-Americanism Politics Sovereignty & Patriotism Youth & Education http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/02/general_raul_baduel_venezuela_us.html http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/02/general_raul_baduel_venezuela_us.html Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:33:36 -0500 Retired General Raul Baduel protects Venezuela from U.S. aggression. Amar C. Bakshi Anti-Americanism Sovereignty & Patriotism War & Terrorism http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/02/why_calderon_didnt_meet_bush.html http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/02/why_calderon_didnt_meet_bush.html Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 The Mexican conservative soul has been traditionally distant, if not openly hostile, to the United States. That's one reason Felipe Calderon didn't meet President Bush in the U.S. last week. Amar C. Bakshi Guest Posts http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/01/bolivarian_university_venezuela_america.html http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/01/bolivarian_university_venezuela_america.html Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:39:54 -0500 At the Bolivarian University of Venezuela, students fortify their minds against America. Amar C. Bakshi Anti-Americanism Politics Youth & Education http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/01/the_bolivarian_republic_venezuela.html http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2008/01/the_bolivarian_republic_venezuela.html Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:42:33 -0500 I'm in Venezuela, twittering away. The concrete city meets, and upsets, my expectations of anti-Americanism. Amar C. Bakshi Notes from Amar