There's a story the American writer PJ O'Rourke loves to tell about anti-Americanism. Covering Lebanon's civil war in 1984, he kept getting stopped at Hizbollah-run checkpoints. Eventually he reached one staffed by armed teenagers wearing “Kill America Satan Devil” T-shirts. When O'Rourke produced his American passport, one kid began berating him, “telling me how all the terrible things wrong with the world were caused by America - poverty, war, injustice, Zionism”. Finally the kid stopped, and told O'Rourke his career plan: he aimed to study dentistry in Dearborn, Michigan.
美国作家P•J•奥鲁尔克(PJ O'Rourke)喜欢跟人说起一则与反美主义有关的故事。1984年他报道黎巴嫩内战时，经常被真主党设置的检查站拦下。一次，他来到了一座检查站，一群荷枪实弹、身穿“杀死美国撒旦恶魔”字样T恤的少年人在那里把守着。奥鲁尔克出示了他的美国护照，一个少年开始痛斥他：“跟我说说，贫穷、战争、不公、犹太复国主义——为什么这个世界的可怕灾难都是美国造成的。”终于，少年停止了数落，把自己的职业规划告诉了奥鲁尔克：他打算去密歇根州的迪尔伯恩学习牙医。