The Love-hate paradox about the U.S.A.

Musing#9
Hi! I am back from a tour to New york & Washington.D.C.
I read an intriguing report of a survey published by the "European council on foreign relations." In this survey conducted in the year 2007--- 57000 people from 52 countries were asked about the country they love the most and the country they hate the most. According to this survey people from 28 countries out of the 52, opined U.S.A. as the country they hate the most.Prominent countries among these are South Korea,Hong kong,Malaysia,Italy,Japan,India,U.K.,Canada. It is really paradoxical that some of these countries depend so much on the U.S.A. with regards to their trade, economy and job oppurtunities and still this country figures in their hate list.
Is this because they are jealous or insecure and threatened by the might of this super power?
Or is this the love- hate relationship that is usually discussed at length by the psychologists?
Whatever may be the case the American people must be really intrigued like me about the finding of this survey.
The Indians as per the survey have put India as the country they love the most. Yes. "I love my India ". The other countries which have listed India as the country they love most are, Bolivia, Dominican Republic and the U.K.
Like the Indians the Americans also have put their own country in th love list and do you know which is the country figuring in their hate list, for obvious reasons it is Iran.
The clear winner in the most loved category is the European Union with 24 out of the 52 countries voting for them and again most of them are from the EU, which goes to prove the dictum that there is strength in number always.
mentor mohan.