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=====United Kingdom===== {{See also|Special Relationship#Public opinion}} [[File:Yankee go home Liverpool.jpg|thumb|Anti-American banners in [[Liverpool]], UK]] According to a Pew Global Attitudes Project poll, during the [[George W. Bush]] administration "favorable opinions" of America between 2000 and 2006 fell from 83% to 56% in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=252 |title=America's Image Slips, But Allies Share U.S. Concerns Over Iran, Hamas | Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project |date=13 June 2006 |publisher=Pewglobal.org |access-date=18 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061008020203/http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=252 |archive-date=8 October 2006 }}</ref> News articles and blogs have discussed the negative experiences of Americans living in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4881474.stm |work=BBC News |title=Anti-Americanism 'feels like racism' |date=16 April 2006 |access-date=4 November 2006 |archive-date=23 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823063856/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4881474.stm |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Anti-Americanism in Britain |url=http://www.anamericangirlinlondon.co.uk/?p=85 |publisher=An American Girl in London β blog |access-date=8 April 2015 |date=24 February 2013 }}{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web |title=Anti-American sentiment: Why is it acceptable? |url=http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2328026 |publisher=The Student Room β blog |access-date=8 April 2015 |date=21 April 2013 |archive-date=27 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227055749/https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2328026 |url-status=live }}</ref> Anti-American sentiment became more widespread in the United Kingdom following the [[Iraq War]] and the [[War in Afghanistan (2001βpresent)|War in Afghanistan]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Report of the Working Group on Anti-Americanism|url=http://www.princeton.edu/~ppns/conferences/reports/fall/AA.pdf|publisher=The Princeton Project on National Security|access-date=8 April 2015|date=September 2005|page=24|archive-date=19 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180119073407/https://www.princeton.edu/~ppns/conferences/reports/fall/AA.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Book Review: The Long History of British Disdain for America|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703779704576074342437747736|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=8 April 2015|date=22 January 2011|archive-date=8 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308160000/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703779704576074342437747736|url-status=live}}</ref>
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