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.
美國作家P•J•奧魯爾克(PJ O'Rourke)喜歡跟人說起一則與反美主義有關的故事。1984年他報導黎巴嫩內戰時，經常被真主黨設置的檢查站攔下。一次，他來到了一座檢查站，一羣荷槍實彈、身穿「殺死美國撒旦惡魔」字樣T恤的少年人在那裏把守著。奧魯爾克出示了他的美國護照，一個少年開始痛斥他：「跟我說說，貧窮、戰爭、不公、猶太復國主義——爲什麼這個世界的可怕災難都是美國造成的。」終於，少年停止了數落，把自己的職業規劃告訴了奧魯爾克：他打算去密西根州的迪爾伯恩學習牙醫。