Not hate....abhor would be more correct I think
I have spent over two decades and close to 10 countries to try and understand what it is about me (and you if you are American) that seems to just make people of other nations sneer at us.
I have heard them call our military; "Chocolate Soldiers" refering I believe to what they concieve it to be a volunteer structure of 'neer-do-well' buffoons.
I have heard them call our political structure; 'Zionists' (a play on Z.O.G)?
To "Them", Americans are foolish children who are fat and spoiled, lazy and arrogant, stingy and stupid. Maybe this is the picture American tourists impress upon them.
I think that after some thought (not that much really), we are everything that "They" are. But they see us when we vacation, not when we work. They see us when we are retired and lazy, not young, poor and proud. They see our restraint as weakness and our fighting (winning) spirit as being bullying. With "Them" we will never be anything positive, but they still envy us our generousity, our initiative, our cohesiveness under fire, our ability to tackle anyone and almost anything.
In short, it is Sweet and Sour Pork (chicken for the non-pork eaters). In essense, they perhaps find us bewildering that we can be of one political thought, yet admire and accept other politics without resorting to bloodshed.
We are known for complicating simple problems and being simple with complicating issues. We take sides yet have no idea what the issues really are (e.g Middle-east). We don't practice what we preach, and we preach to those that don't practice our beliefs.
Who else but Americans (including of German and Italian descent) would storm out of a landing craft into a hail of lead, on French soil, to fight other Germans and Italians holding French soil, and everyone hates the French?
Time for a Vodka after contemplating this. Cheers.