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The quote says that hidden anti-European attitudes in the United States may not be obvious in public discussion, but they still exist and are widespread. It suggests these views are deeply rooted rather than occasional or isolated.
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Originally said in English.
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About Linda Colley
British academic and historian
Linda Colley is a British academic and historian of British, imperial, and global history from 1700. She is the Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University, and has also held professorships at Yale University and the London School of Economics. Her work often uses interdisciplinary methods to examine the making of Britain and its place in wider imperial and global contexts. She is known for scholarship that connects political, cultural, and historical questions across long spans of modern history.
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