To coin a phrase - "You Hate us! you really do!"
George Bush is an American
Everybody hates Americans
Therefore, every American is George Bush...
..or that's the way it feels. Yeah, we got a lot to answer for. And we are the sole source of all the evil in the world. And, most annoyingly, importantly, and substantially, we're not ___ (fill in the name of your own country...
Maybe Obama can start to fix all of that. I dunno.
Once problem any one country has dealing with other countries is that only the bad examples make the news. I live in a portion of the country known for the KKK (although they were everywhere in the early 20th centuries), being on the 'wrong side of the Civil War', the home to all the racism in the nation (ignoring the racism in the rest of the nation, but hey, at least they have someone to blame!...
Still, if someone actually comes here, and tries to be nice, they'll likely get treated nice in return. Maybe Ice Tea isn't for everyone (it works for me, because all the ingredients are in the break rooms, so I save bundles on soft drinks). Granted, many people in many countries couldn't find their own nations on a map, but we're the fall guys for all that.
Still, with the economy, the trade situation, etc., it might be something we never recover from, like Japan. Then they can start complaining about our replacements; the Chinese and the Indians...