The 'W' Generation: How the World's Youth See America

For the past year, twenty-something Washington Post reporter Amar Bakshi has traveled across the globe talking to ordinary people of his generation -- farmers, rebels, rappers, laborers -- whose primary experience of the United States has been with George W. Bush at the helm.

What he found was eye-opening. Having just returned to the U.S. this month, Amar will offer some new perspectives on the texture of pro- and anti-Americanism at the local level.

Amar C. Bakshi is currently reporting for the online editions of The Washington Post and Newsweek, traveling around the world looking at how America impacts ordinary lives in a dozen countries. Before launching How the World Sees America, Amar worked with David Ignatius, Hal Straus, and Fareed Zakaria as the first editor of PostGlobal, an international affairs forum. His daily text and video dispatches from England, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, the Philippines, Korea, Venezuela and Mexico can be found at www.washingtonpost.com/america.

Participants

• Amar C. Bakshi
  Online Correspondent
  How The World Sees America

• Patrick C. Doherty
  Deputy Director, American Strategy Program
  New America Foundation

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Selected Posts from How the World Sees America

• Lebanon's Hip-Hop Struggle
• Child of a Filipina Prostitute: "The Dirt of the Americans"
• Inside an Indian Madrassa: Peacefully Awaiting America's Fall
• Pakistani Drag Queen Defies U.S.