 Here is an attempt to explain the love-hate relationship between America and the rest of the world by listing some very cogent reasons.
Why do different people in many developing nations around the world hate the United States of America and others love the country?
Those who love the country often mix the people and the government as one entity. Amongst those who hate America, only some make the distinction between the people of the country and the government that conducts itself in a certain way. There is also the paradox that sometimes one and the same person in a developing country anywhere in the world can feel, at and the same time, love for the U.S.A., as well as hate for the U.S.A. this ambivalent love-hate reaction is a reflection of the chimera-like qualities of this exceptional country.
First, let us arbitrarily list 10 reasons why people hate the U.S.A. Only some reasons are briefly elaborated.
1. The U.S.A.'s blind spot about Israel and its unwillingness to actively oppose other injustices against Muslims, such as in Indian-occupied Kashmir. America's blatant bias in favor of Israel during the past 30 years is in contrast to President Eisenhower's strong support to Egypt in 1956 on the Suez Canal issue against the attack on Egypt by British and French forces. America's complicity with Israeli barbarism against the people of Palestine, currently symbolized in the oppression of Gaza, is compounded by the U.S.A.'s hostility to Iran, the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and the drone attacks on Pakistan's tribal areas. Despite President Clinton's belated intervention in the Balkanization of Yugoslavia in the 1990s to prevent continued genocide of Bosnian Muslims, the pro-Israeli stance of America is an eloquent indicator of why the Muslim world perceives America's attitude to Muslim nations as being anti-Muslim.
 2. The inability to understand the Muslim mind; and the non-American way of life. There is a refreshing charm and naivety about how America attempts to understand the Muslim mind-set, a condition of the psyche which even Muslims themselves have difficulty understanding. Americans mistakenly assume that because it offers even now a unique environment for immigrants, America is "envied" by other people. Which is just not so. Other people, especially Muslims, are simply able to clearly see America's alarming insensitivities to Muslim concerns.
3. Support to dictators, tyrants and corrupt regimes whenever it suits U.S. interests.
4. Arrogance in the exercise of economic and media power and in claiming superiority over all other countries. Though America claims to respect other countries and after all, does host the United Nations in New York, its grasp of spirituality as a source of infinite power remains limited.
5. A functional, opportunistic approach to relationships, both on an individual basis, and on a State-to-State basis.
6. The tendency to allow virtually unlimited freedom of speech sometimes becomes heretical and offensive to those who hold religion to be most dear.
7. No limits to sexual liberty and the promotion of promiscuity that is reflected in a divorce rate as high as 50% of all marriages. And open acceptance of gay relationships between people of the same sex.
8. Excessive materialism, contributing to the highest levels of heedless consumption of the planet's resources and to global warming.
9. A strong WASP ethic. The term "WASP" refers to the historical "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant" framework of life that drove the Pilgrims from Europe to North America. It sums up the ethic and the people who shaped the hard-work attribute of the Americans but also devastated the Red Indians with diseases and with violent destruction and displacement. Despite being the motive force for the creativity that shaped the country, the WASP ethic even in the 21st century acts through a covert, unacknowledged, unadmitted racism that is discriminatory against non-whites at home and abroad. President Barack Obama's historic election is a major dent on the negative aspects of this ethic. But emancipation of non-whites, specially the black poor, is still awaited.
10. The lopsided, one-way flow of media content by which American media through Hollywood and TV dominate the air-waves and screens in the rest of the world. But, in turn, America refuses to import fair levels of media content from outside America, and helps keep most Americans ignorant about other societies and cultures.
Then there are 10 reasons why people love the U.S.A.
1. Authentic freedom to express views without fear or favor. Even if mainstream American media prevents real pluralism, the nature of American society permits genuinely free expression of political, cultural and social opinions on all issues, a scale and depth of freedom of expression that possibly no other country in the world offers.
 2. Freedom of worship for all religions, old and new, whether they be with miniscule adherents or with mass following. None of them are persecuted for their beliefs or religious practices. The U.S.A. is a truly secular State, despite the prevalence of the WASP and Christian concepts of "In God We Trust" and the persistence of a strong Christian ethos in several aspects.
3. A land of wide and great opportunity in almost all fields of human endeavor. From setting up gas stations to creating software giants. From funeral parlors for pets to buying up Rockefeller Centre: opportunities abound for American citizens and for foreign citizens to develop prospects, acquire property and make new fortunes.
4. A country where a person ca make a new future purely on the basis of individual merit rather than only by virtue of family lineage, inheritance, or access to contacts and influence individual merit rather than only by virtue of family lineage, inheritance, or access to contacts and influence.
5. A place that contains enormous human, racial and cultural diversity even while certain groups and classes dominate the power structure.
6. A general milieu, and a higher education sector that leads the world in scientific invention and in intellectual exploration. Even though the American school system ranks below standards of other advanced countries, American universities and higher education and research centers lead the world in offering a vast scope for intellectual freedom: America's high tally of Nobel prizes is one indicator of this remarkable quality.
7. A dynamic and highly competitive economy that is able to adapt quickly to new challenges.
8. Sheer power and energy, manifest in both its extraordinary military capacity which is greater than all other advanced nations, and in its multi-dimensional creative energy.
 9. The splendid isolation and distance from the rest of the world, with oceans on either side of the country, a feature shared with countries like Canada and Mexico but at the same time, being thoroughly "American", in its own exclusive way. And yet there is a tremendous interest in nature and the universe, exemplified in The National Geographic, the world's most readable magazine.
10. The American special sense of humor and ability to entertain their own people - as well as people around the world - through Hollywood, through TV, through aggressively and imaginatively marketed icons like Mickey Mouse and Michael Jackson, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and most of all my favorite series The Simpsons.
The rest of the world waits anxiously for America's grasp to match its reach. 
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