I imagine that most Americans view Latvia, for example, without either love or hate, and the consequence is that they know nothing about Latvia. If they love or hate a country their newspapers will supply them with favourable or unfavourable information, as the case may be, and their prejudices will gradually come to be confirmed by a mass of what appears to be knowledge.
Source: Mortals and Others; Bertrand Russell's American Essays, 1931-1935, v.1
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