Why do American's talk so much rubbish (trash)?

Question

I get fed up with American's going on about "the land of the free" and their general all around ignorant attitude.
America did not invent demorcracy, neither is it the most demorcratic country in the world, and it is fundamentally corrupt. You always get the impression from them that they don't have a clue what they're talking about.

Answer 1

Who do you think you're kidding?

I've spent a considerable amount of time in Britain (I lived in England for 6 years. I also lived in Ireland for 2) and Europe and believe me, people are people wherever one goes. Your press operates with a definite agenda, just like that of the US, but the average citizen across the pond seems as oblivious to this fact as Americans are accused of being.

As for Americans being proud of their country, I offer no apologies whatsoever. Of course we are proud of our country, but believe me, we are aware of its flaws. I have seen blind patriotism in every country I have visited, particularly England and France. Americans are no more guilty of blind patriotism than the citizens of any other country. Perhaps if you actually bothered to visit America you would realize that.

Americans are aware we did not invent democracy. America, in fact, is not a democracy at all, never was, nor was it ever intended to be. It is a constitutional republic...very different than a democracy. Perhaps you should crack open your history book and read up on it before you make such a misinformed comment.

You have unfortunately fallen victim to the prejudice out there perpetrated by the uneducated and untraveled. If I believed the stereotypes of the British, Italian, French, German, etc. and allowed them to shape my opinions instead of actually visiting those countries and meeting those peoples, I would have missed out on some truly lovely people and cultures.

I highly recommend that you open your mind, do not believe everything you hear, and perhaps visit us before you condemn an entire nation of 301,139,947 people and write us off as clueless and arrogant.

Ironic, isn't it, how arrogant and ignorant your statements are? You are displaying the very shortcomings you claim to abhor in Americans.

Answer 2

Not all Americans are ignorant, that is totally unfair, it is like saying they all weigh 600lbs and live in a trailer park. Whilst I agree that many of them are ignorant load mouthed oafs, we have, in percentage, the same in the UK. I have been to the USA several times on business and each time given a bad time by the immigration people. If those people are the yardstick for America then what you say is true. I was insulted, ridiculed and made to feel very unwelcome, my crime? I was bringing work to the USA and it would have employed about 100 people, they told me in front of many people that people like me were not required, and that they were not a charity case. So I thought F*** you America. I will not return, whatever the circumstances, It is a shame that the minority spoil it for the majority, as such, Americans now have the unenviable reputation of not being very nice. I now live in France where the people of France have made the Americans welcome (well where we live), but they refused to integrate and generally insult the local people on a daily basis, little wonder that the French now shun them, The biggest moan that the Americans have, is that the French don't adopt the 'American way' they refuse to attempt to speak the language, sometimes I wonder what the hell they are doing here, apart from freeloading on the medical system.

Answer 3

well, i'm american, and i have to say that it is a bit insulting to think about being lumped into that group, but it's true of a lot of people over here. i'm sickened by peoples' ignorance about the rest of the world, and how they cannot see the hypocrisy in a lot of things they do. believe me, there are plenty of people who are right along with you, thinking that so many americans are idiots. i grew up in the countryside, and it was horrible, because it was a terribly conservative area that blindly supported the administration, and didn't believe that anything was wrong with their actions. sadly, i had never met anyone who was jewish or muslim before i left my county, because it is that ridiculous. everyone there is super super christian, yet they are insanely hypocritical. i suppose that it has a lot to do with your upbringing, and my parents were not from that area orginially, and were a lot more open-minded than many people around there.

however, now i go to school in philadelphia, and i have to say, it is a lot better there. i think that in general, people who live in bigger cities are bound to be more liberal and aware of things that are going on in the world. sadly, many americans seem to be living by the attitude of not caring about anything that does not affect them directly. BUT, there are tons of americans, myself included, who will watch dubya talk and throw things at the tv (and have since he became president) and do not support a lot of what our government does. for example, i bet they're reading this right now, lol. great.

anyway, it is frustrating because when i think about going overseas, i have to try to prove that i don't fall into that stereotype. i'm not saying that you guys aren't correct in some of your assumptions, because there definitely is some truth to them. but know that there are almost just as many people working to try to change that image, but they don't have as much influence as the politicians. it's a crappy situation. :-\

Answer 4

If you don't like Americans and get fed up with "the land of the free" and our Democratic policies then I would suggest you go back to the country you are from "pronto." We know what we have and what we are talking about, we are always striving to be better. If you're not an American, you wouldn't understand how very proud we are of our beautiful country, its vastness and our great people. Who are you to judge the Americans and make such harsh remarks? Signed, Proud to be an American, today, tomorrow and always....

Answer 5

Just exactly which Americans are you referring to? And what is it exactly that you've heard this or these individuals say that's got you so riled that you feel you have the moral right to slight the whole nation (which I suspect you've never visited)? I know many Americans who not only give the impression that they know very well what they're talking about, they are truly masters of their fields. As in any society, they have to put with their fair share of unthinking people who are happy with a world that suits their prejudices...and I suggest that you should take a long hard look at your prejudices.

Yours peacefully.

Answer 6

They think it engratiates them as the person they are talking to may one day be '' useful ''
expediency and superficiality are also creeping very deeply int English ways of life .

Hold to your values Breeding is best and to thyself be true is the ideal !!!!

Answer 7

The americans are great people and a great nation and no they did not invent demoracy but they are doing more than you preserving it.

Answer 8

Americans are (ahem) interesting people. Many of them do believe that there is no one in the world except themselves. They are spoiled with all their so-called 'freedoms', which do not actually exist... they are said to, but right and left there are laws prohibiting said freedoms.
You're right, Americans did not invent democracy - in fact, I believe that Thomas Jefferson, the writer of the Declaration of Independence was a great lover of all things Greek.
Most of them don't have any idea of what they are talking about... because they were never taught history, or for that matter, anything else.
I'm American, too.

Answer 9

Only in America, on there own

Answer 10

well, to them its how they precieve the world. we in the land of the free, thats England have an uncensored press. mainly because we dont trust anything anyone says without corroboration from several sources.

americans in general believe what theyre told, over and over again. its social brainwashing. but for most,esp in the rural areas, their oonly contaact with the outside world is controlled by a goverment censored media. which is everything you say it is, and more. sadly theyve heard lies and distortions for so long they dont know what is and isnt true anymore.

and as a non god fearing flag waving Englishman i get to take the intellectual highground. we know when our lads die in battle, we know when the war on terrorism is failing... we see it for all its boils and carbuncles. and we make upo our own minds, based in whole on what WE know.

give the yanks a break, if they knew what we know, they would be different. humility would suddenly appear in the dictionary.