After reading this, I feel even more proud to be an American. And no matter how more awful my country becomes – even if matters here result in unfortunate situations for me, I will always be proud and not want to live anywhere else. (It is said that if there’s a HUGE terrorist attack in America, that Canada will open it’s borders to allow Americans refuge. No way. I’m staying here even if it means I have to die.) I find Americans to have much better class, a much better education and are capable of more complex critical thinking and views that go beyond one dimension. And these feelings come from the link posted above.
If these clichés and bullying tactics were just coming from one, two, or even three people – or even a handful – I’d let it roll to the thinking of the individual. But this is a result of group think – a very sour and collective prejudice that Americans are moving beyond in the present. I find some other countries to be a bit back-dated when it comes to tolerance and acceptance. We are moving forward while I find other developed nations moving backward. The fact that you elitists don’t find Anti-Americanism a form of xenophobia is more than half the problem.
I would say Americans are more mean to each other than to those people that come from other countries. It’s true. We hate each other more – most likely because we don’t all think the same here. We are more critical of ourselves and each other than you are of us. And when we DO hate other ethnic groups, we don’t make as big a public spectacle over it like you do to us.
I know that I’m going to receive a lot of hate mail/comments because of this post. But ya know what? I really don’t care! If you’re pissed, it’s probably because you’re guilty of bullying yourself because usually your replies to me reflect the same old tired stereotypes and clichés that you refuse to grow out of. It’s always easier to walk to the beat of someone else’s’ drum than your own, isn’t it?
Here, where I talk about Americans, I’m not talking about the entirety of us. I’m talking about my version of the “average American” based on my experiences over the last 39 years:
—> Americans don’t make hundreds of groups, videos, and websites all over the internet depicting their hate for Britons and Canadians.
—> Americans don’t burn British and Canadian flags.
—> Americans don’t go out of their way at every chance they get to insult Britons and Canadians.
—> Americans don’t hold grudges over wars that happened 60-200+ years before we were even born like the Americanophobic Brits and Canadians do.
—> Americans ask questions and admit to their own ignorance when they’re not sure of something compared to Brits and Canadians.
—> Americans are the most critical of their OWN country (more than ANYONE ELSE! – We are our own worst enemies) and don’t hesitate to point out their OWN flaws. But I, on only very rare occasions, see a Brit or a Canadian admitting to a non-perfection about themselves or about their own country. As far as I am to know they are “perfect” or “near perfection” and have a shiny-clean past. 
—> When Americans are young and in Jr. high school, high school, and in college, we spend our time studying and out having fun as children/young adults (at least that’s the way it was back in my day) instead of looking for nations to hate and obsessing over evil-run governments and people.
—> Americans make stupid mistakes confusing London with England or not being able to find something obvious on a map, thinking Canadians live in igloos…. BUT (!!), they don’t pretend to be smarter than Britain and Canada. On the other hand, Americanophobic Brits and Canadians ACTUALLY say they are smarter and better, but make the most outlandish and embarrassing mistakes in geography, history, and politics… all the time. Another HUGE cultural difference here!!
—> Americans don’t dance in the street and celebrate when we see others being attacked and blown up, even if they are the enemy.
—> I have always found myself to be very humble about my own country. Hell, more than half of this blog you are reading right now is aimed at pointing out the flaws in America! There are over 282 posts written here, and you can see for yourself my own America-bashing. This is why a lot of conservatives dislike me – because I expose where my country is WRONG.
—> When I lived in Japan and met Canadians and Britons for the first time, I had EXCELLENT relationships with them. We didn’t see each other as Brits, Canadians, or Americans – we saw each other as people living in Japan and nothing else. I liked you guys more than Americans back then. I used to think that you guys had us beat in terms of civility and intelligence. But since I have been connected to the internet, I no longer see that civility and intelligence. I see intolerance, hate, revenge, hyper-patriotism (yes, you guys are worse – especially the Canadians!), ignorance, narrow-mindedness, and simple-mindedness. (And it’s not just Facebook and Youtube. Many of your own people are complaining about the mindless and ignorant Americanophobes out and about in your own countries causing a huge decline in tourism!) But the hate, intolerance, and disregard for other people’s feelings stands out to me the most through your online and offline bullying. And NO! Hardly any of you have attacked me, personally. But you attacked my people. And when you attack Americans, you are also attacking my family, friends, all my loved ones, me indirectly, and innocents who have done NOTHING to hurt YOU.
With that said, I am sorely disappointed. My past views that we Americans had a big brother or sister to look up to or take guidance from are in the trash bin now crinkled up and ready to be taken to the dump. This is why I feel more patriotic and jaded then ever. I don’t feel proud because of this. I feel it to be my way of dealing with all the slurs against my people and myself. I’m sick of it and I DO take it personally because it IS personal. I could understand better if the insults you hurled about us were true, but they are not (for the most part) and it is these points that I have problems with. Call me out on something I did wrong, I may think about it, apologize or correct my behavior. Call me out on something I’m not guilty of, it says more about YOU than it does me and my people and you should not expect respect back in return. And it’s those things I cannot forgive. Americans MUST stick together and bond against this type of sickness in society. No matter how “evil” you think the “average American” is, I don’t find you Americanophobes to be any better of a role model in society. Think about it.
If you find Americans to be assholes or becoming prejudiced toward the likes of YOU, at least I can say with confidence that there’s a good reason for it albeit a bit juvenile and non-productive. Oh yeah — we have home-grown assholes here who don’t need a reason to hate in order to hate – of course! Nonetheless, I still feel the same.
If ANY group at all needs to be mean to Americans, it SHOULD be the French, non-violent Muslims, and African Americans over the past slavery days. And it’s justified if they’re angry. And I don’t bat an eyelash because I expect it. HOWEVER, these groups have more class and they are nowhere near as childish and petty as the Americanophobes that are super-bred and brainwashed well in Britain and Canada.
While I will still continue to point out America’s flaws in my blog and off my blog, I do feel a sense of superiority compared to the Americanophobic sub-cultures that are clinically obsessed with Americans, hate speech, and negativity.
Before you elites start running here with your laundry list of American-made-evils, let me just tell you that I ALREADY know where American is wrong. What I’m trying to say here is that YOU are no “better” than us “as a people” in regards to the link I posted. And Anti-Any-ism is not only nothing to be proud of, it gives YOU no bragging rights and certainly nothing worthy of patting your collective selves on the back over.
