I am sorry to be harsh, but I'm sick of the whining. I do judge Americans on an individual basis, and have many friends who are American, and they make the same jokes about the states that the rest of us do and have the same complaints. Also, many of us here have had our countries generalized (Qatari's, Saudi's, Canadians and Brits to name a few, by Americans no less) and you don't hear us complaining about it, instead we laugh it off.
Sorry if those generalizations about our countries were not as nasty as the ones about yours, but frankly,watch your own TV, look at your actions in the past few decades (and I do not mean you individually, I mean your country)and tell me the nasty things said about Americans aren't justified. Like it or not everyone is a representative of the country they were born into.
I am sorry to be harsh, but I'm sick of the whining. I do judge Americans on an individual basis, and have many friends who are American, and they make the same jokes about the states that the rest of us do and have the same complaints. Also, many of us here have had our countries generalized (Qatari's, Saudi's, Canadians and Brits to name a few, by Americans no less) and you don't hear us complaining about it, instead we laugh it off.
Sorry if those generalizations about our countries were not as nasty as the ones about yours, but frankly,watch your own TV, look at your actions in the past few decades (and I do not mean you individually, I mean your country)and tell me the nasty things said about Americans aren't justified. Like it or not everyone is a representative of the country they were born into.