Oh God, how do you even begin if you're from America?
Other countries seem to make it a hobby to try and come up with the most insults about Americans. But honestly, Americans are actually extremely self-critical; our country has this strange complex of being both proud of ourselves and extremely cynical about ourselves. Despite what other countries see in the news, we are the first to criticize ourselves. The type of Americans that make the news in other countries are our insane Evangelical Protestants, who have a crazy inferiority complex. They whine about how America is a horrible place but then love to be blindly patriotic about it. It's so painful to watch, knowing they are broadcasting themselves overseas and leaving the impression that all Americans are conservative, ignorant morons.
1. We are all fat. I'm certainly not. I live in the Midwest and most of us are just normal-sized people. I think fast food is disgusting. We do not worship the golden arches. If a McDonalds does well in another country, it is because the citizens of that country go and eat there.
2. We hate the Canadians/French/everyone! Absolutely not true. A good number of us have no problem at all with anyone from other countries. I like Canadians. I have friends in England, Ireland, Germany, the Philippines, and China. If I dislike someone from another country, it's usually because he/she makes assumptions about me because I'm from America. Typically, though, I have no problem getting along with people from other countries.
Especially the English. My best friend is from England. She's really awesome.
And y'know, Special Relationship with Papa England. It's not dead. And I consider Canada, Australia and New Zealand brother-countries. Woo!
3. We do not travel to other countries; therefore, we are only interested in ourselves.
Laughably untrue. See, Europeans don't seem to understand this because their countries are all jam-packed in next to each other. The distance from the east coast of America to the west coast of America is about 3000 miles. The distance from the east coast of America to England, is 3400 miles. It's really far away and it's not cheap. We can't afford to go because despite some strange stereotype that Americans are somehow rich enough to afford it--we're not. That's why you have Americans who have never left this country. Because it's expensive to go overseas. Even if you live in, say, Kansas--which is close to the middle of the country--it's still over 600 miles north to the Canadian border and over 500 miles south to the Mexican border. And America has some of the longest work weeks in the world. We work hard for our money but only the upper class has enough to make frequent trips to Europe and elsewhere. Therefore, yeah, sometimes we don't get to learn as much about the rest of the world but it certainly has very little to do with the rest of you and more to do with just not having the resources.
4. We all talk like gansters.
Now this one is just weird. I came across this several times while looking up youtube videos of different accents. When people from other countries say they are going to do an American accent, they would often do this strange...gangster accent, like we're all rappers or something. America has several different accent groups. The Southern accent is linguistically closest to England (I was quite surprised the first time I heard my mom's friends from Portsmouth say "I reckon"); except when you get to Boston, which is Irish.
