Posted on 04/28/2005 8:09:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
As for Americans, Brits go on about our bigness. Brits say we have big food, big asses, big teeth. All true. The obsession about being small makes most European countries feel small and hate us for our hugeness. It's the whole point behind the EU. It has absolutely nothing to do with what America does. It's what America is. That's why it's completely pointless to apologize for anything America does. People hate apologists.
Another assumption Brits had about Americans is that we all hated Bush. There were plenty of Americans who don't like Bush, but the British newspapers exaggerated it. The fact is, we don't have strong feelings about politicians (or Britons for that matter) in general. We do detest however, emotional people who suddenly become "politically active." Michael Stipe. Green Day. Chris Martin. They require daily beatings.
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The biggest difference between Americans and foreigners is that they spend a lot of time thinking about us, and we spend almost none thinking about them.
What many of these Europeans and Britons feel deep down their hearts is they still miss the grand empires their great-grandfathers built and enjoyed. I think they long for the days when Americans (or at least those who had to have contacts with Europe) spent time thinking about their preeminence, not the other way as is the case today.
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