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Actually, it jives with my experiences.
When I visited the UK, the people were very friendly. When I visited Duxford, they taught me the proper pronunciation of aluminium and a fellow restoring a Beaufighter let me, actually asked me, to climb up into the fighter he was restoring so that I could take pictures and look out from the cockpit and navigator's positions!
Really, these are good people.

However, when I discussed Tony Martin (the poor Brit farmer that was jailed for killing a burglar) with my host, he was appalled to find out that I was a "member of the gun culture." (I told him that I wasn't a gun nut, but I was aspiring to reach that status some day!) He was also dismissive of the UK's achievements during WWII. (He was also dodging the taxes and inspections on B&Bs...) He was a nice person, but I was very sad for him.

I think I understand a difference. When a Red State American goes abroad, we don't assume we know anything about the folks we're visiting. We go and have a good time and try to learn. But we don't hide who and what we are, 'cause we're proud of being American, too. In other words, part of the fun is differences between "us" and "them."

A Blue Stater would assume that everybody is just like him, 'cause obviously, they know best. For all their claims of tolerance, if you're different, you're wrong.
Europeans are natural-born blue-staters.