Take heart. In an earlier post from "Die Welt", a German journalism professor Ebring from Berlin said the following, "The anti-Americanism related to culturalism is tied together with the European cultural arrogance that sees itself as the counterpiece to the America it perceives to be without culture, and its beginnings reach back into the 19th century."
A good many Europeans are arrogant ignoramuses, and I am being magnanimous in my praise. ;-)
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