Why all the nationalistic crap?

[Job]

Ok, kind of agree, but not all people from the States have a Texas attitude about the rest of the world.

"Americans" as in North and South American?
If so, the citizens of the United States do tend to take that word "American" as their own and not think of it as "All Americans, both North and South"

Do most Americans tend to be ****y, maybe

It is a selfish, spoiled generation in today's United States; not like the "Great" Generation of my Grandfathers.

It comes and goes...if there is another big Depression, it will humble the people...but the bad thing is that we will probably have to go to war to rebound, so that might not be a good thing either.

Then we agree after all.

[Abe Attell]

I remember hearing a good example of how some Europeans think of us, both in a positive way and a negative way, described as such:

America is like a child, filled with dreams, filled with motivation to make those dreams happen, though we love that about the States, it sometimes seems that child gets to ahead of himself and becomes arrogant...it is great to see how the Americans treat life as a great possiblity to achieve their dream, but they can over-step their bounds sometimes when the want it to much.

Based on how the media can sometimes treat our athletes, I think that the American idea of life to be #1 bothers the rest of the world; I don't think they understand that coming in any thing other than first is unacceptable...it is not only us though, I mentioned before, the Russians seem to have that same attitude; could this have been the reason for the Cold War

What I do think the rest of the world can tend to like is the many stories they hear of how a poverty stricken person is able to reach his dream and be a success.

[hollister]

I really don't understand it. I mean, I've seen it before to a degree between the brits and americans, but never as bad as this. Why do we care if the heavyweight division is currently ruled by current or former eastern Europeans? It seems to me that there was at least a small amount of joy when Valuev took the belt away from a boring Ruiz. Why the change?

Is it that people were ****** enough to take that "America's last Line of Defense" advertising campaign to heart?

IMO, it's because as much as you hear that we are all equal, people will always try to find ways to distinguish themselves from others and the like. I personally don't have any problem with where the champs are from, and wouldn't have had a problem if Rahman had won, because with exception of Valuev, they are all good fighters and seem to be nice respectable people. IMO Valuev isn't a world beater, but he sure did us a favor lol

[Job]

I remember hearing a good example of how some Europeans think of us, both in a positive way and a negative way, described as such:

America is like a child, filled with dreams, filled with motivation to make those dreams happen, though we love that about the States, it sometimes seems that child gets to ahead of himself and becomes arrogant...it is great to see how the Americans treat life as a great possiblity to achieve their dream, but they can over-step their bounds sometimes when the want it to much.

Based on how the media can sometimes treat our athletes, I think that the American idea of life to be #1 bothers the rest of the world; I don't think they understand that coming in any thing other than first is unacceptable...it is not only us though, I mentioned before, the Russians seem to have that same attitude; could this have been the reason for the Cold War

What I do think the rest of the world can tend to like is the many stories they hear of how a poverty stricken person is able to reach his dream and be a success.

I think that the most beautiful thing there is has to be humbleness, and that is why I get bothered by the american mindset sometimes, because this is a rare asset amongst people from the US.

The cinderella story is always a great one, but absolutely not exclusive to the US

[Chaotic Eye]

everybody loves the americans