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I think the phenomenon expressed by the OP is inferred as a superiority complex, but it is ultimately a product of the shattering of American solipsism.
Yup!! I agree! Plus the way they behave. Mostly demanding and criticizing everything what is not like "back home". Not generalizing, but it does happen very often...
(Some of the posts on C-D are good reference)
Those people are also very insecure and paranoid - they ask same questions on US forums, even when they move from city to city/ or state to state....
Yup!! I agree! Plus the way they behave. Mostly demanding and criticizing everything what is not like "back home". Not generalizing, but it does happen very often...
Non-Americans do this when working or studying in the US all the time.
It is very disingenuous to characterize this type of behaviour as a chiefly American trait.
^^^ I don't really see any posts written by non-Americans asking if they will fit in with their blue eyes, blond hair, skin color, or because of their nationality, or sexual orientation...
Americans have the reputation for saying something like: "Hello, I'm John, I'm from America". It gives the impression that Americans think that the nationality of a person is more important than its character. Or that the nationality is a character. Do Americans think that being American is an important feature?
I don't know whether the stereotype that Americans feel the need to say that they are from America is correct. I have met both types of Americans, so I don't know. But I do have the impression that the own nationality is for Americans much more important than it is for people from other countries. I've never met a Dutch or French who said that they are from the Netherlands or France.
I have the impression that for Americans the nationality comes first and only then other features like job, educational background or interests. Americans take it definitely more personally when someone criticizes the U.S. They almost always seem to feel the need to defend the U.S. even when it's absurd to do so.
Sometimes it seems difficult to discuss a serious topic with Americans because they put their country above rational thinking.
Americans have the reputation for saying something like: "Hello, I'm John, I'm from America". It gives the impression that Americans think that the nationality of a person is more important than its character. Or that the nationality is a character. Do Americans think that being American is an important feature?
I don't know whether the stereotype that Americans feel the need to say that they are from America is correct. I have met both types of Americans, so I don't know. But I do have the impression that the own nationality is for Americans much more important than it is for people from other countries. I've never met a Dutch or French who said that they are from the Netherlands or France.
I have the impression that for Americans the nationality comes first and only then other features like job, educational background or interests. Americans take it definitely more personally when someone criticizes the U.S. They almost always seem to feel the need to defend the U.S. even when it's absurd to do so.
Sometimes it seems difficult to discuss a serious topic with Americans because they put their country above rational thinking.
Americans have the reputation for saying something like: "Hello, I'm John, I'm from America". It gives the impression that Americans think that the nationality of a person is more important than its character. Or that the nationality is a character. Do Americans think that being American is an important feature?
I don't know whether the stereotype that Americans feel the need to say that they are from America is correct. I have met both types of Americans, so I don't know. But I do have the impression that the own nationality is for Americans much more important than it is for people from other countries. I've never met a Dutch or French who said that they are from the Netherlands or France.
I have the impression that for Americans the nationality comes first and only then other features like job, educational background or interests. Americans take it definitely more personally when someone criticizes the U.S. They almost always seem to feel the need to defend the U.S. even when it's absurd to do so.
Sometimes it seems difficult to discuss a serious topic with Americans because they put their country above rational thinking.
What always annoys me is when American senators/presidents say at a Press Conference (say someone has been killed) "this AMERICAN man has been brutally murdered" basically insinuating that Americans are some sort of "master race" and that the rest of us don't matter.
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