I like Americans. It's American politics I don't like. I also don't like American pop culture and I get somewhat annoyed the way it steamrolls over a lot of indigenous culture around the world by virtue of its sheer size and marketing power.
As for Americans themselves, as a nation there is a certain self-centeredness and arrogance to the American psyche that I think upsets a lot of people from other countries. That whole Texan attitude about being bigger and better than everybody else. Personally, I think everybody is like that to a fair degree, Americans, Canucks, Brits, certainly the French ... it's really just an expression of pride and patriotism for the most part. It can be taken too far by some though and that's when hard feelings are created.
Probably the only serious knock I have against Americans is your school system ... it seems to fail at teaching you about the world outside of the USA. The collective American grasp of the world around them seems pretty tentative to me.
In general though, Americans are pretty much like Canadians, so what's to hate? Might as well hate ourselves as well. Oh wait, we do.
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