List your honest opinions about Americans

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*Hardworking
*Outgoing
*Friendly
*Loud
*Dramatic
*Uneducated
*Extremely disengaged from Politics
*Patriotic
*Fiercely Independent
*Places enormous value on the ideals of masculinity and strength(Sometimes to their detriment).
*Spiritually inclined
*Going through tough times
*Both disdainful and incredibly trusting of authority (Institutions in America such as government and the military are often both treated with both intense disdain and adoration.)

Lots of those traits are to be found in animals, too, although they aren’t intelligent enough for some of them.

Of course, I’d argue that my dog and my parents’ cat can exhibit both manipulative and entitled behaviors when they want something.

Gluttony from an evolutionary standpoint is understandable in feast or famine scenarios. Food motivation is still at work in our brains.

Laziness makes sense as far as reserving calories and energy to run from or fight predators.

Impatience and simple-mindedness could also be valuable evolutionary traits that we see in our animal friends because they help them get the important things that are necessary for survival done.

A vicious dog can kill people but it’s not intelligent enough to kill people on a large scale.

Conversely, my dog is loving and loyal, but she’s not intelligent enough to get involved with helping a community on a large scale.

She also loves food and thinks about it constantly, but she lacks the intelligence to make an elaborate meal like we tend to do. One of the most important things that seems to establish so many cultures is cuisine.

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Some people think humans are above nature, I say we are equal nature. Humans are nature gone wild.

Another funny thing about Americans, at least in my opinion, is that they always seem to wait a few years until after they've destroyed their enemies in war to decide exactly why their enemies were 'evil' and deserved it.

When the American Civil War was first fought not that many people really cared about slavery or the rights of black people until the war was almost over. Originally they thought they were doing it just to preserve that precious Union of ours, but I guess the evils of slavery in the south had a better ring to it when it came to justifying Sherman's March to The Sea.

And in World War 2 we pride ourselves on helping to stop the Nazis from killing the Jews during the holocaust, and yet many Americans during the time of World War 2 were actually very racist and anti-semitic and were against allowing Jewish immigrants fleeing from Europe to live in their country.

Anti-Semitism was by no means just an American thing. It was prevalent throughout the entire stretch of Europe. It was a huge problem in predominantly Christian countries and continues to be so to a certain extent. People seem to have a really hard time understanding and interacting with those who have different belief systems (no matter how similar such belief systems might be...). It’s a human trait stemming from tribalism. If chimps were intelligent enough to have religion, they’d have battles over it, too. As it is, they must content themselves with tribal fights over territory.

Despite having some degree of anti-Semitism, participating in WWII was still noteworthy and extremely important. Families should be proud of relatives who fought in that war because it was the right thing to do.

Racism wasn’t and isn’t limited to America, either.

Even people who were anti-slavery tended to have some degree of prejudice. Does this make them bad people? No because we need to keep in mind that people did not have our current scientific, psychological, or sociological knowledge. They couldn’t help but be misinformed. If we lived back then, we’d probably be prejudiced, too.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin was an important anti-slavery work, but sections of it are absolutely cringeworthy to read now. It doesn’t make Stowe’s work (or Lincoln’s for that matter) any less valuable or important. It was a step in the right direction. Things aren’t always entirely good or entirely bad. Let’s have some balance here. Any progress is worthy of note and recognition because it’s gradually moving us towards a more welcoming society. We’ve come a long way as far as civil rights, gay rights, and women’s rights go. We’re currently navigating our way through complex gender issues.

Interestingly, when Lincoln met Stowe, he supposedly said: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War.”

I think the key is to keep in mind where an individual is located in history before judging them too harshly. Hopefully, future Americans (and Earthlings in general) will consider our contextual vantage point in a similar manner.

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Americans talk too much and too loudly

Too emotional

They ac like they are so innocent and important

Too enthusiastic

Americans smell like cheese.

i have never met in person an american, though i have seen videos of american people. they, many but not all, are somewhat superficially 'animated', extravagant, arrogant and appear to be delusional and extrovertly disorganised in how they behave. when i watched them, i wondered weather they knew something about the world and each other, had their own secrets that i just could not comprehend and hatch on to. it is truly the 'free country' i guess, lots of "interesting" characters, thats for sure.

that's not particularly an american thing though. they'll be this kind of people spotted about everywhere and i don't believe theres anything wrong with being arrogant, animated, extravagant, etc. in america, it seems they're all just in love with each other and their twisted culture to much and way to publicised. i just struggled to keep up with what i was viewing.

americans appear to have no sense of harmony.

but thats only on the streets. i can't see through peoples houses to know how they truly are. "home is where the heart is" such and such.

america has a significant amount of musicians, artists. . . many elitist artists for sure, who create art through a sense of social superiority . . . but from what i've gathered, many levelled socially aware musicians and artists in america too, who are aware of "what is actually going on?"

Most Americans don’t blow their own horns through YouTube videos.

The ones you see on these videos are usually the more extraverted ones.

Humans are nature gone wrong, with the potential to change so much for the better, but lacking the will.

Some of us are doing better but often dragged back by those who love retreating to their laagers.

Too extroverted

Otherwise, hard to say because as a native I see big differences that outsiders would not pick up.

Doubt you can generalize about a nation of 250 million people as you'll get vast differences to the "average".

Sometimes people's personal experiences with a tiny cross section of a society colours their views.