Why are some Europeans so rude to Americans?

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Why are some Europeans having a gripe with and being rude to Americans, particularly by judging those of right-wing views?

I have nothing against liberals being able to express a viewpoint but some Europeans are truly monsters, some but not all. Even WrongPlanet is rude against my political views. Some European liberals are just as rude as American ones.

Just because we don't have socialized medicine and can't show any "liberal" stuff, even after 10 pm, why should they have the right to be rude to us and not accept our government for what it is, whether it is right or wrong?

Why do Europeans brag so much about the decline of "old fashioned family values" being a good thing?

Some may say that the word I'm looking for is "arrogance". It is.

The world really is coming to an end with all this social and political tension.

WrongPlanet is not rude against your political views. On its face, that is untrue. WrongPlanet is made up of a whole lot of people of differing ages, with differing views, differing experiences, differing thoughts and differing opinions. Some posters may have been rude to you, but you can't gather up all the posters into one evil group with the malicious intent of skewering you. One man's rudeness is another man's debate, and is another man's bait, and is another man's sensitivities and passions.

Look around you, are you not seeing a lot of conservative posting as well as liberal posting? This forum PPR is quite full of lengthy discussion between those who love owls and hug trees and demand that everybody else do so, and those who tote guns and wave compassionlessness around like it's a badge of honor and demand that everybody else do so.

Of course, anyone has the right to be rude to anyone else. Falls under free speech. And remember, this is all text, how people communicate here. Sometimes sarcasm doesn't come across, sometimes irony doesn't come across, sometimes text seems rude due to particular phrasing, but sometimes it's on purpose and sometimes it's by accident.

Why should we expect your Europeans, or anyone else, to accept our government for what it is, whether it is right or wrong? I cannot accept many governments in Africa and in Asia, whether their governments are right or wrong. We did not have Tianenmen Square in America. A crapton of stuff that goes on in Africa every day is unacceptable, in my mind.

Where are your Europeans being hurtful? Here in the forums? Don't respond to inciteful phrasing and don't use inciteful phrasing. Don't get bent on "he/she started it." Just argue your points and try not use smarmy language. We're using English, but it ain't exactly the same English, is it?

No we don't have socialized medicine. I hear Europeans and others question why we don't have it, and I hear them feeling a little sorry for us when they hear someone didn't go to the doctor when they should have because they couldn't afford the appointment. In those countries that have socialized medicine, they don't understand not going to the doctor because you can't afford it. We don't exactly accept Europeans' governments the way they are, do we? [pssstt, americans...do we?]

Right-wing views do not hold the corner at the intersection of Badmouth This and Down On That. There are countries in South America that find any pro-choice stance to be truly unholy and really believe that all Americans are pro-choice. And when private dollars from kind hearts bring boats of food and medicine and provisions to a place that needs it, our government gets blamed.

Not that I'm totally against every stitch of what you're saying. I get pissy when someone stamps evil all over my 2nd Amendment. I do get tired of liberals forcing their way into my refrigerator, my gun case, my tax dollars, but I get tired of conservatives launching boo-hoo fits because some random European took a nasty swipe or told them they "sound mean."

Hey, next time a European badmouths right-wing views or America altogether, give them this: Mr. PartyNaked himself Silvio Berlusconi, nasty, perverted, in charge of an entire country, Italy. Try finding out just how many percents of their paychecks go to taxes and tell it to them. Bring up Diego Garcia sometime. Oh, this is a good one, do this like you're telling a joke, "how many supermodels has the current president of France been married to?" the answer is, "3!" They want to make fun of how Dubya looks when he's allowed to dress himself, find photos of drunken world leaders stumbling their way out of a meeting.

I hear you, Jet102fm. Dude, I do. Because I love America. I was one of those kids with a dad who was career military, and I was proud to say that I thought America was pretty decent compared to most. And this was in the 80's when expressions of patriotism were viewed as geeky at best, just by default. I still think America is pretty decent compared to most, but I'm not a nationalist. I am a patriot, but I'm a realist. Europeans have their own coolnesses. Europeans do not live there, so they don't KNOW the American experience just like we don't really know theirs.

Don't feel too down about it and try to take a little mercy on them. We have WAY more TV channels than they do.
And our football is much cooler.
And our freedoms are usually worth the price we pay for them.
And we don't have to ask permission to pass from state to state.
And all our plumbing's behind walls.
And most of us don't eat marmite by choice.
You know what, yeah. I just hate those Europeans too, arrogant goody-goodies.

i can't help but notice that many of the same americans who react to europeans' relative liberality by calling them arrogant, are the same americans who look down their noses at immigrants who don't speak english well. the pot is calling the kettle black, IMHO.

^You're even more than the first guy.

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