Are Americans really more prejudiced?

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In spite of slipping, living standards and available resources, I believe that Americans have been more prejudiced, due to their role as preeminent superpower, world policeman, and cultural epicenter. You know uniquely-American foods. We don't know uniquely-Canadian-foods, popularly. Noone is going to Canada, to pursue celebrity status.

But, all America has to offer is image.

More-practically speaking, I believe that acquisitive people will exploit whatever country gives them a competitive edge. Export businesses, entrepreneurial pioneers, and banking aficionados are cosmopolitan.

It's a question of work opportunities, and, unless you have a have job offer, on paper (!), in show business, that mystique is literally worthless. Americanism is like the rhinestone, to the actual cowboy. It is the vacation spot, with a service sector economy, that provides nothing, except for a nice view. You can spend money, here, for so long as we can import things, like the leisure cities of the ancient world.

When I talk about image, I am mainly referring to the entertainments and propaganda, which we export.

They're usually demoralizing.

In the words of Russian strategist, Dugin, America is babylonic -- by implication, the Biblical Mother of Harlots.

I believe it was the Chinese, who had a saying about the paper tiger.

American, anti-Canada biases:
http://ruckasworld.com/canada/

If this thread is now going to be about USA vs. Canada, someone should create a new thread so we can duke it out.

However, I see politicians right here in the US telling us that we are not a great country and that strategy will most likely bring them electoral success.

We don't need any Canadian to run us down - we have enough manpower at home to do the job proper.

Compared to most of the rest of the world, Americans are extremely tolerant. Here are a few examples:

1.) You can burn a religious text in the United States and nobody will murder you for it.
2.) You can hold peaceful protests against alleged racist discrimination in the United States without being thrown in jail.
3.) Gay people can get married in the United States. In most of the world, they would be either jailed or executed instead.
4.) We have laws to protect the rights of people with disabilities in the United States including the right to FAPE and LRE in education.
5.) Title XI protects the rights of women in education in the United States whereas women are not allowed to be educated at all in many parts of the world.

Etc. There are lots more examples. The USA is not a perfect society by any stretch of the imagination, but it's a pretty special place. There are few countries in the world that even come close to being as tolerant.

I think this whole thread is just an indication that people should travel more and live in other countries for a while.

There are good and bad people everywhere. Go out, meet some, and come to your own conclusions.

(I am not from the USA, I just live here now)