If a person begins with news media comments (and we all know how reliable they are at all times) about residents of the US (aka 'Americans'), expands that to include all of the 292,287,454 people who live there (which can be refuted by observing any of the many protests that take place every day), and then reduce it to the rediculous extreme by using the 'data' thereby derived to insult US Mudcatters. Sounds reasonable to me.

So, according to dianavan, "America is very public and is in everyone's face. When that is your nature, you leave yourself wide open to criticism. So America... you are big, bold and brassy. You are also loud and ignorant. You are all out of poetry. You need a facelift and a major diet. You need to learn to share and take turns. You are such cowards that you will sacrifice your personal freedom out of fear. You are afraid because you believe the lies of a man you didn't even elect. You roll over like a dead dog. You submit to fingerprinting. You are manipulated by criminals." Everyone is entitled to an opinion, of course, regardless of what it is. Each of these comments, taken individually, is erroneous of course, but taken as a whole they are similar to those made by many expats I know, from many places.