"I still feel that stereotyping is wrong"
It is, of course and the problem certainly lies in both courts
I've always got on with Americans I met but that's hardly surprising as we mainly had a mutual interest in out music
Our politicians are another problem altogether - while they may be elected by the people they certainly don't reflect their characters
Britain has always been haunted by the "Rule Britannia" legacy of Empire where to be foreign was to be inferior - people to exploit rather than to unite with
To a large degree multiculturalism began to wipe that out - now its back big-time, largely thanks to Brexit
America is multicultural by birth, but opportunist fanatics like Trump, thet multiculturalism appears t be fragmenting -
The US has always had the slavery era hanging over it - that's been brought back too

Lets face it, if it was left to the people rather than self-serving politician and churchmen, there would probably never have been wars
Jim