id say that was his most relevant gripe

You know what's actually really cool about Americans (contrary to his 1st point): We actually don't give a **** what you think about us. Have a good day.

yeah, Im sick of walking into a store like best buy and having to deal with the ****ing greeter guy. Just leave me the **** alone and let me spend my money.

A lot of his gripes I thought were kinda dumb tho, but many were pretty dead on.

Lol Americans getting pissed in the thread beacuse somebody wrote something negative about them.

Robert Moses. Blame Robert Moses. He tore down a bunch of neighborhoods in NYC for the highways, and built projects in their place. Since he had the plans all ready to go and they were "shovel-ready", NYC got a huge chunk of the New Deal money to get this done. The rest of the country followed suit.

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I wasn't referring to genuine human interaction. I was referring to the automatic fake smile and programmed have a nice day that the poor bastards that work in any retail environment have to push on me.

The smiling and driving rants remind me of L.A.

You might be told to "have a nice day" face-to-face, but behind the wheel, it's "die, mother****er! die! you ****ing **********!"

I got a feeling from the introduction that this guy was probably an idiot and I'm now on point #1 where he's complaining about how polite Americans are. Should be a good read.

I agree with man of his points. Like he said in the article, most of the people who are hating on him are most likely Americans who have never left the country. I have met many Americans and they have all fit this nationalistic stereotype. Not to mention the obese stereotype is quite fitting, dude to the fact that an astoundingly large portion of the country is obese, especially compared to the rest of the world. As for the car thing, this is definitely a problem that the whole world has and really should address. Instead of rebuilding roads, the north American governments should be putting more money into mass transit, in the name of lower emissions. I could keep going but I won't. If you are a true American, look at your country from an unbiased point of view and then understand where the foreigner is coming from.

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considering most of these sorts of commentaries i've read are majorly ******ed, he's not bad and i agree with a lot of his points on some level. he's being a disingenuous by acting like they're not very minor things though.

It's weird both you and he mentioned this while simultaneously complaining about:

Constant Smiling
Not being critical
Saying "just kidding"
etc.

Even the (definitely annoying) thing where people talk about Irish drinking or other stereotypes... those people are just trying to be friendly! They don't know a lot about Ireland but they are trying to connect with this dude.

No it's not. There are a ton of major cities in Europe and Asia in which you can easily get by without a car.

So they are trying to connect to him with using an ugly stereotype about the country.
That is so friendly!

I have two friends who are studying in USA and both said that the most anoying thing about USA is that you can't walk anywhere and you allways have to use a car.

you're friends are in ****ty american cities then

maybe they should go somewhere in a city, most schools you can walk everywhere

Yea, from a student's perspective it would really limit you. I've studied in Singapore, Barcelona, Phoenix, and a tiny city in Switzerland. Only in one of those places was a car a necessity

Clearly this is one of those things that (most) Americans are not gonna like, but non-Americans are. I actually want to move to America sometime after I turn 21 (srsly guys, y u no let me play teh pokers) but he pointed out a lot of the things that will make me hesitant.

His first point is easily the one I have the biggest problem with. If I'm not allowed to be ironically offensive then that's a big chunk of my general conversation that I'd have to change. I like greeting friends with 'alright, [animal species] [sexual act] (e.g. badger humper, donkey raper etc) but from my limited experience I'm not sure that as many people would 'get' it. Obviously I don't do it to strangers, but having to basically remove everything about my language that is close to unique would be a major bummer. It would be far from 'awesome'.

4-6 are just ****ing ******ed, I don't mind 6 so much but the other two seem like they are designed to obfuscate transactions, maybe confusing stupid people enough to pay more for things than they think they are, but to royally piss off the vaguely intelligent.

7 is a silly point and the main one I don't agree with because it's something I see pretty often outside of America as well, maybe America is worse than most countries but don't complain about it, just enjoy your $250 ipad.

8 may be stereotyping but there is a tendency for many americans to have a very America-centric view of the world. Make excuses for it all you want, say that it doesn't apply to you, fine. But the fact is if you live in America you have to come across people who have no idea about geography and actually think that the rest of the world, developed or not, looks up to America as some sort of holy grail.

10, who the **** cares about being IDed. It might be a good thing that everyone gets IDed everywhere but Americas age restrictions for things don't make sense. In England most things are either 16 or 18, so over a small range. It seems totally ****tarded that you can buy a gun 3 years before you can play dickwanking****ing poker. Oh, and don't even get me started on the idea of 'constitutional rights'. It's a centuries year old document that barely means anything more than any other law. Because something is in the constitution it doesn't make it right.

Actually I take back what I said early, it's the religious nuts that are most off putting about america. Believe whatever you want but don't ****ing mention it to me. I believe that phrases such as 'in god we trust' and 'one nation under god' are narrow minded and a ridiculous form of bigotry that for some reason seems to be acceptable in your country. GW Bush once said that there was no place for atheists in America (he said that atheists are neither Citizens Nor Patriots or something). To me, someone that bigoted and ****tarded should not be in charge of the country that claims to be 'the land of the free'.

I was intending this to be a pretty short reply but I guess I got carried away. Despite all of these things I'll still likely be moving to California before I'm 30, so I'm not an America hater and I'll freely admit my country isn't perfect (actually, it's pretty damn dull) but there are some things that just stand out as being patently ridiculous. Most of it is probably the result of letting people like Bush and John McCain hold positions of power. Al Gore may be a **** but at least he's vaguely intelligent.

Huh, I only skimmed a lot of them but I agree with a lot of his list. Im not surprised there the US is a pretty ****ing odd place when you look at the rest of the world.

From Alrighty Roos post:
8 may be stereotyping but there is a tendency for many americans to have a very America-centric view of the world. Make excuses for it all you want, say that it doesn't apply to you, fine. But the fact is if you live in America you have to come across people who have no idea about geography and actually think that the rest of the world, developed or not, looks up to America as some sort of holy grail.

This is the only thing that I trully don't like about the USA.

You Euros complaining about fat Americans, have any of you ever been to Russia, Italy, in fact anywhere else? It's everywhere except Somalia and maybe Afghanistan!

americans are fat because we have better food

there will never be a huge shift toward mass transit here, because by the time we could create that infrastructure electric cars will be a reality, so we can lower our emissions without having to sit on a train with a bunch of fatass americans

what restaurants are you people going to where the server bugs you every three minutes? i would actually enjoy that. at every place i go to, the server doesn't seem to think that there is any correlation between service and tip size and i end up having track them down in the kitchen or whatever to get my check

Yes, but it's definitely worse in America. For example you don't see many stores here that sell doughnuts and only doughnuts here (although Krispy Kreme came over here maybe about 7 years ago and has been trying to expand) and our MacDonalds don't have supersize.

I once saw a woman buy a dozen doughnuts from Krispy Kreme in LV and eat them all right then and there, I have never seen anything like it. You get fat people everywhere, but America is worse and that's a fact. No one is trying to say every American is fat, but your obesity rates are sky high.

what? the causes for why american cities are so car dependent go far, far deeper than robert moses (who failed to get half the projects he wanted built, and then there's the fact that new york is not a car-dependent city).