Uncle Chuckles
I'm a Brit who moved to the USA and I have to say, I agree with you. Your country is in no way perfect (where is?), but I get riled to fuck with people who make sweeping generalizations about entire countries. "All Yanks are fat and stupid." I see, so you've met every single one of them, or at least enough to represent a sizable population with which to form that opinion.
While stereotypes have to come from somewhere, I could happily form my own based on the Merkins I've met since I moved here which would be; Americans are not all fat, stupid warmongers. Not all of them are religious, many don't give a shit about God, those that do don't force it on you. The do understand irony (yet occasionally struggle with the finer points of sarcasm) and find the same things funny as we do.

Every country has a population who let it down, I feel with America it's maybe just a bit more visible. And sadly, many of them are in Government. Honk.

Many things annoy me about this country. However many things make me very happy to be here and very sad to return to the UK.

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(Rakky (forgot her password) The muffin maverick, Fri 2 May 2008, 16:04, Reply)