Do you dislike Americans?

[Kismett]

I feel like I often read posts online that are insulting American people, culture, food, etc. In person people are generally nice to me in the UK, although I do get unsolicited comments about how our chocolate is shit or they'd never want to live in the US. It's not a great feeling, to be honest. But is this how most people really feel?

I will confess that I don't like deep dish pizza, I don't care how local it is, it's wrong.

Yes it is midgesforever Mind you I find ordinary pizza here too flabby and doughy even when it's not deep dish. I despaired of finding a crispy thin crusted pizza for years then discovered a local Italian restaurant where they do pizza to die for anyway you want it.

We seem to be drowning in pizza, there are several really nice thin crust joints locally, but I don't want a salad with cheese in it as a side dish.

See's Candies - they blow our other more local (to me) chocolatiers,

I think See's Candies are meh tbh...

I used to live in the US. I can't say I hate all Americans because that is a too generalised statement; however, I do dislike how some Americans can come across pushy and entitled. I have come across many Americans who believed the US was the best and only country you would want to live in, and they kept harassing me if I would ever naturalise and become American while I loved there. Also, many Americans that I have come across did not have much knowledge of other countries in the world.

Love America, incredible country, so much to see and its people generally wonderfully warm and welcoming.

What I hate with a passion is their guns. It seems genuinely absurd that otherwise sensible, peace-loving people could believe they are safer with guns in their country. It is totally baffling to most British people.

I work overseas both with and for Americans, and I love them. I'm really glad that I got a chance to see and meet all of these smart, liberal people who bear no resemblance to my previous conception of what it is to be American.

We have a couple of less desirable individuals, but we also have some right weirdos from Canada and the UK, so.

My view is that there is not one 'American'- there are west coast people, east coast, those in the deep south and then those in the middle. The last group are those who seem to have most of the traits that are objectionable.

I think it's not so much hating Americans as hating Americanism - that whole gung ho 'America is so great and we don't give a shit about the rest of the world' attitude that many Americans put out. Who would like that?

Chocolate will come up with British people a lot because it is a sore point.

For years, most other European countries regarded British chocolate as poor quality (Cadbury etc). They had a point and many of us enjoyed their chocolates as a real treat.

But in comparison to some US chocolate, British chocolate was clearly superior (to us at least). So people will enjoy pointing it out as we are usually the under-dogs on this topic.

Also, people may still feel upset about losing Cadbury as the true British measure of creamy milky chocolate. Which means our chocolate is probably now as rank as US chocolate (I don't buy it anymore and notice that it is avoided when bought for teams as a treat).

I have worked almost exclusively with Americans for the last 15 years and love them. So pleasant to work with, positive and transparent.

I am aware I’m seeing the most educated/liberal demographic given my industry so no trump supporters.

I have very close friends who are American. I find them very similar to us but that may be because they are left leaning educated professional democrats living on the east coast who are well travelled and don’t own guns. I think that the culture varies so much across the country that if would be impossible to generalise

My husband is American! Americans on the whole are great except for the liberals who have ruined California.

I find them very similar to us but that may be because they are left leaning educated professional democrats living on the east coast who are well travelled and don’t own guns.

Just spat out my cereal reading the above. Prize for the most obnoxious and self-deluded post... possibly ever .

I have a limited experience of Americans, but maybe more experience than some. I have always worked in touristy places and so come across many different nationalities, and have to say that I've found Americans to be among the most polite and respectful towards service staff. If something is wrong, they tell you in no uncertain terms, but it's not made personal, like often happens with British people. I've found that they expect good service but don't seem to have the 'us and them' attitude that some British people can have, Aussies are similar. On the whole I find American guests easier to deal with and serve, because they treat me like a human being and don't seem to have the class division issue that some British people do. Maybe it's just the ones I've come across, or maybe it's a culture thing.

Half my family is American. Mostly intelligent interesting patriotic people. Range of views too although none are bigots or fundamentalists, thank goodness.

I don’t dislike Americans, I find they are lovely people, my only thing, stereotypically, is that they are TOO friendly and I find it abit uncomfortably, but that’s on me, not them...I just think is brits don’t show friendliness like they do, so we’re not used to it.

The Americans I've met have been extremely warm and friendly people. I think a lot of people aren't impressed with Trump and American foreign policy and that can spill over in to criticising Americans in general. I think there's also an element of jealousy that America is a bigger, more powerful country and some Brits are a bit disgruntled by this (in their eyes we used to rule the world so should still be seen as superior). I'm sure most people would have no problems with individual Americans. It really annoys me when people make such sweeping statements about Americans when they would never dream of saying such things about all Africans for example.

Nearly married one, but he was pretty humourless.

Their chocolate is shite but then so is English chocolate. Scottish fudge now, though...

I actually don’t mind the chocolate and I love the American accent.

Midwest accents are pretty irritating. The way they swallow vowels, like New Zealanders. As a New Zealander myself, I can't tolerate this trait in anyone else.

I love America and have family there, but I don't get the hate liberals thing? They all have pretty strong (white working class demographic ) reactions to anything that resembles liberalism and I can't even start on the gun culture. They seem to think the answer to "violence" is to protect them selves with more guns, my uncle said if your police were all armed you would have much less crime!! Yes because that's REALLY worked here in the USA! The also have very limited knowledge of world events/geography if its not US, we go a lot and someone actually asked me if we had Easter and someone else asked if we had the internet the same as the US one!

Its just the usa is a dominant world power with huge cultural influence so i guess people have an opinion. I'm generally positive about the states but others feel a bit like their own culture is threatened i guess. But its silly to hold each individual responsible or judge them as their nationality like its a personality type. I can safely say most americans i have met have been nice positive people with no desire to change british chocolate.

I love Americans. One of my two best mates is an American, I was a groomsman at his wedding and his family are lovely. My grandmother married an American and his extended family were always very welcoming when we visited. Most strangers also seem very pleasant.

There's a lot I don't like about American culture and some of the people who support those things I would try and avoid, but the most negative emotion I have for even the most unpleasant individual is distant amusement. After all, I don't have to actually share a country with them...

Having read through the thread, I keep thinking of the concept that we tend to dislike most in others what we don't like about ourselves.

I've lived about half my life in the US and half in the UK at this point, and the vast majority of things people are complaining about Americans and America can be said about plenty of Brits and the UK.

Even the things I disliked most about living in the US - coastals pretending they're so much more enlightened while pulling the same horrible shite and the wider general greater concern about appearance of community by anyone with any power over real well-being can easily be said here, power and faux-enlightened are just distributed a bit differently.