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 dont think anyone can say they dislike all Americans, imagine the outrage if someone said they dislike all polish people or dislike all Indian people!

I think it's just that when people come across a "stereotypical" American it makes them roll their eyes and think ugh Americans if that makes sense?

I'm married to an American and live in the USA. The people I know here are a mix just like anywhere else. Some I love and some I can't stand but most I like and get along really well with. I've not many Americans or been to the USA. It's a vast and very diverse country so it's silly to generalise. However I hate vocal fry and wish it had never come over here.

I lived in America for six months in my early thirties, teaching and being a research assistant at the University of Alabama. Without exception, the Americans I met were friendly, courteous (more so than British people) and welcoming. But there’s something pretty rotten at the heart of American society. I noticed that the black students in my class (freshman English) were reserved, diffident and somehow cowed, like they expected something bad to happen at any moment. I think slavery still casts its very long shadow.

I lived in student accommodation when I first arrived, and there was a monoculture that revolves around church and football. There was no information about the usual things that affect students when they’re first away from home such as relationships, contraception, access to reproductive care in general, what to do if you’re being sexually harassed or have been raped - the only sticker I saw up in the loos was about abstinence. There was no public transport - the only way to get anywhere was by taxi or cadging a lift. Pedestrians are actively discouraged - I had “jaywalker!” yelled at me on more than one occasion.

I think the worst thing about the USA is the extent to which they’ve kidded themselves that they are the Land of the Free. I found it quite an oppressive atmosphere myself, and this was in a university.

No - I just think people will find anything to complain about anyone or anything.

Us Brits are so passive aggressive sometimes it's unreal.

I actually really love Americans as a whole. Normally quite chatty, approachable and have many stories to tell.

Had a lovely student from university (she was studying in the UK) hell with our GCSE Math class. She was so funny and incredibly kind.

I've also had several online friends from the US.

I dislike the sense of superiority I feel from Americans when they give no critical thoughts on how they impose their values unto others.. yes very much, feels very arrogant and makes me not warm up to them..

As individuals though I have a few long terms friends that I love. But I’m more so disliking that cultural aspect.

There was no information about the usual things that affect students when they’re first away from home such as relationships, contraception, access to reproductive care in general, what to do if you’re being sexually harassed or have been raped - the only sticker I saw up in the loos was about abstinence.

Please don't assume this is the norm in American universities. I toured approx 20 last year with DD and we saw the absolute opposite everywhere we looked, including a couple of southern colleges.

I have a lot of American friends. They are easy to hang out with, generous and fun. They are easy to talk to then Brits as the generally say what they think.

I work with a lot of Americans and they are really competitive, brash, arrogant and entitled.

When I've had a bad day at work, I can see a lot of the trump traits in the brash and arrogant Americans. He portrays the caricature perfectly.

I can write the same type of observation for any country you pick, some positive. Some negative.

I work with a lot of Americans and they are really competitive, brash, arrogant and entitled.

I work with a lot of Brits, and they're really incompetent, lazy, and tactless.

I work in a garage and have a lot of customers who are American (from a local airbase).
They're just normal people. Most are really polite, some call me Ma'am (which makes me feel ancient ), some have a great sense of humour, others are serious.
All just the same as my local, mostly English, customers.

The most annoying thing is that their payment cards require a signature instead of PIN and it catches me out Every. Single. Time.

Mainly I would see Americans as a bit dim. Please note my slightly more complimentary post above.
They can be too loud and think 'lovely old Ireland' is still in 1900 when their ancestors left. They think we're all leprechauns. We think they're all uneducated.

They seem fine to me .......can't say I'm keen on the gun toting southern parts (( well guns in general )) and the deep seated racism but most of them are just people.

The chocolate and cheese is shit though.

I was in the village one day when a friend came into the pub with an American on toe, saying - here you go Rulez is related to the Connors from Drimahoe.

Oh MY said the American! You're my long lost cousin - your great great grandmother is a first cousin of my great great grandmother. We're the Conours of Long Island!

We had a great long chat and I told him we didn't farm the land much but that a grand-uncle of mine still had a small farm.

Off we went in a taxi (he would have preferred a tractor) to Uncle Paddy's farm.

So we arrive on Paddy's farm, and Michael Bob Junior was delighted to meet his great ancestor.

Being from Texas, Michael Bob Junior was very much into the land.
Michael Bob asks Paddy - how much land do you own?
Oh, as far as you can see with the eye from here says Paddy.
Unimpressed, Michael Bob tells Paddy about his friend who has a farm. 'It takes him all day to drive around the perimeter of the land'.
Oh says Paddy 'We had an auld tractor like that too one time'.

Boom boom!

Sorry, that joke still cracks me up.

English cheese is better, yes.

Tbh we all know thereare great people and utter cunts everywhere. Hands down the worst people I have ever lived amongst were the soulless and money-loving and catsbummouthed people of a small 'village' in Surrey. But most English people I've met have been aces.

Yy to Whittaker's chocolate from New Zealand.

Another one.............

These American tourist were in Dublin and got a little lost.
So they finally decided to stop and ask a local for directions.
'We're trying to get from here to Donegal' he says.
'Oh Donegal' says the local.
'Well to be honest' says Tommy the Dub, 'if you're trying to get to Donegal, I wouldn't be starting from here'.

Sorry, I know my sense of humour is awful, but we love taking the piss out of the Americans.

If you indulge in sarcasm in front of an American, that blank stare you get in return means they're embarrassed for you. Grown-ass people have no business trying to be sarcastic.

To quote a great American: 'Sure, Jan'.

Nearly every Irish person has relatives in America.

My cousins are in Long Island. They've been over 3 times. They're absolutely lovely. Much more overtly affectionate than the Irish for example. Much kinder to their children than the Irish would have been. I adored my aunt (she was my mother's first cousin). and my cousin - same age as me.

They loved the smell of shite and pig slurry and said it was good for you! I suppose, coming from New York, it was 'different'. Every day we'd bring them down the fields, in oversized wellies borrowed from someone and get covered in cowshit until me mother would be on the verge of a nervous breakdown with the lot of us. They LOVED going to Irish music locally and were out at least 3 nights a week while they were here. I do recall them being very kind, though my parents would dread when they were coming as they'd cost them a fortune when they were here haha.

In general, I find American colleagues can be a little dim-witted, innocent maybe is the correct word.

I guess we all feel entitled to belittle a country that bigs it's self up so much, I don't have a strong reaction to other first world countries such as Australia or Germany, they quietly get on doing there thing , but America & Americans are very in your face - boasting about how great they are blah blah blah . I have lived there for many years in my 20's and visited often over the years and I just don't like it/them - and the chocolate is totally 🤮

@GreyGardens88 American culture= blues music, jazz music, western films, F Scott Fitzgerald, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Chicago pizza, the golden age of Hollywood.... we are drenched in American culture everyday. Just because it's younger doesn't mean it has no culture. Not with cities like New Orleans, Charleston, Boston...

I work with Americans on a daily basis, in fact my boss is American. They are nice, polite in the main, but there are cultural differences. The ones I work with are all over the country too, and the New Yorkers have a different attitude to the Californians, the ones from Chicago or the Deep South are different again. And they are all different people with their own personalities. We all do sometimes have to work hard to make ourselves understood. They do like to ask questions about Britain and Europe as most of them have never been and I'm told that in general they think a British accent (I know!), makes us sound more intelligent. I struggle a bit with their difficulty in understanding how things need to be done in the rest of the world; they treat their employees very differently and sometimes I feel their frustration with requirements for things like consultation and communication yet we've been a global organisation for over a decade. They do tend to imply that their way is the best way and our pesky employment laws are holding everyone up. I feel their eyes roll when I say no, you can't do that in Germany or France or wherever, you'll have to do it this way.