We are Americans. We are not Europeans living in America. If you don't understand the difference, then you do not understand us at all, and as long as you persist in thinking of us as Europeans living in America, you'll continue to be mystified and frustrated by what we do.Sounds about right to me.
Some of the Europeans I’ve met don’t seem to want to understand Americans. They don’t think they have anything to learn from us and so, for the most part, they are content to caricature and criticize.
They’ve created for themselves an image of America where George Bush is a cartoon cowboy with a big gun and a small brain, and Americans are all gas-guzzlin’, Bible-thumpin’, gun-totin’, burger-eatin’, empire-buildin’ morons (with good teeth and big hair).
A lot of them don’t want to understand; they want to feel superior.
