...except that, in the general public outside of
academia, it's damn
accurate. I'm sorry if I offended you, in any case. There is a REASON
that many people in other countries have the opinions they do about us.
It depends...I find north-americans to be very educated, polite and nice
people. It is rare to find a USA-born guy (and from most parts of the world,
BTW) who is rude and not helpful.
Of course it may be demographics (how many americans I know outside the
electronics-computers-nerdy-things world?) but it may be also something that
happens everywhere - there are lots of good people and bad people, and they
tend to walk in groups of bad, and groups of nice people...