Americans

[Harold_Shand]

I've had a lot to with Yanks recentley. Never really have before, the media tells you how thick they are and that, but generally they are as sound as fuck. Really nice, polite, confident, intelligent and relaxed. That's my impressions anyway. I could even be tempted to visit based on the attitude I've come across over the last couple of weeks.
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Harold_Shand's theory might be the best explanation.

[TheShaggyDA]

I married one. Pleasantly surprised when I visited, too. Still have their fair share of twats, but show me a country that doesn't. And then I'll move there. Unless it was MORE than their fair share.
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[pwntifex]

The peculiar thing about the American people is that individually they're generally lovely, insightful people - but get them in a group and jesus christ, they're thick as pigshit.
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[JonB]

Depends. When I went America I found the older generation some of the most polite people I have ever met, courtious and respectful of "the allies of the past".

However you go near the new generation and do they think they know it all. Ego's as big as Alaska, brains the size of Luxembourg.
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[angryjonny]

I spent 5 months living in Texas last year and found our friends across the pond to be friendly, accommodating, well-educated and surprisingly clued-up on current affairs - moreso than the average brit I don't doubt. The picture of Americans that gets painted to us brits is grossly unfair - let's not judge a country in the idiot in charge eh.

[Bigeds]

[DevilWAH]

Not just the americans..

My other half is from iran!
through her i have meet many other of her fellow county people.
And so far i have yet to come accross one that has any negitive attudes towards the english people!

They all very hard working and down to earth people.
And just like our young people over there they like, listening to there ipods, buying the latest designer gear from the US and japan. and throwing parties!!!

infact when she tells me about growing up over there. apart from having to dodge a few missiles from iraq. her and her friends did very much the same as me!!!

I think most people are decent people. its only in groups and in goverment they seem to show the really nasty sides
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[king kong]

The company I work for are American owned and our MD is American, god does he talk some waffle, his tall stories are worth a listen too.

We have to sent off in groups and watch videos of 'Town Hall' meetings where the 'big cheese' tells a load of invited yes people how good the larger picture is, what a fantastic company we are and what a great community we belong in, etc etc.
Seems to me that the yanks work 24/7 and their lives totally revolve around their careers.

Also I can't stand the fascination with TLAs' (Three Letter Acronyms) and the need to totally over complicate the simplest thing. ie a product spec is a FMEA or Finite Measure Effect Analysis. (FFS)

[Louise]

[DevilWAH]

engalnd is a very mixed place though

in some places you do get a smile and a hello.

other places your more lickly to get a smake for even looking at some one.
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[lilredmachine]

Er, did you go to the same america as me? The same America were everyone has 5 locks on the door, a few guns lying around, and are still fearful of the 'negroes'? So much so that they moved to the outskirts of town? Being stopped by a random woman in New York to talk about her 'no good, pimping, black bastard neighbour' was quite eye opening.
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[akaDAVE]

I'm afraid I can't give such a glowing reference of our friends in 'The US'.
The company I work for is american owned and I've come accross a few. I find thier high pitched bullshit attention seeking 'business speak' really grinds on my ears, especially when they trot around the office up and down on thier mobile phone, or worse - blue tooth ear-plug waving thier hands around.
I'm sure there are some golden examples but generally I hold the belief that they are a great big pile of arseholes.
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[mr jamez]

Americans come across as loud, arrogant and gushy even though I know they are just trying to be 'nice'. Just be normal and stop trying to kiss my butt I prefer the English way of doing things, with the exception of London as everybody is rushing around so fast they fail to notice how rude they are. Aren't New Yorkers know for that also?
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[WildGoose]

generally i find them quite arrogant and a little too self important, hugely stereotyping them but there you go. i have visited the states also, yes they are very relaxed but the lack of urgency about anything gets most frustrating

i find that if you pass them on the street, you are the one that moves out of the way

and on the same level, i found that as a tradesmen carrying something or working around them, they will not politely move out of the way for you in advance to save you the trouble, but yet wait for you to ask them to move out of the way, this particular point i find is without exception, and most frustrating, i dont know if its intentional or they are just in blissful ignorance of the goings on around them, neither would surprise me

when asked to move you can guarantee there will be no urgency about them, whereas with a brit you will find they jump out of the way then apoligise for not seeing you or something similar

having said all that, no better or worse than many other nationalities and cultures
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[headlamp]

Generally the Americans you meet in the UK are educated, internationally aware and friendly. The Americans you meet in New York are cosmopolitan. If you go to Texas, they are cowboys - if you ever meet them you'll know why it is used to describe 'dodgy' people.

BTW most Iranians I know are pretty cool too. There's a lady in our building where we work whose very friendly & straightforward.
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[cqueen]

I went shopping in florida, the sales people were very nice very friendly. As were most of the people we met!

[mr jamez]

Don't you get it? they're buttering us up for the invasion
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[Spiral]

Most americans i have met have been great, but im a fan of the nfl so i always ask them where there from what team they support
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[Mary Jane]

yeah. Americans are idiots.

[Misc]

Same could be said for all countrys, you meet a few nice people it doesn't mean everyone will be the same... I wouldn't visit a country on the basis of a few people i met expecting everyone to be nice.

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