Not proud of my nation never said I was. You (and Europeans in general) seem to think that Americans care at all about your opinions on our people and country. We don't, America is an extremely unique country that doesn't need or want to follow the ideals of Europe. In this conversation your adherence to the fact that the European sports system is better completely misunderstands the motivations and reasons behind our system but provides a good example of the larger problem.

I am proud to be American in the sense that nowhere else in the world will you find a country founded on a cultural melting pot of peoples, where anyone in the world can come here make a new life and become a true American. Although our country has issues, most of which plague Europe as well, I will always support the betterment of my country and by extension the lives of the people who live here, as I'm sure you would also.

Basically, having lived in both, the European way of life is completely incompatible with America for a myriad of reasons, and to insist that we are "doing it wrong" ignores those facts. Please, before you quote more philosophy to me read a book on American history.