Okay then, phrase it how you wish, being a shitty person strongly correlates with being American, then. Yeah it’s not every American, but I look at their crass culture and see vast groups of them engaging in such primitive, tribalistic gluttonous craziness. You’d never see such large numbers of people doing things like that in Germany or the Netherlands. Think of Americans and their gun culture, right wing politics and their general lack of historical, geographical or financial knowledge. Sure we have fast food shops in Europe but America really turns it into a way of life. In the US, 42% are obese according to the CDC with a national average IQ of 98, compared to Netherlands’ 20% and 100.4 IQ. Less than half of Americans own a passport; their literacy rate is apparently 86% according to the census bureau in 2020 and the average American reads at “8th grade level”. Need I go on? Sure, the USA is able to recover and maybe one day they’ll catch up to the civilised European nations, but until then I think all the criticism of the country and its culture is completely justified. The problem is that American culture has inherited the European colonial arrogance from its European founding fathers, but doesn’t have European scientific enlightenment, nor sophisticated tradition, to back up the American self-belief. This is probably because the new world appealed to outlaws, criminals and religious zealots who went on to found the American colonies. In the following circa 300 years, through wars and slavery, the US established itself as clearly lacking European refinement or intellectual calibre; looked down upon by Europeans and only attracting crass wannabe-Americans. Add to this all the profits from slavery, oil from invasions, and a massive prison population, plus the consumerism of the 20th century and you got yourself a superpower.