What is the image that the world has of Americans? We all
know what the image is: Americans are rude, self-centered, loud, big, fat,
violent, and impatient. At least once a week some French news item reminds them
of this. One recent example is a French news item about gun violence in America.
Also, it was from the French news, not the American news, that I learned about
the white supremacist rally in Shelbyville, TN on October 29. We might think
that the image they have of us is not fair, but we keep feeding it with
confirmatory data.
Perhaps the author K. W. Oxnard said it best. The United
States is a childish country that cannot make friends or clean up after itself.
The author wrote this over twenty years ago, long before the Infant-In-Chief
took office. Remember that the Infant-In-Chief got about half the votes in the
country. About half of Americans want the world to think we are like him.
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