Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Americans don't care what your language is, your race is, whatever. Everyone is there to do their own thing and be successful. I wish people in Britain would be more positive.
I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.
America is a collection of people from different races, religions, and backgrounds - that is part of what makes us great. But a common language is what brings all of those people together to form a community.
Americans are as they are. We have to accept this. Lots of Europeans forget that.
Americans and French are notoriously monolingual, especially earlier generations. Language is a sense of pride in both cultures. I think that the French and Americans are like brothers or sisters who are so similar that they irritate one another.
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
Americans disagree about America because the most common consensus as to what America is or has ever been or ever was meant to be eludes us, and it eludes us because we want it to.
I don't really know what 'American' is. I know what Ukrainian is. We're happy Slavic people. We're not Dostoyevsky Slavic people. There's this sense of 'pick it up, get your hands dirty, make the best of it, celebrate.'
You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?
Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.