We Americans are childish about our celebrities and icons. We worship, then we denounce; we identify passionately with them and then, if they do something - anything - we dislike, we cast them off.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
America has a love-hate relationship with celebrity. We love to follow celebrities, but we also love to mock them. And secretly, we believe we're better than they are.
For kids like me, being called childish can be a frequent occurrence. Every time we make irrational demands, exhibit irresponsible behavior, or display any other signs of being normal American citizens, we are called childish.
America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.
American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger - they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they're rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.