At the end of the day, Americans are not so keen on ideologues, people who have such fixed positions that they can't see any virtue in the other side's point of view.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I guess intractable right-wing ideologues are my mortal enemy.
I guess many of us are just prone to see what the other side is up to, maybe to reinforce our own worldviews and feel confident that our ideology is right and theirs is wrong.
I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.
Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.
We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.
I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.
I've always felt that Americans are very in the moment. There's not so much melancholia and mystery as there is in France. Everything must be understood. Everything must be analyzed.
Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.
To put it bluntly, American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.