Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a very shocking way.
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 have always prized individuality - it is part of our national DNA - but America is a community that draws strength from the sum of our people and has always known that the total of that sum is worth far more than its individual parts.
I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.
Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.
Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.
Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.
Americans are much more open than people in Britain.
I'm an American first, and I think that's how most people are.
It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.