Is America really like they show in the movies? Like American Pie? (if not so wild then like the others?)?
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Bingo!! You hit the nail on the head when you asked this question. Many people around the world watch movies, tv shows, and stories from the U.S. and believe that what we all look like, act like, and live like Hollywood, California. WRONG!! That's why we have depression reaking havoc on this country. Everyone from their 70's to their teens wonders why there life isn't like the movies. T.V. shows display all the lust, without any of the consequences. Afterwards, people have given themselves to whoever they meet at some nightclub, and then wonder why they have no self respect. I ,thankfully, am glad that my life doesn't resemble American Pie. How pitiful and sad it is to be so obsessed with sex that you tried to make love to a pie!! I am living outside the U.S. currently, and I watch a network, that broadcast the U.S.'s highest rated T.V. programs. All they show is Sex in the City, The O.C., and Will and Grace. No wonder the Middle East thinks we are all a bunch of heathens, trying to corrupt the entire world. But finally to answer your question, NO!!!!!! WE ARE NOT ALL LIKE THAT. I campaign daily to try and influence this country's people to see the truth. I hope that this has helped.           Sincerely,
751298
lol .. Americans will always be called yanks (not yankies), and has nothing to do with living in the southern part or the northern part .. ALL Americans are yanks ... that's the way it is, and thats more than likely the way it'll stay ... .:)  Personally I like it ... short and sweet, and no bad connotations whatsoever ....
906015
well said uncle sid...I have never actually followed b.b. but I have watched bits of it and I would love to know where they get the morons from, seems to me..the more obnoxious and perverse you are the more you are a ' celebrity ' ??  : (   why...and this is entertainment !!   ANNNNDDDD....who the hell decided we Brits want to watch plastic comedy american trash along with the rest of the muck they show, americans have no sense of humour like ours ..now you've got me mad !!    lol
728114
I have learned that it is not the American people that the rest of the world doens't like, it's the politics and policies of the government.  Sometimes it comes across as anti-american.  I do wish that the ones who are saying these things would get to know some Americans as you have.  There are good and bad from everywhere.
704530
I believe that as a society, and speaking narrowly just upon the AMERICAN society, that it goes back to the roots of the country. It is that way with every place on earth, though. In our case...the roots of the society we live in were set by people following a Christian religion. This isn't right or wrong, this is just fact. The Native Americans had their forms of practice and religion practically shoved aside. All of our rules, our social limitations, laws, perceptions of society and proper etiquette; these were all established for the country by those before us.\n\nWe're lucky enough to live in a place where we have outside influences flowing in. We're constantly exposed to other cultures and ways of thinking. I think this may be why we are changing as a society on our views (I know, it seems to be so slow!).  People challenge pre-concieved notions. We see other ways of viewing the world and can either decide to allow our minds to expand and accept new things, or to remain on the paths of thinking that those before us followed.\n\nOn the other hand...majority of humans DO just follow in the steps of those before them. There's a large part of the human mind programmed to "fit in with the rest of the tribe", which is why for some people it's so damned hard to just be different and think differently.\n\nI was just thinking about all of this last night, actually....\n\n...there are still places in the world where they eat their dead, let the vultures pick the bones dry, then allow the mother to hold the bones for her grieving period of a few days before burial. \n\n...not to mention places they eat live bugs.\n\n...but then again...Americans have weird costums, too. ;)\n\nThanks for a thought-provoking question!
121415
NEVER,,,,AMERICA IS GREAT,,, THE WAY IT IS..\n\n\nWE LIKE LIVING THE SIMPLE LIFE.....\nAND WE DON'T WANT TO BE LIKE OTHER COUNTRIES,,,\nTHATS WHY WE CHOSE TO HAVE INDEPENDENCE, WE ARE NOT FOLLOWERS\nWE ARE LEADERS..
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Well, I have to say, you're being very stereotypical. It's obvious that you don't like Americans, but don't you think that you're generalizing, just a bit? Most Americans have moved on from being prejudiced. Now, I'm not saying that the whole of America isn't prejudiced, because there are a large number of prejudiced people. But isn't it the same in other countries as well? And how exactly do Americans show off? I don't understand. And perhaps we do sometimes get in business that maybe we shouldn't, such as Iraq, but that shouldn't be a reflection on our country, it's a reflection on the choices of the president. And like the person above me said, there are some tourists who think they're God's gift to mankind, but not everyone is like that. A few people shouldn't be cause to hate a whole country. No person, no country, is perfect.
447407
The main reason Americans are such prime targets of stereotyping is becuase they are part of the most predominent country. No, I'm not saying they're the greatest. The truth is that America itself is a very hypocritical nation in that it was first organized against imperialism ,but now has bases on almost every country. You ask why America is stereotyped? Well, would you like one of the newest nations just strutting around as if they could do no wrong ,in your own backyard no less? Anyway aside from America's bad points you are absolutely correct. However, America does feed most of it's own bad press in statistics and the news. The question you should be asking is why all news reporters just happen to find the least literate, fattest, and most interesting characters to interview. Its simple, it sells. America, whether people want to admit it or not is a bussines and what is a bussiness if they're product doesn't sell? Its not a bussines at all. So in reality all the stereotypes and slander that plague your tv set is old fashioned American ingenuity at work. By the way, America is a diverse country. I guess you could say America is a little bit of every country so when people in other countries stereotype America they're just laughing at what they would be if they had freedom. I don't hate America ,but i do hate some of its characteristics. No country is perfect and at the moment America is as close to perfect as we can hope for.
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If you believe\nthat America is too smug, too self-satisfied, too rich, then\nlet's destroy America. It is not that hard to do. No nation in\nhistory has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee\nobserved that all great civilizations rise and fall and that "An\nautopsy of history would show that all great nations commit\nsuicide.'" "Here is how they do it," Lamb said:
975749
Not all Americans are this way just like in every culture there is good and evil.  We have some really great and giving Americans that have a good heart with intentions of being a positive force in this world.  Unfortunately the only people that get recognized are the evil ones.
369031
As Stokely Carmichael once said, " Violence is as American as apple pie".  We are steeped in a culture of violent history and socialization.\nYou look at the genocide of the American Indians, our war between the states - that determined where sovereingty lay in the Union, the history of lynchings and brutal oppressions of black Americans on well up into the 20th Century, our culture in its transition from rural agrarian to urban still very involved with guns, - I don't remember much about the film but I get the impression that violence is part of our culture , media and identity.
150042
I am an American and the truth is Americans are arrogant. Americans will visit a foreign country and call the people there foreigners! lol, it's true. But seriously, I do think that's the reason why...not to mention we are a bit spoiled. Now understand, not ALL Americans are like this but you can safely say the majority fit in this category.
1044715
why Yes, I do Love America !\n\nVery Cool ! Thanks, I had no idea John Wayne was such a huge environmentalist like my self.\n\nDid you see all those pictures of un-spoiled nature. That's a big part of why I love America also !\n\nI'm not  kidding. - I did forward that to all my Sierra Club friends. We are thinking of using it.
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When I was in Japan a couple months ago I noticed that the Japanese in general are quite fascinated with American pop culture.  Disney is also immensely popular over there.  My theory is that people are always attracted to what's different (US kids are into anime and American women swoon over British accents etc).  It's no different there.\n\nIn Harajuku I visited a wonderful store called Snoopytown.  We need one of those in the US!
819409
The only American Pie movie I can think of that actually had a choir was the original and the song I remember them singing was, "Do You Believe In Magic."
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no thanks i heard about it and its Stereotypes Americans i think there are   a lot of hard working Americans out there\n\n can't think of one positive thing to say about this steaming pile of crap masquerading as a comedy film. OK, maybe one thing: IT ENDED.\n\nIf you happen to have seen it, I extend my deepest, most heartfelt condolences for one hour and thirty eight minutes of your life that you'll never get back. One hour and thirty eight minutes that could have been spent doing something far more interesting and productive, like, oh I don't know -- staring at a spot on the wall, or digging for toe jam.
853515
Actually, no.  Being an American myself, I can tell you at least from my experience that the people I know think of Canada as our neighbors to the north.  Canada is just like America, only you guys got it right, while we continue to spiral down into a pit of despair.  A friend of mine recently moved to Canada and I'm actually quite jealous of the things that are better in Canada.  Being an American, he sees and doesn't take for granted what you guys have up there.