why is the US so self obsessed? even overseas they have to go to some boring US fast food chain etc etc?
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I think this is an effect of western propaganda - you see this also in a lot of northern european countries.\n\nThe t.v. the newspapers, our parents, nobody teaches us/or even wants us to think independantly and develop our brain. We should all dress alike, eat alike, think alike and of course spent our money only on products that profit the small group of wealthy people. These are not democracies they are plutocraties ruled by the already rich.
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No, so many other Americans take so much pride in themselves that they make up for me though.  That's one reason we're called ugly Americans.  We love ourselves too much and think our country is better than all the others.  I'd like to move to another country if I could afford it.
1157228
americans are lazy, spoiled brats living the good life even if theyre on a street\n\ngo to Zimbabway,South America
918390
No one really knows why they were called french fries in the first place, since they were invented in America.  It is very obvious we had them longer than the french, just walk down a city street in america and try to find a girl to pick up, then do the same thing in france!  I will bet you anything the french girl will get picked up first, mainly because her legs won't make noise from rubbing together when she walks.  And as far as hypocrites go, look who leads our country!  He has a campaign against drugs, yet did cocaine, and he is pondering starting a draft, when he himself went awol during the Nam.  now that i have said that, i realize how sad we are, i think i'm goign to move!  how hard is it to get a visa in France?
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Perhaps because most of the users are from the United States. And U.S. citizens appear to be mostly interested in their own country. Or perhaps it's because the U.S. is the sole superpower, and also seem to lead the world in cultural exports?
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What do you mean "our media?" It's not only here in the US. This is the same advertising used throughout the WORLD! Do you think that only Americans are allowed to be vain? Yeah, right! \n\nI know it perpetuates stereotypes and enforces a shallow, superficial image, but when you get down to the bottom of it, they're making money. That's all they give a crap about. And the world does not operate without money. Sad, but true...
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America has a nasty habit of getting involved in matters that do not directly affect us.  This is a huge cause of contention with other nations.  When America is so divided (and not united as promised), they feel that we shouldn't have any right in telling them how to live.  Americans are also very self-involved.  We think of ourselves first and others last.  Americans also tend to think in terms that the world revolves around them not realizing that there are many other cultures out there.  We forget that other countries have different laws and standards than America and generally, Americans just don't care.  This is why other countries have hatred towards Americans and the government.
98031
Because they like to use America for their own interest as they have been. It makes me wonder too.
248498
Because this country just can't seem to keep it's nose out of other countries affairs .  It thinks every other country should be just like it. Not all countries want to be like the U.s and the sooner the USA realizes that the better
634478
They SHOULDN`T!!! With all the food just wasted daily in this country,we could STOP any hunger the USA has,right now, and THAT is THE TRUTH.I believe it should be a CRIME for stores and restaurants to through away absolutely perfectly good food.I saw an expose` on television recently about it...it`s HORRENDOUS what gets wasted!  From my heart to yours......!  :)
856823
i'm an american, but i think i can answer that: arrogance. americans treat everyone as foreigners, even when visiting a foreign country. i was in europe three years in the air force, and i was ashamed at the way most gi's behaved over there.
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The USA is founded on of-the-people, for-the-people, by-the-people.\n\nIf you have some method to audit for these "almost-starved" types of people, - then let the rest of us know.\n\nMy grandparents did not come to America to have big brother peeking in windows to make sure I ate my broccoli!!
500053
the fault doesn't lie on which food is being sold in the us but rather the lack of self-control and/or psycological problems the us citizens have that impedes them from not overeating and/or excersicing enough.
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The simple answer is that we eat more and move less.  But why is that happening?\nAs someone else suggested, Fast Food Nation gives a wonderful profile on the rise of fast food in American and what changes have taken place at the same time that the author attributes to the fast food industry.\nBasically, in America, we have lots of food available and it's not very expensive.  Restaurants make it easy to super size--even non-fast food restaurants often offer a larger portion (like 16 oz steak rather than 10 or 12 oz steak) for only a small amount more.  Portion sizes in restaurants are much larger than they were 30 years ago.  Soda is the drink of choice--with 10 calories per sip, a couple of glasses have as much calories as a piece of cake (and the refills are FREE). And then we eat the cake too.  Schools now offer soda and junk food in vending machines in order to get promotional money from the companies placing the machines.  Physical education in schools has been scaled way back.\nBecause of the fear-based society we live in, mothers don't want their children playing outside where they can be snatched by child molesters so they stay inside and watch TV and play video games and eat junk food and learn to be inactive.  Kids don't walk to school anymore; they are driven both ways.  Buses stop at each driveway because kids don't/can't/won't walk to a central pick-up location.  When you are an inactive child, you grow up to be an inactive adult (spoken by one who knows).\nEverything has a drive-through--pharmacies, banks, restaurants (or they carry your food out to the car so you don't even have to walk to the door and back).  No one walks anywhere except those few people who walk for pleasure and exercise.\nPeople don't even walk their dogs anymore. They fence in the yard and let the animals run around.\nI could keep going, but you get the gist.
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I wouldn't say that all Americans are huge. However, that tends to be the stereotype. I haven't ate at McDonald's in at least a year, don't see the point in it. I can clearly cook my own food and enjoy doing and its cheaper. My husband and I like to eat a lot of rice and we also love potatoes, we eat a lot of salads. We only eat lean meat, mostly chicken and turkey breast, but some beef. we eat TONS of vegetables and fruits, all in all we eat really healthy. I wouldn't say Americans fault is the quality of food we eat, its the amount and the amount of exercise we get. We have a plentiful life and a lazy one at that, hard to stay healthy in that aspect.
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We can sometimes be spoiled brats.  Rightly or wrongly most of us grow up thinking we live in the greatest country in the world, not because of who we are as individuals but because of our institutions and our history.  We naively expect the entire world to feel the same way and for everyone to "love" us.  I suppose it is kind of an insecurity, possibly because we are this melting pot.  I think most countries with single strong ethnic identities probably don't suffer from this insecurity.  They are who they are and they just don't care what anyone thinks.  Americans get this attitude but in a different reactionary way.  Trying to give an example:  The French say might criticize America for something it's doing in the world...and it feels no embarrassment about doing so...they are perfectly justified in doing so.  However after this "affront" we become insulted...kind of get our "feelings hurt"....then respond with a kind of beligerant screw you attitude.  I suppose we come off kind of whiney at times like that.  On the other hand it seems that other countries aren't quite as "thin skinned".  So I don't think it's an inferiority complex...but I think it's a bit of over concern with image.  I think we should just do what we do and quit worrying about what people think.  Personally though I have to admit that i'm becoming weary of the weight of all the worlds problems and if the world wants us out of them maybe we should just get out of them...and let them deal with it all.  Seems to me like we are only having our entire economy destroyed by dealing with the rest of the world anyway..so shut the borders...bring all the troops home, cut off all foreign aid, no more trade, sit back, and carry a big big stick.  Maybe then the rest of the world will find us acceptable.\n\ntruthseeker...you are seeking anything but the truth or if you are it's to seek it out and destroy it wherever you find it.
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americans never really mature at all -they just love to act like spoiled kids...