1.) A country of immigrants. Though some of the citizens like to forget that.
2.) The proverbial
punching bag for the rest of the world. Other countries like to use
anecdotal evidence of fifteen year olds and random old hicks
on the street as evidence that we're all a bunch of fat, ignorant cows.
3.) Admittedly, some of the worst choices in elected representatives (i.e. GWB) with a slight fetishism for religion unseen in the rest of the western world.
1.) "Man, we need to get all these fuckin' immigrants out of our country."
"Yeah, my forefathers didn't travel miles here, so a bunch of immigrants could overrun the USA"
2.) "Americans are so dumb. Look at them running around with their obesity problem without using the metric system. I met this thirteen year old American once and she didn't even
understand the complexities of the situation in Libya!! Obviously we are the
intellectually superior nation"
3.)"They misunderestimated me." -
George W. Bush