Quick Summary of An Interesting Article

Eventually, we will all hate Obama too- Times of London

This upbeat piece covers how Europeans believe that Americans are unworldly, uncultured, reality-tv-watching, McDonalds-Big-Mac-eating slobs and so even if they currently believe the Barack Obama will save the world and is the reincarnation of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and will reverse all the evil policies by the Bush Administration and will stop global warming and end the War in Iraq and solve the oil crisis all the while being nice to Europeans and not saying things like “yeehaw!” and “misunderestimated”- it’s only a matter of time until they inevitably hate him. This is, of course, because the United States is to blame for all of the world’s problems, regardless if they started in the country or not.

Oh, Europe.

An American in Europe

So I forgot to mention in my last post that I was leaving for almost 3 weeks to go to Italy, but, I did, and now I’m back, and the world continues to turn.

Europe was an exciting experience that made me both appreciate and be embarassed by my Americanism, due mostly to the fact that I watched a lot of BBC World News. BBC News, and I don’t suggest any sort of bias, although it has been suggested before, likes to host a lot of anti-American guests who love to rant about how Europe is collectively held hostage by the United States, and, particularly, the-lovechild-of-Stalin-and-Satan-and-Nanners-the-talking-monkey, George W. Bush, and how the United States is destroying the world and its citizens are ignorant and stupid and uncultured and probably fat and wow this is a long sentence.

That was the BBC News. Although I didn’t talk to too many Europeans mostly because I was with my parents which therefore made me a child, and also, oh yeah, I speak English and Italians speak Italian, those I did talk to did not seem to hate me too much. I was never lectured about the Iraq War or global warming or anything US v World related, although I have heard of that happening. Overall, and this may be because we stayed in relatively tourist-friendly parts, people didn’t really care. Just an observation.