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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also find Brits to be super rude. They go on and on about how awful America is. Our food is uninspired, our culture is boorish, we are idiots, we are fat, our women are less beautiful.  And "what's it like to be from a country with no history".  I worked for a while as the only American in a British company and I started responding in kind. "What's it like to live on a crowded little island with high poverty and declining global influence?" "When will the UK get into orthodontia?" "French food is amazing! And the people are so classy. The BEST country in Europe if you ask me. Wish they would take their rightful seat and set the tone in the EU". Try that out, OP. They expect Americans to be polite and they exploit that. It's fun to stop being polite. They seem really touchy about Brexit lately, maybe start there. [/quote]

I agree with this.  There is a particular subset of Americans that are petrified of being called "ignorant Americans" (usually because it has some ring of truth for them) so they think by sucking up and putting down themselves and their home country they can win approval.  Not realizing this makes them look even more pathetic and pedestrian.  The best way to respond is to give it right back, and in my experience it often wins respect.  And if it doesn't- F it, at least you got to lob insults back at a horribly rude person. Win win.[/quote]

Yes, people stopped bothering me because they realized that I would bite back. When I found myself short on insults to lob back, I would tell them the truth: they think about America a lot more than Americans think of the U.K., because the U.K. just isn't that important anymore. And when they complained about our politics and warmongering, I would point out that they came along on all our misadventures because their politicians are our lapdogs who will do anything we say. So maybe if they are resentful, they should start there- with their own choices. I mean, Trump is 4 years. 8 tops. Brexit is forever. [/quote]

Brexit is ideological with some very valid reasons on both sides.

Trump is an idiot. The two are not the same. [/quote]

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