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[bradclark1]

Europeans in particular seem, at least from this side of the pond, to be the exact opposite. You have opinions, strong opinions, on nearly everything we do. This tends to flabbergast us! You're always comparing yourselves to us in all kinds of ways from driver expertise to standards of living to sports, even our politics. Because of this you are often seen, as international busy bodies akin an neighbor poking his nose into our family business uninvited.

It might have to do with the fact that we stick our noses in everyone else's business and as such we affect their lives as well as ours.
The countries of europe are not large in size and have neighbors on all sides with traffic to and from country to country so therefore your neighbors politics/economics etc. affect you.
Toss a stone into a pond and it causes ripples.
The average American on the other hand does'nt even know where Scotland is on the map let alone France etc. Most Americans don't even know where our states are located on a map. We are a self centered and ignorant people as you said. You didn't say those exact words but that is what you are saying, and proudly at that.

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But yes America is still the greatest country in the world, but we do have our problems.