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Bold Realizations!: Europeans, I Love You, But You’re Bringing Me Down

I don’t mean the following to sound jingoistic or overly proud or any other negative adjective. However:

If I went around to people saying the sort of things about their countries that some students here—not all, to be sure, but more than a few—say to me about mine (granted, half—but only half—in jest), it would more than confirm all of the terrible things that people think about (and say to) Americans.