Please don’t be too hard on yourself! They were being really rude, and more than a little hypocritical. It’s just as awful for them to blanket judge all Americans as for you to have been left with kind of a sour taste in your mouth, especially as other comments on this article have pointed out, no country can afford…

I lived in Germany during the 2004 election, and I agree there were some idiots. I remember distinctly one girl at a party who seemed to be disgusted to meet an American. I joined a band that wanted me to sing a song they wrote about America, entitled “Vomit.” (Sample lyric, kinda on topic: I want to vomit, right in…