i firmly disagree with you exonain, been an american.
so what do you call someone from pakistani? or india? or from china etc? yeah thats right those short names that get thrown about in private are clearly racists yet because the general consensus when talking about americans is a white man/woman its not racism because they are white..
grow up don't be rude and be polite to an international forum.
Well there's obviously an underlying issue as to why you Citizens of the United States don't like being addressed under that term which us Brits are unaware of so on behalf of the 60 odd million of us I'd like to apologise (and should you think that was an insulting sentance please remember that us Brits have a sense of humour). Please enlighten us as to what is offensive about it? I'm baffled and too lazy to google, having heard your own country folk use the term on many occasions it's just an innocent nick name to us the same as an 'Aussie' is from Australia. To us Citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain it is just ... ah bollocks I can't be bothered anymore, too tired with some funny bug I picked up on my holiday in the United States of America (which is where I genereally holiday funnily enough, and thus offer no 'racism' towards any Citizens of The United States of America despite being on the recieving end of it a few times).
Us Brits generally call people from Pakistan 'Pakistanis' and Indians 'Indians' because that's where they come from. I work in a massive building with Pakisani nationals, Indian nationals, French, Polish, German and even a Canadian. We get on just fine. No rascism but plenty of banter.
I tend to find Citizens of the Untied States of America very insular in their views so I'm very surprised that all of a sudden they think everyone is being rascist against them, that's far from the truth. I'm not going to get all political because I don't do politics, but there are obviously certain nations and factions that don't get on too well with the United States of America but Britain isn't generally one of those and we've supported (against our better judgement sometimes) a lot of very contravercial US decisions as a close ally. I think you'll find most of the anti-US sentiment in the UK comes from either Socialsits who just need someone to hate or those that don't actually hold UK passports by and large.
You've got to understand how us Brits tick really, we're a pretty downtrodden and slightly anarchic nation by and large thanks to many generations of imperialism followed by a couple of generations of that all blowing up in our face despite the fact that it was only ever the ruling classes that benefitted from the imperialism yet the rest of us are now supposed to happily accept being saddled with the guilt of our masters' previous indescretions. Okay (horrible American term), it's obviously a lot more complicated than that and not everything is black and white.
I'm bored now so will end with the words of a North African student who was working with some of my colleagues a couple of years ago: ''When I was growing up we were told that the British hate us, but I came here and find that you don't - you hate everybody including yourselves and you can laugh at yourselves and make fun of yoursleves and now I understand the famous British sense of humour.''
PS. I'd happily emigrate the the USA if I was in the position of being able to and if I ever do I will endeavour not to call you the Y word. Despite still being mystified as to why it's offensive.
