wildly incredibly common. depressingly common. amongst non-american friends i am greeted as a genius (for an american) b/c i know a little bit about politics in african countries and the middle east. (i have found this embarrasses other americans.)
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No joke!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Oh, and to directly address the question: yes, USAians are particularly bad. Hell they literally call themselves "Americans" to the exclusion of others who are just as American. (I try to not call them Americans for that reasons). But! Europeans and Australians are also bad.
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And just because USAians are bad doesn't mean that other Westerners in general are fine merely by comparison. They aren't. They are kind of out control often. To make it out like USAians are "the worst" is a neat like absolution of guilt that Europeans like to pull.

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*Neat little absolution.
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Oh, and Europeans are definitely those who started pretty much all this shit historically so they have a lot /just as much to answer for.
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Exactly why I like to read articles about life in Africa, India, Vietnam etc. Brings home our coddled status
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I cringe at most articles about Cyprus. That's my point. Sadly...
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They used to have items from *local* papers but in latest issue there are none - perhaps too expensive now?
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Translated items?
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Credited to eg Le Monde, Südd-Zeitung but printed in English (so could be edited in translation you mean?)
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But those are Europeans?
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I don't have an older copy to hand to check whether other sources are original or written by correspondents
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Bylines affiliate to HE institutes/thinktanks (many western, yes!) but stories you don't read elsewhere
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I guess I shouldn’t be surprised but this particular comment caught me off guard somehow.