Girl, don't even get me started. Too late.
People don't know what they don't know. Americans are among the most isolated people in the world. We do believe in American exceptionalism and have gotten smug as the world's only superpower for three decades. We took the incredible achievements and victory of WWII and gradually morphed them into what we have now. We're isolated geographically, culturally, politically, and linguistically. We only consume our food, our music, our films, our television, our clothing, etc. We're so vast in area that although there are regional differences throughout the country, they are few and relatively minor compared to the differences between different countries. A person can drive for five days in the US and speak English and eat American food the entire time. In Europe, you can drive for a couple hours in any direction and be in a place that has a completely different language, history, architectural style, customs, culture, laws, cuisine, etc.
Europeans roll their eyes or laugh when I describe a typical American workday and work year. I think I have been asked at some point by every single Scandinavian person who knows me well enough to ask why we work ourselves to death. I always answer that it's because we have to be the best. They take two months off every year and work about six hours a day. They have as much quality of life as we have, are happier than we are, and are wealthy. They're just not number 1; and they don't care. When I even suggest that the US isn't the best in everything, some American usually tells me I'm unpatriotic and that I should go back to where I came from if I don't like it here. I love the US, but I find many Americans to be insufferable because of their ignorance and their misplaced superiority. And for what it's worth, I think it's a crime that Americans are not forced to learn a second language in school. Until a person knows more than one language, I think it's not very easy to completely understand language, which is why so many Americans can't even speak English even though it's the only language they know.