xhonzi said:

If you live here and are anti-American, try spending some time outside of the US every now and then. Man, does that always make me grateful to be an American.

I went to Germany over the summer and it was wonderful. I'd gladly move there if I could afford it. Were you merely referring to non-first-world countries outside of America?

I think my journeys through the airports of those respective countries really helped summarize the attitudes of those countries as a whole. When I arrived in the airport in Frankfurt, we just stood in line for some guy to stamp our passports. When I arrived in Atlanta, we had to go through customs lines for over an hour, have our baggage checked AGAIN before we could board our transfer flights, and were just generally made to feel like sheep being herded through a big line. Welcoming, indeed. It was nice to go to a country that isn't crippled with fear for a change.