I'll concede, they most certainly have a natural way of making you hate them.
It's not even the fact that he was American. But that he was one of
those Americans, that thinks shit needs to revolve around him because he's fucking American. And on top of that, he's one of
those west-coast Americans, that think the rest of fucking America needs to fucking revolve around him. Like, looking down his nose at me like I'm a bumpkin because I'm from the midwest. :\
I thought you were Canadian before moving to Finland.
My memory must've made a backflip into itself or something here
Yeah, not sure what made you think that. Maybe I conduct myself more like a Canadian than an American.

Which I would consider a good thing because I hate most other Americans. *cough*
But, no, I was born and raised in the midwest US of A.
I confess I'm generally embarrassed at how the loudest Americans set the tone for us to the rest of the world.
Shortly after moving to Finland, I came across some post in a Facebook group about how some American gal was subjected to a lot of 'discrimination' in her line of work or something like that, and how she felt soooooo bad that a white college-educated female from a well-off American family had to experience some discrimination in the workplace. Which, mind you, no one disputed her claim. And, when other people tried talking some sense into her, she went fucktard bananas and had a whole big hissy fit, blogged about, rageposted pictures of some of the people from that comment thread on her FB, going on and on about social pariahs and trolls and losers we were. And what upset her is that everyone discounted what she was saying because she was doing the same hypocritical bullshit and making sweeping generalizations about Finnish people as a whole, against just the people in her workplace or whatever. And then she goes about using terms like 'pariah' which was a term whose origin in rooted in fucking discrimination, and she's just flinging that around willy nilly and lkdjföalkdgjöalkdjf *foams from the mouth*
That kind of American makes me really fucking glad I left America in the first place.