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All right, yes, fair enough, there are Americans who really do wear tartan golf hats and call themselves Hiram Hockenbocker III and say ‘War Cess Tear Shear’ when they mean Leeds and all that. And some Americans start wars and own hamburger companies and act in bad movies. So there is some cause for complaint, America-wise.

But this surely doesn’t justify the kind of British twit who goes round saying that they hate Americans and they’re all stupid and don’t know where Africa is (it’s underneath Corsica). Partly because a) who cares what you think, you’re a maths teacher (see TEACHERS)? And b) this sort of person is in all other ways mad desperate keen to show how liberal and tolerant and not-racist they are. But if someone’s wearing a tartan golf hat and holding a map of Luton upside down in the middle of Oxford Street, then it’s okay to make wild generalizations and be a complete racist.

Of course, doing the same thing about Germans is unfair, but funny.