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a) Against all Americans
b) Have claimed because I'm British I'm better than them, just by jokingly stating that my idiolect is to be 'tainted' if I'm around you guys.
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I don't think you are against all Americans. I think it was a pretty innocuous joke that you meant no offense by, and if you hadn't been the 50th person I've seen to make a similar joke in the past month I more than likely would have said nothing or even laughed at it with you. It's just that the whole "stupid American" joke is so old, and (like Mac Kastere pointed out) boring at this point, that it has become extremely grating.
I know we have some fairly old world ways of doing things, and many, many, many of us are screaming from the rooftops at every idiot in our nation who refuses to grow the fuck up and let others live in peace without the threat of their guns, or their religious intolerance, or their racial intolerance hanging over our heads. It's a hard fight, and it gets harder when you not only encounter resistance from everyone you know, but you are also lumped into the group of ignorant by those who live outside your culture simply because you belong to this culture. And I'm not saying that's what you were doing. I'm just saying shut the fuck up about it already because I'm tired of listening to it, no matter how well intentioned it is.