Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious a…

Christopher Hitchens
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Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American someone who actually embodies all of those qualities. ✨ Scarborough Country with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. May 18, 2004.
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Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American someone who actually embodies all of those qualities. ✨ Scarborough Country with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. May 18, 2004.

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