The thing is Europeans and perhaps the rest of the world do respect Americans and see them as generally good people. 99% of Americans are genuinely very nice people, this obvious even from just reading thee forums. But you get the odd American who comes along and just basically says "Yeah we're the best country no question. If it wasn't for us the rest of the world would be speaking German, we are the strongest most morally perfect nation ever",
It that's the attitude that makes people not appreciate Americans, it is hard to appreciate a persons views with a god complex like that. It ruins it for the people who genuinely do give positive views of America. Again I can't stress enough that it is the tiny minoroty that say that, but it is that people do.
