What do foreigners think of the United States of America?

[Jumpin]

While I know this doesn't account for all of the US, there are large numbers who fit the bill on the Internet, and who go vacationing in Europe:

* Very loud
* Talk very slowly
* Low education
* Racism ingrained into their psyche: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080207163811.htm.
* Perversed versions of religion; the general take in US Christianity is much more like the strict orthodox Judaism that Christians were originally rebeling against - and throw in some crazy apocalypse theories with Mayans and Y2K.
* Warlike, invade many third world countries - and will lie about reasons (like with Iraq).
* Wasteful (if the world lived like the US, we wouldn't have much time left).
* Very rude manners (will spit in front of you during a conversation and not think anything strange about it).
* Throw garbage on the ground, and even when visiting other countries.
* Think it is incredibly rude to make fun of fat people, but perfectly acceptable to make fun of skinny people and people with mental illness.
* Hate sex in the media, but find violence perfectly normal.
* Spend more time watching TV every day than normal people watch in 2 weeks - and their news media is insane.
* Have an irrational fear of most Asian countries; particularly China and the Middle East. Americans think that China is their enemy.... Which is about as stupid as a country like Germany thinking that Brazil is their enemy.
* Very backwards and counter-productive view of the direction civilization should be taking - economically and culturally - irrational fear of socialism.
* Don't care about your own people, South Central Los Angeles was left to poverty and near destruction for decades; then there was New Orleans.

 

I do like American music though =P
The US is a big country, so obviously there are pockets of goodness there. I just wish you good people would rise up and dominate over the large bulk of bad ones. There is a lot that the US has to be proud of, but the vast majority of Americans spit all over it on a daily basis.