Yeah, but... Birmingham? Not proper British.

I'm not getting into this again... It is proper British, we're dead in the middle of Britain.

y do u all like to bite people and drink their blood?

I have been wondering about something for a bit now, maybe it can be explained, because it is most definitely culture.

I have lived in the US for about 13 years now, and at first I thought the stereotypical, golf culture, etc. type of Americans were just pure idiots. Then I realized they aren't any more idiotic than elsewhere. So I decided they were just uneducated. But that is also false, they go through high school, some through college, and while the education system is utter crap, the middle and upper classes are very much educated.

Most recently I came to the answer I wanted to, and realized that they are just ignorant. Not stupid, or uneducated, but ignorant. Furthermore, they WANT to be ignorant of what happens in the world. The US is the only country where "ignorance is bliss" has been used for anything other than an insult that I have heard. Why is that?  Culturally, what drives the middle and upper class, golf culture, of the US to embrace ignorance?

Almost all reasons that lead to the hatred of America abroad seem to originate from this, so I am just wondering where it comes from.

Edit: I am not generalizing to all Aemricans, just a huge chunk. There are plenty of worldly americans out there and I have as much fun socializing with them as anyone from Europe. People here should know who I am talking about. I'm talking about the type that went to or send their kids to finishing schools and private schools. The type that hovers over their children and tries to make play sets safer by removing everything, because god forbid their child falls down and scrapes a knee. Whether you like it or not, those types of people are basically the majority, then again maybe CA, CT, and the south haven't given me a big enough sample size to base this opinion on, but in those 3 areas by far the majority fall in the label of ignorant.

I'm not getting into this again... It is proper British, we're dead in the middle of Britain.

It was something I've wondered about as well, I mean I always question why we are the only country that uses the illogical standard system over the metric. But the answer always seem to be because it's different from everyone else, and that being somewhat "American" we take pride in it and that pride turns into smugness, and that leads to ignorance.....massive ignorance. The problem is that the rest of the world seem to moving more towards unification, so often it becomes USA......and the rest of the world. Now I think it is completely stupid, unification almost always leads to progress, I mean it took the 13 colonies to unite in order to gain it's freedom and independence.

I guess it's because America was a country that didn't need anybody for anything. So we became close minded to everyone else. Either way I wished we stop :/

Why aren't you guys awesome like us??

Actually, Romanians stole our vampire thunder. First story of vampires comes from Serbia, not Romania. in fact, vampire comes from Serbian vampir , so its a Serbian word. Two famous vampire cases, the first to be officially recorded, involved the corpses of Peter Plogojowitz and Arnold Paole from Serbia. Plogojowitz was reported to have died at the age of 62, but allegedly returned after his death asking his son for food. When the son refused, he was found dead the following day. Plogojowitz supposedly returned and attacked some neighbours who died from loss of blood.In the second case, Paole, an ex-soldier turned farmer who allegedly was attacked by a vampire years before, died while haying. After his death, people began to die in the surrounding area and it was widely believed that Paole had returned to prey on the neighbours.Another famous Serbian legend involving vampires concentrates around a certain Sava Savanović living in a watermill and killing and drinking blood from millers.  Both of these cases are treated as true (they are documented), unlike Vlad III the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia (Dracula) who has nothing to do with vampires at all   

y do u all like to bite people and drink their blood?

Well, you can blame a British guy for us stealing your "vampire thunder". The word "vampire" comes from your language, but the concept of "vampire" is millennia old, dating way back to Mesopotamia. As for Dracula, he was just a bloody sociopath, not a vampire (but the documented cases you mentioned were as much about vampires as the people who were killed during the Inquisition for witchcraft were withces).