Certainly it's mainly about politics and there are reasons for this, at least at the moment (the current US government is flexing human rights and denies the US proportion of global warming). But bashing fat people in the USA is just ridiculous; it's so easy - and poor imo - to make fun of those people, but overweight is a problem of all so-called industrial nations except the Asian ones (although I fear that they will catch up). And it's interesting how few European governments and individuals criticize Russia or China for their interpretation of human rights.

I just wanted to point out that many Europeans seem to consider themselves superior to US people but at the same time they neglect the fact that the US culture and economy still have an enormous influence on Europe.

I'm not from USA, but I can I understand them being tired of being bashed by Europeans. The Europeans as well would "take it personally" if their countries would be constantly criticized.

Anyway: This topic was discussed in other threads before, so I don't want to derail this one any further.