Americans are nubs

A few days ago I was chatting with Mr Yankee Doodle (hehe) when he mentioned that Americans are the most maligned people in the world. It's perfectly okay to insult Americans but when you do it to another nationality it's racist and politically-incorrect.

For instance, imagine someone saying one of the below:

Example 1: Americans are stupid idiots
Example 2: Singaporeans are stupid idiots
Example 3: Lebanese are stupid idiots

Example 1 is totally acceptable and even encouraged, example 2 is somewhat acceptable* (cos I'm Malaysian hey!), but example 3 is a definite no-no. If you do it you risk raining fire and brimstone on you and yours.

I blinked, then said that example 1 is acceptable because it's true. Americans display the most appaling lack of knowledge about other countries.

For example, Malaysians regularly flout international trade standards by exceeding the North American Rubber Export Quota, but Mr Yankee Doodle didn't know that.

See? Americans are stupid. Of course, the fact that I completely made that up at the spur of the moment has nothing to do with anything, obviously.

Hoho.

*for those who are particularly dense and humourless, that was a joke. Besides, I spent the better part of a year raiding with Singaporeans, and am therefore a superb judge of their idiocy. Ahem.