Are Europeans jealous of Americans? This dude from France he hated his trip to America because everyone here seemed autistic.

I doubt it. Some might be, and plenty are all too ready to adopt the most meretricous products of American commerce, or to affect American "English"; but jealous?

Anyway, one man from France - which is just one of over two dozen European countries - basing his assessment of an entire foreign country on merely the relatively few people he encountered there, is hardly sensible or fair. Besides, I wonder if this French bloke even knows anything about autism?

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Actually he reminds me of a fellow Briton I chanced to meet on a ferry back from France. Mechanical problems with the vessel, and heavy fog, severely delayed us so I expect many passengers were tired and a bit fractious; but this character decided he hated France! Just like that.

Why?

I think his had been a business trip not a holiday, so he'd have seen only a small area and met only a few people; but he wrote off an entire nation because its ways of life did not fit his!

I told him I was returning from a very enjoyable two-week holiday with friends from elsewhere in England (using other routes), in a rural part of the country where most of the other tourists were French. We had frequented the village cafes and shops - where we had all tried to speak French and had accommodated ourselves easily to their long lunch-breaks, one of the things that Mr. Misanthrope attacked them for; and so on. And overall we'd been made welcome.

He was not impressed and stalked off, perhaps not wanting to admit he might have misjudged France after all, to a fellow Englishman who had defended France and the French!

Funny how 1 person became a representative of a whole continent. A continent that has nations and nationals so different from each other that they don't get along.

Jealous? They don’t even like Americans, most of them.

Even Americans aren't jealous of America right now.

Canadians and quite a few EU countries have more rights. About the only right that Americans have that all those other countries don't is gun ownership. That single right isn't worth giving up so many others.

Maybe a few years back I was, now I'm not. By the look of it, I'm not sure if anyone is better off living in the country they do. The whole world seems to be screwed up in one way or another.

would not say jealous just made a rather bizarre comparison of what they saw [raincheck77]

LOL no its not jealously. They just see many Americans for what they are and they aren't afraid to say it.

I’m autistic and that offended me.

Spent the entire time in Alabama