# Why do Europeans seem so ungrateful to the US **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 2, 2012, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-europeans-seem-so-ungrateful-to-the-us/630199 "2012-08-02T18:08:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-europeans-seem-so-ungrateful-to-the-us/630199/41 "2012-08-02T20:33:16Z")
And if it weren’t for us, Europe wouldn’t even have a Disney park. SHOW SOME GRATITUDE!!! ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-europeans-seem-so-ungrateful-to-the-us/630199/42 "2012-08-02T20:37:51Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > You know, “Cheese Eating” especially never made sense to me as an insult. Who doesn’t like cheese? If being a red-blooded American means I can never have any cheese, well, fuck that noise. You can steal my cheese from my cold dead hands. Well, I am slightly lactose intolerant. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-europeans-seem-so-ungrateful-to-the-us/630199/43 "2012-08-02T20:39:28Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Well, I am slightly lactose intolerant. I’ll take yours, too. ETA: Not that stinky stuff, though. I guess the Europeans can keep that. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-europeans-seem-so-ungrateful-to-the-us/630199/44 "2012-08-02T20:40:56Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Look, even if the whole fucking non-U.S. world agrees, how can any view that counts soccer as an actual sport – and worse yet, calls it “football”! – be the norm?! 😉 That’s the real mystery here. That and the OP’s weird notions of how gratitude works. > [@Anaamika](#): > > You know, “Cheese Eating” especially never made sense to me as an insult. It’s just supposed to be a French stereotype from an angry Scotsman. But I guess it is kind of ironic in light of, among other things, the state of Wisconsin. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-europeans-seem-so-ungrateful-to-the-us/630199/45 "2012-08-02T20:43:19Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > You can outsource pregnancy?! If you’re a man you can. And it only takes a few minutes. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-europeans-seem-so-ungrateful-to-the-us/630199/46 "2012-08-02T20:56:35Z")
> [@Yeticus\_Rex](#): > > [Hans plays with Lotte, Lotte plays with Jane > Jane plays with Willi, Willi is happy again > Suki plays with Leo, Sacha plays with Britt > Adolf builts a bonfire, Enrico plays with it](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYUGXuTNsic) She’s so funky, yeah. Sorry wrong thread for that. So, doesn’t like most of Europe still owe the U.S. reparations for WWII? Our economy could sure use the cash right now, just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-europeans-seem-so-ungrateful-to-the-us/630199/47 "2012-08-02T21:01:50Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > It’s just supposed to be a French stereotype from an angry Scotsman. An illegal Scottish immigrant, at that. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-europeans-seem-so-ungrateful-to-the-us/630199/48 "2012-08-02T21:09:09Z")
> [@kmshrader](#): > > This American would like to point out that she doesn’t agree with the OP at all, and hopes that if this does end up pitted the rest of the lovely multicultural world will remember that we’re a country with a whole spectrum of people, and pretty please avoid generalizing. My name is **Kimballkid** and I approve of this message. ---
**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-europeans-seem-so-ungrateful-to-the-us/630199/49 "2012-08-02T21:13:16Z")
[No one likes us, I don’t know why](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGO42gvCSPI) ---
**Author:** ![Hbns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hbns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hbns)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-europeans-seem-so-ungrateful-to-the-us/630199/50 "2012-08-02T21:21:13Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > :eek: > > For the record, it’s your attitude that needs adjusting. You, sir, are why I hate America. You hate all of America because there are a lot of dipshits? Way to stay open minded. :rolleyes: I’ll try to only hold that against you and not the rest of your countrymen. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-europeans-seem-so-ungrateful-to-the-us/630199/51 "2012-08-02T21:31:22Z")
You know who else was ungrateful to the US for all they did in WWII? _ **Hitler!!!** _ ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-europeans-seem-so-ungrateful-to-the-us/630199/52 "2012-08-02T21:35:29Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > You can outsource pregnancy?! [Yes, you can.](http://www.webmd.com/infertility-and-reproduction/features/womb-rent-surrogate-mothers-india) ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-europeans-seem-so-ungrateful-to-the-us/630199/53 "2012-08-02T21:37:32Z")
I thought etv was doing his best Otto impression from A Fish Called Wanda. Otto: Don’t call me stupid. Wendy: Why on earth not? Otto: Oh, you English are _so_ superior, aren’t you? Well, would you like to know what you’d be without us, the good ol’ U.S. of A. to protect you? I’ll tell you. The smallest fucking province in the Russian Empire, that’s what! So don’t call me stupid, lady. Just thank me. Wendy: Well, _thank_ you for popping in and protecting us. Otto: If it wasn’t for us, you’d all be speaking _German!_ Singing “Deutschland, Deutschland über alles…” But apparently he was serious. We’re not all like that. Really. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-europeans-seem-so-ungrateful-to-the-us/630199/54 "2012-08-02T21:37:38Z")
Goddamn Europeans with their Rennaissance and Cultural Developments and all that other shit that made our Society possible. Fucking ungrateful bastards. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-europeans-seem-so-ungrateful-to-the-us/630199/55 "2012-08-02T21:48:58Z")
> [@coffeecat](#): > > [No one likes us, I don’t know why](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGO42gvCSPI) See you, and raise you a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp6dsKleGpU](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp6dsKleGpU) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-europeans-seem-so-ungrateful-to-the-us/630199/56 "2012-08-02T21:51:31Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Goddamn Europeans with their Rennaissance and Cultural Developments and all that other shit that made our Society possible. Fucking ungrateful bastards. Well, the aqueducts are nice. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-europeans-seem-so-ungrateful-to-the-us/630199/57 "2012-08-02T22:06:31Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > The people who call football soccer are the people who saved you from annahilation, many times. ANd allow you to have the wonderful health care and work conditions you so enjoy! Yeah! Why do we let the Europeans make their own health care and labor laws? Shouldn’t we at least put it to a(n American) vote? ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-europeans-seem-so-ungrateful-to-the-us/630199/58 "2012-08-02T23:16:18Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > I thought etv was doing his best Otto impression from A Fish Called Wanda. Otto: You know your problem? You don’t like winners. Archie: Winners? Otto: Yeah. Winners. Archie: Winners, like North Vietnam? Otto: Shut up. We didn’t lose Vietnam. It was a tie! Archie: _[going into a cowboy-like drawl]_ I’m tellin’ ya baby, they kicked your little ass there. Boy, they whooped yer hide REAL GOOD. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-europeans-seem-so-ungrateful-to-the-us/630199/59 "2012-08-03T00:04:51Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > If, as the OP suggests, Europeans should be grateful to the U.S. for its contributions in World War II, should not Americans be similarly grateful for the contributions of the French in the American Revolution? So shouldn’t Americans show some gratitude as well? _yawn_[Been there, done that.](http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3401802291.html) ---
**Author:** ![sisu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-europeans-seem-so-ungrateful-to-the-us/630199/60 "2012-08-03T00:11:16Z")
blah blah blah, you {Europe and USA] should all be thanking Australia. We have fought in all your damn wars and without us you wouldn’t have won… well you probably would have but fuck it this is the pit! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-europeans-seem-so-ungrateful-to-the-us/630199.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-europeans-seem-so-ungrateful-to-the-us/630199.md?page=4)