# Why do Europeans seem so ungrateful to the US

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**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")
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### 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, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-europeans-seem-so-ungrateful-to-the-us/630199/15 "2012-08-02T18:46:22Z")

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[From the “Worst Olympic sports” thread:](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15336379#post15336379)

> [@Worst Olympic Sports](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-olympic-sports/630001/60):
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> I understand that you ended your post with a wink, but PLEASE get this through your skull: 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! Show some appreciation! (Sorry, I just couldn’t let this attitude go unchallegened again)

Please, please, please tell me I am being whooshed without making me read the whole thread to find out. This reads like a trifling but painfully stereotypical instance of ugly Americanism.

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