If only I could swap being fekkin English to become Scottish, for the price of a mars bar, you'd be smothered in them.
As for knocking "Americans" well the more of them that I've got to now the more I like them and respect them, few folks are more charitable, considerate or easy to get on with than the vast majority of Americans. Odd how folks who knock them imitate them in what they wear, what they eat, what they watch on TV, the songs they listen to and so on.
My guess is that 60 years ago when the standard of living in the US turned the rest of us green with envy we {the rest of the world} vented our spleens on them then, and carried that on doing that ever since, what they have the rest of the world want, in a nut shell, a better standard of living for the average working class bloke {than his own cuntry would have afforded him}.
I aint bashing yanks at all. It's just in some countries (mostly the middle eastern ones) if a local finds out your American they'll most likely blow your head off in the first given opportunity.