Gee, I wonder why people in the Netherlands and France voted en masse for parties promising more safety on the streets.
They also think Americans are superficial and dumb too. When I say how it happens that most important inventions and discoveries are made in the US, they worm their way out of it.
They never met a real American, but still they think the image that the media holds about the people in the US is fully accurate.
As a conservative and a Republican, I should be used to being portrayed in a bad light by the American press. I had not realized that I would also be denigraded as an American by the foreign press.
I wonder if the sentiments you describe are more or less pronounced among young people.