There’s a lot to like about America. Self-reliance, hard work, making it big, standing up to authoritarians, love of country and community, all these aspects absent in American cities and suburbs but present in American small towns and rural areas. Europeans instead adopt the bad stuff, like fast food, convenience, celebrity worship culture, being rude towards the elderly, shouting over opponents and drug use. Those Europeans didn’t have to do it, but they did, and they act like they’re better than America. And then they wonder why Western Europe will one day collapse.

Ireland is one of the worst affected by this, because we are an English speaking country that is geographically isolated from the rest of Europe. So many Irish people talk shit about America while eating McDonald’s, drinking Starbucks, typing on their iPhones, wearing American sportswear and watching Hollywood blockbusters. And then we blame America for Irish culture fading. This is why the Irish language has not been revived.