>LOL! I think it more likely that people will at times phrase their views poorly. Everyone attended school and we all studied the wars America participated in and we all know full well what the reality was of WWII. I think some people just get frustrated when negative comments are flung at us when generalizing Americans into stereotypes depicted in comedies when so many Americans have been wounded or lost their lives fighting wars on other continents to liberate other people, not ourselves. (Especially when in many instances most Americans didn't support America's involvement to begin with)

Stereotyping cuts both ways. Despite the "it's all just show biz" line (other branch of this thread), the rest of the world does take Americans by what Hollywood, TV networks and gaming industry produce. If in almost all Hollywood war movies there are just trace amounts of other allies, of course that the current generations will hear a bit of what they learned in school and keep forever what they saw onscreen. So at home you have that stereotype that subconsciously thinks "we did it alone" (just like the repetition of the Holocaust story brings up an image of Jews being alone in the camps - false, of course, but nobody's correcting it).

Abroad, you get the stereotype of "these Yanks think they did it all alone". The most recent example was Eddy Izzard criticizing "Private Ryan" - "and they go on for hours looking for this bloke... they could have asked us, we were there, we saw him, we could have brought him to them, but no, they wouldn't have the camera point our way".

And not to mention the ease with which stereotypes are created and maintained about others. How the French have been converted from big (albeit sometimes stubborn) ally into a nation of cowards. Or Borat (no, haven't had the stomach to watch that).

>>>yep. Phrased incorrectly. I meant "not all Americans." (Actually, I don't know a single American that thinks the U.S. did do it all alone ...
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>>...but some married ones may fit the bill?