This is typical Europeans. I as a european hear this from my fellow countrymen all the time. Uneducated fat americans, no style, no quality, they know nothing, europe is 100times better.
Yet most of the major/minor innovations comes from the US these days, then it's Asian, Israel and the last is Europe.
You can counter argue that there's a big brain drain but whose fault it is ?
Europeans are just cocky too busy posturing.