>Americans are very patriotic. Singing the national anthem and waving the flag is second nature.

I'm pretty sick of these kind of nation-based generalizations.

They're never as true as the person pretends they are, and they're usually just thinnly-veiled hate speech of various types.

Generalizing other human beings by what country they were given membership to -- usually uncontrolled by birth, by the way -- is about the weakest way to gain an insight into the persona of another person.