I agree with some of the points, but the first one really put me off with reading the article. I've never suffered over sensitivity from Americans, and in fact, I see just the opposite. This could be my biases crawling in, but it really bothered me (and I'm not American) reading "(oversensitivity with not telling obese people to get their act together is a major contributor in my opinion to why there are so many of them in the states)" because it was just a cheap shot, especially since it may very well be the opposite from the truth: http://www.businessinsider.com/weight-discrimination-linked-...