Self-Centered Americans
A couple of days ago I was talking to an American friend of mine about my Russian family, that still lives in its native country. And when I said that my grandma doesn't know English, this friend replied "Oh, that is so cute! Your grandma not knowing English!"
Excuse me, what?
How is that cute? Would it be cute, if I said that she doesn't speak Chinese or Egyptian? Why is she supposed to know English at all? She was born in USSR, she lived there and then in the Russian Federation all her life, so why on earth do people suppose that she is supposed to know English?
I despise the ways that Americans put themselves above everyone and everything in the world. If people all over the globe are studying English now, it doesn't mean that your nation is more important that everyone else. People chose English as an International language to communicate between countries just because it's one of the most primitive and simplest languages on Earth. And even if it was enriched with variants of conjugations, descriptive words, normal punctuation rules for crying out loud, we should remember that before English, the international language was French. And where are we now? Do all Americans parle français?
(And should I even mention that English wasn't created by Americans?)
Things come and things go, so you better hide that presumptuous, ignorant attitude you have going on there, America. People around Earth already have not the best relationship toward you, so calm down and stop confirming world-known stereotypes.