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Americans on Medium are a Different Breed
Time to rip up all the old stereotypes once and for all.
Every sunday, I go to the speakers’ corner, which is situated in the biggest public park in the middle of London to hear my favourite demagogues (or orators) speak.
What’s interesting about Marble arch on Sundays is that you get all sorts: conspiracy theorists, Marxists, religious fundamentalists, anarchists, post structuralists mingling with tourists from all corners of the globe.
And yet, the one thing which unites these disparate bunch is their anti-Americanism.
To these demagogues, Americans are the dumbest people on earth; bible bashing, Republican voting, fast food and Fox news consuming idiots.
These folks are as wedded to the notion of dumb Americans as Donald Trump is to lying; there isn’t a hope in heaven that they will ever detach themselves from this restrictive and reductive world view.
Clearly, these Brits are far more ignorant than Americans they denounce, but they will never see that.
So why I have brought this up?
The American writers on Medium.
Contrary to the popular stereotypes about Americans in the UK, the Yanks whom you encounter here are first rate: they are incredibly well informed, highly…