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I have met a few americans and have some american friends.
You can't really generalise because that wouldn't be fair, but I find that most Americans I have met are usually quite self-assured people, confident and sometimes they also have this really strong "facade" going on if you know what I mean. Like they are untouchable and very sure of what they want, and will get it in a sense. Usually I also find americans rather loud when they talk, though some of my american friends aren't like this (but they have lived in Europe for several years). I think it's because of the way they place their voice - quite nasal and throaty all at once.
Generally they are open and pleasant people, though I have to agree that they often seem a bit oblivious to the world outside the states. And to the poster who said that the reason the american geography skills are so bad is the distance, can I just point out that we in Europe are the same distance away from you, just in the opposite direction....get it?
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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