Americans may consider themselves rebels, but they aren't. They talk a lot of shit about rebellion and watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants but still let corporations, police and government run roughshod all over them, and follow their party's propaganda line without question. A country with only two relevant political parties, more alike than not, and only one civil war in its history is not one rife with rebellion.
Americans are 100% rebels in comparison to many other countries.
They often take the contrarian position just because.
As a manager whose has to prep for international meetings, I can tell 100% there is major cultural divide.
I can't explain it, but I always have to gauge engineers going awol during a meeting with Asian partners.
Sorry, no, as a Canadian I've always been flabbergasted at the "smile and congratulate and comply" culture in American tech companies. Open criticism (and rebellion) to stupid ideas comes far quicker from Canadian and European colleagues.
As commenter poster alluded: a country with only two political parties, both of which are basically conformist on the same foreign policy and economic objectives... Where "conservatives" think anything left of Atilla the Hun is communism, so accept pathetic living conditions, corruption, and barbarous behaviour is A-OK.
Absolutely not a "rebellious country"; a country notorious for police brutality and individual acts of authoritarian violence.
Really more the tyrant than the rebel. Sorry you don't like the mirror I'm holding up.
