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You're probably right, but the American case may be the only case the author felt qualified to comment on.


Seconded. Many times in online discussions people will make sweeping statements about "all" people. This always elicits a response from someone about how that doesn't happen in "my" culture/country/whatever (or how that only happens in America / only applies to Americans).

In this case, the person scoped their statement to (presumably) the society that they are most familiar with, yet this still managed to elicit a response that the scope was not broad enough!


G.K. Chesterton was British.


But the author of that comment about Americans was not G.K. Chesterton.




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