It's okay to feel good about yourself once in awhile

This post, surprisingly, will not be about masturbation. What I'm talking about is described in this article from the BBC about how some anti-Americanism is misguided. Now I immediately have to backtrack quite a bit and say that first of all, the article is well-written only in the sense that the dude who wrote it is most likely British and therefore automatically gets a leg up on making the English language his bitch, but does not fully give examples of or flesh out his point. Also, I tend to be of the opinion that some anti-Americanism, ironically (for me at least) the snooty french stuff in particular, does make some very valid points. That being said, this is a worthy topic because as recent students of a liberal liberal arts college and human beings alive in a time of great international, worldwide geopolitical divides and instability, we are bombarded with this kind of stuff 'round the clock. Men who are not robots will eventually cave into this thinking and mindset and forget that for the most part, in the long and storied history of world powers, America is actually one of the most benign and peaceful and does a lot of good in the world. During my recently concluded travels through Southeast Asia I remember a brief conversation I had in Vietnam with a man. It started like most do, with the Asian person using their painfully limited amount of English to ask a basic question: "where you from?" "America," I replied. "Ohhhhhh America," he and most others would say, then think, using the limited amount of history and education they had would say something else like "very cool" or "oh". Anyways, this guy pondered my place of origin for awhile and like any Vietnamese would have the right to say, started with, "America love war very much," to which I had to slightly lower my head and solemly agree, but then he followed that up with, "but America mostly good."