Elenmmare said:
Your logic of self-bias doesn't explain why so many Brits here vehemently despise America.
Wait.
What?
Americans think they're special because some brits here mock them?
Ahaha. Dude, you totally don't understant British humour. We mock our neighbours, because they don't live in our house. We mock people the next street over, because they don't live on our street. We mock people from the next town, because they don't live in our town. We mock people who live in the next county, because theirs is clearly inferior to ours. We mock people who aren't on our corner of the country, because their corner sucks. We mock the southerners because their half of the country is inferior. We mock the Welsh for not being English, the Scots for being themselves, the and the English for being neither. We mock the French for being snail-eating garlic-loving girly-men. We mock the Germans for failing at war (twice) and the Swedish for Abba. We make fun of anywhere out of Europe, for not being European. We mock the Aussies for being in the wrong hemisphere and being usually better than us at our own sports. There is nothing special or unusual about Brits mocking Americans, it's just that you guys provide so much mock-worthy material that we let everybody else in on the action too. It's so much fun to see Americans sulking.
(And by 'Americans', I mean US folks. We like Canada (which, by the way, is mocked FAR more by yanks than anyone else - do you guys hate them or something???) And we like to think that SA is nothing but rainforest)
Really, mocking people and forming queues are at the heart of British culture. The American ego is just so big that many yanks think the world revolves around their country. It really doesn't.