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Oh for the love of...
Right, it's ignorance that makes people hate America. Even though we all know more about your history than you do (AND we can find America on a map!). Even though Canadians can't get away from knowing far too much about what's going on in the states.
It's not because you're completely mediocre at everything except military might, which you use to bully the rest of the world, and yet you never fucking shut up about how great you are.
And whether Heather was kidding about it or not, it seems like the fact that the single greatest contribution to winning WWII was from the Soviet Union is far too morally complex and ego-bruising for most Americans to integrate into their worldview. Nope, just say it was The Greatest Generation.