[marshray]

I've lived in the US my whole life and I don't accept this connotation.

'Rejection' is just rejection. Sometimes it's personal, sometimes it's not.

[devsquid]

lol I'm from the US and have lived here for most of my life. Its probably true in most cultures. Hacker news has a pretty international audience, so I try to tailor my generalizations to my own home country.