[magduf]

Exactly. Hanging around and drinking a lot, and being around a bunch of noisy, drunk people, is something that most Americans greatly enjoy.

[rpmisms]

Well, most of us are Irish and German, so it does stand to reason that we would enjoy those things.

[magduf]

My genetic background is mostly from those places too, yet I'm not like that. Those things are cultural, not genetic. Americans are loud and boorish because they choose to be.

[rpmisms]

America draws a lot of its culture from those two countries, but my point was more facetious than literal.