MrOzzy posted:

As a European it's interesting to read how current US politics came to be. Here in the EU (maube except fot he UK) we don't learn a lot about the detailed Anglo-Saxon history, unless you pick a specialised education.

We just learn about the European colonisation of America. About slave labour, racial segregation and the current political system.
This makes the American way of life quite hard to understand for a lot of Europeans.