Here's the weird thing: The Americans I know personally (and some of those I've met here on Medium) are thoughtful, erudite, knowledgable, witty, and have an objective understanding of the UK royal family and their relationships with the media. Then there are the Americans I experience as a kind of collective force of ignorance and stupidity, either in big tourist groups or online parroting idiotic, ill-informed nonsense about how terribly oppressed H&M are.