It's like all things it depends who you are talking to. Many of the sites that I go to that have many American forum members would really make you think that America is filled with total idiots. Other forums make me feel like the total idiot.

The thing people forget that in a country of around 300 million you only need a small percentage of people to be stupid and they will still number in the millions.

Robert White wrote: general portrait of the American male, for instance, is that he doesn’t like to read, is obsessed with football and boobs, adores beer, and is generally an uncultured, myopic, imbecile. Now the truly disturbing thing is that many American males fail to see all these things as negative traits, thus leading to the often hilarious war of words when American’s and European’s interact on the internet.

Maybe I'm your "typical American male" in that I don't see all of the things you listed as negative traits, thus I don't find it disturbing.  I love a pint of beer more than a glass of wine, as does any good German or Austrian.  I certainly love football, both college and pro, and loving a sport certainly isn't exclusive to Americans.  Ask just about anyone from England about their obsession with tennis or many Europeans about their obsession with soccer.  There's nothing wrong with finding beauty in the female body and please don't tell me that American's are exclusive when it comes to being obsessed with certain body parts.  You've never been to Italy if you actually believe that! "Uncultured, myopic, imbecile" are far too generalized, as you say yourself, for me to have any specific opinion.  In the end, I think that's the key.  It's easier to define a population in generalizations so you don't actually have to do the work to get to know them.  We do it here in the States all the time.  Southerners are generalized as being "slow" and and somewhat behind the times.  Easterners are generalized as being "snooty" and too intellectual for their own good.  Midwesterners are generalized as being "hayseeds" and "country folk".  Westerners are generalized as being "liberal hippies" and "easygoing".  I don't find it surprising that if we can create these sorts of generalizations for ourselves, that they are being created for us by other countries around the world.