Americans are definitely wierd people, from my many year's experience there. Very friendly to foreigners, but only in major cities. In the country, it's very difficult, and if you show that you're an intellectual, you're instantly ostracised. Here in Europe know one cares how much you know, only how much money you have. Americans are also a pill popping and drug using culture. Here in CZ I don't know a single person who uses drugs, except for alcohol, whereas it seems most Americans are using some kind of drug, be it legal or illegal.