Now can we all just play nicely?
maybe.
but since viktor brought it up again, just a little bit more on the subject:
eurocentricity is annoying enough -- but when Americans feel like they are the center of the universe, and from my experience most of them do, it's just absurd.
let's get it straight once and for all: EAST GAVE BIRTH TO THE WEST. no ifs buts or maybes about it.
almost everything came from the Middle East. and the rest from the Far East. the guitar was a variation of the oud. etc.
and for a people that have recently, in the perspective of world civilizations, become more technologically advanced, to feel like their culture is superior is just plain idiocy.
it's like a toddler with some new toys thinking it knows everything, and considers itself better than his grand parents, who has seen and invented 1000 times more than it can imagine -- indeed, the foundation which its new toys were built upon.