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I would like to see a valid point. Hearsay and rumor do well for making comments, however, merely saying you have reliable sources does not make your statement valid. Furthermore, capitalization generally gives your thoughts a veneer of knowing what you are talking about, in my experience it helps considerably.
For the sake of argument and the sake of ending this succinctly so I can sleep, here goes. America is a much larger and much for diverse place than where you are from, which I must assume is Germany, due to your comment that English is bastardized German. Which it is, English is the bastard child of practically all Western languages.
Some Americans fit your description adequately, most do not. One in four Americans are, if statistics are to be correct, obese; keep in mind though that fast food is far more saturated in America than other countries, therefore we have more food of convenience, and it is higher in calories. Furthermore, we tend to drive everywhere in lieu of walking or biking, so we get less exercise.
As I've mentioned, there is little need to learn a foriegn language for Americans, as the language of business has become English, we do not need to learn anything else. The notion of use it or lose it comes to mind.
Finally, saying that America would not have gotten off the ground without foreign help is fairly obvious, but your point is about 50 or more years too late to matter in the way you want it. Europe filled our population as a whole: England built our industry, France kept us alive against the English, Italy gave us religion, Russia gave us something to work towards, Mexico, China, Ireland and Africa were a wonderful source of cheap labor, Germany and Ukraine gave us some of our better scientists. Now, when you combine these, and other elements together you end up with something equal parts wonderful and horribly flawed. America has grown up far too quickly, and we don't have what most countries would call a proper appreciation of culture. That happens when you're about 1500 years younger than virtually every other culture.
Now, I do not agree with the Iraq situation, and I agree America has reached a stagnation point both socially and internationally. Remember the scope of history though, and the stumbling blocks that other countries have had, eh? Perhaps in 50 years we will have the luxury of noting George W. Bush with Napoleon, Kruzchev, Bismarck, Hirohito, and Nero as warlike leaders who severely besmirched the standing of their country and set them on a path of confusion and rebuilding.