Americans

There is a description of Americans (which is, citizens of the USA) which one hears often in our Afrikaans communities here: bitter onbeskof. One hears this so often that it would seem to be about synonymous with the term "American". I tell people that Americans are in fact gentle, generous people, albeit a little politicised, and materially overloaded. Onbeskof means literally, "insolent" (perhaps in the context, "rude"), while bitter means "grievously". OBSERVATION: It surely has much to do with Hollywood.