> I chalked it up to a power trip and the indignant behavior that comes along with it, as it is especially embedded in the culture of the country that I'm based out of.

You previously said:

"One of the things people in the US like to do is to take some thing that's being negatively talked about and spin that into a thing that only people in the US do"

Well, it sure sounds like a thing people from your European country like to do as well.