the false first amendment - a rant about culture shocks i guess

This country makes me so angry. Americans are so sensitive and yet insensitive at the same time. I don’t understand the logic behind taking offense at being told you have ethnic features. Are you implying you find ethnic features unattractive? I don’t want to hear you tell me anything about the ‘beauty standard’ when they are in direct conflict with ethnic features. I don’t care if you're offended because of your Eurocentric beauty standards. You are not a euro-ethnic person. Round faces, curvy bodies, larger foreheads, broader noses, etc. in my culture, in my communities, that is absolutely nothing to be ashamed of. In my communities, we say what’s on our mind. We are not aggressively confrontational but we do not ‘mince our words’ either. We say what needs to be said and live our lives with candor and openness. Americans are so afraid of offending imaginary people that they avoid issues, skirting around conflicts, and running away from difficult conversations. This has bred a culture of fear, insincerity, hypocrisy, and weakness. Instead of empathy and understanding, we have pity and guilt. There is no attempt to understand differences, whether that be in opinion or upbringing because American society is so quick to shut down anything that sways even slightly from the norm, anything that even looks like it might cause a stir, or rock the boat. The American culture is built on fear of rebellion and revolution. Americans pride themselves on their fabled ‘free speech’ yet they silence their citizens more than the most oppressive governments. Not through fear but through the dreaded ‘social norms’ a society that breeds people who are afraid of uncomfortable conversations is essentially a society that has failed its occupants.