No, of course I don't know. I've mostly been living overseas since the Reagan era. So I'm like a human time capsule. I think that's why I keep screaming "Get me the hell out of pot! It's boiling!"--as opposed to the frogs who've been sitting in there as the heat slowly rises.
Where do you work, if you don't mind saying? In what context might you say, "I'm proud of American history," and how would your co-workers react? Is that differentiated at all--are they proud of some things but not others? (Because that makes sense, given our history.)
Saying, "I am proud of *every* aspect of American history" would rightly make people wonder whether you knew much about it, I think. But saying, "I loathe every aspect of American history" should prompt the same reaction, as well as a certain contempt.
