The comedy to this is the extreme generalizing that goes on globally when talking about America / Americans.
We're all cowboy surfer rednecks that love our guns and religion, are all broke with maxed out credit cards and overweight with a nasty case of diabetes.
Well, actually, 2/3 of Americans are overweight and 75% are indebted in some fashion (though that could be "good debt"). And Americans have one of the most disturbing attitudes towards religion I've ever seen. American seculars turn entirely away from God while fundamentalists also turn entirely away from God... in the other direction.
So you get a country where service employees working on Christmas is considered totally normal, but fundamentalists crow on and on about the disrespect done to Christianity by deigning to acknowledge Hanukah and Kwanzaa. Which is ironic, because prior to Kwanzaa being invented from whole cloth and Hanukah morphing into Jewsmas, it really was solely and only the Christmas season.
Damned capitalist pigs ;-) (yes, I'm originally American).
Oh, and there are more guns than people in America, but those are mostly concentrated in rural states where guns are easier to obtain legally. The population of America has only recently tipped over from being mostly rural/suburban to mostly urban/suburban.
Yes, that's a silly generalization, but it's not comparable to the one mentioned in the OP. If you want to compare thinking of all Americans as rednecks, you can compare it to thinking of of all french as sweet talking wine lovers, spaniards as lazy and always sleeping the siesta, or germans as rigid uptight and rude; and so on an so forth.
We're all cowboy surfer rednecks that love our guns and religion, are all broke with maxed out credit cards and overweight with a nasty case of diabetes.