The truth is that these so called guidelines are a strange combination of politically correct corporate culture, and a lowest denominator of some kind of Christian fantasy morals. I just wrote a long rant and it was much more about the upper middle class in the western world than it is solely a US thing. Then I deleted it.

The US is a weird place in so many ways - but not in bad ways. I love the US craziness and cultural confusion. Only sad thing is that there is so many scars and so much pain that keep popping up. The only wars you ever had on your own soil was civil wars.