Ten things (+ one) I could do without (I do try hard to be tolerant)

1. Most popular music (country-western, rap (especially rap), rock, easy listening, soul)

2. Dogs

3. Starbuck's

4. Americanization of cultures, from  the Middle East to France to Asia and Africa, including narcissism and exhibitionism and measuring sucess by popularity (Twitter, and other "social" media) and money

5. American speech patterns, including clang of dipthongs & nasality, after Walt Whitman,...ebonics...Cantonese...Spanish.     (Thank God for French, RP, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin --oftentimes--, and other languages not customarily or usually shouted or screamed).

6. Loud conversation in public spaces

7. American television, cable or otherwise (related to #6)

8. Seahawks, Sonics, etc.  This amounts to being unpatriotic, I recognize.

9. Exaggerated or unfounded accusations of racism, or sly or not-so-sly appeals to liberal white guilt

10. Western-style consumerism, which I admittedly indulge in more often than I would like to admit

11. Meanness, cruelty, one-sidedness, and prejudice, e.g., The Stranger