The people in other branches of the U.S. military don't call Marines "Self-propelled sandbags" just because it sounds funny.
Well, yeah we did actually but it doesn't make it any less true, the typical Marine ground troop isn't generally a whole lot smarter than a sand bag is.
That said, for all the actual elitist cultured Europeans that a person may come in contact with, there's many more of the vast unwashed masses just as there are in the U.S. Numerically, the odds are, you're the latter category in either the U.S. or Europe.