Whitney, I feel so much like you! I'm Bulgarian but it bugs me to no end when my fellow countrymen act like jerks in situations like the one at hand. Unfortunately, apart from the nice people one can meet in Bulgaria, there's a bunch of rude, obnoxious and aggressive people who don't get it that criticism is not the same as a personal attack. A great number of people have been fed cliches for many years, and as someone else mentioned, the communist educational system managed to produce a lot of ignorant people who never bother to actually hear what you say or try to see the world from a different perspective. Please, don't get mad, it's not worth it.