They are not punching down. They are punching up at the richest and most powerful country the world has ever seen which might invade their home soon. Are you really going to spend your time tone policing children from Greenland?

What you listed are extremely mild stereotypes that Americans have heard a million times even from other Americans. They are about as offensive as “French eat croissant” or “Brits drink tea”. And these kids clearly want to be offensive to Americans

All the former eastern block countries (including east Germany, also Yugoslavia) are stereotyped as poor, which carries further stereotypes of criminality, stupidity and general backwardness. There are old German jokes about how poles will steal your car for example.

I would say that its slowly getting better as the economic situation of our direct neighbours improves, but that may well be my bubble, wich is mostly made up of university students. Far right parties are on the rise and I doubt their voters have very nuanced views about any foreigners

This post is two years old so idk if you are still alive, but imo it makes sense for beginners to play on 9x9 until they notice almost all ataris and second line cuts, and know a bit about making living groups. I think it can be frustrating to ruin a 19x19 game because you missed a huge atari, but on 9x9 the game was almost over anyway

When do the tarrifs actually go down?

I like the flag. “Twelve stars in a circle” sound boring but in practice its a great aesthetic an has a lot of character