Philthy,
You really don't know what you're talking about. I am the first to admit that the Americans read back way too much, which combined with some non-standard phraseology really makes people like the Poms angry.
The American AIM, the equivalent to the AIP gives quite good guidelines and in many way it's very similar to any other ICAO country.
The rest of the world copies the Yanks anyway. Europe sounds more American every time I go over there.