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Hands up Americans who've experienced anti-Americanism overseas


This is response to frequent posts on this about Americans experiencing hate internationally. If you're in the armed forces fighting in Afghanistan or Iraq it might be different.

Obviously the internet is riddled with trolls who try and wind up different nationalities but have any Americans come across;-

1)Direct anti-Americanism when they've been overseas?

2)Direct anti-Americanism at home from tourists and immigrants?

3)What form does it normally take?

The reason I say this is because any country's government or foreign policy can be called into question but when you're faced with that as a personal accusation it's different.

Anybody else feel free to stick in your nationality; anti-English, anti-Scottish, anti-Irish, anti-French, anti-German, anti-Iranian, anti-Palestinian, anti-Israeli, anti-Japanese ect.

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Trollolol

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This has what exactly to do with U-571?

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This number would go down greatly were a Libertarian in power, or someone from the big puppet parties like Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich but the powers that be ensure that doesn't happen.

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I've come across lots of Americans wearing Canadian flags on their backpacks and luggage in Europe. How do I know this? Because I go up and talk to them to find out where they're from. It becomes apparent pretty quickly the ones who are not Canadian. Not sure why anyone would sell-out their own country while on vacation. They'd look pretty sheepish when I called them on it too.

To counter that, I've also met some great Americans proudly wearing American flags in Europe. The Ugly American Tourist is definitely ruining it for the Respectful of the Hosting Countries People and Culture American Tourist.

As far as anti-Americanism overseas I've seen it from the perspective of a Canadian. For some reason Canadians are assumed to be Americans unless we prove otherwise. That is simply because we are speaking English without a British accent. More than once in Europe I've gone to check into a hotel in a small town and been told that there are no rooms until either I "accidentally" show my Canadian passport or something with a Canadian flag on it and a room magically comes free.

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maybe they looked sheepish because they really were canadian and didnt know what the hell you were talking about

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