• Cruxifux@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think that’s a good enough reason to justify why they’re having to point out to Americans specifically that they’re foreigners when they are in other countries.

    I lived in a tourist town for a year. Americans are definitely easy to pick out, because they have this attitude like 90 percent of the time.

    • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      We are particularly oblivious for sure. We are isolated, by design, even from eachother. It doesn’t help that the u s is a massive country. Mindfulness is not really our strong suit, and the people traveling are usually the more privileged among us Americans.

      I was talking to a woman who travels a bunch and she was complaining about how the world saw us, all while telling a story that was super cringe, prime example, of this behavior, and “omg the way they treated me”…I could do nothing but roll my eyes tbh