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 2 points 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