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Yep, I travel a lot internationally and have never encountered someone who was unpleasant to me just because I’m American. I think many Americans who don’t travel abroad much seem to *hugely* overestimate the odds of non-Americans being rude to them simply for being Americans.

Someone will doubtless get mad at me for this (ironically) but I suspect that those Americans who claim they’re constantly treated poorly abroad merely for being American are actually just being treated poorly because they have Rancid Vibes

My take has always been that Americans who are treated poorly abroad are catching strays from the rest of the Anglophone world, who are legitimately bad tourists

When I lived in France people would complain all the time about the Brits, but they loved American tourists.