Warbler said:

CP3S said:

CP3S said:

When you're abroad, you find that people from the United States have an almost universal reputation of being very fat, very loud, and very ignorant.

and you complain about my thinking on the French. You are just as bad as that, if not worse, when it comes to your own country.

The "very fat, very loud, and very ignorant" thing isn't from me. That is seriously the stigma attached to us that I heard from people again and again, much like the French being snobs, and the British having atrocious teeth. It is our stereotype.

yet instead of fighting against this stereotype, you cooperated with it. You could have been an example to them of an American who was not "very fat, very loud, and very ignorant" instead, you made them think you were Canadian. Think about that.

My friends and people I worked with knew I was an American. Everyone in the city I lived in who knew me, knew I was an American. The people I heard the fat, loud, and ignorant comments from, knew I was an American. It was when I traveled that I'd often feel compelled to lie, not always. You can't say you wouldn't do the same when you've never been in that situation.

I've had my life threatened on multiple occasions for being an American. I've had knifes pulled on me, guns pointed at me, and been psychologically fucked with in violent ways for being an American. I've had friends traveling with me threatened, for me being an American. I had to beat the shit out of a guy in self defense, for being an American.

Sorry, but I am not one bit ashamed of pretending to be something people hate a little less. This is diving WAY too far into personal areas that I do not want to talk about at all!