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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve not been treated badly because I’m American but I have regularly experienced a “test” where someone in Europe will try to find out what kind of American you are…trumper or not. If you “pass” the test, i.e not a trumper, you are treated great.

I have personally seen A LOT of nasty tourists from all over the world, most notably American, British (quite a few tbh), and Chinese and Japanese (this last one was more about HUGE groups of tourists and they will cut off others. [/quote]

OP here. These days I’m afraid the assumption in a lot of Europe is that you’re a Trumper unless and until you produce a European passport. That’s what we’ve been told at least!![/quote]

I had a private tour guide in Munich in 2019 complain to me about “gun-toting Texans” and rich Americans.  He almost stroked out when he found out that my 24 and 19 year olds (also on the tour) what been homeschooled.  Yes, Europeans have stereotypes also.  But I have a few about them too…[/quote]

My oldest dc did a semester in Germany, and was actually asked if people walked around with 'six shooters' all the time! Dc said, I'm from New England lol, never seen that. He was then asked if he went to NYC regularly for dinner, and had to explain that we lived hours from there. A few of the resident students also shared their views on Jewish people...shocking my dc (we're not Jewish but that's not the point). He was also suprised at the tension and aggression at soccer games (like big ones).[/quote]

I lived in Japan for a year and was frequently asked the same thing. I, too, scoffed at the question & laughed about never having had handled a gun, nor of knowing anyone who had. Wound up having to leave my program early because my husband’s father & stepmother (in the US) were shot dead in a home invasion. Gun access and associated violence is absolutely insane in the US, and the ROW is right to wonder why Americans would ever choose to live this way. It goes far beyond Europe.

Re. Anti-Trumpism, my husband got our car stuck in the middle of nowhere in Portugal, where we now live. I was at home, trying to geolocate him and organize a tow truck, when he was approached by a British couple on horseback. They lived up the road from where the car was stuck. But before offering assistance, they asked him who he voted for! (Hilary was the right answer.) [/quote]

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