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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well firstly, how much longer is she with you? If she's just finishing out this school year, keep your mouth shut.  If you have several more months, then say something.

"Noelle, it's lovely that you love your country. Sometimes people like best what they're used to. Regardless though, you chose to come to the US, and we have opened our home to you with the expectation that you would be at the very least, a gracious guest. You've now made it very clear that you think everything in Whatever Country is superior to everything here. We've heard you. Loud and clear. We do not wish to hear it any more. Please stop with the comments to us about how everything in Whatever Country is so much better. Quite frankly, if you continue, it will change the warm feelings we have towards you. Thank you for considering our point of view." [/quote]

Change the warm feeings? America is not the best country and the AP has every right to state her opinion. Ignore her or don't but if you say something expect an AP whose feelings towards YOU might not be so warm.[/quote]

I am a foreigner, and OP's post made me smile because I may understand how aspects of US life may seem strang to a foreigner (don't get me started with the AC, and the need for a coat in the summer to go grocery shopping), and that a foreigner may think that some things are better in his/her country.  It is not the point whether the US is the best country (to me it depends for what), or wether the AP is entitled to her opinion (she definitely US, especially in the US I think). The issue is whether it is polite to grace your host with a barrage of comments on how everything you get here is so much better in your home country. I think this is not polite. Also, if you chose to live abroad for a year, you should be open to experience a new world and a new society, you should be curious to understand the place you have the change you live for a while. I love my country dearly, life for some aspects is much better there, but I appreciate somke aspects of life in the US and I am still curious, after over 10 years here, to learn and understand. OP's AP seems immature, frankly stupid, and not very polite. while OP can do soemthing about politeness by talking to her, I am afraid there is nothing she can do about the stupidity. This AP is not going to get much from her experience in the US[/quote]

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