• vegivamp@feddit.nl
    36·
    1 year ago

    I don’t think they’re wrong, either. Some Americans do seem to think that foreigner means “not from the US”.

      • vegivamp@feddit.nlEnglish
        14·
        1 year ago

        There most certainly are, yet for some reason there is only one flag on this sign 😁

        I’m certainly not generalizing, but you can’t deny that the US has its own weaponized brand of stupid.

        • sik0fewl@kbin.social
          7·
          1 year ago

          There most certainly are, yet for some reason there is only one flag on this sign 😁

          It’s because it’s in Canada. Lots of US travellers.

        • PumpUpTheJam@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          According to this article, Americans travel the most. The countries that travel the most are wealthy nations, and America is by far the most populated of them, and wealthiest, so it makes sense they’re top.

          Maybe that’s the reason?

          • Cruxifux@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            1 year ago

            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.worldEnglish
              2·
              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

          • GrandmasterFrank@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            The countries that travel the most are wealthy nations, and America is by far the most populated of them

            Your link isn’t loading for me, but does it account for factors such as Americans have drastically less vacation time than other Western nations and often traveling to other states instead of abroad? Most Americans don’t even have a passport.