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Yeah. 'Merican-directed bigotry is on the rise, basically everywhere. And, unfortunately, not without reason.

Jane Mercer

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No doubt. My former fluency in French had me mispronouncing Catalan like a French speaker would, things like final consonants that are voiced in English and Catalan but not French. More than 1 person was incredulous that I was an American when I fessed up. Linguistic camouflage

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Yeah. Happens to me all the time. I grew up around 4 or 5 languages. Even spoke some Swahili as a toddler. My pronunciation is almost always near-native, even if I know 10 words Only, I get too much credit for being from Norway, so not sure it's to my advantage to sound local.

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British increasingly get abused too, again, not without reason. I remember being at the Croatia/Serbia border, & the person in front of us was Irish. The guard was friendliness personified. Then, us. Holy fuck did his behaviour change.

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Yeah I saw some anti-Brit sentiment in Barcelona too...there being a Bus Touristic stop in front of our flat regularly reminded me why I don’t care for most of my fellow Americans....they and the Brits were SO LOUD

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We are most known for either bombing places, or vomiting in them after binge drinking. It's hardly surprising we keep doing shit in the Eurovision song contest.

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No joke: when I worked as a bouncer in my hometown, we'd find literally any legally excusable excuse to bar Brits from entering the establishment. Not that we needed one: 98% of them were waaaaay too drunk to legally be served alcohol in Norway. Not to mention rude & belligerent

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At one hotel we were at a buncha Brits let their kids play football IN THE HALLS....boggled my mind

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The hilarious part about Brit tourists in Norway is the disgusting ones are used to abusing the local people and businesses and suffering only the tiniest slap on the wrist, if anything. In Norway? 3000 pound hotel bill, which will be sold off to British creditors if need be...