this post is about opinions and experiences, the problem is when people pass comment on your individual experiences.

Should know better than to enter into these subjective posts - so I'll pass on them in the future.

Isn't it just good manners (not to say practical) to make a bit of of effort to make yourself understood when abroad? Dennis99 would you really ask directions to the subway in NY and insist on saying "Underground"? Basil Fawlty r us.

Yep, you're probably right - but my brother is talking to me on the phone - not somebody in the USA.

Opps, got pulled in again

At the risk of repeating myself, the US is a country of 300m bordered by a desert and a block of ice. Is little wonder they have a sence of exceptionalism.

You want to meet to meet insular, paranoid individuals with little or no knowledge of the outside world? Go travel in Asia, starting in Singapore.

I'm not the most sensitive or PC (sorry TJ) person in the world but how comes no one has stomped all over this for being "racist"?
Thinking about it, are the Americans a race? considering they're made up of so many ethnicities. Hmmmmm.
I don't really care where anyone comes from, who they worship etc
I'll always try to judge people as individuals. Mostly they're individuals that I find I don't like 😀

I think if you look back the general opinion seems to be that Americans are people. Mostly decent, some bad apples, some strange crap in the government and some odd things that are quite widespread that are unpleasant. Could say the same for the UK.

I wonder why? 😉

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