American policy is tearing apart homes, ruining people’s lives, causing harm to vulnerable people, triggering layoffs and upheaval worldwide, normalizing graft and corruption at the highest levels, and is putting an end the democratic process.
So yes, let’s talk about how some rich tourists feel a bit bad. It’s their struggles that we really need to focus on.
if you are US American abroad right now just do what tesla owners have done with swapping honda badges on their trunks and hoods so just start sewing Canadian flags onto all your luggage and jackets
That wasn’t cool before and it’s less cool now.
The flag. It’s a big fucking lie and not much different than stolen valor or wearing a cultural outfit.
In the mid 2000’s I was down in Mexico I had my flag on something, I was talking to a person selling hats on the street. We got chatting and he says he would give me a hat for $20 because I am Canadian, when I pulled out a piece of paper with the queen on it the saler said no no $20 US. When I heard that I put the queen away and went to another person selling hats.
I am guessing the person was used to US people putting on our flag to make them look good.
That’s a weird conclusion, I think. I would have just thought he didn’t want to bother with exchanging Canadian dollars, or even more simply, that he wanted 20 USD and 20 CAD is less than that.
pretend to be canadian all you want; it’s still obvious and anyone that has met a canadian will be able to tell the difference.
just like the tesla rebadging. a polished turd is still a turd.
It became a running joke (at least in my circles) that if you want to spot a Canadian, look for a Roots bag or MEC gear. Only Americans would wear a Canadian flag. Though this was before Roots enshittified and offshored all their manufacturing to China, and before MEC dissolved their co-op through evil shenanigans and went privately-owned.
At the rate trump is going, this is going to get a lot worse. Pretending you’re from another country won’t work though, US Americans behave in a very stereotypical manner.
I voted against the orange felon. I don’t expect sympathy, but I also expect to be treated like any other tourist. Really naive to believe that every American is an orange cunt supporter when not even half even came out to vote and only slightly more of those voted orange. Most of his base has never been outside of their state.
You will be treated like other tourist if you behave like other tourists. Other tourists don’t act in denial about their shortcomings. Other tourists don’t think every “foreign person” wants to go to America if they can afford it. Other tourists haven’t been brainwashed from a young age on American exceptionalism and just see it as a country as any other.
Stupid tourists aren’t limited to America though, there are raunchy imbeciles from Australia, UK, and Canada too that leave a mess in other countries. But there are certain cultural tells that make it obvious when someone is American. For example if they get upset when a store doesn’t accept USD cash. Pretty much everyone outside the US knows their money is only guaranteed to be good within their own country.
Yep, have experienced that working retail, they hand you USD, which we convert, and give CAD change. They get irate that they are American and should get USD back…buddy we don’t carry USD or all foreign currency, we are doing you a service by allowing a foreign currency at all, rather than you having to go to a bank first
I struggle to imagine any reason to use cash unless you’re a drug dealer. CCs will convert for you.
None of that is in the article. Just an elderly couple who don’t want to be recognized as Americans because they fear they will be treated worse than other tourists.
Obviously if you behave like an obnoxious piece of shit you deserve to be treated like one. That has nothing to do with your citizenship.
Sure. And likewise in the article there is no indication that American tourists are being treated differently in Paris at the moment, this is just advanced precaution on the part of the tourists. I’m just reminding you that no amount of maple leaves will cover for rude and obnoxious behaviour.
Not even half even came out to vote
That’s still a responsibility they must bear from enabling fascism by doing nothing.
We’re not entitled to anything. If other countries don’t feel up to enthusiastically hosting people from the US right now, that’s their right. This kind of attitude is proving the broader point.