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“I am now in Japan. And when I say that I am American, people look at me with contempt and disgust."

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[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 34 points 3 weeks ago

even like 15+ years ago I remember common travel advice for people from the u.s. was "pretend to be canadian"

[-] davel@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago

I think this has been a thing since at least the late 1970s, perhaps starting during the Vietnam war. I remember hearing it in the ’80s.

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