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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

I'll never understand this attitude that Europeans have towards Americans. I thought we were friends.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I'm franco-american, living in france, and I regularly get people telling me they're sorry for insulting me for being american. It's so ingrained in the culture here to shit on americans it's something of a knee-jerk reaction. I get it, america's the hegemon, we're the big baddy, I just wish that didn't spill over into a kind of xenophobia that people are so comfortable with they regularly catch themselves being openly insulting to people they call their friends.

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