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Isn't it funny when someone who has never been to a certain country...

Thinks they know more about it than someone who is actually from that country? 🤣🤣🤣
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@SeymourWeiner @Overwatch6 Okay guys, lol.
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abe182 · 46-50, M
How can anyone summarize a country into a statement. Especially the United States. Take my state for example it's smack in the middle and yet its still diverse depending on what side you're on rural or urban.
MaryJanine · 61-69, F
It sounds like you live in the Midwest. That's where I live. (Big city - Chicago). Anyhow, a note to everyone who thinks US citizens don't see what goes on over there...there are places where you are not allowed to go to, whether you are a countryman or visitor. If anything is going on in these spots, you won't be able to visit said trouble spot.

I just read something recently that partly answers this. A prime example was the Berlin Wall when it was still standing. An American History teacher and his class went to visit the site. They were stopped, searched, and held for several hours before they were allowed to camp - but they had to do it on the East side of the wall and were under guard all night long.
abe182 · 46-50, M
@MaryJanine yep Midwest. What said spots are you referring to?
MaryJanine · 61-69, F
Nothing SPECIFIC … but if there's riots or protesting, or even war, in an area, people in Europe won't take visitors there for safety's sake. That goes for our side of the pond, too - remember the Neo-Nazis and their disruption of the statute dismantling in Charlottesville, Virginia?

We didn't welcome visitors down there for awhile afterward.
SweetMae · 70-79, F
Yeah! That is pretty arrogant.
Yeah, we see alot of that on here...... folks who think they know all about the US when they dont know jack shit. Educate yourself before you sound like a damn fool.
xixgun · M
What's even funnier is that some people will automatically assume you're talking about Americans.
Yeah. People are dumb... but I’m the dumbest. *giggles*
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@DarkHeaven Lol...
MaryJanine · 61-69, F
I don't pretend to know what I don't know about any place "across the pond". But I have a saving grace. I have a friend in Social Media who is teaching me everything I want to know about his country - the language, the country, etc. I asked him to after I discovered his country is partly what my heritage is, and he graciously agreed. Every so often, I come across a word from that language - I will ask him, and he will translate for me. I enjoy learning, and he likes to teach me.
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@MaryJanine Sounds like a good friend 👍
MaryJanine · 61-69, F
He is - very good. He was very shaky in his English in the beginning, but he recently told me he improved that by reading MY posts. That's a compliment!
Lol that seems like a very specific thing to happen I haven’t experienced it yet.
revenant · F
I have been to the US but then I do not claim that I know it better than somebody who has studied all US questions
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@revenant Exactly.
It's unintentionally hilarious.

Ignorance can be a great source of entertainment.

Y por si hablas español, te cuento que eso aquí pasa a cada rato.
@SW-User Así es 🙄
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@Underconstruction Solo tomo unas palomitas, jajaja
@SW-User 🍿

 
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