Perceptions of Americans

so.. i'll be travelling to europe this summer (france, UK, spain).
being AMERICAN i'm expecting to get hated on, in a major way (nuff
'spect to e40). personally, i choose to shoot that drama to the left
and just be on some "when in rome.." sh*t. HOWEVER, do ya think it'd
make a difference if i'm (1st generation) american born CHINESE?
wouldn't i come off FRESHER than your typical white boy american and
just be another CHINK in their european eyes?? it would be interesting
to get some feedback from local french, british, spanish, euro peeps.
do ya think there's less hate on americans who don't "look" the
Conventional American on first impression?

It was never a "look" friend - it's an attitude.

And your comments suggest you might be in for some of what you fear.


"Porkchop Express" wrote in message
om...
so.. i'll be travelling to europe this summer (france, UK, spain).
being AMERICAN i'm expecting to get hated on, in a major way (nuff
'spect to e40). personally, i choose to shoot that drama to the left
and just be on some "when in rome.." sh*t. HOWEVER, do ya think it'd
make a difference if i'm (1st generation) american born CHINESE?
wouldn't i come off FRESHER than your typical white boy american and
just be another CHINK in their european eyes?? it would be interesting
to get some feedback from local french, british, spanish, euro peeps.
do ya think there's less hate on americans who don't "look" the
Conventional American on first impression?

I'm an American and I travel in Europe alot and I've never had a
problem. On the other hand, I speak English. People may get a bit
frustrated dealing with you if you speak the same language that you've
written in.



On 10 May 2004 18:14:02 -0700, (Porkchop Express)
wrote:

so.. i'll be travelling to europe this summer (france, UK, spain).
being AMERICAN i'm expecting to get hated on, in a major way (nuff
'spect to e40). personally, i choose to shoot that drama to the left
and just be on some "when in rome.." sh*t. HOWEVER, do ya think it'd
make a difference if i'm (1st generation) american born CHINESE?
wouldn't i come off FRESHER than your typical white boy american and
just be another CHINK in their european eyes?? it would be interesting
to get some feedback from local french, british, spanish, euro peeps.
do ya think there's less hate on americans who don't "look" the
Conventional American on first impression?

Porkchop Express wrote:

so.. i'll be travelling to europe this summer (france, UK, spain).
being AMERICAN i'm expecting to get hated on, in a major way (nuff
'spect to e40). personally, i choose to shoot that drama to the left
and just be on some "when in rome.." sh*t. HOWEVER, do ya think it'd
make a difference if i'm (1st generation) american born CHINESE?
wouldn't i come off FRESHER than your typical white boy american and
just be another CHINK in their european eyes?? it would be interesting
to get some feedback from local french, british, spanish, euro peeps.
do ya think there's less hate on americans who don't "look" the
Conventional American on first impression?

I guess I wouldn't blame the Europeans to have an attitude towards you.

(Porkchop Express) crawled to the nearest
keyboard and summoned the courage to write:

so.. i'll be travelling to europe this summer (france, UK, spain).
being AMERICAN i'm expecting to get hated on, in a major way (nuff
'spect to e40). personally, i choose to shoot that drama to the left
and just be on some "when in rome.." sh*t. HOWEVER, do ya think it'd
make a difference if i'm (1st generation) american born CHINESE?
wouldn't i come off FRESHER than your typical white boy american and
just be another CHINK in their european eyes?? it would be interesting
to get some feedback from local french, british, spanish, euro peeps.
do ya think there's less hate on americans who don't "look" the
Conventional American on first impression?

Speaking as a proud American, in your case I'd prefer that you hide
your identity as much as possible.

Americans sometimes do get treated badly (recently I was in a
restaurant in France where all the Americans were shunted off to an
area near the toilets) but attitudes such as yours only make matters
worse.



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the hums do not intrude

so.. i'll be travelling to europe this summer (france, UK, spain).
being AMERICAN i'm expecting to get hated on, in a major way (nuff
'spect to e40). personally, i choose to shoot that drama to the left
and just be on some "when in rome.." sh*t. HOWEVER, do ya think it'd
make a difference if i'm (1st generation) american born CHINESE?
wouldn't i come off FRESHER than your typical white boy american and
just be another CHINK in their european eyes?? it would be interesting
to get some feedback from local french, british, spanish, euro peeps.
do ya think there's less hate on americans who don't "look" the
Conventional American on first impression?

Whilst many Europeans have a problem with America esp Bush, they don't have
a problem with Americans.

"Charles Hawtrey" wrote in message
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Americans sometimes do get treated badly (recently I was in a
restaurant in France where all the Americans were shunted off to an
area near the toilets)

Did you ask for a no smoking table? That is usually where they are.

Colin Bignell

touche michael. i actually chuckled out loud




Michael wrote in message . ..
I'm an American and I travel in Europe alot and I've never had a
problem. On the other hand, I speak English. People may get a bit
frustrated dealing with you if you speak the same language that you've
written in.



On 10 May 2004 18:14:02 -0700, (Porkchop Express)
wrote:

so.. i'll be travelling to europe this summer (france, UK, spain).
being AMERICAN i'm expecting to get hated on, in a major way (nuff
'spect to e40). personally, i choose to shoot that drama to the left
and just be on some "when in rome.." sh*t. HOWEVER, do ya think it'd
make a difference if i'm (1st generation) american born CHINESE?
wouldn't i come off FRESHER than your typical white boy american and
just be another CHINK in their european eyes?? it would be interesting
to get some feedback from local french, british, spanish, euro peeps.
do ya think there's less hate on americans who don't "look" the
Conventional American on first impression?

The way anybody is seen in France depends on their own attitude.
No frenchpeople would seek you out to be rude to you. But if you brush
people up the wrong way they will react accordingly then you'll say 'you see
they don't like us"
cpmac

www.cpmac.com/normandy



"Porkchop Express" a écrit dans le message de news:
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so.. i'll be travelling to europe this summer (france, UK, spain).
being AMERICAN i'm expecting to get hated on, in a major way (nuff
'spect to e40). personally, i choose to shoot that drama to the left
and just be on some "when in rome.." sh*t. HOWEVER, do ya think it'd
make a difference if i'm (1st generation) american born CHINESE?
wouldn't i come off FRESHER than your typical white boy american and
just be another CHINK in their european eyes?? it would be interesting
to get some feedback from local french, british, spanish, euro peeps.
do ya think there's less hate on americans who don't "look" the
Conventional American on first impression?

like the cologne?



"Aramis" wrote in message e.rogers.com...
It was never a "look" friend - it's an attitude.

And your comments suggest you might be in for some of what you fear.


"Porkchop Express" wrote in message
om...
so.. i'll be travelling to europe this summer (france, UK, spain).
being AMERICAN i'm expecting to get hated on, in a major way (nuff
'spect to e40). personally, i choose to shoot that drama to the left
and just be on some "when in rome.." sh*t. HOWEVER, do ya think it'd
make a difference if i'm (1st generation) american born CHINESE?
wouldn't i come off FRESHER than your typical white boy american and
just be another CHINK in their european eyes?? it would be interesting
to get some feedback from local french, british, spanish, euro peeps.
do ya think there's less hate on americans who don't "look" the
Conventional American on first impression?