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Re:Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to... by dhosek on Friday June 24, 2022 @12:09PM (#31864556)
I thought you said Canadian flag patch and I remembered back in the 80s hearing about friends traveling in Europe who would sew Canadian flag patches on their backpacks to hide the fact that they were from the US.
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Re:Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to... by gopher_space on Friday June 24, 2022 @02:04PM (#31866755)
My dad talks about backpacking through Europe in the early 60's as an American and it's all open doors and family dinners in every little town.

My experience more recently is that people seem to be aware that an American traveling abroad probably agrees with most of their criticisms and they're just curious about what it's really like here.

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Re:Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to... by dhosek on Friday June 24, 2022 @05:47PM (#31869843)
The 80s were peak ugly American. There are uglier Americans now, but they’re far less likely to leave the country.
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