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cyglet Donating Member (256 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-11 04:53 PM
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Why is it when I'm abroad
Do I find the most boorish, rude, condescending right wing a-holes possible?

Are they the only ones TSA lets out?

I just don't get it.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-11 04:57 PM
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1. Money
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OriginalGeek Donating Member (589 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-11 05:16 PM
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2. Brandon Manitoba
Is the farthest abroad I've ever been and I was 12, 35 years ago, and with my Grandparents at an Airstream international rally. Not even sure if that counts as abroad. BUt I got ice cream every day and got to play checkers with the old guy in the trailer next door and saw bag-pipers and RCMPs and it was kinda fun.

I have no doubt that the situation would be different if I went further afield today.

Maybe it's that the condescending right wing a-holes that are the only ones dumb enough to shout "Hey Lookit mneeeeeeeeeee! I'm from the GD US OF A!" in a foreign country.
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cyglet Donating Member (256 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-11 05:18 PM
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3. If they think it's so great
Stay there.
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-11 05:30 PM
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4. I spend a lot of time abroad
Edited on Mon Sep-26-11 05:30 PM by av8rdave
As I type, come to think of it...

Unfortunately, many of our countrymen (usually the right wingers, IMO) don't even realize that the "ugly American" stereotype belongs to them!

On edit: Welcome to DU! :hi:
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cyglet Donating Member (256 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-11 05:43 PM
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5. I wish
they didn't live the stereotype. It's hard to get around it when everyone else really is that way.
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-11 05:49 PM
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6. Agreed
The folks who know how to behave tend to be low key and don't get noticed. The jerks do.
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