by CarolynSD on Tue Aug 27, 2002 1:53 pm
When Americans come they are judged-automatically-it is human nature to use prejudices you have taken so long to create by absorbing the quasi-culture in a bottle(via tube,tunes, etc) Brits etc seem to think we ARE the Britney Spears background singers, the American Pie actors, the ever so cheesy N Sync boys and obsessive groupies...
However, Brits are also human.(Don't laugh, they bleed too) After about 2 months of messing with your head and trying to make you get on your knees and cry that your country is infinitely inferior, Bush is an idiot, we were wrong to come in so late in ww2, and u-267y493 whatever was really British and everyone knows it...they will then lay off...if you are strong enough to hang in there -rather than buddy up with other americans like a yank force field-you will find some very interesting friends for the next 4 years....but it is good to understand what you are getting into. When I came in 2000 I had no idea that people had these views about Americans-what the stereotypes were-that made them hate it even more--naive, too? It was like a red blanket to a bull. Some jerks still give me alot of crap, as though I need to be the ambassador to Scotland 24/7(especially when I am a dual citizen of usa uk) and explain all of america's proceedings, but most forget I am american, come to my thanksgiving dinner, watch american pie 2 and legally blonde with me, and make fun of americans as easily as they make fun of brits and themselves--do not fear this sort of adversity. Sometimes a challenge makes your values even stronger, and helps you get rid of the useless ones.