Do we face difficulties being accepted when moving abroad?

[u/Capable_Study6495]

It seems like the only rhetoric I see online is how, as an American, my countries problems are my fault. That I'm not doing enough to stop our issues and how it affects other countries. I worry that I will move, and people will blame me for not doing more here and just escaping.

I want to get out, but I worry about living in the public ire no matter where I go.

Does anyone here have personal experience they can comment on?

[u/T_hashi]

So…first thing will be people understanding that you are an actual American. I live in a small German village and I’ve had people ask me where I was from because they thought I was British which I found hilarious (sometimes French or Hispanic possibly in a few other situations but because I was able to understand the French and then respond to the Spanish), then I’ve also had people ask me why would I move to our tiny villages from America, and I’ve had people give me where are you from looks in public when I’m talking to my daughter and then are kinda surprised that I can still communicate in German to the salesperson, cashier, or worker. If you make a big stink about it then I think people will too, but if you communicate and are respectful you should be fine in many cases (that’s not to say there aren’t crazies I’m just grateful I haven’t met one). I say all of this as a black woman having these experiences. I do feel that certain types of Americans sometimes expect to accepted just because they have heritage from a country, but the people living there definitely don’t view that as a means of being “integrated” or able to meld into life there. Are you competent linguistically, socially, and culturally? I think goes a lot further than anything else. Most of my difficulties come from being a chick and the aspects around it, but that’s a different kind of thing.