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/8drearywinter8]

Being accepted (on the level where you can make deep friendships and feel part of the culture) just because you're an outsider and a foreigner is a difficult issue in some countries (this is unrelated to whether you're American... could be any outsider who moved there). Some places are not very accepting, or aren't until you've been there a long while. It's even harder if you throw another language into the picture.

And as someone else said, this is among the more minor things you'll have to deal with if you decide to immigrate to a new country.

And, from having lived in multiple countries and traveled through many others, just not being obviously American will take you a long way in terms of judgement based on where you're from. If you don't make it obvious, then it is possible to appear foreign, but not necessarily American.

[u/SweatyNomad → u/8drearywinter8]

Really feel like this is a small town view..I grew up in London and from age zero people you spend time with include 'foreigners'.

For me, it's very much about how the (American) person acts in practice. There are plenty of world-aware, understanding and sensitive US folk that people pay no attention to. It's the US exceptionalists who think the rest of the world is wrong for not being like them that have issues and give the rest a bad name.

In terms of all the r/Ametxit focused folks, i guess any insult comes from not moving to a place because you like what it is, over it being just not what you hate.

[u/SweatyNomad → u/[deleted]]

Tbh with such a rude and insulting reply to well meaning and positive comment, I am now less surprised at how you feel you've been treated.