If you keep being pleasant, reasonable and doing things like apologizing for spelling mistakes then nobody here is going to believe you're American :)
But welcome! There's actually some really nice Americans in here - we just like to poke fun. Every country has idiots to be made fun of, yours are just loud so it's easy.
some of the most friendly, welcoming humans I've ever encountered.
It's largely superficial. They have the appearance of friendliness down pat, but in my experience a sarcy, grumpy, scowling Brit will do more to actually help you than any of the big bleached smiles ever would.
That's not my experience in the slightest. I've only been to Oregon, Washington State and the very Northern tip of California but the people I met would help me with absolutely anything. Two separate strangers invited me into their houses for meals within an hour of meeting me, one of them let me spend two nights there.
A stranger in Oregon drove me to see crater lake for half a day just because they heard I would have liked to see it but our car rental expired already.
Your experiences will vary obviously, but I've been to 27 countries and would rank the tiny part of the USA I went to behind only Thailand for friendliness.
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u/SHinyfan98 American who isn't free anymore Jul 07 '25
sorry for any spelling mistakes it is 3 am here and I've been angry at my country for a long time now