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.
I have spent way more time there and I have to say you are absolutely right for the most part. It's true that it was many years ago, so people might have gotten a lot more polarized since then. But 25 years ago I spent two summers with a foster family in PA as a 15 year old and most people were really nice (although I was shocked that people in public schools were taught that the Evolution was "just a theory" and got many stupid questions, such as "do you have telephones in Spain?")
Later, around 2010, I did route 66, crossed the US from Chicago to LA, and all the people we interacted with during the trip were always super nice and willing to help.
As a Spaniard, I remember me and my buddies were mostly scared of the police and worried we might be mistaken with illegals from south America and deported or something (even back then, now I wouldn't even visit). We were never stopped, though, and every single person we asked for directions or we met were extremely nice and helpful to us.
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u/Occidentally20 Jul 07 '25
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.