Are Americans Still Welcome in Europe?

>Leave your maga hats as wel as your pronouns at home, and enjoy your trip.

It's hard not to point out how desperately sad the state of affairs is when wearing a political slogan and using a pronoun (I'm assuming there is an implicit premise you're leaving out) are on the same level of "being political". Shall we also leave our race and gender at home? How?

And the 20% tipping, please leave that at home too.

I think most of Europe understands that half of you did not vote for the orange man.

And in particular if you are well educated or work at a university looking for new opportunities you will be more than welcome.

If you misbehave though you will probably be frowned upon as a MAGA. But not much more than a frown. No reason to invent any risk, most of Europe is still an open society and have not changed.

If you plan to go to Hungary or places like Serbia, I am guessing that you will more greeted.

And soon enough I guess you will be able to travel to Russia and Belarus (also Europe), but I would not recommend it.

The important thing for her will be the weather. This week was great, next week may be less great.

Another imprint thing is that this is vacation time for children in the Paris area. This is rather a good thing.

Besides that they're is nothing to worry about. Seriously. We discuss like crazy what is happening in the US but this is like a tv series. When we meet real Americans we don't care (well, someone may tease her a bit :))

Early Iraq years were the same. It's alright, just nod and smile through all the reductive and offensive things you'll be hearing

Tell her to be polite, learn the most basic French sentences and say bonjour/bonsoir to bus drivers, shopkeepers and hotel staff, and she'll be more than fine.

Things have changed significantly the past couple of weeks. I'm much less welcoming of Americans - any Americans - in my life now.

I'm not European and don't speak for Europeans (or anyone but myself) however.

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I think leaving politics at home is always good advice when travelling, you're there to enjoy yourself, not spread political ideas. Unless you're entering a genuinely willing conversation that can be had maturely, definitely leave it at home.

I've traveled quite a bit over the past few years (including a couple dozen cities in Europe), and I've found at events at many hostels/shared housing I've been at, it routinely comes up, esp. when alcohol is involved.

With young Europeans, it seems to be a point of fascination with them that such stuff is happening in our country. And they will implicitly assume you're progressive because you're traveling in that part of the world.

I was told I was 'forgiven' long before MAGA was a thing, near the bridge outside of Notre Dame Cathedral. Let me tell you, that made my day. Don't envy that waiter's career.

The funny thing about this is that Europe is chock full of even loonier fascists than the MAGA hats.

The far-right is, ironically, very globalist. Almost like a rainbow coalition of fascists. The problem is that they all think fucking over each other is going to make them #1. You can't have a world where "America First", "Germany First", "Islam First", "Japan First", "Korea First", "Korea First", "China First", and "India First" all[0] coexist. They're far too egotistical to be satisfied with a tie. Someone has to be second.

We're seeing a lot of Europe and Canada rally around the current liberal establishment, because Trump started the global race war before every country was actually committed to it, and the fascists are realizing they might wind up on the losing end of it. But let's also remember that a year ago, the AfD was talking about deporting German citizens, and had even hoodwinked the liberal establishment into supporting shit like holding refugee claimants in Rwanda. Europe looked like it was about to fall to fascists that are smarter and more well-connected than the American equivalent.

The divide, of course, is not "European" vs. "liberal American" vs. "MAGA hat". It's "those who show humanity to others" vs. "those who see others as a tool to be consumed".

[0] If you're wondering, these correspond roughly to the MAGA wing of the GOP, the AfD, ISIS, all those idiots in Japan with sound trucks, Kim Jong-Un, , Xi Jinping, and Narendra Modi.

For context, Xi Jinping is very, very ethnonationalist, despite running a nominally Communist party.

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I find it odd to opine about the political business of other countries. That is, I might perceive a subject matter a certain way, or I may recognize the moral issues with a particular policy (if serious enough, I might even endorse some form of intervention, if prudent). Heck, I might even, in principle, offer a dispassionate analysis of a given policy if I were a political analyst. But what I don't understand is how a foreigner can be "pro-X" as it the issue were personal.

In the case of Brexit, as someone who isn't British, I have no opinion one way or another. I might have a view of what the relative trade-offs are, perhaps te impact of Brexit on my country, but to claim to be pro- or contra-Brexit seems as ridiculous as supporting or opposing my neighbor's choice of furnishings or home building material. The question doesn't belong to the common good I share with the neighbor.

Brexit, like many issues, was more of a litmus test for gauging "political purity", whether someone is in the political in-group or out-group, kosher or treif.

The Chinese are looked upon with distrust, not because of who they are, but because the Chinese regime puts pressure on exchange students, workers and probably tourists to spy.

Watch any travel vlog. Someone goes to China, Russia, Pakistan, you name it. The people are decent when you treat them decently. If you Europeans are openly showing distrust for Americans and Chinese simply for being American or Chinese, it might be a "you" problem, just saying.

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People are likely to start suffering real, personal pain because of all the garbage coming from the White House. If you lost your job at the factory because of the tariffs, and hear some loud Americans next to you at the bar... maybe you don't feel so charitable towards them compared to a more abstract dispute over, say, your views on the best way to provision health care.

Not sure how likely that will be (the bars where factory workers hang out tend to not be the ones in tourist areas, for one), but it seems plausible to me.

I wouldn't let that stop me from travelling though.

You gave a response in the format of "what could you be referring to?", but there is a whole blog post under the headline explaining the premise of the question (a premise which you may reasonably disagree with).

The US is instigating an economic war against the every single country in the world.

Americans pretending to be canadians while abroad to be treated better was already a thing before this happened.

Your reaction of ignoring this problem and acting as if all is normal because it doesn't affect you amplifies the problem.

Why would they be? We have enough of one threat on the east

According to my very quick googling the difference in the likelihood of owning a passport between republicans and democrats is only about three percentage points - hardly "YUUGE".