Do NOT bother reading this unless you have seen the part in Hostel when he is in the police department in Slovakia. You CAN read the last bit, though.
I was at the blackjack table and had this conversation with the dealer.
Dealer: Where are you from?
Me: I'm from the US.
Dealer (in his thick Eastern European accent): Oh! So far from home.
Incidentally it scared me a bit.
By the way, the whole thing about people hating Americans is not really true unless we are currently bombing their country or if you are a radical Muslim. Or, of course, if you are North Korean. Many (not even most) people hate the idea of America, especially G.W. This is why I never say I'm from America. The word for the US is some version of the word "America" in most countries I have been to. So whenever they talk about us on the news, it's always "America sent troops here. America bombed there." Maybe somehow, saying you are from the US has a different ring to it for them.
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