Sad but true. (TikTok screencap)
You shouldn’t. People are more likely to be interested in who you are as a person than your country’s politics. You might get some negative bias, true. But you can work pass that.
I’m from the country of Orban, and I do feel shame sometimes saying that. But I have rarely experienced anything more than some cold looks.
The everyday folks who support a dictator tend no to travels abroad. People outside your country are not exposed to them :)
OberonSwanson@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
This is why most Americans say they are Canadian, when traveling.
blarghly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Most American tourists definitely don’t do this.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
obviously I can’t say anything to actual statistics, but I can provide anecdotal evidence of this one time back in Europe When some very clearly American tourists were claiming to be Canadian, and the Canadians and Americans in our group were just kind of side eyeing them from a few tables over
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s why I picked up a second language. We rarely speak English when traveling abroad now.