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Might help to know what country you're in, or continent even?
How does anyone expect to get very nation specific advice like this without giving any hint as to where they're from - besides it probably being a country that probably has many English speakers as a second language if not first...
No, no. Didn't you hear? The Internet is just the US.
Hell, I grew up in and currently live in Texas and even I know better than that.
If there's one thing I've learned from working with Texans, it is that they're Texan first, american second.
I mean, you're not wrong. And at one time I felt like it meant something. It meant we didn't push our religion on others. They were free to do what they wanted. If someone was doing something we didn't like but wasn't hurting anyone we just minded our fucking business (usually said about LGBTQIA+ folks). It probably wasn't nearly as true as I felt, but that's the kind of thing I was taught growing up. And everyone wonders why I grew up to be progressive, respecting other people's rights and mistrusting the government as it stands and corporations.
I know quite a few who moved here (norway) from Texas, as they didn't like how the state overall went from being traditionally conservative to radically regressive.
One of them recently got his Norwegian passport and I of course had to accuse him of forgetting the Alamo.
Hej, söta bror. I think you meant to post a reply to OP and not me.
Sorry, are you talking about Parisians?
Might be true there as well. I've only met, like, two french people who may or may not be from Paris.
No, no, parisians are pretty rural. They won't have much interaction that you can find. You've got to get the suburbs (because the urban areas are generally cool) of dallas, houston, san antonio, or austin to really find the people desperate to show how texas comes first.
Have you worked with many Texans? My office employs half a dozen remotely and they're exceptional team players.
nonsense there's nothing outside texas
I've never even crossed the Atlantic, yet I identify as a purebred texan
I'm sorry
There's no need to be hostile toward Americans. They didn't do anything to you.
Yet
The same could be said of any person on Earth. Why single out one country?
Unless you are also american. In that case, they keep stabbing you in the back.
I have respectful relationships with many Americans, none of whom "keep stabbing me in the back."
Where are you getting this from?
From a minority perspective.
What does that mean?
Plenty of americans think it's acceptable to have their neighbors killed. They may not physically do it outright (not all of them), but they support the murder of innocent people. They vote to have people killed. There are too many killers in america.
the exact same thing is true of your country :)
Yeah, I'm talking of my fucking country.
Are you saying that you're an American? ..then why did you say "From a minority perspective?" you still haven't answered my question...