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Is this also a case of an American thinking that Europeans are Disney attractions and not actual people?
Happens more often that you'd believe. My bachelor's thesis was in part about how foreigners treat Copenhagen as an amusement park on bikes, because they associate bikes not with traffic but with childhood games
That's funny if Americans actually do that. Can I read about this anywhere?
You could, but I'd dox myself. It's not uniquely American, it's moreso part of people coming from car-centric urban planning to places where bikes are an everyday part of traffic.
It's also not very well sourced it's basically on the basis of 40 tourists I interviewed. I was looking for an older study in the field of "the study of how people behave in public space" but I couldn't remember the name for the field in time and that made it nearly impossible to find the study. It studied how western tourists moved, physically, in India
This is Paris syndrome. The Copenhagen she imagined was not the Copenhagen that exists. She felt let down and betrayed. Just like those Japanese tourists in Paris who come there thinking it's the city of love but find this instead:
And worst of all, she was forced to the conclusion that going back to the US was the best choice. That's going to hurt any liberal. Imagine the twinges of cognitive dissonance she's going to get the next time the Air Force jets fly overhead at the stadium.