Originally Posted by
Flying Lawyer
Based on my humble experience deriving from travelling forwards and back for the last 30 years, there is a big difference how a US American expects to be treated oversees and compared to how foreigners are treated in the US. Coming from Nebraska or not, there appears to be the expectation that everything overseas works like in the US whereas in the US everybody expects your conduct as a foreigner has to be that of a US American
As someone who has lived in a number of countries - including the U.S. and Germany - I would say that while Americans are very America-focused, I've also come across a good number of Europeans who when coming to America expected American things to be like things back home in Spain, France or Germany and acted rather dismissively in a quite arrogant fashion about aspects of American life that are uniquely American. Especially among Germans there's a certain breed who find it barely tolerable if something is allowed in America that is 'verboten' in Germany and who will feel the need to lecture at length about why the German state of affairs is far more sensible.