aviva

I appreciate your response. Really, go to over to this and check out the hatred and venom. Towards the latest posts the mods get involved about disgusting pm's sent to the op.
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...=701486&page=1

Gabgoeshome

I will look later ,I am sorry if you were hurt though ...

Fools at their computers, cliquey and spiteful ...I have seen it before

dunroving

We are SO much more civilized over here on MBTTUK.

Gabgoeshome

Ok ,I have skimmed over masses of it

This is why I tend to stay away from the rest of this forum ,it happens regularly .

Boring banter IMO .

You still have nothing to worry about

I think (unfortunately ) when we see it on a message board, we assume it is a concrete feeling with many .

Not true ,my Husband spent 11 years in the UK ALL in London ,(where one might expect trouble ,in prominent jobs with Joe public ) and yet no negative comments of that ilk were made at all .

If you read the posts/scrutinize them a bit ,you will see they are taking out of their butts !!!!

Sorry ...I just feel very sorry that you would ever need to change YOU and all that YOU are .

aviva

Any thoughts (generalizations to be sure) about reactions in other countries in Europe?

dunroving

I think most Europeans see beyond the American = must be like George Bush mentality, but there are idiots everywhere.

Gabgoeshome

Do you mean how you would be received ?


Do I remember correctly ?
You have travelled all over since childhood right ?

My sister is in Norway (16 years ) no negative feelings there either -to name just one more lol !

aviva

Wondering how I would be treated, just based on the accent, before they had the opportunity to dislike me for myself. LOL
Yes, I'm one of those stunned, perpetually in a state of culture-shock, dragged around the globe in my formative years, kind of people.

Gabgoeshome

Don't worry .

Even if you were the most wonderful person in the world, someone would find something wrong lol !

It is understandable that you want to cover all bases ,eliminate all problems -it just can't be done KWIM ?

I sense you are looking/searching for somewhere to call home ....? you will in time

So where are you heading exactly ? do you know yet ?

Sally Redux

That's the Barbie - a law unto themselves.

I agree it's very unlikely aviva will come across any negativity regarding her accent. A 'coached' British accent is probably going to sound daft.

Sadly I have often encountered people making comments behind someone's back regarding race, but not purely on someone being an American.

Beedubya

It's the Aussie way!!! A lot of the threads on The Barbie are tongue in cheek. We Brits like to say that Aussies only like other Aussies......oh and they "hate" the English too and lots of other nations!!

Don't try and change who or what you are, your accent will probably come back of it's own accord gradually anyway.

sallysimmons

Wow, I just read that thread and I'm shocked. I feel like I just went back to 1960s Britain. Are those people representative of race attitudes in Australia? If so, I wouldn't last long there.

Aviva, you won't experience that in the UK. But you will get sick of miserable people asking 'why did you want to come back to this dump?' That's the British way and they have no idea how good they have it.

I was watching a show last night about Brits trying to get a dream life in another country. It was about people who want to buy businesses abroad. They were showing this family who were trying to buy a business in Florida and their naivete about American life was scary. They never once mentioned health care - and as self-employed middle-aged people that really should have been their first question.

Sally Redux

I've wondered that - I think they might just be racist Brits who left 'because of all the immigrants'.

Beedubya

Ah I didn't see the thread you are talking about until now, I thought you were talking about the "most over rated Yanks" thread which was a follow on to "most over rated Aussies" and "most over rated Brits" threads.

I see this post as being like a load of tanked up men sitting around the bbq spouting forth their rubbish (as men do ) and I don't get involved just like I wouldn't in real life.

And TBH I question the original poster. I have never heard anybody being spoken to in that manner whatever nationality and then applauded by the rest of the patrons.

Sometimes people start threads up for a bit of action......

Gabgoeshome

Yes,I agree with you .