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> Surprising that the article doesn't mention that To paraphrase someone more famous, "an American is never a foreigner, he belongs everywhere that he goes."
by rodgerd 4y ago
> Surprising that the article doesn't mention that
To paraphrase someone more famous, "an American is never a foreigner, he belongs everywhere that he goes."
- cmrdporcupine 4y agoFunny quote. Except I think it's also the case that Americans on the whole don't seem to leave their country as much as other citizens of the "western world." So they're not enjoying these privileges. Travel into the United States is so terrible and authoritarian, especially after 9/11 -- but I don't think Americans on the whole get it. Because their own country is such a centre of gravity that they don't experience it as much as others, or know the contrast on how things happen elsewhere. As a Canadian, living next door in a "friendly" country, we used to (before 9/11) be able to cross over with just a driver's license. Now, if I travel by myself without my wife and kids, I'm lucky if I can make it over for a quick ski trip or whatever without being detained and aggressively questioned for an hour and having my car searched. It now happens to me the majority of times.