My wife and I were in Greece while the inhabitants were angry at Germany for the freshly introduced austerity measures. We sometimes spoke Flemish to each othe

My wife and I were in Greece while the inhabitants were angry at Germany for the freshly introduced austerity measures. We sometimes spoke Flemish to each other, which for them sounded like German. We got some anger directed at us a few times from random people around us, and a shopkeeper stormed outside and threatened us with violence, completely unprovoked . We were very confused, we didn't know what we were doing wrong, and never saw that on previous visits. When our penny finally dropped and we made clear everywhere we were from Belgium, not Germany, the mood lightened considerably and we got apologies. It might not be wise to loudly declare yourself American in the EU or Canada right now.