{"id":472,"date":"2018-04-02T15:54:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T15:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/?p=472"},"modified":"2018-04-02T15:54:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T15:54:07","slug":"nicole-assignment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/2018\/04\/02\/nicole-assignment-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Assignment #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before my time abroad, I spent a good deal of time imagining how I would be stereotyped as an American in Denmark. I had been told by friends and family members more well-traveled than me that Americans are often poorly received in the countries that we visit. We are understood as obnoxious, entitled, and ignorant. Picture this: the American <span style=\"background-color: #f6d5d9\">loudly\u00a0<\/span>enters a cultural institution of a foreign country, large camera and fanny pack in tow, bewildered that those around him are not speaking English. Stories like this influenced my understanding of American stereotypes.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, I was never received this way during my travels (well, at least not to my face). If anything, how I was stereotyped had most everything to do with the recent presidential election. Upon meeting someone new from a country different than my own, more often than not the first question was &#8220;Who did you vote for?&#8221; A conversation about politics at large typically ensued.<\/p>\n<p>While I never was treated as an obnoxious, ignorant, and entitled American, I also made a marked effort never to come across this way (precisely because I have heard it was a stereotype). If I was having a conversation about Danish culture with a Dane, for example, I would be sure to allow them to lead the conversation, and not ask questions or make assumptions that could be insulting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before my time abroad, I spent a good deal of time imagining how I would be stereotyped as an American in Denmark. I had been told by friends and family members more well-traveled than me that Americans are often poorly received in the countries that we visit. We are understood as obnoxious, entitled, and ignorant. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignment-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/becoming-foreign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}