Quote Originally Posted by daihashi
Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Austria, Spain, and Czech Republic is everywhere I've been since 03.

Talking to people and traveling overseas and talking with random people are two totally different things. You'll find that most people don't think we're as horrible as we think. Bush never came up in conversations. If they don't like our government then they definitely didn't take it out on me; which is why I find it hard to believe that it's just 'suddenly' cool to be an American overseas again.

In my eyes it never seemed to really matter where you're from. If you're a friendly person then people will be friendly back to you.
You've a point.

When you went to these countries, did you spend more time in really large cities full of business or was it more of a suburb/rural thing? I figure the people who are well off and living in cities with lots of business going on have a more favorable view of Americans than say the people who've been fucked around a bit more in life.

See, in my generation, the upper class really doesn't give a shit about anything. If you ask them what they think about the government, they'll either change the subject or spurt out some pc bullshit about being respectful towards the president.

The people who've been jerked around a lot for some reason care a lot more about the government, and had very negative views about the war from the very beginning.