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Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

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Re: Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

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Post by burnished »

avalys wrote: post #273

I see all these articles about Canadian and European hate for the US, and anti-US sentiment in general. They all sadden me. The US is made up of 350 million people. Only one of them is Donald Trump. Most of the country didn’t vote for him. We still value our friends and allies, even if the stooge Putin got elected does not.

Our collective will put him in power. I'm eliding how much more complicated it is than that because it is important to recognize that he represents us in big and meaningful ways and minimizing that by calling him as just one of us is to live in denial.

Re: Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

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Post by throaway1989 »

FredPret wrote: post #422
davidmurdoch wrote: post #320

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You think I'M snarky?! This isn't Reddit. A good faith interpretation of what they said wouldn't include projecting fear-mongering politics into their meaning.

A good faith interpretation of that comment is that they're curious about the US, and might like to explore, but that the US is expensive. The monoculture thing came only from you.

Expensive and risky because of the political climate

Re: Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

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Post by UncleEntity »

buyucu wrote: post #355

I'm one of them! I decided against a US trip in early March, and attended by video instead. I'm not eager to visit a country where a psycho border agent can decide to detain people for multiple weeks.

Depending on your tattoos you might get an all expense paid permanent vacation to El Salvador.

Re: Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

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Post by toomuchtodo »

egorfine wrote: post #374
toomuchtodo wrote: post #256

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As an American, thank you.

Your comment could be understood both ways lol

A certain cohort of the population ignores logic and reason, and runs on vibes and tribalism. They will only understand economic pain, when it hurts them personally, based on the evidence. And so, the rest of the world must incur economic pain in the US so the electorate understands its place in the economic system.

Re: Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

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Post by input_sh »

verzali wrote: post #237
I_am_tiberius wrote: post #111

I guess in the 1930s, Americans had similar thoughts about Germans.

20,000 Americans turned up to a Nazi rally held in Madison Square Garden in 1939. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_Nazi_rally_at_Madison_Squ...

I like to point out how Hindenburg looked like before it blew up: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hindenburg_over_New_...

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Post by orwin »

chimeracoder wrote: post #354
virtualritz wrote: post #332

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It all depends what part of the EU and how you look. For some EU perspective: last summer we traveled with a group of social dancers from Berlin to Pula in Croatia, going to an event at the coast. Croatia joined Schengen in January 2023. We had one couple in the group that where not "white". She is German but her parents are Vietnamese and he is from Syria. They're married, they have German citizenship. They were the…

> Racial profiling is everywhere. Also in the EU. And some EU countries are more "famous" for it, the Balkans e.g. Some countries are more "famous" for it, but that's really just a matter of perception and how it fits into an existing narrative, not based on actual evidence. It's not like there's data showing that racial profiling is lower in France, Germany, and Sweden than it is in Eastern Europe.

I'd say racial profiling is probably around the same everywhere, but rule of law is not, and while you have a lot of corruption at the top level in France, bureaucratic processes makes it hard for low-level public servant to ignore said rule of law, which isn't the case in some Eastern European countries (i've heard that Romania made _huge_ improvement though, so maybe my only first-hand experience wouldn't happen these days anymore)

Re: Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

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Post by davidmurdoch »

FredPret wrote: post #422
davidmurdoch wrote: post #320

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You think I'M snarky?! This isn't Reddit. A good faith interpretation of what they said wouldn't include projecting fear-mongering politics into their meaning.

A good faith interpretation of that comment is that they're curious about the US, and might like to explore, but that the US is expensive. The monoculture thing came only from you.

This seems to imply that someone can be "curious about the US, and might like to explore" but that they also already know the value of "what you get as a tourist".

I don't think that is valid. While my monoculture question came of as loaded, judging by the backlash of commenters, and I should haven't asked it, I don't think the OP understands the diversity of the US, and I don't think a judgement on value of travel in the US without experiencing it first can be made; even by US residents.

Re: Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

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Post by reylas »

dchuk wrote: post #276
Reubachi wrote: post #258

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it's the "Dead" season right no, late march early april. Great time to go to disney, nyc, etc.

Terrible time to go to Disney, late March early April is spring break for basically the whole country

I just got back. Parks were not busy at all.

Re: Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

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Post by throaway1989 »

davidmurdoch wrote: post #437
FredPret wrote: post #422

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A good faith interpretation of that comment is that they're curious about the US, and might like to explore, but that the US is expensive. The monoculture thing came only from you.

This seems to imply that someone can be "curious about the US, and might like to explore" but that they also already know the value of "what you get as a tourist". I don't think that is valid. While my monoculture question came of as loaded, judging by the backlash of commenters, and I should haven't asked it, I don't think the OP understands the diversity of the US, and I don't think a judgement on value of travel i…

But you don't know that. Maybe op has done multiple cross country trips across America. Maybe they've only been to NYC and Disneyworld. You could have asked them, but you didn't!

Re: Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

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Post by Nostrada »

orwin wrote: post #427

People of my family are flying in in March. New restrictions are in place for people who visited specific countries. My only advice to fellow Europeans who want to travel to the US is to get issued a new passport and, if you have to, lie on your ESTA if you spent any time in Cuba or in the Middle East since 2011 (Your trips are linked to your passport ID)

Lying to the border police is a terrible idea
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