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Comment by thctphr | Hacker News Reader

What an odd thing to ask. Why wouldn't they be?

People are likely to start suffering real, personal pain because of all the garbage coming from the White House. If you lost your job at the factory because of the tariffs, and hear some loud Americans next to you at the bar... maybe you don't feel so charitable towards them compared to a more abstract dispute over, say, your views on the best way to provision health care.

Not sure how likely that will be (the bars where factory workers hang out tend to not be the ones in tourist areas, for one), but it seems plausible to me.

I wouldn't let that stop me from travelling though.

You gave a response in the format of "what could you be referring to?", but there is a whole blog post under the headline explaining the premise of the question (a premise which you may reasonably disagree with).

The US is instigating an economic war against the every single country in the world.

Americans pretending to be canadians while abroad to be treated better was already a thing before this happened.

Your reaction of ignoring this problem and acting as if all is normal because it doesn't affect you amplifies the problem.

I've never heard of Americans disguising themselves as Canadians to be treated better while traveling abroad. I just looked into "Flag Jacking," an interesting concept. I travel quite a bit and have never done this, nor would I ever. If people treat me differently, it is a testament to their character. I don't have such hatred and bias toward people regardless of their government's position on certain topics.

There is a problem; it has existed for a long time and it's called complacency and stagnation.

Why would they be? We have enough of one threat on the east

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