Sad but true. (TikTok screencap)

  • seggturkasz@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    You shouldn’t. People are more likely to be interested in who you are as a person than your country’s politics. You might get some negative bias, true. But you can work pass that.

    I’m from the country of Orban, and I do feel shame sometimes saying that. But I have rarely experienced anything more than some cold looks.

    The everyday folks who support a dictator tend no to travels abroad. People outside your country are not exposed to them :)

    • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      27 days ago

      My wife openly says she left Hungary because of the dictatorship, nobody has ever reacted to her negatively for it.

      The impression I get from most Hungarians I’ve met is that if you can speak another language then getting out is the smart move.

    • EldritchFemininity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      26 days ago

      People are more likely to be interested in who you are as a person than your country’s politics.

      The current political state of the US is just the icing on the shit cake. When I was a kid traveling abroad with my parents 30 years ago, Americans were considered fat, ignorant, and egotistical. That they expected the rest of the world to speak English, accept USD everywhere, and give them special treatment. That they were loud, obnoxious, ignorant, and rude.

    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
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      26 days ago

      The everyday folks who support a dictator tend no to travels abroad.

      I remember seeing videos of mainland Chinese people going to western countries to counterprotest against the HongKong Protestors. As a Chinese American, I cringed at that so much.