Okay, family ribbing you is one thing. I'm talking complete strangers hearing my accent and ripping into me -
. Or even worse, fellow students acting as though I was an extra from the set of "Deliverance". AOE, as long as you aren't indulging in the whole "Well, the way we do it up north was THIS way and it's the RIGHT way" thing then any stranger who gave you grief was rude and tacky, and there is nothing worse than being tacky. Shame on them. Let's collect our nickels and head east to Europe.
I think we can agree that stereotyping of ANY sort is almost guaranteed to end up being offensive - I try very hard not to lump all yankees together. Some of my best friends are yankees. There are yankees, and there are damn yankees.
I kid, I kid,
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