OK. So we had this session for Study Abroad this summer, and we were discussing lots of issues: health, insurance, safety tips, and the whole nine yard.
Then, we reached the current events issue, about safety and abroad. Thus, our advisor suggested us to be "Canadian", meaning that we need to introduce ourselves as Canadian rather than as American abroad. We were suggested to deny ourselves to be American.
I mean, WTF? I understand that not so many people too fond with Americans, but I think "borrowing" other national's identities was wrong. Especially after we often time ridicule Canada.
Maybe if we are going to Afganistan or in that area. But going to Rome? London? Germany?
Chicken out? Maybe for safety reason?
Pride and honor as an American?
What do you guys think?
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