Reply #64: Where in my post do I not distinguish?

[ze_dscherman]

Sorry, but please show me where. Being German, I am a bit touchy if someone equals a person with his people or the government in general. I don't like to be looked upon as "Kraut" or whatever. If I were feeling towards U.S. citizens the way I feel about their current government, I'd surely not spend that much time in D.U.

Speaking about generalization, "y'all seem unable to do that with us" is a classical example for one.

What you write later in the thread about what happened to your cousin is, IMO, a very bad, but still anecdotal story. But he well could have been beaten up if he had identified himself as Arab, or if he were African, or Turkish. There are a++++++s everywhere.

Nevertheless, it is true that anti-American sentiment in general has been growing - but not to a point where a U.S. citizen should have any special security problem travelling through Europe.