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Some of the things were embarrassingly bad.
If one idiot has a bad opinion, everyone has a bad opinion.
If one engages in a bizarre practice, the entire country does.
If one school engages in an archaic practice, all the schools do.
And so on.
I still remember when a half-Japanese woman, who grew up in New York, flew to Japan and started writing extremely racist things for the rest of the...
When you see / hear of things like this, you almost imagine someone with an American flag on their clothes angrily screaming, "Does anyone here know English?!"
She was also very preoccupied about the lives of black people there, because that is a big part of American culture, even though there are hardly any such people there, and there isn't that same dark history of slavery that usually underlies American discourse around this.
It all felt very, very strange.