Oh my god...yeah my US History teacher (total hippie) sat through it but that was literally the only class where you weren't expected to at least stand.
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Sorry I’m a bit obsessed with asking Americans this question but what if you… weren’t American? Like my class in London would always have a couple of kids whose parents were over from Ireland or France or w/e but weren’t UK citizens and would punch you if you suggested they owed allegiance to the UK
jun 22, 2025, 8:19 am • 4 0 • view
Honestly I never had class with the foreign exchange kids, my guess is they would've been asked to stand but even the super patriotic teachers would've understood it's absurd (and possibly against the laws of their country!) to ask them to pledge allegiance.
jun 22, 2025, 12:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Like idk maybe America is a really welcoming place but as a Euro, multiculturalism surely involves meeting *lots* of people who are here long term but would rather die than accept citizenship?
jun 22, 2025, 8:21 am • 0 0 • view
Non-citizen students are basically unheard of below the college level, outside of like, children of border crossers that were born prior to crossing but they tend to not draw attention to themselves for reasons l
jun 22, 2025, 8:49 pm • 0 0 • view
DC would have the biggest potential concentration of these but the sons and daughters of foreign ambassadors are not going to public school lmao
jun 22, 2025, 8:50 pm • 0 0 • view
This phenomenon exists in Europe because you can cross many countries in a single day by train. Living abroad for reasons of work doesn’t make it hard to visit family. By contrast moving to the US from euro or Australia (or even the Middle East) is akin to moving to the moon.
jun 22, 2025, 8:59 pm • 0 0 • view
I had a fair number of friends whose parents moved here on work visas after they were born. Honestly though a very different vibe because all of them got citizenship prior to turning 18.
jun 22, 2025, 10:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Depends where in America you are, I've never lived anywhere that wasn't adjacent to a major city or in the Midwest so in the first people are more aware and in the second people are too polite. Definitely a default "everyone wants us citizenship though" assumption ime.
jun 22, 2025, 12:48 pm • 1 0 • view
foreign exchange students are extremely rare at the high school level in most of America. it's really not common at all that you'd have a student from another country visiting, outside of presumably very major urban areas. as a kid id see it used as a plot device in shows and assume it was made up
jun 22, 2025, 6:49 pm • 0 0 • view
jun 22, 2025, 6:54 pm • 0 0 • view
America is not welcoming. You assimilate or die. It's basically a hive mind.
jun 22, 2025, 11:30 am • 1 0 • view