Little Hawk. I have been out of the US many times in the last few years, including to Canada a couple times. I have to say that on no occasion did I encounter ANY people who said anything derogatory to any Americans. I have made an effort to seek out people who were not influenced by me eating at their resturant or staying at their hotel, I am talking normal regular people who had nothing except positive things to say. I think it is important that people know this. NOw maybe I have only been exposed to all the nice folks, but so far, I have had people react and treat me like I have them. Like another decent human being, just doing my best.