Study Abroad Advice/Tales of Your Experience

Laylah
Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:49:30 +0000

I’m at Oxford now, and I wouldn’t say that the anti-American feeling here is particularly bad. I am British, so maybe I can’t tell, but on the whole people here are open minded enough to be able to differentiate between a government they dislike (and not everyone here dislikes it anyway), and an individual American.

That said, what your son will probably experience is people asking him many many MANY questions about a) the age at which it is legal to drink in America, and b) American football, the rules of which are simply incomprehensible to us ;)