Thick skin. I look at it like this, love me or leave me, I'm married and happy, who am I trying to impress? Be nice to others, it's pretty simple.
Here I thought we were touring just for ourselves and, come to find out, we’re also trying to change peoples opinions of Americans one person at a time.
This is so true. I can remember only one time when visiting Brasil where a woman said something nasty to us based simply on us being American. Being well aware of how the rest of the world perceives us, it was rather enlightening to be given the time of day regardless, by 99% of the people we encountered.
I will have a great week, 3 days of now work. I wish you the same!