I went to a gyro store and tried to ask the man running it for a gyro in Greek.  He immediately told me to talk to him in English.  After this experience, every time I would go to get the same meal, it would be more and more expensive.  I was saddened that there was this animosity, and couldn't totally understand why it was.  Now I can see that some people do not like Americans, or maybe me trying to speak Greek and get into the "in-group."  I see the policies that America has made that might hurt Greece.  I feel I need to get a better outlook and the plethora of issues the United States has around them, to know the history of them and current outcomes to understand what different cultures think of us.  I think when I meet other cultures I will think twice before trying to fit in because from this experience it feels like there is no way in.