It is liberating to them, a great unburdening becuase to them to speak your mind freely has been made into such a risk it feels almost alien.
It is also a dare. As I said, to be outspoken to a foreigner it is as if it doesn't counts as (or feels as) thought crime, and it is also a way of discovering it can be done.
I often feel something similar to that. I'm much less careful outside Canada and the US. In Sweden, outside professional circles, I wasn't very careful at all. As a foreigner the same rules don't apply.
Interesting, the foreigner aspect. Indeed many Swedish men - all men - were quite candid with me in a politically incorrect fashion.
It is liberating to them, a great unburdening becuase to them to speak your mind freely has been made into such a risk it feels almost alien.
It is also a dare. As I said, to be outspoken to a foreigner it is as if it doesn't counts as (or feels as) thought crime, and it is also a way of discovering it can be done.
I often feel something similar to that. I'm much less careful outside Canada and the US. In Sweden, outside professional circles, I wasn't very careful at all. As a foreigner the same rules don't apply.