The cycle of meeting, flirting and fucking forms the book's basic dramatic unit, often with a lyrically described idyll abroad by way of coda.
Speakers were repeatedly interrupted by chants of "USA, USA" from the crowd as they described military raids abroad or the deaths of Americans.
Mr. Rich described his life abroad as a painful "exile," saying he was forced into it because he would not get a fair trial in the United States.
Mark Twain, whose 1867 trip to Europe and the eastern Mediterranean produced "The Innocents Abroad," described American tourists "who talked very loudly and coarsely, and laughed boisterously when all others were so quiet and well behaved".
Although they were now proud of their academic success, the respondents described their study abroad period as one of enormous stress, hard work and loneliness, characterized by little interaction with US nursing students.
By August, 2009, according to Public Policy Polling, thirty-eight per cent of Americans either believed that the President had been born abroad or described themselves as "not sure".
Filled with articles by relatives and friends living abroad that described a war-ravaged Europe, the magazine was distributed to neighbors along with eggs from the farm.
In February, N. Gregory Mankiw, the chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, described outsourcing-the shifting abroad of previously secure jobs-as "just a new way of doing international trade".
"Gringo" traces Mr. Boudin's movements through countries like Venezuela, Chile and Argentina, where he seeks what Paul Fussell described in his book "Abroad" as "the warm world somewhere else".
Before Xi took power, he was described, in China and abroad, as an unremarkable provincial administrator, a fan of American pop culture ("The Godfather," "Saving Private Ryan") who cared more about business than about politics, and was selected mainly because he had alienated fewer peers than his competitors.
