TIL the CIA trains its spies not to slouch and lean, as that's an American tell

so if you meet an American that is oddly unslouched or disleaned they are "likely" a CIA operative

Me: (standing with impeccable form) No.
- That's exactly what a CIA agent would say!
- Stop threatening my freedoms with your straight back and upright head positions!
I just do a casual handstand to dispel any concerns

Skin tone wise, I'm pretty white. My DNA is something like 98% of European ancestry. However, I was born and raised in the USA, but to Cuban immigrants. My first language was Spanish and I use all of the slang because that was the only language used in my house since my parents never learned English. I speak with my hands. When I speak Spanish to Hispanophones, they comment on how thick my Cuban accent is. When I hang out with new people, there's a good chance someone will ask me where I'm from. Basically, there's something about me that tells people I'm not a typical White American.

I have been to Cuba about 20 times. I can wear my Cuban cousin's clothes and catch a local bus in the remote parts of Havana in which we are literally packed to the practical max. It's so packed, you dont need to hold anything to stay standing because you couldn't possibly fall, and unless you're right underneath the bar, you couldn't reach it anyway. This is where no tourist would ever think to go. Yet, someone will still recognize me as a foreigner. WTF? There's something intrinsically American about me.

On the other side of this, I’m white as they come, born and raised in the Midwest by very white parents also born and raised in the Midwest.
People ask where I’m from way way more often than they should, in my own home state. Where I spent all but 5 years of my life.
I have no clue why, but they don’t think I’m from the US.
Some possible related things - When I was a kid people used to tell my mom I look “exotic” and I still don’t know what that means in relation to my appearance; I look like everyone in my dad’s family. I spent a couple years in California and a couple years in Texas, and learned Russian, Spanish, and Japanese (and a spattering of phrases and grammar from other languages, almost none of which I remember), plus consume a fair bit of foreign media. But I don’t really think I picked up accent features, at least none I’ve had anyone able to pinpoint.
Either way, that conversation always turns into a slog of “there’s just something that tells me you are from somewhere else, are you sure I’m wrong???”
Did you ever ask what gave you away?
- Yeah, but I never got any definitive answers. They would just be vague and say it was something about me.

They'll figure you right out in Eastern Germany if you don't wait at a crosswalk like this:

I, too, T-pose at intersections while waiting to cross as a pedestrian.
- Then walk confidently with a full, massive erection as I cross

Man, I hated the part where you have to walk around balancing a book on your head

Found this video very interesting on that topic.

Former CIA operative explains how spies use disguised

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Very interesting. Thanks for sharing!

It's true, just look at the incredible posture of this French spy:

Now focus! Or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing that has happened to you today!

That guy’s sitting up really straight. He must be CIA

"No mom, my posture isn't horrible, I'm being patriotic!"

How about hands in pockets? IIRC Anzac slang for pockets was "Yankee gloves".

Anzac, so we’re talking 100 years ago when cunts were probably beaten with a ruler to be prim and proper posh fucks?
Yeah, nah mate. Hands are gonna be in me pocket if I want.
- Farken tell em quok!!!!

TIL I'm American

We’re all American on this blessed day.

Counterpoint: Lars Ulrich

lol wtf that post title has nothing to do with the article.

It's in there.
They think that we are slouchy, a little sloppy, and they think they can almost see that in our demeanor on the street. Because they stand up straight, they don’t lean on things,” Mendez said. “They are on two feet and we’re always on one foot with that other foot kind of stuck out
- He's half right though, I think they're telling normal American people not to slouch etc, like in cases where you could get mugged in Paris, i dont think the focus is on specifically training their spies like that who probably anyway don't walk around in baseball caps and shorts and slouch, unless they want to look like an American tourist I suppose