Sucks to be on the reciving end of that. The reputation of both health and legal issues of americans are imfamous outside it. I have been to the US (exchance student myself) and found them to be very nice and open people. ... even so, not sure I wouldnt have done the same. Cause you gotta protect yourself yeh ? :/

Come to New Zealand! We have a no-fault compensation scheme so even if you DO do something stupid you'll get your treatment free and the families won't use your stupidity as a reason not to host you because you can't sue them for injury :)

jeebus. that is rough. we Canadians tend to think ourselves superior. we are not. but no one assumes this of us. I feel your pain..... but I'm jus sayin

Priceless, in an awful way.

WE deserve it. Too many f'n lawyers in this country that make stupid people rich.

Silly Americans. Lol

Not sure if its bad or funny that a bunch of comments state they should sue them instead. Way to carry on the stereotype...

OP, I'm curious as to what exchange organization this is for. Most legit organizations won't tell you when a host family has rejected you, and even if they did, they wouldn't tell you why. Can you give me the name of the exchange organization you're with, so I can see if it's one of the ones I know? I work with exchange students.

I don't blame them. Society is stupid and does things without thinking. If I was a foreigner I'd do the same.

I'm sorry OP. My thanks to every lazy fat person, every just plain lazy person, and every person that purposely does stupid shit. The fault is on you failures that America has been stereotyped to this.