Attributing Weirdness

I've long had a theory that weird people sometimes get bonus-enjoyment from living in other countries because when you do/are something weird abroad, people tend to attribute it to your foreignness rather than yourself.

Perhaps there's a bonus benefit that when people are bothered by your weird behavior, there's now a socially acceptable way to tell you: "oh, over here it's considered rude to XYZ", which would be hard to do if someone is local and bothering you, though admittedly as a foreigner you are probably

(For the people on the receiving end of the weirdness, I suspect it's often fine as well: most forms of weirdness are not directly harmful, they're just non-normative, so being able to think "oh he's like that because he's from X" gives you a way to realise when the other way of doing things is fine as well).

It recently struck me that this probably has broader applicability: weird young people might be more comfortable around older people in part because the older people have less-clear senses of what is current "young culture", and whether a particular behavior for a young person is weird or not. Or similarly for gender, or various other things. It's not that you "fit in better" with the other culture; it's that your not-fitting-in has an alternative explanation that everyone is ok with.