Where we live, one needs to either pay attention in dealing with people and know who to root for, and why they have certain colors of face paint and what which color represent, or avoid the subject of soccer/football altogether!

At a certain sandwich shop, the staff is mostly Brazilian immigrants (and the others know they are outnumbered), at another Indian, and certain grocery stores tend toward other countries, depending on which cashier or parking lot attendant or bagger you are speaking with! If the US is out of the World Cup in early rounds, it gets trickier to navigate.