American tourists are kind of fun in my experience. I've never had a bad experience with one, usually very friendly and respectful in comparison.
Back in my 20’s I was backpacking through Europe and had heard that Parisians were generally friendly to American tourists, but the one thing I was told was to start every conversation at least attempting to speak French. I did so, and everyone I spoke to either started speaking English or politely referred me to someone who did. There was only one incident I had there. I was ordering dinner in a restaurant and I asked the waiter what wine he recommended with the meal I’d ordered. This is a fairly common thing to do in America, but this poor waiter looked at me like I had just transformed into a 4th-dimensional kaleidoscopic entity before his very eyes. I mean, he totally froze, eyes wide, jaw slack. I immediately felt so bad that I just ordered the first red wine I saw on the list and the relief on his face was palpable, but he still looked shaken.
I think French people are just so familiar with wine that they can’t comprehend people who aren’t. If you ever visit France, do some basic research just so you don’t freak them out.
Not French, but grew up in a tourist-y area in Europe. I actually didn't mind the American tourists - they often didn't know much about things outside of America, but they were generally really nice about it and eager to learn.
The worst tourists were always the ones from my own country who were over for the summer. Almost always an absolute menace lol.
I also live in a very tourist-y area, but in the States, and without question the worst tourists are other Americans. I think when you're visiting another country, there's a certain amount of humility and respect that kicks in, because you know you're not on your own turf. When you're just visiting another part of your own country, that pressure doesn't kick in and it can leave you behaving like a bit of an entitled ass.
I think a lot of people here don't realize that he dressed like that as part of a skit.
Hoodies with shorts is the weirdest dress code to me.
Like a bikini top with ski pants.
I guess some people have different regions of their bodies that run temperatures or maybe they want easy access…..ive been watching Kaos again..
The John Fetterman of Hollywood.
First of all, Adan Sandler is an American saint so shut up.
Secondly, he looks comfortable as hell so what's the problem.
I will never forget that group of tourists that, many many years ago, came to see the Pope in Germany and, while waiting for the underground, for reasons that elude me, started chanting: "USA! USA! USA!" 😐
I have a hard time not yelling “play ball!” Every time I hear the national anthem or pledge of allegiance. I also always substitute under dog in the latter.
i saw a guy doing that by himself once. at night. in -15° weather. facing a locked loading door at a university campus.
a peculiar breed.
I do that in the bathroom mirror every Tuesday morning while waving my guns in the air.
Do it three times in a row and JD Vance appears and soils your sofa.
Only three times?! Commie!
Fuck, the mirror-person has guns! Shoot 'em!
Huh. Fascinating thought process I'm sure, no matter what it was.
911 was a really stressful time for the US. It left some... marks on the psyche. Mix that with a general lack of education and you end up with that. Just count yourself lucky you don't have to live here.
I mean, I get that it's utter shit right now and has been for some years and I don't envy anyone who can't get out. But this wasn't yesterday. And you don't see other nationalities going around being very loudly nationalistic and frankly antagonistic like that after they had some national tragedy.
We're supposed to excuse Americans for what they endured in 9/11 but fuck if we show any signs of empathy with Iraqis that lost half a million people because George W Bush threw a tantrum.
Just start randomly yelling other stuff in the same cadence. Most of my countrymen (especially those that would do something so rude) are easily confused. "401K! UFO! Free CJ!"
As someone living in a very touristic place, it's really hard to distinguish Americans from wealthier Brits. You pretty much have to hear them speak. Poorer Brits definitely stand out and I'm guessing so would poorer Americans but we don't get a lot of poor Americans (for obvious reasons). It's easy to spot Scandinavians and as I'm from eastern Europe I can easily pick up Poles and tell them apart from Russians and Ukrainians. Spanish and Italians are also easy to recognize and distinguish. I'm not a waiter so I don't know which ones are the worst customers.
After working with poles for years, I can recognize them on the street without them saying a word.
I would hope so? Are you a lineman?
Or a stripper.
This guy is perpetually a 20 year old man living in 1997
some people know how to live
He was already pulling that in 97 when he was around 30 heh. He has become an IRL Billy Madison and I am proud of him.
At least he has that woman that never remembers anything when she wakes up.
Also, Chinese tourists everywhere.
And god forbid you ever have to be near any of the Saudi royal family.
I worked with a doctor whose in-laws were Saudi royalty. He didn't need to work at all he was so wealthy.
I heard about him doing an incredibly greedy thing that blew my mind one day; he showed up at a dinner that a drug company was hosting for another adjacent program he had nothing to do with and did not practice in at all. He didn't even tell them he was coming, they had to find him a seat, and then he sat down, ordered not one but TWO whole lobsters, and when they came he asked for them to be wrapped to go, and he left. Even acknowledging drug companies have large budgets for these kinds of things, to come to an event that has nothing to do with you and do that is insanely rude when you don't want for a thing in the world.
I know someone else who is very wealthy, and he's pretty generous and passionate about creating things, he's far from perfect, but truly wants to make good things and runs a business that gives him zero profit, so the contrast was pretty stark. The doctor also stiffed his professional college for a very large membership bill.
A drug company throwing a fancy dinner in order to influence doctors to ignore the needs of their patients is so unbelievably evil that fucking with them and stealing from them is always based and worthy of praise. Being rude to them is morally correct, since the act they were committing was already more rude to begin with.
Oh, this drug company is absolutely not like that at all. They are super ethical and invest every dollar of their profits into research. The dinner was to present a new treatment which has become super standard for the clinic, which involved one of our doctors presenting, I promise it was not like that at all. They are truly generous to us. There are not many treatments for this disease and this is one of the best. It was purely educational.
grew up in a major European city with lots of tourism. Asian tourists are almost invisible on how unobnoxious they are. while Americans are loud and entitled. Germans and English tourists were annoying but only came to get drunk on the beach. Israeli tourists also tend to be entitled and annoying.
other groups were rare so not much to talk about them
Israelis not respecting other people's property? I'm shocked.
it's common for them to do a world tour after their military service. they usually feel at the top of the world by then. not the most stable people
I live in Prague and work every day in the center.
By far the worst are the Brits who get fall down drunk and try to start fights. Americans are only annoying in that they talk loudly and are often kind of dumb. But they are generally polite. They don't hold a candle to the Brits. The rest are generally mild enough as to not be noticeable unless they are in a big group blocking the sidewalk which can be any nationality.
Asian tourists are almost invisible on how unobnoxious they are.
Depends. Those big tourist groups are definitely an issue when the streets are already cramped without tourists and you have places to be.
But that is America!
He's dressed like what I imagine Florida man dresses.
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