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And people wonder why rhey are called "ugly Americans"
I still wonder how generalizing over 300 million people by the actions of one tourist makes sense. There are a lot of things that would be easier to point at, like the Christian extremists and the alt-right (although from my experience many of them don't actually leave the country very often). Still, sweeping generalizations like this cause much more harm than good.
It's due to what those in other countries see. Americans tend to be pushy and, well, stupid in foreign lands.
Unpleasant people stand out, so they're the ones we notice. They make an impression, so they're the ones we remember. This is true of tourists from all over the world, from America to China.
I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out that most are respectful, but end up either unnoticed or forgotten.
I'm sorry man, but from what I've heard in the tourism industry yanks run third place of worst tourists. Second? Germans. First? The English. It's always the goddamn English.
Whoever has told you this has obviously never encountered Russians on their holidays. Whoever's second place doesn't even come close.
Really? I primarily hear about American, Chinese, and English tourists behaving badly.
I don't actually travel, or encounter a lot of German people; what exactly is it that German tourists do that portray them so poorly?
I live in a port city and we have cruise tourism... maybe that's the outlier.
Though I did read in the news once that Chinese tourists would go into people's homes and even crash a funeral to take pictures...
That's pretty fucked up.