Alberto Monteiro schreef:
> J. van Baardwijk wrote:
> >
> >I have never been to the US, so I can't comment on how Americans behave
> >themselves in their own country. What I *can* comment on is how they behave
> >abroad -- and quite frankly, that behaviour is nothing to be proud of. (...)
> >
> <devil advocate>
>
> But is this *typical* of USA tourists? I know two other large groups of
> tourists, so that I can affirm something with a statistical basis:
>
> (a) Brazilian tourists in Europe behave arrogantly, making noise, etc
>
> (b) Argentinian tourists in Brazil behave arrogantly, making noise, etc
Let's add Dutch, German and English tourists abroad to those, shall we? When in
groups they are the same as Americans. Alone they are not particularly loud but
they simply cannot hold their liquor and then get rather unpleasant to deal with.
> Not to mention "endotourists", who sometimes are even worse
>
> I think that the fact that USA tourists are usually labeled as arrogant
> is the simple reason that there are more USA tourists than, say,
> Czech tourists.
Americans on holiday over here are usually very hard to overlook. They think
their money is the ultimate excuse for their behaviour and a justification for
all their demands. Most of them are ludicrously loud and have no manners
whatsoever. Only exception so far was meeting Trevor Sands. As far as we got to
know him he seems to be a rather nice and pleasant exception to an overall rather
loud concept for Americans abroad. :o)
Sonja
