Tourism and Cultural Differences Re: Pride and Arrogance Re: American Attitudes (wasRe:Hardworking?)

[John D. Giorgis]

>Anyway, cultural differences are not an excuse for being loudmouthed when 
>you're a tourist from an other country. When you visit an other country 
>(either as a tourist or on business) you are a guest in an other people's 
>country; it's nothing more than common decency to behave yourself according 
>to their customs.

Sure, if the American tourists debarked the plane and were handed a book on
Dutch customs, that would be one thing.   But if they simply go to another
country, and continue to act in ways that they would consider perfectly
civilized in America, and nobody politely informs them of the difference in
custom, then that is another thing.

JDG
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