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

[Charlie Bell]

> 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

So you expect it to be handed to you on a plate?

OK, many tourists are guilty of not doing this, but when I travel
*anywhere*, I read up on the place.

Good job too, asking to bum a fag is a really really bad idea in the
States...

Charlie