[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
. The United States, I point out, has more tourists visiting it
than any other country in the world. What do you think our view of
_European_ tourists is, do you think?
As a New Yorker, let me add a few things that all European tourists do.
They smoke too much and in places where we americans have done the right
thing, and banned smoking. So folks when you come here, you can't smoke on
our subways, you can't smoke in our restaurants (except in designated areas).
Why you would want to smoke between courses of a meal is beyond me; and you
call yourselves food experts?
Europeans (especially student travelers) always have a look of boredom and
contempt for all things around them.
They may not speak loudly but they are speaking this obviously alien tongue
with all of its intonations that rises above the din of american english by
simply having a different rhythm than the speech pattern of those around us.
Europeans dress funny.
Europeans never smile at you when you smile at them on the street.
Hey this game is fun and actually quite easy to play. Think of all the
legitimate ways that you can determine that people at the next table in a
restaurant are not native to your country. Make every one of these traits a
heinous defect. Describe them as arrogant for possessing these trait. Now
you are THINKING LIKE A EUROPEAN.
