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Originally Posted by HarryT
Please don't think I'm singling out Americans - I'm not. I've come across tourists of every nationality who make me want to cringe, and the British are certainly no exception. I certainly don't think that Americans are any more prone to being "bad tourists" than any other nation is.
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No, I didn't think of it that way, but I definitely do hear this type of story applied to Americans (with good cause, I am sure) than any other nationality. I think it goes along with the joke referenced above from stitchawl- what do you call a person who speaks only one language? American. I think this lack of learning other languages and learning about other countries really does contribute to this obnoxiously prevalent ethnocentric mentality. Don't get me wrong- plenty of other countries are very ethnocentric, however, they usually have a much better understanding of those other countries/cultures they are claiming to be better than.
I'm very tired right now, so I'm probably being more negative than I normally would be.
But, I have definitely been in the company of some really arrogant Americans.