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Originally Posted by Paul11
Actually, to make assauge your feelings: European tourist boards have done a lot of poling lately. It turns out that Americans have some of the best reputations as tourists in Europe. The ugly american stereotype has disapeared, thanks tou sensative people like you. We tip better, are moe polite and try to learn a few native phrases more than almost anyone else.
It turn out that the French and Chinese are the worst rated. They are rude, the chinese touch things i museums and the french are lousy tippers.
We are conscious of the old stereotype so we, as you say, "go out of our way" to et people know we appreciate thier patients. It has gone a long way.
Later.
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Yeah, actually most americans I've met in my home country were allright (not better or worse than anyone else). American tourists usually just want to have fun and are polite in general (I know people that work in a museum, so atleast I get a little bit of insight).
Funny thing though is how it's kinda rare to meet repub's. Every single american person I've encountered through university etc have been "goddamn-I'm-tired-of-bush" dems.
As for the french I think their biggest problem is that they don't speak english too good (ofc I'm now generalizing, which isn't really a good idea but hey..), and more often than not aint interested in learning your language (ofc this is not so for all french).