World's "Worst" Tourists.

[komitsuki]

Originally Posted by MMM

It sounds like you are experiencing culture shock in your own hometown.

Not really, we have decades of nice multicultural policies that are actually functional.

[reihiino]

ooo...Aussies...sorry...was just having a good memory of this one time-
ANYWAY the Aussies I've met have been congenial towards me...didnt know that they were the worst tourists...but thats cuz when I'm in San Francisco (my hometown) some tourist are always trying to knock me down (growl!)! if they were Australian I havent noticed.

[Faggotry]

Yeah, I completely agree with that statement, partially.
I went to Japan in January and while there were many great Australians there (Shiga Kogen) there were many that just sat in the lobby for like 12 hours straight just drinking alcohol and being plain out abusive, It was just a little embarrasing.

[Troo]

I get very embarrassed about being English when abroad (and often when at home). The majority of English tourists seem to get extremely drunk, vomit their way around foreign countries, pass out in the streets, and litter like nobody else I've seen. They get their genitals out in public, shout racial abuse at the locals, and start fights because they feel like it.

At least in Japan the English drunken idiots clump together in Roppongi, where I can avoid them.

[SaintKat]

It's news to me that Aussies are terrible tourists . You guys are pretty easy-going in general when visiting. Mind you, NZ doesn't have many problems with tourists in general. I think the locals are more likely to play up half the time.


Edit: Not a national thing but an age thing - It's the Uni age visitors that tend to kick up a ruckus if anything. Usually they just can't handle their booze and end up having to be carted back to wherever they're staying, haha.

[Pexster]

I have a Aussie Foreign Exhange student at our skool. He seems nice, but everyone says he is very snooty,
but once you get to know him outside of skool. He is cool. (May I say they are his drinking buddies who say these nice things. haha)

I dunno, I guess I need to know him first before I judge.

[Undertherose25]

I kind of like Aussie tourists, they aren't very shy and they don't wonder around frantically looking for something that isn't in that area. They'll come right up to you and demand to know where it is.

Of course I live in the South and 'Snow Birds' are our worst enemies. No offense to anyone from the North.

I live in a college town, 3 hours away from Disney...

The best way to get around is the interstate, since all the roads are clogged with hung-over, exhausted or general idiots [the school isn't hard to get in as long as mommy and daddy have some cash to convince them other wise so we get a lot of people that aren't made for college life mingled with the people busting their ass and working six jobs to be there].

I'm told we drive live bats outta hell, but that's the way we drive. And it drives me nuts when I have to get on the freaking interstate going 40 because someone from Michigan is blocking me and then when you get into the fast lane meaning to go 90 or something someone from Philadelphia is going 60 and refuses to move out of the way.

Seriously, when in Rome do as the Romans do.

When I go up there I drive as best as I can to match you guys, why can't you try to match us?

[TalnSG]

Originally Posted by MMM

I have been to Canada many many times, and culture shock was the least of my problems. I think the only culture shock I felt was when I was told the price of a pitcher of beer. Now THAT was shocking.

Ah, but the alcohol by volume of that beer is considerably higher than in most of the US beers. So fewer pitchers might help the price increase..... a little. I learned that by experience, instead of label reading one night in Toronto.
Some minor culture shocks can be fun.

[TalnSG]

World's worst tourists? I don't think its a national or cultural distinction. I have dealt with very nice tourist and inexcusably awful ones from all over the world.

I think its a matter of who is wanting to learn about and enjoy the place they are visiting versus who is there just so they can say they have been there. The former are usually wonderful, and the latter are often the ones to actively avoid.

My worst was a man from an African country (irrelevant which one) who had been sent to school in Moscow (then USSR). For days every word out of this person's mouth condemned either the U.S., capitalist economies, all religions (he was atheist, though his family was muslim) or some aspect of the city we were in. I wanted badly to tell him to get his backside on a plane and go home to his beloved Kremlin! But he was a diplomat's son and here on official business so I had to keep quiet, grit my teeth, and smile.

The pay back? There is always payback! A year later he was begging for asylum, wanting to go see another football game in the big stadium and eat hot dogs!!!

[ethine]

Everyone needs to realise that no matter where you are from, there will always be stupid, arrogant bastards :]

I'm Australian and while in the UK all the pommies loved us! Yet again, I'd hate to imagine how disgraceful some of our tourists must be

I'm a little worried about being mistaken as an American while being in Japan next year. I've heard most Japanese don't like Americans? Is this true?