[jjulius]

Hi, I've been involved in the dance scene stateside for 20+ years, and I'm also quite a bit of a skeptic myself. I would argue that it's not quite an urban legend, as US and European nightlife cultures both "party" a bit differently than one another - to condense this concept perhaps a bit unfairly, the general conception is that Americans party hard up front and can't "hang" for a long time, while Europeans pace out their partying over longer stretches of time.

There's at least a degree of resistance towards letting in too much of the American ethos, or at least in trying to make sure that the American tourist trying to get into the club is capable of hanging and respecting the hedonism within, as opposed to going balls to the wall for the sake of going balls to the wall.