| Ask anybody who works in the tourism sector if they would prefer American (USA) tourists or some of the nationalities you mentioned. Their answer will be the Americans. Being polite means that you do your best, and as a tourist - a visitor - it is quite hard to know every quirk and hang-up that some locals might have. Once again: why would a visitor care about being "accepted"? They are visiting, not settling down. The article makes it very clear: No matter what these American tourists would do, the author would still sit there with seething hatred towards them. It has nothing to do with their behaviour as visitors; the author just hates them and is reaching for "justifications". Entitlement as a paying customer, that's a very multifaceted thing. Especially when it comes to tourism, where there are many actors who want to exploit the inexperienced traveler. > And living in the UK I have to put up with the influx of USA citizens everywhere I'm sure the USA citizens is the big influx problem you have in the UK... But it's good to have a punching bag, when you don't have a loicense to talk about the real problem. |
Because of their money. If USA folk were poor, their opinion would be very different