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A portion back, Reddit idiosyncratic u/Bugginette asked non-Americans astir the astir disrespectful and inappropriate things they've witnessed American tourists do...and arsenic an American, I felt much than a small embarrassed speechmaking the comments. Here are immoderate of the dumbest, astir entitled comments and behaviour radical dealt with from Americans.
1. "We were connected a circuit successful France and saw a radical of costumed radical with woody bows and arrows successful medieval clothing. One of the chap American tourists with america asked the guide, 'Are those the Syrian refugees?' 🤦🏼♀️"
2. "'Mommy's busy, baby, wherefore don't you spell ascent connected the large rocks?' That was astatine Stonehenge."
3. "While moving arsenic a circuit usher successful London, I had this exchange. American tourist: 'I emotion your accent, wherever are you from?' Me: 'Liverpool.' American tourist: 'Oh, person you heard of The Beatles?'"
4. "When I was successful Italy, I overheard an American woman say, 'They person amended pizzas successful Chicago.' Just, lol."
5. "I erstwhile overheard an American successful Ireland shouting loudly successful English…despite English being the archetypal connection for astir of the country. Like 98% of radical talk English. Also, I heard 1 American successful Scotland moaning to their person that it looked similar a 'city' successful the mediate of Glasgow. They were expecting…what? A colony with a singular good oregon something?"
6. "An American talked to maine slowly, shouting English arsenic if I didn't understand. He was successful occidental Canada, wherever everybody speaks English, and I'd adjacent already said thing successful English to him."
7. "I person seen a precise drunk American tourer successful his twenties explaining to a Vietnamese bartender successful Vietnam however his American gramps freed Vietnam of communists."
8. "I was successful the American War Museum successful Vietnam, a truly unthinkable spot which shows the past of the American Vietnam War. There are victims of Agent Orange connected the apical floor, which was truthful upsetting to see. There was an American chap going astir the depository with a T-shirt with an American emblem and loads of guns connected it and close successful the mediate with large bold writing, 'Freedom, the American Way.'"
9. "American here. I erstwhile traveled to Peru for my friend's wedding. He joined a Peruvian-American pistillate whose household was inactive mostly successful Peru. In Lima, we went to a precise bully edifice adjacent the Rimac River. They cooked utilizing accepted methods, similar cookware cooking. The groom's grandma asked 1 of the servers, 'Is this nutrient going to marque america sick, due to the fact that we're American?' It was chicken."
10. "I was calved and raised successful Puerto Rico (technically the USA). I was having meal astatine a precise fashionable PR nutrient edifice successful Old San Juan 1 night, and the Mainland Karen 2 tables distant was upset due to the fact that 'how could a Puerto Rican edifice not service nachos?' The precise diligent waiter was trying to explicate to her that Puerto Rican nutrient is precise antithetic from Mexican, but she insisted. Finally, the precise diligent waiter said, 'I could enactment food connected immoderate Doritos and nuke them if you'd like.' Oh, and her Mainland Karen companion complaining that El Morro Castle was 'just a large wall.'"
11. "One of my favourite stories astir an American was erstwhile I was successful San Francisco astir 5 years ago, and a waiter, upon discovering I americium Canadian, asked maine if I had my ain dogsled."
12. "I unrecorded successful Iceland. We get a batch of tourism. ... About fractional are American. ... There's a ton of radical who look to deliberation we tin conscionable flick a power and person the Northern Lights appear."
13. "I'm French, I was chatting with an American pistillate who was visiting (friend of a person of a household member). At 1 point, we commencement talking astir the differences betwixt our countries. She said, 'The USA is the lone state successful the satellite with existent freedom.' I thought she was joking, but she was not. I told her, 'What bash you mean? We are besides escaped successful France.' She looked astatine maine with a condescending smirk and said, 'Really?', similar to marque maine admit something. I conscionable nodded and left."
14. "I virtually witnessed an American assemblage oregon spread twelvemonth pupil kick astir the deficiency of kangaroos. In Austria. I thought they were joking."
15. "At Starbucks successful Cusco, Peru, I witnessed a young American pistillate yelling astatine the baristas, 'Starbucks is American, you gotta talk English.'"
16. "The champion 1 I've heard was the American tourer complaining that they built Edinburgh Castle truthful acold from the bid station."
17. "I unrecorded successful Canada adjacent the US-Maine border. It's astonishing however galore US tourists deliberation it's wintertime present each twelvemonth agelong (skis strapped to their extortion successful August). They besides expect to get American alteration erstwhile they usage USD."
18. "They did the Nazi greeting successful the mediate of Berlin (Germany), not acold from the Jewish memorial."
19. "Claiming that Ireland isn't 'properly' Irish, and that the lone mode to acquisition 'true, traditional' Irish civilization is to sojourn Boston."
20. "I got stopped by an American tourer arsenic I was connected my mode to a wedding successful my kilt. That prick straight-up lifted the backmost of my kilt to beryllium I was a existent Scotsman. My mate intercepted with the cleanable diving headbutt."
21. "Once successful the airport, coming backmost to Australia (where I'm from) successful the mediate of summer, I saw a dada and his 2 children wearing afloat wintertime coats. The dada said to some of them, 'Try to enactment warm, it's going to beryllium acold outside.'"
22. "See them shriek and say, 'I'm going to writer you.' New Zealand has ACC, truthful you fundamentally can't writer for accidents, arsenic it's covered."
23. "Bruges successful Belgium is simply a nicely preserved municipality with galore medieval elements. Apparently, a batch of American tourists inquire the locals, 'When does this taxable parkland close?'"
24. "I was successful Rome, and a woman was confused wherefore the confectionery basal antheral wouldn't instrumentality her dollars."
25. "I met an American tourer who seemed precise confused, truthful I walked up to her and asked her if I could help. She told maine yes and asked maine however to get to the celebrated Alps and cuckoo timepiece workshops...I had to explicate to her that she was successful Sweden, not Switzerland."
26. "As a idiosyncratic from Switzerland, I get asked if I tin talk Swedish connected the internet, and erstwhile I accidental I'm not from Sweden, they inquire if I tin talk Swiss."
27. "I erstwhile got told by an American tourer that I spoke English rather well...I'm English and this was successful England."
28. "I was successful a circuit radical successful Tajikistan, and we were wrong a local's location who had invited america successful for tea, and helium was telling america astir his household and however galore children they have, etc. The lone American successful the radical piped up and asked, 'What contraception does your woman use? Does she usage herbs oregon something?'…Everyone was conscionable aghast, and helium politely avoided the question; past determination was a long, awkward silence. And truthful she asked AGAIN! At that point, different circuit subordinate interjected and said, 'Okay, I deliberation it's clip for america to leave, acknowledgment for having us.'"
29. "South African here: Americans thin to person this wont wherever they volition ascent retired of their conveyance successful the mediate of a crippled reserve, get attacked by a chaotic animal due to the fact that they wanted to get person oregon effort to favored it, and past outcry astir it. I thought radical who travel from a state that has grizzly bears and upland lions would beryllium a spot much cautious astir chaotic animals. Also, the daze they acquisition erstwhile they recognize determination are cities present and not everyone is surviving successful mud huts."
30. "Any clip I've seen interactions betwixt Americans and the Queen's Guard [editor's note: present King's]. It does marque maine laugh, though, erstwhile the guardsman yells astatine them oregon conscionable ploughs done them erstwhile marching. Just permission the lads alone! They person a occupation to do, and they are nonrecreational soldiers."
31. "While moving astatine McDonald's, I overheard an American tourer archer his household that they were going to devour immoderate bully food, not overseas garbage, portion they were waiting successful enactment to order."
32. "An American tourer ordered a turkey meal astatine a restaurant, past flagged down the server to fto her cognize that the room forgot the cranberry sauce. The server came backmost with it successful a tiny dish. After she finished her meal, idiosyncratic astatine the array pointed retired that she'd forgotten to usage the cranberry condiment that she had asked for. She says, 'Oh, I don't similar cranberry sauce.' So the idiosyncratic astatine the array followed up with, 'Then wherefore did you inquire the server to bring you some?!' Her answer: 'Because it comes with the meal.'"
33. "I saw an American Karen shriek astatine radical successful London (UK) for stealing America's spot names."
34. "I unrecorded successful Norway, and 30 minutes from my house, determination is this upland called Pulpit Rock. It is the biggest tourer attraction nearby. It is not the astir hard trail, but it is beauteous steep, and each year, I would spot American women struggling due to the fact that they were wearing flip flops oregon precocious heels."
35. "I utilized to enactment for an hose successful New Zealand, with flights going to Australia. Sadly, it was ever the American tourists who would outcry astatine you erstwhile you advised them that they required a visa to question to Australia, arsenic we are 2 abstracted countries. It happened astatine slightest 5 times a day."
36. "My state has a bid partition utilized to segregate 2 warring communities. The oppressed assemblage has a mural connected it wherever they amusement the quality rights abuses they've received and besides the quality rights abuses of different oppressed nations. Americans complained that the partition was disfigured and that it was severely made (extra parts were added to halt radical from chucking bombs implicit it) and that murals weren't happy. This isn't Disneyland."
37. "I'm from a tiny metropolis successful Germany, and an American dude successful his aboriginal twenties insulted maine for drinking brew successful nationalist due to the fact that it's illegal. In Germany, you're allowed to portion brew successful nationalist astatine the property of 16."
38. "American students came to our assemblage successful India to beforehand studying successful their country. One of them asked america if we knew wherever her university's authorities was. She was amazed that nary 1 knew wherever a random authorities successful a state crossed the satellite was and proceeded to condescendingly explicate it. My person mumbled, 'Do you cognize what fucking authorities you're presently in?'"
39. "My person described a travel to an English tourer spot, 1 of galore places said to beryllium Arthur's Camelot. It required a ascent up the picturesque elevation to a quiet, tree-filled spot. Nothing of the castle to beryllium seen, of course, but everybody gazed retired implicit the surrounding land, contemplating the magic of the past myth. Finally, the American arrives, glances astir with irritation, past loudly says successful that acquainted accent: 'Where's the goddamn castle?'"
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