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Isn't Expedia an american company? Isn't it owned/run by Microsquick (microsoft)? Wouldn't that have some relevence on who's the bestest tourists? [img]smile.gif[/img] From my limited experiences us Americans are really very rude. Speaking loudly doesn't mean the Spainards will understand you... but that's what some of people seem to think. [img]smile.gif[/img]
I must say that the Japanese tourists in Hawaii are pretty rude too. DeSoya
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Davros Collective here - Well I imagine MagiK ole bean, that if you take a poll in an area where lots of Brits go for cheap holidays in the sun, and (by comparison) few Americans go - well you expect that sort of bias. I can give you my poll of 3 tours of Scotland - a place where many American's go - they are talked about as being the worst tourists. Good tippers mind you, but sometimes the treatment handed out to the locals is just too much to swallow.
(eg. Caddie who has had too much arrogant crap from an American player - "Hold on their sir, don't hit yet, you have a bit of shite on the end of your club - no sir, other end") Let's face it, people who wear baseball caps and sunglasses to dinner in a 5 star silver service restaraunt may have plenty of money, but they are a few sanwdiches short of a picnic. From conversations I have had, and observations about the breakfast table, Germans tend to have a reputation for wanting everything they paid for plus a lot more (ie I have seen a few fill up at the breakfast buffet, then make several bacon and egg sandwiches to take with them for lunch.
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In my youth I went to a few of the more "touristy" holiday destinations e.g. Ibiza, Majorca, Greek Islands etc.
IMHO, it's the nations that have a repressed attitude to alochol consumption and an over-inflated idea of their importance vis-a-vis the local population that showed the worst behaviour. In these categories were, amongst others.... a) Club 33 Scandinavians in Ibiza. I mean aquavit for breakfast!!! [img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/1drool.gif[/img] b) Brits in Kos. Walking around chanting "Toon Army" all night might be the hight of chic in the Bigg Market, but it does nothing to impress the natives [img]graemlins/nono.gif[/img] Just my 2c.
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Ok correct me if Im wrong here..but what you all are saying....
1. Expedia made up the data to make Americans look good 2. Expedia had ulterior motives to make the UK appear bad 3. Expedia for some reason likes the Germans and wants them happy 4. Expedia aside from stating that they went to some rather upscale places, really only went to places where middle class Brits go. 5. a Brittish publication published this article but failed to point out the conspiracy taking place. Errr perhaps the men who fly the black helicopters and cover up alien abductions are involved? Ahh well Im sure the Americans are still just too rude for the refined manners of the rest of the world...imagine eating dinner without dressing properly [img]smile.gif[/img] |
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I have never met a rude Japenese person anywhere, ever, and that includes Hawaii. I'll cast my vote for the Mexican tourists...filthy, rude, mean, and worst of all cheap...yeah, spend our American dollars like they are going out of style and then tip me in pesos...another million of these and I can buy myself a 39 cent hamburger! If they went farther than the U.S. the rest of the world would have no problem knowing who to put at the top of the list. [ 07-19-2002, 08:00 PM: Message edited by: Moni ] |
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I have never met a rude Japenese person anywhere, ever, and that includes Hawaii. I'll cast my vote for the Mexican tourists...filthy, rude, mean, and worst of all cheap...yeah, spend our American dollars like they are going out of style and then tip me in pesos...another million of these and I can buy myself a 39 cent hamburger! If they went farther than the U.S. the rest of the world would have no problem knowing who to put at the top of the list.[/QUOTE]I'm with ya on this one Moni, and I should add the HORDES of construction crews literally talking over every facet of building, its getting so a person cant get work anymore [img]redface.gif[/img]
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