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40 Ignorant And Disrespectful Things People Witnessed American Tourists Doing In Other Countries

While the majority of tourists are some of the friendliest, most open, and curious people you’ll ever meet, unfortunately, a small but vocal minority can spoil everyone’s good reputation. When it comes to international travel, not everyone is as respectful to other cultures as the locals would like.

Redditor Bugginette asked people to share the weirdest things they’ve seen tourists do that would be considered disrespectful or inappropriate in their countries. In this case, Bugginette wanted to focus on American tourists. Have a read through some of the non-American locals’ stories below.

Keep in mind that is just a handful of people’s experiences with Americans, dear Pandas. This isn’t to say that all American tourists are uncultured or that visitors from other nations are complete angels. That’s absolutely not the case. So if you’re in the mood for some wholesome compliments about what Americans are doing great to balance things out, check out Bored Panda’s article right over here.

Meanwhile… let’s delve into the shadowy side of tourism and definitely how not to behave when on holiday abroad.

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Calling black people African-American despite many having never visited the USA. It’s stupid. Black is not a racist term

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40 Ignorant And Disrespectful Things People Witnessed American Tourists Doing In Other Countries Claiming that Ireland isn't "properly" Irish, and that the only way to experience "true", "traditional" Irish culture is to visit Boston.

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I saw an American father (with young kids in tow) explain to an elderly Japanese man why they just had to drop the bomb on Hiroshima, no way around it...

At the Peace Museum.

In Hiroshima.

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At the time of writing, Redditor Bugginette’s viral thread had gotten more than 29.3k upvotes and 74 awards in just 2 days. Some of the responses were completely astounding. It’s hard to believe that anyone could be so rude.

Most of what makes up tourist etiquette is pretty much common sense. Treat others like you’d like to be treated yourself. Behave like you’d want tourists visiting your hometown to behave. Be a decent human being because we’re all people. Don’t shake koalas out of trees. Don’t try to sneak into the Paris catacombs with a bone that you stole. Don’t immediately assume that you can pay everyone in US dollars. It’s fairly straightforward, no?

German here. Never go to visit any concentration camp museum without understanding that in less than 10 minutes your blood will start to boil because of how disrespectful tourists can be. It's unbelievable.

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40 Ignorant And Disrespectful Things People Witnessed American Tourists Doing In Other Countries I once got told by an American tourist that I spoke English quite well.

I'm English and this was in England.

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40 Ignorant And Disrespectful Things People Witnessed American Tourists Doing In Other Countries I overheard the guy standing in front of me in the queue at mc D's having a meltdown:

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T ACCEPT AMERICAN DOLLARS THIS IS A MCDONALD'S!!!"

this was in Poland, Europe.

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Sum Guy 3 years ago

And I know this is a preference more than anything, but why would you go to a different country and still eat MCD's?

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Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

I ate at Burger King in Italy once. It was in the food court, I dunno. I think I did in England once too. Sometimes you just need to grub or have something more familiar after weeks away.

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Dodo 3 years ago

My parents took us to McDonalds in France but I think that's because we were kids, we were picky, and we knew we could eat the food there. (We also didn't always do it, just when we wanted something quick)

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RoseTheMad 3 years ago

To be fair, some countries have region specific fast food items in places like McDonalds (for instance, when in Japan I went to a McDonalds and had a teriyaki burger, which you can only get in Japan iirc. It was pretty good, but I don't eat McDonalds back in the UK at all.) Still, I'd much rather try the local foods, which I still did in Japan of course.

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The Queen Of Upper Butt Crack 3 years ago

For me it's a clean bathroom not the food

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Sasy 3 years ago

13 in Paris, McDonald's seemed safer to my teen brain in the 80s.

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Sam Chilton 3 years ago

Familiarity, price, taste.. not everyone can be adventurous when it comes to food.

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eimipet 3 years ago

Imma be real, I'm a Japanese-American who lives in the States but goes to Japan every summer, and the 3rd meal I have is McDonald's (first two are udon and sushi). The fries here are SOOOOOO GOOD and it's become a tradition.

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Bob Belcher 3 years ago

My wife and I won a trip to Madrid in 2011 4 nights. Everything was set up, had a reservation number with the company and confirmed by the hotel. Traveled out from Texas to Madrid and checked in. Staff said there was no such reservation number. I gave them contact info for the company but hotel still demanded a card number to check in. Next day they charged my card for the whole stay which overdrew my account. I was lucky enough to have 100 euros cash. We needed 40 euros for the taxi back to the airport in 3 days. We spent the next 3 days with only 60 euros cash and ate at McDonald's twice a day. Since then, we've never eaten at a McDonald's agains lol

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Mazer 3 years ago

Often tourists are uncertain about food when traveling and instead of trying new and wonderful dishes, will choose what they know they like. Plus there are some countries where eating McDonalds IS the best food choice for miles

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The Dave 3 years ago

For the same reason that people go to Olive Garden in Times Square while visiting NYC. They're narrow minded.

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Julie C Rose 3 years ago

Because it’s a preference more than anything.

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Zoltán Végh 3 years ago

Some of them give you different meals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMaW6TamNAc

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Max Arenstein 3 years ago

For me the only reason would be to try something region specific as others have said. I think the crazier thing would be to travel to somewhere else in the US and eat at a chain that you can eat at at home. Like going to Times Square and eating at the Olive Garden there.

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Lena Flising 3 years ago

When I was on a school-trip, around 1988, to Hungary, and we had eaten strange food for a couple of days, we were happy to see a McD sign a couple of blocks away. "Yay, food we recognize!". When we came closer, we saw that it would open in a month... (I'm Swedish, from Gothenburg, and I can understand why you want to have a bit of familiarity, even on holiday, now and then. McD's came to Gothenburg in 1977, when I was eight.)

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Shirley Heyn 3 years ago

They recognized it and felt they wouldn't make a fool of themselves there when they ordered.

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Susan Egan 3 years ago

We were in China with a small group. One man hated all the food available. Even simple things that were very much like American recipes. He was rejoicing at the sight of McD's where he could get "real" food.

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LMS 3 years ago

I know, right?

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Martha Higgins 3 years ago

The McDonald's food in Germany taste a lot better than at the ones in the U.S.

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Mark Hamilton 3 years ago

Because, we were told by ugly Americans on a tour with us, you can't eat that food, is why we packed a suitcase full of snack foods. This was in Paris. Oy.

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Thomas 3 years ago

Playing the devil's advocate here: MCD have some country-exclusive burgers. Google "Gran Crispy McBacon" for instance, it's my favorite MCD burger but it's not sold in the US.

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E.Bellamy 3 years ago

because he thought McDee's accepted dollars XD

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Ari Hansson 3 years ago

I once talked to a guy who visited France, and went to eat at a McDonalds. Some people are idiots.

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Kt 3 years ago (edited)

Sometimes it's just quicker. We neve had mcdonalds when we went to Poland but i did in Amsterdam, because i was in my way to meet friends and just needed some food quick. We ate at local places for evening meals etc.

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Mariette Ferreira 3 years ago

I've done it if the local cuisine wasn't to my liking or if I didn't know how to order (e.g. in China) after a day of new cultural experiences, it was convenient to order a big mac and not have to think about it.

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Zed Muk 3 years ago

Japanese McDonald's is a world apart from American and British ones

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Seabeast 3 years ago

I wondered that when I went to France. I mean, you're in France... good food is absolutely everywhere. Why eat at McDonalds???

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Jo Morris 3 years ago

Restroom facilities! Knowing a McDonalds has clean(ish) available and free facilities to use goes a long way towards deciding to eat there. And it's fun seeing the differences between what you're used to at home compared to another country, and trying a different product.

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Linda HS 3 years ago

Because…America

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Cip IESAN 3 years ago

McDonalds all over the world are like embassies, US soil, yes?

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Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

Lol!!

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LH25 3 years ago

My worst was watching an American tourist in Austria holding a handful of US money. Asking the girl at a souvenir stand how much something was "in real money". Meaning of course his US bills.

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Robert T 3 years ago

No, but they do take gold. (zloty literally means gold ;-) )

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Night Owl 3 years ago

Oh! I didn't know that! In Croatian gold is zlato but I somehow never made the connection between the words until now

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Downunderdude 3 years ago

Poland, Europe? As opposed to Poland, Africa?

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AlexG 3 years ago

He put in Poland, Europe because a lot of yanks might not know where Poland is.

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SykesDaMan 3 years ago

I guess as opposed to the city of Poland in Michigan (or some other state) :p

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Robert T 3 years ago

The rest of the world tends not to need to differentiate the real one from the name-alikes. ;-)

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Liz Saito 3 years ago

And this was written by another American, yes? Because everyone else knows Poland is in Europe without having it spelled out.

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J-A Laine 3 years ago

Meanwhile in the US: IKEA has now decided to only accept swedish currency. What do you mean we should accept US currency? This is IKEA from the land of polar bears, cuckoo clocks and chocolate! No, wait...

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Alexia 3 years ago

Same for an American company that had just opened offices in several EU coutries. They stated in their internal procedures that their business would be subjected to... American legislation. In an European country. They didn't seem to see any issue with this. :))

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Chris Freel 2 years ago

Did they not check with a lawyer? Many US work procedures (no notice sacking, minimal holidays, no sick leave, no maternity leave) are ILLEGAL in most European countries.

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sofacushionfort 3 years ago

By that same logic, I should use Monopoly money for my Amazon purchases

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Janet C 3 years ago

Why would you fly halfway around the world, to an amazing country like Poland, and eat at a f*cking McDonald's.

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

Loooong time ago I was at the Belgian French border. A woman shot out of her car screaming "I don't need a passport, I'm American".

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Pamela Blue 3 years ago

It's a bit terrifying how pathetically uneducated some Americans are. They're like the colonialists of old. They think they're superior to everyone else simply because they're American. No wonder so many people dislike them. They give a bad name to every other American.

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SlartyBlartFast 3 years ago

They love credit cards in the USA, why not use that payment method..

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Shirley Heyn 3 years ago

Just laugh, every country has stupid people, and some are tourists in other countries showing their stupidity.

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Abdullah Muhammad 3 years ago

if they don't understand you, speak slower and louder

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Lorrie Rothstein 3 years ago

The stupidity. Poland has different money

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Suzanne Haigh 3 years ago

The whole world accepts American dollars, in the American mind.

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Zaza 3 years ago (edited)

Just be glad most of Europe has the euro now. Before 1996 you would be dealing with gilders, francs, marcs, pounds (they still hold up), kroon, roebel, lira, tolar, dinar, schilling, escudo, drachme peseta and so many more. Imagine 1 US state having between 3 and 8 currencies and you can't use any of them in another county, you have to go exchange currencies first. You can drive 3 tot 8 hours max on the same currency, then it changes again. And again. And again. Part of why we changed it is because the US is a whiny little bitch that couln't be arsed to do some simple math. We didn't want the euro, we loved our currency and miss it still

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Chris Freel 2 years ago

A long time ago, in pre-Euro days, I used to drive regularly from near London to Düsseldorf, at other times to Rotterdam. If you started on a full tank, you could do the journey non-stop on 1 tank of petrol. If you started with 1/2 tank you needed to fill up en route, in Belgium. Belgian motorway service stations took all currencies, Belgian francs, French francs, pounds, Deutschmarks and Guilders, but only gave change in Belgian francs. Since I was only carrying pounds and Deutschmarks or Guilders, I never had occasion to spend the Belgian francs and ended up with a huge collection of Belgian change.

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Patti Vance 3 years ago

reminded me of waiting in line to cross the mexican border because an idiot woman who was found to be attempting to take something into the u.s. that was not allowed was screaming at the guards that they needed to speak english if they were going to be at the border addressing americans.

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Rod Egret 3 years ago

Big mistake by the cashier! Always accept US Dollars! You just need to come up with the correct exchange rate ;)

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Stephanie IV 3 years ago

Each McDonald’s gets to decide whether they accept Dollars. Usually the ones with army barracks near by take them.

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Aliquid A 3 years ago

Not even vaguely the cashier's decision on what currency to accept.

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Alegiro 3 years ago

Batter than Euro? I think not. Plus, you have to add exchange fees, time to go to an exchange point, etc.

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Chris Freel 2 years ago

"this was in Poland Europe". That comment demonstrates your bias. Europe is a continent, made up of many countries. It is just Poland, and Boston USA.

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Steven Burns 3 years ago

I have to agree with this one.

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François Carré 3 years ago

American imperialism in a nutshell.

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Omar Castillo 3 years ago

I'm embarrassed for them.

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John Sanborn 3 years ago

For me: Germany, had to have a Big Mac and a Beer, just so I could say I did. ;)

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Anna Łubiarz 3 years ago

In Paris, with an 18 month old toddler, I was told by the hotel concierge, that French people don't take kids out to eat, and taking a baby to a restaurant is unheard of, so maybe I should just go to a nice mcdonalds. I was appalled, went to an Italian restaurant, was welcomed with open arms, my son was practically kidnapped by the staff, especially the matron of the house (he was blonde, blue eyed, and generally cute as a button, so we had the same reaction in most mediterranean countries), and nobody had a problem with a toddler in a restaurant. Imagine that. So I can understand some tourists just giving up abroad and going for the easiest option, but still, there are so many others apart from mcdonalds...

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Bryce Greenfield 3 years ago

At at McD's in Belgium. One of the best burgs of my life. Fresh, crisp lettuce, awesome patty and buttery bun. Now I have a hard time eating one in the US.

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Dan Lande 3 years ago

Damn, so it doesnt work like that? i didnt order Thai food last night because i didnt have Bahts with me

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D K 3 years ago

Personal preference but the only reason I’d go to a MCD’s in a different country is to try out stuff on their regional menus.

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backatya 3 years ago

must have been a southerner

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Evelyn McInroy 3 years ago

My father would always call it “that Irish place” haha

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JJM 3 years ago

Because it's their staple diet.

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SA Jane 3 years ago

Went to a McD's in Italy, everything else was closed at noon, and we were very hungry having just arrived. They have much different sandwich choices. Italy, maybe others, shut down mid day for lunchtime.

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Catherine Spencer-Mills 3 years ago

Had a co-worker like that. He was sent to the Singapore office. Ate at Mc D's and no where else when there. He hated vegetables - all vegetables, any vegetables - and that was the only place he felt he could avoid the deadly vegetables.

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Catherine Spencer-Mills 3 years ago

Take that back. No one told him potatoes was a vegetable.

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Crycket 3 years ago

This happens in Canada too...in any tourist place...it grates...

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Jo Choto 3 years ago

Oh yeah, I've come across that kind of attitude SO many times in my travels.

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Thomas Sweda 3 years ago

How about sitting in an aisle seat, telling the first time flyer next to you, “...Those are ants lady, we haven’t taken off yet”?

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QuotedPrawn7490 3 years ago

Time for Poland to annex everyone that invaded them (btw this is a joke)

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Maddie Star ⭐ 3 years ago

I have seen this in the uk too.

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Professor Christine Vogt, the Director of the Center for Sustainable Tourism at Arizona State University, explained to me that we should do our best to do background research about the local customs and language before embarking on any trip.

“More than likely that is what draws a person to visit a certain place. The more local knowledge a traveler has, the more a traveler can feel like a local and fit in," Professor Vogt told Bored Panda during an earlier in-depth interview about tourist etiquette.

40 Ignorant And Disrespectful Things People Witnessed American Tourists Doing In Other Countries The best one I've heard was the American tourist complaining that they built Edinburgh castle so far from the train station.

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40 Ignorant And Disrespectful Things People Witnessed American Tourists Doing In Other Countries In Australia, shook a koala out of a tree at a wildlife park

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40 Ignorant And Disrespectful Things People Witnessed American Tourists Doing In Other Countries Not exactly disrespectful or inappropriate, but certainly weird.

I meet an American tourist that seemed very confused so I walked up to her and asked her if I could help. She told me yes and asked me how to get to the famous alps and cuckoo clock workshops.

….. I had to explain to her that she was in Sweden, not Switzerland.

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"Local customs can include how a traveler dresses, eats, uses a cell phone, etc. When a traveler is out in a community such as walking in a downtown area or eating in a restaurant, these local customs can come into play,” she explained what we should all take into account before going abroad, whether it’s for business or for pleasure.

“For example, in Buddhist countries, a woman who has not covered her shoulders or legs may not be allowed into temples or even a restaurant. Learn as many local customs as you can and a few key words to enhance your experience," the professor pointed out to Bored Panda.

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40 Ignorant And Disrespectful Things People Witnessed American Tourists Doing In Other Countries While interrailing on France a couple of American dudes were very loudly talking [badly] about other passengers (I got my fair share). Apparently they tought nobody could understand them.

Shut them up by talking English to my friend.

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40 Ignorant And Disrespectful Things People Witnessed American Tourists Doing In Other Countries When I was in France a couple of American tourists tried to sneak out of the Paris Catacombs with a bone they had stolen.

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I'm an American but I was visiting England and touring the Tower of London. There was a cannon behind a rope with a "Do not touch or climb" sign.

This American woman lifted the rope and told her kid (maybe 7 years old) to go sit on the cannon so she could take a picture. The KID protested and said the sign said no... The woman said she didn't care, and ordered her kid to do it or she'd ground them.

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Professor Vogt also went into detail about what historic sites can do to protect artifacts from tourists who want to steal themselves a souvenir or two. According to her, posting the penalties for stealing, setting up signs that discourage thieving, and using cameras to catch those who break the law are just some of the ways in which to control potential artifact-pilferers.

Something else that such sites can do is setting up a display of all the items that have been returned by thieving tourists over the years, showing that they’ve had a change of heart. According to Professor Vogt, the Petrified Forest National Park in Eastern Arizona has a display just like this one.

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40 Ignorant And Disrespectful Things People Witnessed American Tourists Doing In Other Countries South African here; Americans tend to have this habbit where they will climb out of their vehicle in the middle of a game reserve, get attacked by a wild animal because they wanted to get closer or try to pet it, and then cry about it.

I thought people that come from the country that has Grizzly bears and mountain lions would be a bit more cautious around wild animals.

Also, the shock they experience when they realise there are cities here and not everyone is living in mudhuts.

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40 Ignorant And Disrespectful Things People Witnessed American Tourists Doing In Other Countries Not inappropriate, just moronic and facepalm worthy.

Saw an American Karen scream at people in London (UK) at Britain for stealing America's place names.

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40 Ignorant And Disrespectful Things People Witnessed American Tourists Doing In Other Countries An American tourist orders a turkey dinner at a restaurant, and then flags down the server to let her know that the kitchen forgot the cranberry sauce. The server comes back with it in a small dish. After she finished her meal, someone at the table pointed out that she’d forgotten to use the cranberry sauce that she asked for. She says: “Oh, I don’t like cranberry sauce” So the person at the table follows up with “Then why did you ask the server to bring you some?!” Her answer: “Because it comes with the meal.”

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40 Ignorant And Disrespectful Things People Witnessed American Tourists Doing In Other Countries They did the nazi greeting in the middle of Berlin (Germany), not far from the jewish memorial

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Where are the kangaroos?

Sir, you are in austria. Not Australia.

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40 Ignorant And Disrespectful Things People Witnessed American Tourists Doing In Other Countries Iceland. We get a lot of tourism when there isn't a pandemic and about half are American. It's mostly just ignorance and the refusal to accept that things work differently here. Also, while most people here speak English to some degree there are a few tourists that are furious about it not being the default language in businesses that aren't even connected to tourism. God forbid we speak our own language at work.

Oh and Northern Lights. There's a ton of people who seem to think we can just flick a switch and have the Northern Lights appear.

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My homewtown is famous for each year having a giant hay goat built in the middle of the city, and each year someone, illegally burns it down. It has become culture at this point to burn it down but if you are caught you still go down for arson.
One american who was visiting this town heard of this phenomenon and the fact that it was burnt down each year. Same night he goes out and burns it down, is apprehended by police and becomes the first person since 1966 to be Sentenced for burning the goat. (2003)

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I'm French, I was chatting with an American women who was visiting (friend of a friend of a family member). At one point we start talking about the differences between our countries. She said "The USA is the only country in the world with true freedom". I thought she was joking but she was not. I told her "what do you mean? We are also free in France". She looked at me with a condescending smirk and said "Really?" like to make me admit something. I just nodded and left.

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Im English sitting in an English train station one day on my way to work. On the bench to my left sit two massively obese American women in flowery dresses loudly talking about how old and s***ty our train stations look.

On my right sits an young Asian guy who gets up and walks toward the Americas to put something in the bin. When he's close to them one of them shouts

HER: 'you ain't Chinese are you?',

HIM: '..oh no I'm a Korean student miss'

HER: 'which part?'

HIM: 'South Korea miss'

HER: 'good, those North Koreans are crazy, we should bomb them!'

He just went and quietly sat back down as the women went on to rant about how Asian countries are all aweful and America should somthing about it.

Just general rude, loud, ignorant behaviour.

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I had dinner with an American in China. He asked for water in English, and the waiter didn’t understand. He spoke up and repeated himself in a patronisingly slow voice, and again the waiter, not being able to speak English, didn’t understand. I asked for the water in Chinese and the waiter left. The American then said “it’s so infuriating here sometimes”.

There are many things that can be annoying and inconvenient in China, but simply expecting people to understand your language is unreasonable as f**k.

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Im from South Asia, and from a country infamous for its war against terrorism. Since we have won it and the country has been safe for quite a few years, we have started seeing tourists return to our country. The people here are very generous and hospitable. They know about the bad name the war brought to the country, and everyone, regardless of how much they have, is trying to do what they can to improve the image. Based on this, it is very common to see street vendors/ restaurant owners refusing to receive payment for their food from tourists. They claim that “you are our guests. And we never take payments from guests” which I believe is a very sweet and kind gesture since these people dont have much and are struggling to break even most of the time.

However, since the past year or two, this thing has become really famous due to youtube, and a lot of foreign vloggers are abusing it. They often go to street vendors and dont even offer paying. More so, it is as if instead of going to popular restaurant which they could easily afford, they basically go to these vendors specifically so they shouldnt have to pay. Now that is okay and acceptable to some extent, but following this with the intention to abuse it is something that doesn’t settle well with me. Like i said, the street vendors are mostly struggling financially, and while many of the foreign vloggers are getting paid well, its as if they’re looting these low income people. I know part of this might seem inconsistent and what not. Like maybe the people can just stop offering them free food, but this has been part of our culture and tradition for generations, and it takes quite a while to abandon traditions. Anyway, my two cents is that sure, enjoy the hospitality. We do it out of love and it reflects how we really are. But please dont abuse it. Also, if someone does good to you, please pay it forward. Maybe by tipping someone well or something? Such a thing would be really nice:)

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40 Ignorant And Disrespectful Things People Witnessed American Tourists Doing In Other Countries I was in a tour group in Tajikistan and we were inside a locals house who had invited us in for tea and he was telling us about his family and how many children they have etc. The only American in the group piped up and asked ‘what contraception does your wife use, does she use herbs or something?’….

Everyone was just aghast and he politely avoided the question, then there was a long awkward silence. And so the she asked AGAIN! At that point another tour member interjected and said ‘ok, I think it’s time for us to leave, thanks for having us’

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She asked me about the different churches in our city (we have quite a lot, some very old), which were the prettiest, etc, and asked me to point those on the map, and I obliged since she was polite. So far so good. Then she asked which one was my fave for sunday service. I said as respectfully as I could that I didn't, actually, go to church. Then she forcefully grabbed my arm, drew a cross sign on my brow, and told me she would pray for me

Lady, well, don't touch me, k?

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40 Ignorant And Disrespectful Things People Witnessed American Tourists Doing In Other Countries Any time I've seen interactions between Americans and the queens guard. Does make me laugh though when the guardsman yells at them or just plough through them when marching.

Just leave the lads alone they have job to do and they are professional soldiers.

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I've been waiting tables during tourist seasons for about 4 years in Croatia, I've met many people, some good, some bad, but the Americans are by far the worst. The Poles come, eat, laugh, drink, pay, the French and Brits drink, laugh, but dont tip so well, the Italians are annoying but they have demands that are reasonable.

However when white Americans come, they just ruin everything. They ask for food that we dont have on menu, like pizza or fast food stuff like nuggets, they try to flirt with our waitresses even when told to stop, many leave without paying, and they always, for some reason, want to split the bill.

But this one guy, this degenerate, comes into the restourant, starts yelling at all of us that he can't eat, asks us "WHY IS IT SO LOUD?" and says we have to do something about it. This [friggin] guy couldn't eat because the church bell was too loud for him, and wanted us, waiters and cooks, to ask the guy ringing the church bell to stop so the American can eat. My coleague and me chased him out, told him never to come back.

F**k that guy.

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When I came down from the Fuji summit after a 8 hour climb and 4 hour descent with 3 layers of clothing to protect myself from the weather, an American with a selfie stick, in t-shirt and shorts asked me where mount Fuji was. I told him we are on mount Fuji, it's a big mountain/vulcano. "But where is the summit" I pointed to the summit and told him it's about 8 hours that way. This guy thought he could just come in with his selfie stick, grab a few quick selfies on the summit and return to Tokyo lol.

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I was in the American War Museum in Vietnam, really incredible of place which shows the history of the American Vietnam war, there's victims of agent orange on the top floor which was so upsetting to see.

There was an American chap going around the museum with a t-shirt with an American flag and loads of guns on it and right in the middle with big bold writing Freedom the American Way.

I know people are Patriotic but there's a time and place, I thought it was pretty vile tbh.

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Not buy their round. In a pub in Ireland. When the pub round system had been explained to them. And they had happily taken drinks from everyone. And when it was their round, and everyone had empty glasses. and it was Mentioned that "Think it's your round.." and they responded " I think I'm good now thanks" Mortified for bringing them with me!! (and yes I bought the round for everyone else on their behalf.)

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I was told "You are very bright for a Mexican". Not only was that slightly racist but, I am also Spanish. .

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I’m a Brit who was in Rome on a food tour. There was a pair of women form Chicago (I know because they told us 20 times) and one of them would interrupt the tour guide at every opportunity to tell him Chicago invented pizza and how the pizza here wasn’t as good because “real pizza is deep dish”, while the other woman agreed. It was a 4 hour tour and they mentioned it every 20 mins at least. The pizzeria stop on the tour was unbearable.

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#33

Lectured me for 3 hours on a train on why Australia needed to stop free healthcare.

3 hours is a very long time to listen to that.

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40 Ignorant And Disrespectful Things People Witnessed American Tourists Doing In Other Countries The guy got pretty angry that my English sucked when asking me for directions, I mean yeah It can be frustrating but Im taking the time to help you wtf dude.

He said I lived in Canada so I was supposed to speak it flawlessly like dude I spoke French my entire life but I’m doing my best over here to communicate sorry for the accent.

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I was at a lavender farm in the South of France a few years ago. Two coach loads of American tourists pull up, they all got out on the standard "you won't get long enough to really see this place" type tour. One lady very proudly states she is an expert on lavender and that this place was "cute but it's all fake, the lavender isn't the right colour". There were bees and other insects all over it, the whole farm smelled amazing and there was a harvest taking place! It was very real

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An American exchange student who complained to me in anger that book stores in Germany have so many books in German. I mean, it's not unusual here for every book store to even have a small section of books in other languages including English so it's not like she never got to buy a book here, she could read...

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I was working a bar in Scotland. There was a woman one night with her daughter and she refused to pay with anything other than American cash. It was a super uncomfortable situation, me trying to explain how stupid it all was, her daughter (who I think was living in Scotland) was trying to calm her down and trying to pay but the mother kept pulling the her hand away from the card machine saying “you people love our money, our money is more important than yours”. She kicked on for a solid 5 to 10 minutes, her daughter ended up paying and leaving. Then she had a go at me for embarrassing her daughter and she even left a review on trip advisor explaining the situation, she explained it perfectly literally wrote herself as the bag guy in the review. F**king mind boggling how delusional this bird was.

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#38

India. Subway has seats designed for ladies. American guy in his twenties totally refused to move and let the ladies who were standing, sit. He was requested by everyone for like 5 minutes.

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40 Ignorant And Disrespectful Things People Witnessed American Tourists Doing In Other Countries Not disrespectful but kinda funny, Bruges in Belgium is a nicely preserved town with many medieval elements. Apparently a lot of American tourists ask the locals “when does this theme park close?”

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40 Ignorant And Disrespectful Things People Witnessed American Tourists Doing In Other Countries They made fun of our money and how it looked. They claimed they couldn't figure it out because it was so weird, so they threw a bunch of bills at my sister and asked her to figure it out and give them change.

We're Canadian. The number is literally on the bill. We all spoke English. They gave my sister several hundred dollar bills. This was at an apple festival and the fries only cost $5. Wtf

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#41

Me, a german, meeting a middle aged US couple while travelling through spain. Upon hearing that I am from germany the asked me how I managed to flee the country because there is a big ass wall keepin' the germs in. That was in 2004.

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I live in Norway and 30 minutes from my house there is this mountain called Pulpit Rock. It is the biggest tourist attraction nearby. It is not the most difficult trail, but it is pretty steep, and every year (before covid) I would see American women struggling because they were wearing flip flops or high heels.

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I used to work in a high end restaurant. Five or six course meals are the standard. So people take their time to eat, chat and enjoy the evening for at least two to three hours. It is normal to have half an hour in between meals. If we would serve faster the guest would complain about the food being served to fast.

Anyway, this table of mostly local people plus one American woman being very loud with a thic, i guess, New York accent was complaining after three minutes after every course where her food was. First i explained the above. The rest of the table was also getting a bit awkward about her behavior. She kept complianing though. Telling how incredable dissapointed she was. I kept explaining that the food we serve is freshly made, it takes time to prepare. And that the whole idea is to enjoy the evening in with the people you are. She just would get concept and react with so much disbelieve. Lady you are abroad, if you want to stuff your face with food in under five minutes go to a fastfood chainbor even better stay at home.

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40 Ignorant And Disrespectful Things People Witnessed American Tourists Doing In Other Countries Assuming that Amsterdam is our entire country.

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I was in a museum in the UK a few weeks ago when social distancing and other precautions were still in effect and an American family were touching everything, shouting, not wearing facemasks, letting their kids run rampant, kept coming into our social space and barging past us. Basically obnoxious as f.

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40 Ignorant And Disrespectful Things People Witnessed American Tourists Doing In Other Countries I have seen a very drunk American tourist in his is 20's explaining to a Viet bartender in Viet Nam how his American grandfather freed Viet Nam of communists.

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While working at Maccas I overheard an American tourist tell his family that they were going to eat some good food, not foreign garbage while they were waiting in line to order 🤦‍♀️
(For the non Aussie folk, maccas is McDonald's)

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#48

Someone proudly stating they are scottish despite their family having lived in America for 300 years and being unable to pronounce Edinburgh.

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40 Ignorant And Disrespectful Things People Witnessed American Tourists Doing In Other Countries Talk to me in slow, shouting English as if I don't understand. He was in western Canada, where everybody speaks English, and I'd already even said something in English to him.

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#50

“Why are you all not in Kilts? Oh I’m Scottish my great great great great grandfather was from Scotland and his dad was a clan chieftain.”

99% of us Scots don’t care, some will humour, others will outright call out on that bulls**t.

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#51

Indian here. My office was hosting two American and one British ladies and I had to take them sightseeing. We were a British colony up until 1947 and have tonnes of British buildings as our historical heritage (that period was awful but the buildings are nice).

Well, for some reason the American ladies thought it would be a good idea to talk to me about how the British were awful to us during the colonization period in front of the nice British lady. I was uncomfortable talking about that, the British lady seemed uncomfortable but the American ladies kept make what they thought were funny comments about how the British lady's country was awful to my country despite my million efforts to change the subject.

It IS a dark part of our history but bringing that up and keeping at it was rude and in bad taste.

Thankfully, the British lady did not get offended or I would've had to face the consequences of offending a guest.

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I live in new zealand and we have our special kind of churches called maraes. You are not allowed to wear shoes in them. One day i was in the marae and i saw this middle aged woman walk in with her shoes on. I walked over to her and politely asked her to leave her shoes at the door and i kid you not this is what she said “what is this some kind of savage church?” the men immediately kicked her out

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#53

Bragging. We met some Americans in line for the aquarium and they starting talking about how they had the best ever camera and showing all the functions. They kept pushing buttons and a message appeared, "are you sure you want to delete all pictures" we said you better say no, but it was too late. They lost all their pictures from their 3 month around the world trip and somehow got angry at us.

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#54

I’m a Greek-American (ie dual citizen) visiting Greece. An American woman in the acropolis museum tried to touch the marbles when a staff member told her she couldn’t. She replied “you know in Spain they let you touch the Roman statues!!”

Good for Spain. This is Greece, we don’t have much anymore besides our history and a few nice islands. Unless the government sells those too.

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40 Ignorant And Disrespectful Things People Witnessed American Tourists Doing In Other Countries Come in to my house with their shoes. (RUSSIA)

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There was a story about some americans coming to My country to go skiing - this is Denmark, we have a [lots] of hills, but not a single mountain - add to that, that they came in the summer, no place in Denmark has year around snow

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#57

Not so much inappropriate, just [friggin] dumb. “Where are all the kangaroos bouncing down the streets”

[Idiot]! They live in the bush, not the [friggin] CBD

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#58

Probably only weird but when on a flight back to the UK from the US, the American lady sat next to me, started asking questions about England about 40 minutes before landing and not just like any “local recommendations” but really basic stuff like what currency do we use. It seemed like she had got on the plane knowing absolutely nothing about the UK, which blew my mind. Not just from a “haven’t you planned your trip?” POV but having the confidence to do that. She seemed to think it was a small place and everything she wanted to see would be in front of her hotel. She was very polite and lovely about it in a naive way though.

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"Where are you from" "IM FROM DENVER COLORADO BUDDY WHERE YOU FROM" (always loud and shouting, never state America) "I'm from Torbay in Devon" "HEY BUDDY I HAVENT GOT A [friggin] CLUE WHERE THAT IS"

You can always spot Americans when you travel. Or should I say hear them first. Met some lovely ones, but some who need to grasp that people outside of America aren't going to know every state and city in USA.

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#60

Not offensive or inappropriate, but I really want to talk about it

Once in the airport, coming back to Australia in where I’m from in the middle of summer, I saw a dad and his 2 children, all 3 of them wearing full winter coats. The dad said to the both of them “try to stay warm, it’s going to be cold outside”

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Never seen it, but if you refer to Dylan Thomas/Roald Dahl/Catherine Zeta-Jones/Shirley Bassey or any other Welsh born person as English, you will get jeered at and put straight. Also, while we appreciate attempts to at least say the odd Welsh word in conversation (it's a tough language) don't mock us outright or demand that people speak English in a way that makes you look like a d**k. Just say, 'I'm sorry, I don't speak Welsh, I'm not from here'. We will switch to English. You're more likely to find language barriers in rural areas which are traditionally Welsh speaking, but as long as you are polite, you'll be fine. Do not make sheep shagging jokes in a pub unless you want your drink poured over your head.

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40 Ignorant And Disrespectful Things People Witnessed American Tourists Doing In Other Countries I was in Rome and a lady was confused why the confectionery stand man wouldn't take her dollars

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#63

Moaning about not being able to use dollars in an English petrol station, then whingeing that it shouldn't be raining cuz it's summer. Silly man.

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I'm an American, but I saw this airhead American who was constantly trying to touch priceless museum specimens. They were marked No Tocar. The guards kept stopping her, but she seemed confused because she spoke no Spanish.

We were deep into Mexico City. You should learn at least enough to read No Tocar.

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#65

My friend described a trip to an English tourist spot, one of many places said to be Arthur’s Camelot. It required a climb up the picturesque hill to a quiet, tree-filled spot. Nothing of the castle to be seen of course, but everybody gazed out over the surrounding land, contemplating the magic of the ancient myth. Finally arrives the chubby, puffing American who glances about with irritation, then loudly says in that familiar accent: “Where’s the goddam castle?”

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This just happened yesterday. We were in a park, where there is also a museum with a big staircase. And on the wall of the staircase there were some plaquettes commemorating the architects of the building. Their name, when they lived and a few words about them are written on them. So I think it is pretty clear what those are, even if they are in a foreign language. And next to those there are some wreaths. Just as a sign of respect and also decoration.

Now onto what happened. Some tourists went there, one girl grabbed a wreath (that was attached to the wall) put it on her head like a tiara or something and started taking pictures of herself. I had to go there and tell them that this is not the purpose they are to be used for

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#67

saw a family of tourists fishing out a small lake.

i mean hundreds of fish.

they werent even going to eat any of them just tossed them on the grass and left them for the flies.

i memtioned to the father that this was illegal and i was leavindg to reprt it to the warden. he got mad..

this was 30 years ago before cell phones . if it happed today i`d had have a fish and game warden there in 10 minutes.

oh and btw the lake is barren now. no fish.

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#68

In Canada some stores will accept American cash as payment, but by law have to still give Canadian change.

I worked in a city that got a lot of American tourists, and it was crazy how often someone would get really frustrated with us for not giving them American change. I had someone even accuse me of lying about it being the law. To what end lady?

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#69

Repeat themselves over and over more slowly and more loudly each time. No b***h, it's not we're thick or hard of hearing. We speak a different language, here.

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#70

Not inappropriate but a**hole-ish and weird

Guy records me and friends shooing the herds of cows who were [pooping] in the middle of road (occasionally happen) in a car while yelling “YOOOOO” and recording. Dude starts commenting and slapping the cows passing by, spook one and some of them starts to speed up a little bit, made me and my friends in slight danger of getting ram by a cow. Dude passed by us and then record our face while saying something that mad my friend mad, and then proceed to squash the [poop] while he was passing by. Met him at the restaurant too, he ate the bananas leaves that’s served for the purpose of plating the Nasi Lemak, until he was halfway done and the uncle next table told him that’s not for eating. He laughed and spit it all on the plate instead of the tissue.

He also walked in the middle of the town without a shirt and literally threw stuff at the monkeys on the eletric line, which made them scrambled inside the forest and some went to the primary school (which is infront of the forest). He was the main topic of that week gossips

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#71

Screeching, "Oh ma gawd do that again!! Say something Scaaaattish!!" (Scottish) at 8 year old me and a friend during a school trip to an art gallery. Really caught us off guard and my friend just managed to mumble, "what do you want me to say?" And they howled with laughter.

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When I was in Egypt, an American tourist crossed the rope and tried to collect sand/soil under an ancient monument in Cairo. The guard quickly made him release it and followed him for a further few minutes lol.

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#73

My parents owned a motel when I was younger. An American women stay for a night and she set the fire alarm off. She took an electric wall kettle (jug) off its heating element, put it on the stove, turned it on and gone to the bathroom. Completely destroyed the kettle and stove from what I remember.

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Not queuing and cutting to the front (Brit)

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An obese American yelling at passer byes how we are awful people living in a hell hole. I mean, probably most would agree with him, but its one thing ranting as a local and completely other to do it as a guest, especially American. I could hear him a long way after I passed him, until he abruptly stop screaming in the middle of a sentence. I hope he had an epiphany and changed his views on Serbia.

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I grew up in an island of Greece, which we have the biggest American base in mediterenian, one time there was an American aircarrier in the big port, and they where letting the soldiers out to take some air, from one point I get it they needed to take some fresh air and be on land etc, but they where getting drunk yelling thinking they own the world and breaking stuff. Long story short some soliders where in a local fast food place, owned by the Greek version of Redneck. As they where drunk and eating they started yelling F Greece America number one etc. The locals didn't take it very well and they ending beating them to the point that they needed hospitalisation and ambulances to take them. It was pretty much everywhere in the local news back them.

Similar stories happen every time that an aircarrier comes to the island.

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Worked in a suburban sandwich store in Australia with prices listed. US tourist lady asks “are those prices in US Dollars?”

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#78

Not disrespectful but weird as hell.

I was sitting in McDonalds with a friend during our lunch break and a random American lady came up to us and asked if she could take a photo. We kind of just said yes out of confusion tbh

So somewhere in America there’s a random woman with a picture of me and my friend eating in McDonalds with our school uniform on.

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#79

In general, just being very loud.

Without realising they are annoying the entire pub / restaurant / whatever, speaking at a volume that is a clear 10 - 20 dB louder than any other sound in the establishment.

Really annoys the s**t out of everybody I know, but it's note rude 'enough' to tell people off for, so the Americans will never know..

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#80

Those tourists who rent a car just to drive at 100 Km/h in the left lane on the Autobahn. And when you speak to them about it they tell you every speed above that would be just ridiculous.

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#81

I live in a beach tourist town in Australia. Have had numerous Americans I've encountered act like they own a patch of beach because where they're staying is adjacent to the beach.

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#82

See them scream and say "i'm going to sue you". New Zealand has ACC so you basically can't sue for accidents as it's covered.

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I’m British but was travelling in Czechoslovakia in the 90’s. We saw a McDonald’s and decided to grab a bite. There was a really long queue in there, and at the front was a huge American guy. He fitted the stereotype perfectly, very fat and round and extremely loud. On the counter in front of him was literally the largest McDonald’s bag I have ever seen, even to this day, and he was shouting at the intimidated looking young lady behind the counter “where’s my god damn barbecue sauce? I want my god damn barbecue sauce! Just gimme the barbecue sauce!” and wouldn’t move, even with the long line of us behind him!

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I was at Disneyland in Japan and there was an American tourist standing behind us during the fireworks and castle show. He lit up a cigarette in the middle of the crowd where children were, and then loudly complained that because Winnie the Pooh was singing in Japanese that was “f up” and “ruined Pooh forever”. I also saw him punch a toddlers balloon because it was in his way.

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Stephanie IV 3 years ago

Stupidity is universal. I’ve met arseholes from every continent. And wonderful people from all parts of the world.

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tuzdayschild 3 years ago

So have I. But berating Americans is easy and doesn't take much effort, so why not.

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Lemaire 3 years ago

True. Americans do not have a monopoly on being arseholes, but... American arrogance and willful ignorance of the world, combined with a childish defensiveness of America, tends to make us the greatest offenders. We're #1! USA! USA! USA!

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Kristin Ingersoll 3 years ago

I'm so glad I can depend on BP to make sure I know how stupid I am. I'd gone almost a week without seeing a list of reasons my country sucks. Now I can relax and enjoy my week.

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Lav Oravaf 3 years ago

I'm Italian and having worked as a tour operator for several years in the past, I met so many disrespectful people of different nationalities. I just do not get this anger directed only towards US people. Stupidity is universal and has no boundaries.

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jpaul 3 years ago

yeah. i'm french and i'starting to get real fed up of that racism too; because this is what it is

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Frankenfrog 3 years ago

You're welcome!

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Mimi M 3 years ago

Link in case you want to register a complaint about all the anti-American posts on BP: https://www.boredpanda.com/contact-us/?your-recipient=Report%20Post

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Suzy the observer 3 years ago

Glad we could help.

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Ipso Facto 3 years ago

You all a bunch of narcissist morin. Live with it

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Janet C 3 years ago

Glad you've realized the truth.

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Daniel Marsh 3 years ago

More anti-Americanism. This is a great site... except for the constant attacks on America.

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Christopher Duffy 3 years ago

It's such a shame, what with Americans being so generous and accepting of other cultures and viewpoints.

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Frankenfrog 3 years ago

When Americans stop being mind-numbingly stupid, these lists will go away

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Mimi M 3 years ago

Link in case you want to register a complaint about all the anti-American posts on BP: https://www.boredpanda.com/contact-us/?your-recipient=Report%20Post

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Hexenfox 3 years ago

Jfc bored panda. Please stop dragging Americans through the mud. Seriously.

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Dante Lloyd 3 years ago

I agree, Americans are perfectly capable of dragging themselves through the mud.

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Kim Lorton 3 years ago

Some of them, not all... actually deserve it!

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Frankenfrog 3 years ago

It's the gift that keeps on giving. Get over it.

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Mimi M 3 years ago

Link in case you want to register a complaint about all the anti-American posts on BP: https://www.boredpanda.com/contact-us/?your-recipient=Report%20Post

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Mohammad Omar 3 years ago

nope

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Suzy the observer 3 years ago

It came from Reddit.

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Dorothy Parker 3 years ago

I think Bored Panda has reached beyond the saturation point on bashing Americans. Perhaps they're saying our presence is unwelcome here. I get that. It's been real.

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Frankenfrog 3 years ago

Don't let the door hit you on your way out!

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lara 3 years ago

Oh, honey, there is no end to hating America. None.

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jpaul 3 years ago

yeah i agree this is really boring (european here)

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Mimi M 3 years ago

Don't leave - please stay, and please keep calling them out on it (as I do, and others do).

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Mimi M 3 years ago

Link in case you want to register a complaint about all the anti-American posts on BP: https://www.boredpanda.com/contact-us/?your-recipient=Report%20Post

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Full Name 3 years ago

Yeah *snort*, Lol. We're SO dumb!! Ha! *snort*. My god it never stops with this site...

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Frankenfrog 3 years ago

Well.... you are

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Aliquid A 3 years ago

From someone who worked in a tourist town and dealt with Americans, they said "Tourists from different countries act different ways, and I can easily spot the Americans... they are loud, arrogant and ignorant. But one day I noticed that only about 10% of the American tourists acted that way, the other 90% just blended in with the crowd. The thing is, at the end of the work day, you don't remember the customers that blend in with the crowd, you remember the ones that stuck out, and the Americans that stuck out were annoying as hell"

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Logic and Reason 3 years ago

Well everyone, you know what time it is. Time for BP’s often xenophobic lists about how shitty the US and all of its citizens are!! 🎉🎉 Rejoice at this totally accurate, not at all repetitive, and extremely high-effort content!

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Logic and Reason 3 years ago

Ok but seriously, could ya please f*****g stop? All you have to do is briefly look at the comment section to realize no one gives a s**t.

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Frankenfrog 3 years ago

You don't know what xenophobic means, do you

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Mimi M 3 years ago

Link in case you want to register a complaint about all the anti-American posts on BP: https://www.boredpanda.com/contact-us/?your-recipient=Report%20Post

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Jo Firth 3 years ago

Think this is totally unfair to American tourists. I've seen poor behaviour from many nationalities when I've travelled including my fellow Aussies. Let's not point the finger at one group.

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Q B F T 3 years ago

Aussies also have a really bad reputation as tourists - or more accurately as travellers

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ivan bolitekurac 3 years ago (edited)

And we present you this weeks xenophobic post about americans who are complete idiots because they are americans.But tomorrow we will fight again for justice about how a mother was upset because people talk differently to her daughter because they thought it was a boy.And after that we will present you how upset a store owner was because a customer told him that the banana is yellow.But don't worry,we will get back to americans very soon,because they are stupid idiots.Your boredpanda

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Radek Suski 3 years ago

You do realise that the majority of entries here is about idiots who happened to be from the USA? It's not about anything particular to americans' behaviour. Idiots are everywhere

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blugeagua 3 years ago

True but why only talk about the US and not ANY tourists who behave badly.

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K. Lange 3 years ago

and again Americans are being dragged on. You can find idiots from everywhere.

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brukernavn340 3 years ago

The thing is that most people understands English (or it's at least the most understood 2nd language), so even though other tourists may say incredibly stupid things, one would be unable to understand them in most cases.

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Zedrapazia 3 years ago

I always get so upset when I see tourists taking "cute" selfies on the train tracks leading to a concentration camp. These trains have taken millions of people right into their death, how can they not understand how disrespectful their behavior is?

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Leslie Burleson 3 years ago

Because they are young , ignorant , and self obsessed . People do some really stupid stuff to get likes . People will also do negative things like posing on the tracks because that will get their post traffic from the people that they make mad .

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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

First, enough with the America-bashing articles. Go bash some other country for a change. Second, as if the article wasn't bad enough, some of the commenters were complete asses, acting as if all 300+million Americans are exactly the same, and all 3,797,000,000 million square miles of land are exactly the same. Guess what? You don't see the well-behaved American tourists because we're respectful and appreciative, we frequently speak the language of the country we're visiting, and we stay TF away from the loud, ignorant ones. Last, stupidity is not confined to the US. I met several French morons while in France, and several German idiots while in Germany. Why not write a positive article on Americans instead of shitting on us at every opportunity?

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Mimi M 3 years ago

Link in case you want to register a complaint about all the anti-American posts on BP: https://www.boredpanda.com/contact-us/?your-recipient=Report%20Post

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blugeagua 3 years ago

I swear we're not all the same. There's millions of us, we're not a monolith.

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A sorta blue grey 3 years ago

American- when I have traveled to other countries I always would research culture and cuisine. In Peru, the best river trout ever, caviar in Russia, Ahi in Tahiti.. apparently I like fish! People who don't explore the world are missing out. I've seen s**t behavior from many nationalities, still love to see past that and soak in other cultures.

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Happy_Pandalover 3 years ago

love your mindset!

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Happy_Pandalover 3 years ago

This post is the same like the one, where they shamed „rich“ people. Most of these comments could have been about stupid tourists from other countries as well. I have travelled a lot in my life and there are many tourists, where i live. I can confirm, that stupidity is universal as i‘ve met rude/ stupid people from many different countries. Actually most american tourists i talked to where quite intelligent and respectful.

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Mohammad Ammar 3 years ago

It's not just Americans.Brits get the same said about them abroad as do other Europeans who visit countries such as those in East Asia and Africa. The reason for this is that people from the west have strong passports and a strong currency. So even the less cultured and ignorant lot from those countries get to travel. Tourists from developing countries with crap passports tend to be richer and thus more educated and culturally exposed. So they tend to be less annoying abroad. Exceptions do exist of course. Not trying to be classist or anything but that's just how it is.

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Q B F T 3 years ago

Brits can be awful tourists. Especially in Spain and the other cheap sunny tourist traps. Ugh.

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Hexenfox 3 years ago

I wonder what would happen if BP decided to berate...let's see..everyone from Mexico or China. Heads would roll. Please stop f'ng with Americans. Find someone else to pick on. I know. How about Lithuanians..??

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Daphne Williams 3 years ago

The thing is, it's safe to hate on Americans, because that's a nationality, they could be talking about any race of people who are American. If hate on the Chinese, though, you're definitely being racist.

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Pink Floydian Panda 3 years ago

Sigh. I will again apologize for the actions of a few yokels who think the world revolves around America. I swear the majority of us are decent, intelligent people who are curious about the world and your country/culture.

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RiaDeCaterpillar 3 years ago

just once, i wish i could read an article talking about the stupidity of europeans or Australians, instead of it always being Americans.

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Stephanie IV 3 years ago

It’s no use complaining about the wrongness of American-bashing and wishing it unto someone else.

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Mimi M 3 years ago

Link in case you want to register a complaint about all the anti-American posts on BP: https://www.boredpanda.com/contact-us/?your-recipient=Report%20Post

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Mama Penguin 3 years ago

I apologize on behalf of all the uncouth, rude, ignorant American tourists. I promise you we are not all like that.

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Logic and Reason 3 years ago

Why should we apologize? We have nothing to do with it. This is just BP’s cherrypicking to fit their “America sucks pls give me validation” narrative.

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Sandra Keith 3 years ago

American bashing Blah Blah Blah. Went to Canada 2 years ago. Asian tourists were aggressive, rude, loud and obnoxious. Every country has them.

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Aliquid A 3 years ago

Those weren't just "Asian" tourists, those were tourists from Hong Kong. It all comes back to wealth. Hong Kong has a lot of rich people who like to travel, and have an entitled attitude where they treat people working in retail like absolute crap. Many American tourists who travel the world are also wealthy and arrogant (not all, but of course MORE wealthy people can travel more often, when compared to people with a smaller income)

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JustABoredwing 3 years ago

And this is why I try not to be a jerk when visiting other countries, and I really hope I’ve done a good job

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Aliquid A 3 years ago

Very likely you have, but unfortunately, the people working in tourist towns won't remember that you were a decent human being... because the loud tourist beside you ruined their day, and that's the sort of thing that people remember.

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Christophe Beunens 3 years ago

Much of this is caused as Americans rarely go abroad, due to limit number of holidays and living in such a huge country, where you need to travel a very long distance to meet somebody "different". They are not so easily confronted with different cultures as somebody in Europe. Only travelling a few km drops me in another culture, with their own food, habits, language. It made me culturally richer, but I do not blame others for not having had this opportunity (and struggle).

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Janet C 3 years ago

There's a reason the term "ugly American" exists with reference to American tourists. We've seen so many when we travel. We make it a point to be the most anti-ugly American tourists we can be. We do our best to fit in, respect the places we visit, and present that there are at least a few exceptions to that term.

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TheBoredPanda 3 years ago

While I agree that we have some idiots in our country (USA), the majority are respectful and kind. But please, stop posting articles like this unless you're going to post one for every country and not single out just the US.

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tail_bite 3 years ago

WHAT THE F**K THIS IS ANOTHER POST ABOUT THE AMERICAN STEREOTYPE ON BP WE NEED TO SPREAD POSITIVITY NOT NEGETIVITY

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Mimi M 3 years ago

Link in case you want to register a complaint about all the anti-American posts on BP: https://www.boredpanda.com/contact-us/?your-recipient=Report%20Post

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Zaza 3 years ago

Some of these are really bad, but also, as a European and a fanatic American-hater (trying to change that), this doesn't help anyone. I have seen countless articles like this. I hate Americans, I despise them before ever having met them, but how is this a good article? We're judging millions and millions of people by the actions of a small handful. We're all grabbing our torches and pitchforks when other countries or groups of people get bashed, how is this still a thing? The US is the youngest country among us. It's our little brother/sister. And yes, we get to hate on our little sibling a little, but we should also defend them against hate from others. And we as their big brothers should also know better. I have a deep seated hate against (north)Americans and I've only ever met 2 of them, both were such lovely people. Ok, of course the stupid cheeto didn't do the image any good, but that's no excuse. I found myself more often than not joining in on the "stupid american" bashing (1/2)

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Zaza 3 years ago (edited)

(2/2) All "harmless jokes" of course. But they're not. They're not harmless jokes, they hurt people. And when they hurt people they aren't jokes. And all the stuff I have seen online for years and years are not jokes, no harmless comments. It's hateful. And I fell for all of it. And I found myself joining in, ridiculing people just for being from the Us. It's so easy to point out "the wallmart people" for example. But at the end of the day they are still human beings, still just regular people tired from their jobs, trying to purchase some food before they get home and fall asleep from being exhausted. Bp please, my country even has a name for this, it's "leedvermaak". It translate to getting enjoyment out of the suffering of others. It's common here. But this is no "leedvermaak", this is bashing people, this is insulting, shaming and ridiculing people for no other reason than that you are bored. And that is no ok

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Natalie Oleander 3 years ago

Shitting on America again? I'm an American and hate the people at times, more often than not these days. But why the negative post at all? We don't have enough with the news?? Come on.

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Shelby Jackson 3 years ago

These stories are what make me nervous to visit foreign countries. I don't want to go somewhere where the slightest mistake in language or looks would get me thrown on a list like this. I try not to be loud and obnoxious anywhere I go but some of these I've read in the past it's like the zeroed in on the "American" part and it doesn't matter what you do they will pick on you and hate you.

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Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago

Stupidity and rudeness are universal, not strictly reserved for Americans. I've met assholes from many different countries.

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Sleepyhead 3 years ago

I don't know, I don't take these posts personally. These specific tourists sound awful though

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skyfire the nightwing-seawing 3 years ago

As much as some Americans stupid arseholes that think the world revolves around them, not all of us are like this, and most of us do try hard to be kind and considerate people.

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ThePracticalSarcastic 3 years ago

i lived abroad for 13 years and saw the same things described here from SEVERAL OTHER nationalities...UK, AUS to be specific. Can you please find another country to sh*t on? Stupidity is universal.

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Mimi M 3 years ago

Link in case you want to register a complaint about all the anti-American posts on BP: https://www.boredpanda.com/contact-us/?your-recipient=Report%20Post

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bonnyatlast 3 years ago

English family on my mom's side. Visited when I was 18. She took me to all around London on our own and it was very enjoyable. However we signed up for the tour bus to Shakespeare's house and Hampton Court. My relatives were telling me Americans were all loud and rude except us. Then we took the tour. We picked up another bus load that had broken down and boy did they ever get loud together. Sung horrible old songs that made me cringe. The worst was My Bonny Lives over the Ocean. My name is Bonny. I wanted to crawl under my seat. We were told we had a certain amount of time to wander around town and eat lunch at any of the nice restaurants there. Mom and I quietly walked off until we found a nice place. Sat at a small table on the side and talked quietly while we enjoyed our meal. In comes the group. Apparently they followed us. Very loud. Insisted tables moved together to seat all and then bad mouthed everything including the food. Embarrassing.

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JayWantsACat 3 years ago

Us Americans aren't perfect but I don't think we're even considered the worst tourists anymore. But, whatever, easy targets and all. And here we are getting defensive about yet another article about Americans, so well played, I guess.

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Logic and Reason 3 years ago

Guys stop bashing this kind of content in your comments, my upvote finger’s getting tired

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Cheri Aline Sydney 3 years ago

: ))))))

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Shelp 3 years ago

I once went to a restaurant in Viet-Nam. Everything was nice and quiet, there was a big group of French tourists speaking very softly, some locals, the key word is really "quiet". And then, some American tourists came in and started speaking loudly. Very loudly. Never have I heard people being so loud. Several French tourists complained or asked them to speak quieter but they refused to do so. I had to leave the restaurant because it was unbearable.

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Aliquid A 3 years ago

The thing is, back home for those Americans, that would be the "normal" volume level to talk at a restaurant. They weren't being deliberately rude, they just didn't realize that the "restaurant culture" from their hometown did NOT match with the "restaurant culture" where they were. The problem though, is that many Americans have an attitude of "don't tell me what to do!" For example, a large # of Americans complain about being told to wear masks for Covid, where as the Vietnamese said "OK" when asked to wear masks. Likewise, the "Average" American would take offense to being told to be quiet, where as the average Vietnamese would say "oh, sorry"

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Joe Stacy 1 year ago

my friend is like me European and very respected as an old Mercedes Benz mechanic., Mercedes beats all American cars. We drive in US Mercedes with 300 hp and beat all American if they try to pass us. We drove 170MPH

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Ivy at Eve 1 year ago

I've met nice, well informed and well behaved Americans. I've also met some dumb and misbehaving non-Americans. Generally Americans tend to be very friendly however there seems to be a lack in education in relation to what happened/is happening outsides the States. A lack of education does not necessarily means that person is dumb. There is also the tendency to consider the American way as the only right way but most of us will show a tendency to prefer our own culture (but maybe being a tad less vocal about it).

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Dorothy Cloud 2 years ago

I didn't finish reading these. Yes, we have plenty of rude people in America why would I want to read about them sharing their stupidity with the world!!

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Deutschland Mädchen 3 years ago

This hurts my heart. I am American and I swear up and down that I'll never do something like this. People, at least Google something about the country that you're going to do you at least have a general idea of the history and culture

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John Skelly 3 years ago

Oh God this is getting tedious. And it's also rather racist. Also, Americans, as an Englishman I feel your pain (and admit we have far too many idiots to be smug). I remember after the Euros Bored Panda had an article about how badly the 'English' behaved at the football matches. Because we're all racist hooligans, huh? For what it's worth I have met plenty of astoundingly intelligent and culturally sensitive Americans, often on my travels. And by the same token have met plenty of rude and arrogant ones from the UK and the Continent.

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Monica Pryts 3 years ago

We don't claim these people.

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Magda Xenofont 3 years ago

Please, just please do a separate article about how annoying and impolite are Italians. I visited Italy many times, but every single time I'm shocked by their arrogance

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Kim Lorton 3 years ago

For all the good things Americans can be, I am always Abhorred by the behavior of American tourists in other countries. They have no respect for anything or anyone. Let alone find out about the area they are in and the culture as well as acceptable things to do and not do. And Not change their money over!!!

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Cary Williams 3 years ago

I'm an American and see exactly what others see in us. Respect, manners and a better educational system would go a long way to help.

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Leslie Burleson 3 years ago

Seriously? Another slam on America ? We aren't perfect , but nobody else is either . I think if I see one more BP post about how awful Americans are I'm done. It's unfortunate , I really like this app. I'm just so over the massive amount of shite talking about how awful we are. If you knew some of us you'd know the impression that you have from the media, is not who we really are. There are a lot of good people here as well as the bad, and it's the same way no matter where you're from.

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VogueGal 3 years ago

Where I come from, stupid Americans thinking all "Asian women" are poor, uneducated, and easy to be bought by USD. These people usually watch too much of 90-Day Fiancé and thinking we all need saving for a better life, even though they're actually a douchebag working in IT making $35K a year but acts like he's royalty. Nothing wrong with the profession, just trying to make a point. This is why a lot of Americans or Canadians are "missing" when they're traveling.

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VogueGal 3 years ago

Oh also many stupid North Americans not knowing what bidet is and thinking they're water fountains!

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Marylu Horkowitz 3 years ago

Sorry, but the Chinese tourists win. Loud, pushy, rude. Every tour guide I speak with agrees. Many hotels won't book Chinese tour groups.

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AndersM 3 years ago

In Denmark we used to mock the swedes for being drunk and Germans for being arrogant. It has changed over there years. Every counter has it's idiots. When I hear/see some Danes how they behave being on holiday.... Sorry! :-)

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Kotryna M 3 years ago

Boredpanda really hates americans, so many negative posts about them. I am sure every country has idiots.

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Pearl 3 years ago

I agree, saying "not all Americans" is like saying "Not all men" and "All lives matter". I agree, not all Americans, but enough to make us weary of how stupid some of them can be. I also agree that BP is obsessed with dissing the U.S AND obsessed with praising Japan for how "Unique and Different it is". What the heck? I mean, I get why a country would want to put another one down, but why is it praising Japan? BP is Lithuanian-based, right?

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Frankenfrog 3 years ago

Just here for the whiny comments from Americans not realising how stupid they are

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Frankenfrog 3 years ago

You did not disappoint. LMAO!!

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Mimi M 3 years ago (edited)

Anyone who is sick of this, please remember to downvote. And I posted a link in the replies to anyone who complained in the comments - here it is again: Link in case you want to register a complaint about all the anti-American posts on BP: https://www.boredpanda.com/contact-us/?your-recipient=Report%20Post And sorry about all the redundancy, but wanted to make sure anyone who complained would see the link in their replies, in case they don't read all the comments. I want people to have a positive action that they can take, instead of just ranting here. And if BP wants to keep on posting so many America-bashing posts, at least let them balance it with an equal number of posts bashing other specific countries - not 'countries in general' or 'people in general' or 'tourists in general' - but actually bashing specific countries by name. Let's see if they do it.

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Heather G 3 years ago

Why does this have to be specifically Americans. I know American tourists are often awful or ignorant but man... this country shaming is getting a bit much. I couldn't help that I was born here. And there are good things about my culture just like there are bad things. Like everywhere else. There is no perfect country.

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Mimi M 3 years ago

Link in case you want to register a complaint about all the anti-American posts on BP: https://www.boredpanda.com/contact-us/?your-recipient=Report%20Post

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Rider 3 years ago

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Jason Tasse 3 years ago

I read this here three days ago, and then again on Buzzfeed today by a completely different author. What's up with that?

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ThePracticalSarcastic 3 years ago

maybe BP is using writing bots now too...

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Just saying 3 years ago

Well, us Brits can be pretty bad too. We've only just discovered the hell we put our European neighbours through every summer, as Covid has meant all our louts are on holiday in the UK instead of the Algarve or Ibiza.

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Rickster 3 years ago

Has BP been infiltrated by Chinese and Russian operatives? Enough with the America bashing.

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Mimi M 3 years ago

Link in case you want to register a complaint about all the anti-American posts on BP: https://www.boredpanda.com/contact-us/?your-recipient=Report%20Post

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

OK, the Monday no-edit got me. *Meant to say*: Grew up with wonderful intelligent friend. She will not even eat Tex-Mex as it is not "American food" , and also avoids all Asian cuisines, preferring "American" food. Love her dearly, but she thinks Olive Garden is exotic. So you can find these folks *without leaving the US*... or any other nation. My UK in-laws refuse to eat "non British food". Idiotic beahviors are everywhere.

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Remi Flynne 3 years ago

It always puzzles me when US and UK are countries that have dishes from all over the world as part of their everyday cuisine. When was it the 'right' British food moment for your in-laws I wonder? Britain is a multi-invaded country over many centuries so the food has changed and adapted throughout this time. At what point do they think it was most perfectly British for them? Would they eat the UK dish of Chicken Tikka Masala? Or must it be the jelly moulds and blancmanges of the Victorian Era? Oh well, they are the ones missing out on the wonderful foods from different countries - we just have to try and feel sorry for them! Don't worry - most of us really do know that we notice the loud and lairy b'stards from any country and that most US citizens are perfectly decent people. I genuinely have only met really nice people from the US (both there and in other countries).

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Mimi M 3 years ago

Oh please, stop with the constant anti-American BS. Don't you read how sick we American readers are of it? Or at least make it about all countries in equal measure.

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lara 3 years ago

We were in Kiev. This was 1975. I spoke some German, enough to ask questions and some Russian. There were six of us trying to get back to the hotel. We were at the opera, trust me you have not lived until you have heard Don Quixote in Russian, anyway we were trying to get a cab, it was about ten PM. My friend was fluent in Russian. We finally flagged down a taxi and my friend, in Russian [we're in Kiev, remember] asked him to take us to the hotel. He kept saying no, no, adamantly. I realized the problem. I said, in English, to my friend "he thinks that we are Russians." He heard me speak English, his face lit up he said "you Americans?" I said yes, he said "where go?" We told him he said "get in, get in." It was quite distance, and he talked to us the whole trip, when we got to the hotel he said, "I take you tour tomorrow, OK?" Well we were leaving the next morning so we had to say, no, and we tried to pay him, but he refused to allow us to pay him.

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lara 3 years ago

We finally just "pushed 20 American dollars on him." He was so nice, so grateful, he wanted to take us home to meet his family, take us to dinner, we really hated to leave, but next morning, Moscow. EVERYWHERE we went in Eastern Europe and Russia, the MOMENT they found out we were Americans they just were as wonderfully sweet and kind as they could be. And we were traveling "Sputnik" which was the "student tourist" group. We were a college group and the guides KNEW EVERYTHING ABOUT US.

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Jo Choto 3 years ago

I could write a book on tourists because of the jobs I've had. One of my favourite memories was in the Victoria Falls Hotel in (gasp) Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. A group of us were chatting in the lobby and a very flustered American man marched up to the service desk and demanded that we "turn off the tape." It took a few back and forth questions to work out what he was talking about. He did not like the fact that the hotel was playing an animal recording because it was really loud outside his window and he couldn't sleep. He actually thought the night sounds of Africa were a cassette tape being played by the hotel. He refused to believe it was the sound of nature. Even when led to the front entrance to hear the noise for himself, he refused to believe he was hearing nature. He said he was going to lodge a complaint in the morning and move to the other hotel in town (the Makasa Sun, some meters down the road), because they wouldn't have stupid animal noises playing all night.

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David Beaulieu 3 years ago

Stereotypes are bad, even when about how stupid Americans are. Bored Panda should not be featuring articles about this negative trash. Keep it positive!

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Aliquid A 3 years ago

Things never improve if you "keep it positive". You have to face problems if you want to fix them.

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Q B F T 3 years ago

I get a sense this will inspire a fair few "not more America bashing, I'm out of here!" comments from thin-skinned yanks. But while American tourists are often visibly loud/rude/obnoxious, in my experience, groups of Chinese tourists can rival them (though mostly in Asia) - I've seen more than one kid egged on by his parents rip coral reef out of the ocean, for example. Maybe a BP post on that to even things out? Would probably soothe the butthurt Americans here complaining about America bashing...

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NOLAHusker 3 years ago

How about we post 2-3 threads each week bashing your country and see how much you enjoy seeing your country portrayed by the absolute worst your country has to offer?

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Taylor Lowe 3 years ago

And this is why I want to drop my US nationality.... so embarrassing.

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Helmut Kok 3 years ago

Keep these post up it so fun to look at those butthurt American's commenting

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Christopher Duffy 3 years ago (edited)

I am friends with a lot of Americans who live and work in London and they are great people. As tourists though they can be quite nasty. An elderly American couple once interrupted an important phone call to ask me to translate Roman numerals on a building. Its just an attitude of utter entitlement combined with a cosmological level of stupidity. I told them to f*** off.

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Piet Puk 3 years ago

I once met two old Americans asking for dicertions to a well know museum. They were very kind. Maybe they were Canedian.

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Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

Oh no we aren't allowed to say this now on Bored Panda, because they overdid the "america is different" articles, and now we arent allowed to mention america in any kind of non positive way 😱 do i have the freedom of speech to say this? We shall see...

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NOLAHusker 3 years ago

You have freedom of speech. We have freedom of upvoting and downvoting. Caution, your Republican understanding of the first amendment is showing.

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Agfox 3 years ago

I don't think you understand what freedom of speech means. Like everyone else, you may post on this privately owned website in accordance with whatever terms & conditions the Lithuanian owner has stipulated.

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Eslamala 3 years ago

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Logic and Reason 3 years ago (edited)

You heard it here first folks, US citizens have a monopoly on ignorance and being entitled.

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Stephanie IV 3 years ago

Stupidity is universal. I’ve met arseholes from every continent. And wonderful people from all parts of the world.

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tuzdayschild 3 years ago

So have I. But berating Americans is easy and doesn't take much effort, so why not.

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Lemaire 3 years ago

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Aliquid A 3 years ago

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Kristin Ingersoll 3 years ago

I'm so glad I can depend on BP to make sure I know how stupid I am. I'd gone almost a week without seeing a list of reasons my country sucks. Now I can relax and enjoy my week.

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Lav Oravaf 3 years ago

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jpaul 3 years ago

yeah. i'm french and i'starting to get real fed up of that racism too; because this is what it is

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Frankenfrog 3 years ago

You're welcome!

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Mimi M 3 years ago

Link in case you want to register a complaint about all the anti-American posts on BP: https://www.boredpanda.com/contact-us/?your-recipient=Report%20Post

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Suzy the observer 3 years ago

Glad we could help.

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Ipso Facto 3 years ago

You all a bunch of narcissist morin. Live with it

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Janet C 3 years ago

Glad you've realized the truth.

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Daniel Marsh 3 years ago

More anti-Americanism. This is a great site... except for the constant attacks on America.

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Christopher Duffy 3 years ago

It's such a shame, what with Americans being so generous and accepting of other cultures and viewpoints.

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Frankenfrog 3 years ago

When Americans stop being mind-numbingly stupid, these lists will go away

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Mimi M 3 years ago

Link in case you want to register a complaint about all the anti-American posts on BP: https://www.boredpanda.com/contact-us/?your-recipient=Report%20Post

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Hexenfox 3 years ago

Jfc bored panda. Please stop dragging Americans through the mud. Seriously.

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Dante Lloyd 3 years ago

I agree, Americans are perfectly capable of dragging themselves through the mud.

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Kim Lorton 3 years ago

Some of them, not all... actually deserve it!

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Frankenfrog 3 years ago

It's the gift that keeps on giving. Get over it.

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Mimi M 3 years ago

Link in case you want to register a complaint about all the anti-American posts on BP: https://www.boredpanda.com/contact-us/?your-recipient=Report%20Post

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Mohammad Omar 3 years ago

nope

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Suzy the observer 3 years ago

It came from Reddit.

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Dorothy Parker 3 years ago

I think Bored Panda has reached beyond the saturation point on bashing Americans. Perhaps they're saying our presence is unwelcome here. I get that. It's been real.

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Frankenfrog 3 years ago

Don't let the door hit you on your way out!

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lara 3 years ago

Oh, honey, there is no end to hating America. None.

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jpaul 3 years ago

yeah i agree this is really boring (european here)

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Mimi M 3 years ago

Don't leave - please stay, and please keep calling them out on it (as I do, and others do).

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Mimi M 3 years ago

Link in case you want to register a complaint about all the anti-American posts on BP: https://www.boredpanda.com/contact-us/?your-recipient=Report%20Post

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Full Name 3 years ago

Yeah *snort*, Lol. We're SO dumb!! Ha! *snort*. My god it never stops with this site...

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Frankenfrog 3 years ago

Well.... you are

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Aliquid A 3 years ago

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Logic and Reason 3 years ago

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Logic and Reason 3 years ago

Ok but seriously, could ya please f*****g stop? All you have to do is briefly look at the comment section to realize no one gives a s**t.

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Frankenfrog 3 years ago

You don't know what xenophobic means, do you

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Mimi M 3 years ago

Link in case you want to register a complaint about all the anti-American posts on BP: https://www.boredpanda.com/contact-us/?your-recipient=Report%20Post

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Aliquid A 3 years ago

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Jo Firth 3 years ago

Think this is totally unfair to American tourists. I've seen poor behaviour from many nationalities when I've travelled including my fellow Aussies. Let's not point the finger at one group.

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Q B F T 3 years ago

Aussies also have a really bad reputation as tourists - or more accurately as travellers

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ivan bolitekurac 3 years ago (edited)

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Radek Suski 3 years ago

You do realise that the majority of entries here is about idiots who happened to be from the USA? It's not about anything particular to americans' behaviour. Idiots are everywhere

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blugeagua 3 years ago

True but why only talk about the US and not ANY tourists who behave badly.

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K. Lange 3 years ago

and again Americans are being dragged on. You can find idiots from everywhere.

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brukernavn340 3 years ago

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Zedrapazia 3 years ago

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Leslie Burleson 3 years ago

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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

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Mimi M 3 years ago

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blugeagua 3 years ago

I swear we're not all the same. There's millions of us, we're not a monolith.

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A sorta blue grey 3 years ago

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Happy_Pandalover 3 years ago

love your mindset!

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Happy_Pandalover 3 years ago

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Mohammad Ammar 3 years ago

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Q B F T 3 years ago

Brits can be awful tourists. Especially in Spain and the other cheap sunny tourist traps. Ugh.

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Hexenfox 3 years ago

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Pink Floydian Panda 3 years ago

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RiaDeCaterpillar 3 years ago

just once, i wish i could read an article talking about the stupidity of europeans or Australians, instead of it always being Americans.

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Stephanie IV 3 years ago

It’s no use complaining about the wrongness of American-bashing and wishing it unto someone else.

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Mimi M 3 years ago

Link in case you want to register a complaint about all the anti-American posts on BP: https://www.boredpanda.com/contact-us/?your-recipient=Report%20Post

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Aliquid A 3 years ago

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Mama Penguin 3 years ago

I apologize on behalf of all the uncouth, rude, ignorant American tourists. I promise you we are not all like that.

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Logic and Reason 3 years ago

Why should we apologize? We have nothing to do with it. This is just BP’s cherrypicking to fit their “America sucks pls give me validation” narrative.

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Sandra Keith 3 years ago

American bashing Blah Blah Blah. Went to Canada 2 years ago. Asian tourists were aggressive, rude, loud and obnoxious. Every country has them.

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Aliquid A 3 years ago

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JustABoredwing 3 years ago

And this is why I try not to be a jerk when visiting other countries, and I really hope I’ve done a good job

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Aliquid A 3 years ago

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Christophe Beunens 3 years ago

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Janet C 3 years ago

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TheBoredPanda 3 years ago

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tail_bite 3 years ago

WHAT THE F**K THIS IS ANOTHER POST ABOUT THE AMERICAN STEREOTYPE ON BP WE NEED TO SPREAD POSITIVITY NOT NEGETIVITY

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Mimi M 3 years ago

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Zaza 3 years ago

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Natalie Oleander 3 years ago

Shitting on America again? I'm an American and hate the people at times, more often than not these days. But why the negative post at all? We don't have enough with the news?? Come on.

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Shelby Jackson 3 years ago

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Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago

Stupidity and rudeness are universal, not strictly reserved for Americans. I've met assholes from many different countries.

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Sleepyhead 3 years ago

I don't know, I don't take these posts personally. These specific tourists sound awful though

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skyfire the nightwing-seawing 3 years ago

As much as some Americans stupid arseholes that think the world revolves around them, not all of us are like this, and most of us do try hard to be kind and considerate people.

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ThePracticalSarcastic 3 years ago

i lived abroad for 13 years and saw the same things described here from SEVERAL OTHER nationalities...UK, AUS to be specific. Can you please find another country to sh*t on? Stupidity is universal.

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Mimi M 3 years ago

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bonnyatlast 3 years ago

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JayWantsACat 3 years ago

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Logic and Reason 3 years ago

Guys stop bashing this kind of content in your comments, my upvote finger’s getting tired

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Cheri Aline Sydney 3 years ago

: ))))))

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Shelp 3 years ago

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Joe Stacy 1 year ago

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Dorothy Cloud 2 years ago

I didn't finish reading these. Yes, we have plenty of rude people in America why would I want to read about them sharing their stupidity with the world!!

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Deutschland Mädchen 3 years ago

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John Skelly 3 years ago

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Monica Pryts 3 years ago

We don't claim these people.

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Magda Xenofont 3 years ago

Please, just please do a separate article about how annoying and impolite are Italians. I visited Italy many times, but every single time I'm shocked by their arrogance

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Kim Lorton 3 years ago

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Cary Williams 3 years ago

I'm an American and see exactly what others see in us. Respect, manners and a better educational system would go a long way to help.

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Leslie Burleson 3 years ago

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VogueGal 3 years ago

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VogueGal 3 years ago

Oh also many stupid North Americans not knowing what bidet is and thinking they're water fountains!

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Marylu Horkowitz 3 years ago

Sorry, but the Chinese tourists win. Loud, pushy, rude. Every tour guide I speak with agrees. Many hotels won't book Chinese tour groups.

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AndersM 3 years ago

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Kotryna M 3 years ago

Boredpanda really hates americans, so many negative posts about them. I am sure every country has idiots.

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Pearl 3 years ago

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Frankenfrog 3 years ago

Just here for the whiny comments from Americans not realising how stupid they are

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Frankenfrog 3 years ago

You did not disappoint. LMAO!!

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Mimi M 3 years ago (edited)

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Mimi M 3 years ago

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Rider 3 years ago

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Jason Tasse 3 years ago

I read this here three days ago, and then again on Buzzfeed today by a completely different author. What's up with that?

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ThePracticalSarcastic 3 years ago

maybe BP is using writing bots now too...

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Rickster 3 years ago

Has BP been infiltrated by Chinese and Russian operatives? Enough with the America bashing.

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Mimi M 3 years ago

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

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Remi Flynne 3 years ago

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Mimi M 3 years ago

Oh please, stop with the constant anti-American BS. Don't you read how sick we American readers are of it? Or at least make it about all countries in equal measure.

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lara 3 years ago

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David Beaulieu 3 years ago

Stereotypes are bad, even when about how stupid Americans are. Bored Panda should not be featuring articles about this negative trash. Keep it positive!

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Aliquid A 3 years ago

Things never improve if you "keep it positive". You have to face problems if you want to fix them.

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NOLAHusker 3 years ago

How about we post 2-3 threads each week bashing your country and see how much you enjoy seeing your country portrayed by the absolute worst your country has to offer?

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Taylor Lowe 3 years ago

And this is why I want to drop my US nationality.... so embarrassing.

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Helmut Kok 3 years ago

Keep these post up it so fun to look at those butthurt American's commenting

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Christopher Duffy 3 years ago (edited)

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Piet Puk 3 years ago

I once met two old Americans asking for dicertions to a well know museum. They were very kind. Maybe they were Canedian.

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Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

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NOLAHusker 3 years ago

You have freedom of speech. We have freedom of upvoting and downvoting. Caution, your Republican understanding of the first amendment is showing.

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Logic and Reason 3 years ago (edited)

You heard it here first folks, US citizens have a monopoly on ignorance and being entitled.

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