I feel like this article is completely contradictory

Not that shocking... Everyone hates the French.

Although I would expect Americans to be in the top 3.
 
haha yeah they forgot to include where America stood on that list, if they even did. figures.
 
i figured they would mention the tip thing. weve tried tipping in france and they flat out dont take it. and ive never been to paris, only cote dazur, and i found most people rather hospitable, or generally humorous but sarcastic.i dont see whats contradictory though? i get a lot of american tourists at work and sometimes theyre actually quite polite, and overly friendly. i think there are all sorts. survey is a survey right?

 
I think the point being made is that American tourists have a reputation for being fat, ignorant and inconsiderate.

They are known for going to foreign countries, expecting the people there to speak English, and end up going to McDonalds every meal rather than getting properly immersed in the culture.

(note: that is just the common stereotype, not my opinion of how every American tourist acts).
 
thats exactly why i thought this article was contradictory. minus the fat and McDonalds part, that completely sums up my family. my brother studied abroad in germany for 5 months and didnt bother to learn a single german word. my parents visited him and refused to bring a pocket german/english dictionary, against my requests. shit like that just makes me angry
 
you live in Canada. we might as well group Canadians in with Americans here, seeing as how we speak the same language and we live on the same continent. it stands to reason that American tourists coming to Canada seem perfectly normal, and unless they tell you they are a tourist, you're unlikely to ever guess that they are one, because there is not a huge cultural difference.

now, i noticed you're in Montreal, so that might change things a little, because i know that most people in Quebec don't like to speak English and would rather pretend they are French than French-Canadian (in fact i wouldn't be surprised if some French-Canadian tourists go around to other countries and call themselves French), and you may as well have your own little culture there (like some sort of giant "artist" colony), but the fact still stands that you share a border with America and therefore are not nearly as foreign as Japan, or Germany, or New Zealand.
 
no way.most of the english people here suck at french, and most of the french do refuse to speak english. let alone, neighbouring ontario, quebec is quite different from it. and not just because its french. same as i dont see the west coast being anything like the east. ive been to a few places in canada as well and not only is the accent, and slang different, so are the lifestyles. you can tell an american tourist apart from the regulars most of the time. ive been mistaken by tourists in new york as someone from new york as well. anythings possible, and frankly, im not french, im a bilingual canadian, im not italian, by my real last name, im canadian, foremost, before im a montrealer from quebec. even you have prejudices about the east coaster buddy.there are major cultural differences, and unless you havent traveled to a lot of states, i wouldnt say much, because also the please and thank yous ive grown using has also let a lot of new yorkers guess that i was from canada. ive also been mistaken for belgian in france, because of the accent, but known i was a tourist because i was so pale. montrealers are in fact to be said to live much more in a european sense than our neighbours. the way that most people dress/act is symbolic of their environment.
 
+ and that perfectly bilingual since birth, having a french father and english mother, both who speak both languages, but not fluently. a french person would probably call me english, but i dont really care about categories because its a language and my ancestors come from all over.
 
i wasn't talking about you, so i'll just skip past everything you said about yourself because you don't represent the majority of Montrealers or Quebecois.

i know the the east and west coast, different states, etc. are different. but i guarantee that Nova Scotia and California are a much closer match than English America and Japan. Absolutely guarantee that. like i said before, Quebec is special because they have their own little culture, but it is still easier for any American to make the move to a European (and we'll include Quebec in that) culture than it is for them to transition to an Asian or African culture (probably why Europe is a more popular destination for Americans).

 
international language is english, practically, so most tourists spots or countries do speak english as a second language.
 
anyways, the other two comments clarified for me, besides that, im not american, and i dont live like one, whether or not im from quebec, and i simply answered a question you posed without asking because you clearly were assuming. you may as well say all african countries are the same.
 
thanks for reiterating the point that many americans won't go anywhere that doesn't speak english already.
 
omgz no wai!!!

people travel for the sake of getting away from somewhere, not to go somewhere, i.e. americans (or anyone else) who go to a fashion capital to shop and drink and talk to people they already relate to.
 
retarded, their seen as the worst because they dont speak english or spend as much. such a bs way of looking at things
 
I live in Denmark, And when we travel, it is to places like Spain and Greece were they barely speak English, and it's like that with most people, so i think it's just the ''common'' American view that they don't like to go to places were they don't know the language.
 
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