Jesus christ, what the fuck is this question? This is essentially a thinnly-veiled “Which nationality are the worst people?”, thinnly-veiled racism.
Literally hald of them are like, “Chinese people baaad”, wtf. And also 1/3 of them are “Indians baaad”.
I’m Chinese American which is why that thread made me feel disgusted at reddit.
Like holy shit, I’m not overreacting right? I’m pretty sure c/[email protected] would never allow this troll question.
Am from Finland. If I had to answer the thread, I would have been like “oh, American tourists are usually the weirdest, but you’ve just gotta be patient with them, usually the people from the anglosphere are fairly chill once shit dies down. And the people from other parts of the world may have some strange customs but you’ve just gotta be patient with them. That’s, like, the Key. Of all customer service.”
It’s hard being racist against a specific country when you’re the first tourism destination in the world, but British really do produce a special kind of tourists.
I literally read an article just yesterday about some drunken asshole who tried to open the hatch midflight, was manhandled by the personnel and some volunteers, and then taken off the flight in Toulouse, with his mates. They were going to Spain, who seem to be plagued with that specific breed of lads, but still.Also it’s difficult to distinguish genuine racism (“brown people poo in the streets!”) from xenophobia triggered by actual, repeated experience (try living in one of the most popular touristic small towns in France for a summer…)
The city of Amsterdam has paid for adds in England to discourage Brits from coming to Amsterdam
Source: https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/11/stay-away-campaign-fails-to-stop-british-tourists-to-amsterdam/
So yea it’s Brits where I’m from
Obviously the Brits
As someone who lived on the northern US border for a long time this is a very easy question for me to answer without being racist haha.
The myth of Canadian politeness really stops at the border.
Lmao I live on the Canadian side of the border and my first thought was Americans (doesnt matter the ethnicity).
Solidarity for hating on each other as tourists 🤝🏽
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I live in a tourist town and can confirm, they all suck in their own ways. Also, sometimes non-tourists also suck. Also, most of the time people suck.
As an tourist from the USA I am disgusted when I see tourists from the USA.
Nothing spoils a vacation quicker. You teach yourself some of the language, get on with the locals, avoid the tourist traps, and just when you’ve forgotten all your troubles and you’re feeling magnanimous and at your ease, someone nearby goes and ruins it.
They will be existing quite blamelessly among their friends and family, conversing to each other normally, or even more pleasantly than usual. At home you might smile for them and the happiness they had found. Here however, they strike you as unbearably loud and unspeakably crass. You notice how badly their clothes fit, and yet how you wish they’d wear more.
With an orclike air and children in tow they evoke the forced march of Merry and Pippin, and it wounds your feelings to see so many of them unchecked in civilised lands. Their travel agent must be a raven-haired, sallow-faced betrayer, hated in these parts for pouring poisoned words into the ear of the local authorities, and you wish he’d have been made an outlaw before it was too late.
What?
I’m only saying I agree with the chap. Have you been to Paris? It’s lovely in April.
Technically, it’s being xenophobic, not racist
I feel like xenophobic would be hating on all (foreign?) tourists, while racist is picking one specific nationality like asked by the post.
Xenophobia is about “where” the person is from, even if they “don’t look like it”, and it can also happen within a country (Brazil’s southerners tend to be very xenophobic against people from northeast). Racism would be “every white person”, whether Italian, Bri’ish, Russian, etc.
Nationalities are defiend by ethnic make up, not races.
Race is very USian thing to define things by.
A tour bus full of people all from this one country is leaving a beautiful forested state park. They leave behind multiple still smoldering cigarette butts on the ground. Can you guess the country?
Italy?
Fucking blue skinned motherfuckers!
If only they were green…
That’s not a racist question, IMO. Like, I’d say British. I guess it depends on the country. And both Britain and my country are predominantly white.
That people came in with racist responses doesn’t mean the question itself is racist.
Yeah British is the standard response where I’m from, specifically groups of “lads” or “lasses” that get super fucked up and make a mess in the city center, sometimes for bachelor(ette) parties.
In the area I work British bachelor(ette) parties are banned from most venues.
I’m still ok to have my stag do there, right?
It is most certainly the lizard people. They are the worst by far.
Damn zuckerberg smh my head
Always sunning on the best rocks and hissing at anyone who gets too close… So rude.
Yeah the worst is when they try to cram in the elevator and someone’s tail pops off. Glad it grows back buddy but my shoes can’t grow new canvas.
This is essentially a thinnly-veiled “Which nationality are the worst people?”, thinnly-veiled racism.
American isn’t a race.
The only countries where nationality equals race are ethno states like Israel and even there its not 100% ethnic jews. Everywhere else you will just have a mixed random mess.
It’s a spectrum.
I once saw a woman screaming at the receptionist of an internet cafe cause she was being charged for two time slots, rather than one. She had exceeded her time by like 10 minutes. It was not much money they were fighting over. She just felt entitled to pay less, cause it was not her intention to exceed this threshold.
This was in Thailand and the woman was an American.
A good way around this, imo, is how libraries here in the US (the ones I’ve been to, anyway) do it.
Here, they usually have an hour-long timer where you can do whatever you need/want on the computer. When that hour ends, it kicks you out of the PC back to a login screen, but you can almost always just re-login.
I think some libraries have a limit, but I’m not entirely sure.
Race is not the same as nationality, however it’s a difficult one because your examples Chinese and Indian are also perceived as ethnicities.
The question is a bit pointless anyway as the place itself will help determine who are the worst groups.
For example in this thread people are talking about British tourists - but in reality that is a subset of generally young and less well off British tourists who go to the Mediterranean - especially Spain but not exclusively - for cheap package holidays and party drunkardly. Meanwhile British tourists who go to other parts of Europe (families, wealthier tourists etc) or the rest of the world do not have that reputation.
Personally I don’t live in a tourist hot-spot now so tourists aren’t a problem. When I lived in London, the answer was generally European tourists but only because there were so many of them compared to other groups and they’d stand around in the middle of busy pavements blocking other people trying to get around. Worst was blocking Tube entrances. But far better than drunkardly vomiting and pissing all over the street I guess.
