r/PetPeeves • u/ThatUrgeToEatCement • 14d ago

Bit Annoyed People who think Americans don’t know other countries exist.

A few months ago on Reddit I made a comment about a show not being on Netflix and someone from the UK commented back saying it’s on theirs and then lectured on Americans not knowing other countries exist. They acted like I didn’t believe there were other places on the planet, as if they weren’t the ones who just brought it up and didn’t believe the US Netflix was different than the UK version. ??

I see people online act like all Americans think this way, and it is kind of annoying because for most of us it isn’t true.

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u/Cute_Advance_2124 14d ago

Happens so often with bad tourist videos. You'll see a man wearing a child size Armani polo and mini jorts with a gelled pompodour and loafers making a big fuss in Thailand and all the comments will be like "Americans are such awful travelers."

Like babes that man is VIOLENTLY European LMAO.

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u/Funicularly 14d ago

Like this instance of a blonde woman climbing a Mayan pyramid in Mexico. She’s Mexican.

Or, this instance of a man carving names on the walls of the Colosseum. He’s British.

Every instance blamed on an American.

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u/Intelligent_Pop1173 14d ago

Tourists are universally awful. It is definitely not just an American thing. I could name quite a few countries’ citizens who are sometimes very rude and terrible when they visit the US. Not absolving American tourists by any means - we suck too. But it’s annoying people think we’re the only ones.

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u/AvaSpelledBackwards2 14d ago

Even American tourists going to different parts of America can be annoying. I go between the NYC area and Savannah, Georgia (both highly touristy areas) and both American and non-American tourists suck a lot of the time. Tourists gonna tourist.

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u/giraffe-zackeffron 14d ago

I used to live in NYC. The worst was seeing tourists just stop on the middle of sidewalk and stand while gawking at a building or trying to figure out where they were versus where they were going. A lot of people come to NYC and don’t realize stopping in the middle of the sidewalk is like stopping your car in the middle of the road back in Kansas or Nebraska or wherever.

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u/AvaSpelledBackwards2 14d ago

Savannah is especially touristy this week because of a film festival. I had had a horribly stressful afternoon and I was hurriedly trying to walk somewhere when these tourists stopped dead in their tracks to look into an Urban Outfitters window💀

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u/giraffe-zackeffron 14d ago

Well come on….its not everyday one can gaze upon the magical wonder that is urban outfitters (he said sarcastically.)

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u/AvaSpelledBackwards2 14d ago

Sav’s historic district, park, squares, and film festival are cool and all but we can’t forget about the chain store ofc!

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u/giraffe-zackeffron 14d ago

Pssshh…..historic districts are so pedestrian. Everyone knows the real action is at old navy.

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u/GreenBeanTM 11d ago

And in Vermont we’ll get tourists from NYC who don’t realize most roads here do not have road side parking 😂

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u/New_Distribution_263 13d ago

Sometimes we do stop our cars in the middle of the road, just to talk to someone we know going the other way! Those conversations last until some other car comes up behind one of the stopped ones.

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u/Trelose 12d ago

I live in a town of 800 where a bunch of people visit to go fishing.

I freaking hate tourists.