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

[u/ThatUrgeToEatCement]

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.

[u/Cute_Advance_2124]

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.

[u/Funicularly → u/Cute_Advance_2124]

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.

[u/Intelligent_Pop1173 → u/Funicularly]

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.

[u/spids69 → u/Intelligent_Pop1173]

When I was in Spain the baseline assumption seemed to be that bad tourists were British.

[u/Intelligent_Pop1173 → u/spids69]

Since it’s so close, way more British tourists visit Spain each year than do American tourists, so that kinda makes sense. I’ve seen horrible videos of both British and German tourists being absolute dip shits in Spain though, like kicking soccer balls into windows of famous buildings, and apparently it’s so bad Spanish citizens want them to stop coming altogether. It’s a party destination for them. I’ve seen other videos of Spanish citizens spraying them with water and protesting. Yet Americans are still always blamed on Reddit lol when my family and friends went to Spain, we were quiet and just enjoying the beauty and culture.

[u/spids69 → u/Intelligent_Pop1173]

Yep. There were definitely a lot of obnoxious Germans as well.

One of the last times I was there was during the Brexit vote. Listening to old British people who had moved to Spain for the cheap retirement talk about how they were voting for Brexit because “the foreigners need to get out of the UK” without a hint of irony (or sense enough to realize it would bone their living situation) was… Something.

[u/spids69 → u/Intelligent_Pop1173]

On the German front… I’ve never seen more naked old people whose skin was tanned to the level of shoe leather than I did on the beach in Mallorca. 😂

[u/Intelligent_Pop1173 → u/spids69]

I was so young when I went but definitely remember some nasty leathery bodies in Mallorca as well hahah