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Are there typical "ugly Americans" while traveling? Sure, there are. But there are ugly tourists everywhere. I find it interesting how quick non-Americans are to just assume that any time there is bad behavior, it is an American. The Bulgarian living in England who carved his initials into the Colosseum in Rome was, at first, misidentified as American. The lady who went to take a drink out of a fountain, I think also in Rome, also misidentified by many as American. There was a Russian who misbehaved and, at first, was also misidentified as American. There are a lot of examples. I wonder why there seems to be a sizeable number of people, a lot in Europe, who just like to look for any reason to put ALL Americans down. They are ALL "dumb" and so on. Like they have a chip on their shoulder and when you all them out with logic (well, we do have a country of 350+ million) they double and triple down.
After posting a hate-filled rant about his European vacation, a man was berated and mistaken for being an American tourist (he's Canadian)
Many commenters automatically assumed he was American and used him as an example of why they disliked American tourists.
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