world's worst tourists

On 7 Oct 2003 10:10:52 -0700, (Blackden) wrote:

Brits were judged the least welcome tourists in an Expedia survey this
summer, but European stereotypes of the Ugly American tourist are
still common, and Israeli and Australian tourists are often said to
match the British for rudeness and drunken misbehaviour respectively.
Does anyone have any anecdotes relating to this? Who *are* the world's
worst tourists?

What I really wonder is why, in a newsgroup dedicated to European
travel, 10% of the posts are concerned with travel and 90% with
bashing some other country?


Mason Barge

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Jim Ley writes:

I fail to see what information that gives that is useful to fraud,
other than the fact that you pay Bob money on occasion, something that
anyone with account acccess can see with cheques or anything else.

Then you may be unusually vulnerable to fraud.

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Keith Anderson writes:

You been on that maryjane again?

I'm not a substance abuser. Are you American?

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Sjoerd writes:

You live in the 19th century. The entire concept of social strata doesn't
really exist anymore in most of Europe.

Where have you lived outside of Europe?

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Miguel Cruz writes:

Most Americans are highly ambitious overachievers?

Compared to Europeans, yes. In the U.S., you're much more likely to
starve if you don't work for a living, and that's a powerful motivator.

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On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 14:19:09 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

Jim Ley writes:

I fail to see what information that gives that is useful to fraud,
other than the fact that you pay Bob money on occasion, something that
anyone with account acccess can see with cheques or anything else.

Then you may be unusually vulnerable to fraud.

Please explain how, I'm scared now that phoning by bank and telling
them to pay Bob is a risk... I might I alleviate it (please don't say
by cheques, as I have had wrongly debited cheques on numerous
occasions)

David Horne writes:

There's quite a lot of material out there which questions
the deeper motivations behind a lot of Gates's philanthropic
giving ...

I don't know anyone who questions the "deeper motivations." There's
nothing to indicate that the deeper motivations of Bill and Melinda are
any different from those of, say, Andrew Carnegie. But there were
probably angry young males whispering about Andrew's "deeper
motivations" in his time as well.

Some people can't imagine giving something away without expecting
anything in return. To them, any giving without an obvious demand for
something in return is evil and suspect, since then the latter is
certainly being "hidden" in their view. The possibility that no such
demand may exist in the first place never crosses their selfish minds.

Personally, I don't know enough about it to form an opinion either way-

And yet you've just done so.

... but there does seem to be a lot of convenient 'self-interest'
at the very least.

And Albert Schweitzer set up hospitals in out of the way places just so
that he'd have a guaranteed supply of patients.

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Mxsmanic wrote:

David Horne writes:

There's quite a lot of material out there which questions
the deeper motivations behind a lot of Gates's philanthropic
giving ...

I don't know anyone who questions the "deeper motivations."

Manifestly.

Personally, I don't know enough about it to form an opinion either way-

And yet you've just done so.

I absolutely have not- you mistakenly confuse having a hunch, or
suspecting something, with forming an opinion. I'm happily on the fence
on this one- _you're_ the one that seems convinced of your opinion.

David

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Does this make the inhabitants of Paris 'less rich' somehow?

Yes. Less freedom.


What freedoms do Americans have that Europeans don't?

(I have asked this question a number of times in usenet land, and never
gotten much of an answer)
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I can tell you that Europeans have considerably more freedom of
political choice than Americans. The number of political parties is
higher in every European country and the spectrum of political choice
much broader. Americans complain loudly and constantly about their
lack of choice but nothing much seems to be changing.

No one asked, but I find intellectual life in Bali and Nepal more free
than either Europe or the US. Surprising, isn't it?

le 11 Oct 2003 06:24:40 -0700, dans l'article , Patrick Powers a dit ...

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No one asked, but I find intellectual life in Bali and Nepal more free
than either Europe or the US. Surprising, isn't it?

The word 'intellectual' is an insult in the United States.

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