Now we do have some genuinely bad tourists. But they generally put anything American tourists can conceivably be accused of to shame. Not knocking them really, they're always the best fun to hang around. Even if they did speak the local language fluently their groups tend to be more like marauding armies than anything else, so mingling becomes near impossible)Īnd if you want to talk obnoxious, get 6 twenty-something Brits/Scots/Irishmen together on a bender in Amsterdam.or any other city for that matter. (poll a few years back) We don't pretend that nothing and noone in that country actually exists except for the next ancient Castle/Cathedral and our other American buddies that we brought along. We are loud, but we're also generally friendly and talkative with all locals (in most cases) and we tip well, which are amongst the reasons that saw us rated by most Europeans as the second best tourists around. But we tend to congregate in smaller groups rather than mass hordes, which makes us a bit easier to handle. Just try.Īnd yeah, the last part will probably catch some flack since Americans are stereotyped as loud and obnoxious while abroad. Try to fight your way through a horde of Japanese to see Stonehenge. There is not a major tourist attraction anyplace in the world that will not be swamped by droves upon droves of them obnoxiously clicking away. They are some of the most transparently xenophobic and bigoted people you'll ever come across, and that's saying alot given the number of BNP style Europeans you'll encounter here. And I didn't even need to mention the bukkake or tentacle rape. Half the country must be filled with closet pedophiles if their porn (tiny schoolgirls weeping like little children getting raped by always lecherous older men) and anime (12 year old bodies with DD breasts) is any indication. They make no apologies or even acknowledgment of their numerous WW2 atrocities. Their 'cool' samurai were nothing more than aristocratic pricks who saw it as their divine right to cut down peasants whenever they felt like it. Their history is divided into periods of either militant isolationism or militant expansionism with nothing in between. (credit to Justinian as well)Īnd I pick on the Japanese because I don't particularly like them. Than there's the little thing called the Napoleonic Code which has been a model borrowed by about half the nations in the world and is one of the two systems upon which 95% of the world's legal systems are based off of. They could also be potentially credited for Charlemagne who you no doubt like because he (very arguably) and his dad kept the 'unwashed Muslim hordes' from overrunning that shining beacon of freedom and tolerance, Christian Europe. Actually, I'm not sure by you're statement if you're defending or attacking the French, but given past encounters, I'm going with the latter.Īnd of course there was the French Revolution that irrevocably changed the face and nature of Europe forever in countless ways and is typically considered one of history's major turning points. If Sartre, Foucult, Voltaire, Strauss, Rousseau, Montesquieu aren't enough, there's also Descartes who is pretty much credited for inventing modern philosophy. The French have produced literally dozens of some of the most important and famous philosophers of all time. A bit Ironic that you mention philosophy in the same paragraph negatively comparing the French to just about everything.
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