[Drew68]

"We're the most annoying, boisterous creatures in the world. I mean we come in and we eat mounds of food, and we're like, 'Where's the kaachup [sic] for our French fries.' I'm like, 'Shut up!'"

Kate has a point. Many American tourists behave deplorably.

[Paul Atreides]

So do a lot of celebrities. Let her clean up Sean Penn's behavior before she turns on flyover country.

[StolarStorm]

So do German tourists, French tourists, and so forth. People on vacation want to have fun. They get boisterous and obnoxious.

[HenryLeeII]

Well, I've lived in areas with a fair number of tourists (D.C. area, Williamsburg, Annapolis) and the French and German tourists are every bit as obnoxious as we supposedly are (and many of them really do smell disgusting), whereas the Brits are usually very jovial and polite.

[mountaineer]

I'm like, an experienced traveler to Europe, like, I've been there lots of times, and I've, like, never asked for ketchup, like, OMIGOD!, like.

[XJarhead]

Kate has a point. Many American tourists behave deplorably.

So putting ketchup on fries makes us "deplorable", or deserving of ridicule? That's just too funny to even be offensive.

[Skip Ripley]

Yeah, and the unwashed Eurotrash always behaves here in America. Have you ever had to fend off a stinky Frenchman trying to cut the line at Disneyworld? I have.

His ribs should be just about healed by now....

[The_Pickle]

Kate has a point. Many American tourists behave deplorably.

Unless I am mistaken, and I don't think I am, the tourism industry is a "service" realted industry is it not? When foriengers come to America to spend tourist dollars they are catered to in the finest of fashions, including respect for their cultural differences, yet when Americans go to Paris to spend their tourisim dollars and expect to be catered to and have their culture respected ,they are being "obnoxious"? The only point Kate has is the one on the top of her head.

[The_Pickle]

Kate has a point. Many American tourists behave deplorably.

Unless I am mistaken, and I don't think I am, the tourism industry is a "service" realted industry is it not? When foriengers come to America to spend tourist dollars they are catered to in the finest of fashions, including respect for their cultural differences, yet when Americans go to Paris to spend their tourisim dollars and expect to be catered to and have their culture respected ,they are being "obnoxious"? The only point Kate has is the one on the top of her head.

[CFC__VRWC]

Kate has a point. Many American tourists behave deplorably.Living in Central Florida, an hour's drive from Disney World and all the other theme parks in Orlando and Tampa, I get to observe lots of tourists from overseas. The nicest, by far, are the British and the Australians. The worst are the French. They treat us locals as either circus freaks or servants. They're boorish, crude and arrogant in the extreme. Bad behavior while on vacation is not exclusively an American trait.