That's not what I meant and I don't think that's what Kate meant. I was speaking of the loud, generally elderly tourists from Florida and New York City who travel to Europe and complain about the food, the lack of American "comforts" and expect everyone to speak English while themselves never making an effort to speak the local language. These people are impolite and demanding.
Certainly these folks make up only a small number of American tourists, but their behaviour is so rude that the rest of us get painted with the same brush.
I can't speak to what you meant, but look at her statement:
"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!'
How can you possibly get from that statement that she only "meant" to criticize "loud, generally elderly people from Florida and New York City?" She said "we're the most annoying....", didn't she? Since she's not a "loud, generally elderly tourist from Florida or New York City", it's ridiculous to infer that she meant to limit her comments to that group. Her criticism obviously was a good deal more broad than that. It was a general slap at her fellow Americans whom she perceives as being uncultured philistines.
Although I do understand your point about "loud, generally elderly toursits from Florida and New York City" not being popular in France. I seems to recall France cooperating in shipping out an awful lot of "those people" awhile back with those one-way train tickets.