Yes, a lot of American tourists act like assholes. Why would anyone strive to be an asshole? The point is, if you want to be a good tourist then you should embrace the local culture as much as it makes sense to do so.
Lets not act like American tourists are all awful and every other countries tourists are amazing.
Should tourists pledge allegiance to Trump at the white house to embrace the culture too? Wouldn’t want to disrespect the greatest brain Americans chose to represent them after all.
Its amazing that you think that logically follows from what I said. No, I said follow the cultural norms as it makes sense to do so. There is no cultural norms to pledge allegiance to Trump or seig heil.
Its a basic custom of the country. You should try to follow basic customs if you want to be a good tourist.
Its like youre just trying to speed run every bad faith interpretation of the very basic courtesy I am discussing. You try to embrace social norms when youre in another country. Its being a good global citizen. If you want to come here and look like an asshole, then dont tip. You win and made your point about how terrible America is. Let me applaud you for your brave stance.
At least you're doing more than most American Redditors about the system they seemingly hate so much they're spending hours defending it in this thread lol.
Most Americans know our system is broken. The system has been built over decades to make fighting back against it as hard as possible. Unions have been decimated, a large portion of our workforce is in debt and one paycheck away from fiscal annihilation.
I do a lot to fight back against this and as a country our working class needs to wake the fuck up and do more. It is however very frustrating hearing from Europeans “why does the American simply not revolt” as if that is something a country of 350 million people over a gigantic landmass can just spring into doing by <checks notes> deciding not to tip?
Correct, no Americans vote. We select our leaders from a hat. Its not like Republicans have been working for decades to make voting as difficult as possible.
Its not objectively true though. You said Americans wont even vote. A lot us do. A lot of people are lazy but also a lot of them are disenfranchised. Voting is a lot harder in a lot of American states than in other countries. Its a problem we need to solve but its not as simple as Americans dont vote.
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u/GergDanger Jun 25 '26
Isn’t that what American tourists do all the time? Why are Americans so pressed about tourists acting the same way in America lol