Python "why" questions

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-08-09, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 8/9/2010 11:16 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> IOW, the "Ugly American".
> [snip hate rant]
>
> Stereotypically bashing "Americans"

I wasn't bashing "Americans".  I was making light of a certain type of
American tourist commonly denoted by the phrase "ugly american".

> is as ugly and obnoxious as bashing any other ethnic group. I have
> traveled the world and Americans are no worse, but are pretty much
> the same mix of good and bad.

I've travelled the world as well, and I think that Americans do indeed
make worse "tourists" than most others.  I've seen a lot of European
and Asian tourists in the US, and I've never seen from them the types
of behavior for which the "Ugly American" tourists is famous.

I've never been confronted here in the US by a Japanese tourist who
thought that if he spoke Japanese to a store clerk loudly and slowing
the clerk would understand.  I've never seen European tourists trying
to avoid eating "American" food or complaining about the electrical
outlets.

> It is certainly off-topic and inappropriate for this group.

To that I'll confess.

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