How Not To Be A Twit

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Saw this story and thought it captured the reality of where the stereotype of the "Ugly American" comes from. Obviously not every American who travels abroad does these things, but it does have some basis in fact. I think the biggest thing we tend to do when we travel is focus more on where we're from as opposed to where we are. I can still spot US tourists in Melbourne easy as pie.

The nice thing, though, is that nearly all of the people I work with have had very positive dealings with Americans and think that we are the friendliest, most amiable people they've met. It's always good to hear when so much of the talk is about how we can be a bit hard to deal with as tourists.

A survey conducted a few years back by a major tour operator polled people in the service industries from all over the world and found that the least-liked tourists were British, while the most liked were Americans and Germans.