23 Shocking Travel Disasters That Reveal What Happens When Tourists Disrespect Other Cultures
Can you do the Riverdance? Can you speak Gaelic? Do you know the way to “Cob H”or how about the way to “you gawl”? Are you are from Cork so do you know O’Sullivan’s,?you see my great great great great great great grandfather is Michael O Sullivan.I’m actually 1/10th Irish, 2/10ths polish, 3/10ths French etc, “I’m from Florida United States of America!!”
Ahhh but ye are a nice bunch of people to be fair.
Getting way to overexcited. I live in Ireland and I’m ginger with a short temper, literally a walking stereotype, so its not uncommon for tourists, particularly American or Asian, to just randomly take pictures of me, without my consent. This has been happening since I was 5.
I’m mexican, so while visiting family down in Mexico, note not a heavily tourist area, they asked some servers in a restaurant if they can get someone who speaks “american” to take their order.
Mexican, I saw some Americans complaining about how bad mexico was, I got curious and heard the rest of the conversation, basically they said they didn’t like any of the things in the hotel, they said that the food was bad and they only played bad music and started attacking the whole country, now the fun thing is that the only Mexican stuff in that place were the employees, it was all American food, American music, American people, the menu wasn’t in pesos it was in dollars.
I seriously couldn’t believe they didn’t realized they didn’t experience Mexico at all, they were basically in a mini USA, especially designed for tourists, these people didn’t realized that they were talking s**t about their own country and culture, but replicated in another country, by their own people.
My mom and I were downtown when an American tourist came up to me and asked where a certain restaurant was. I didn’t know, so I asked my mom in French if she knew where the restaurant was. The American got mad and told me to speak English, he couldn’t understand what I had asked. I said I had asked my mother where the restaurant is because I didn’t know. He then says, “Why didn’t you ask her in English? I thought Canadians spoke English.” then my mom saw him yelling at me and said in French, “Is something wrong here?” The American just threw his hands up and walked off saying something about I thought they spoke English here. For reference, we were in Quebec City. Don’t know if he ever found the restaurant.
Asked if i liked Abba in an accent, and made fun of me for being one of few average looking swedes. I mean, i’d say compared to how above average weight people look in other countries, i’m not bad, but i’m in a country of gods and godesses, i mean why do you think Chris Hemsworth was cast to play a norse god? He looks like a what a stereotypical swede is described as in fiction.
American here who went with a small group through Russia, Siberia, Mongolia and China. One lady with us complained about absolutely *everything*.
She complained about the food, the weather, the hotels, the trains, the airport, the places of interest, etc. Especially the food. Look lady, you are a guest in these countries, act like one. And she claimed to be an experienced world traveler.
I live in Sweden and my family invited a group of American students to stay with us to observe our culture over the summer. One of them returned our hospitality by drunkenly peeing all over our sacred ancestral tree. That’s a big no-no and we had to punish him for it.
Another student was invited to look at our holy book since he seemed very interested in it but we very clearly told him not to record it in any way as we consider that sacrilege. Well, he had the audacity to sneak out at night to take pictures of our holy book much to our dismay. Fortunately we caught him in the act and we punished him accordingly.
Safe to say that they are no longer welcome here.
This happened about 10 years ago. A white American guy got into an argument with a black guy at a bar in Bosnia. White guy proceeds to call him the n-word. A group of locals picked him up by his arms and legs and threw him outside on the street. It was great.
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