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<p>Americans are good at a lot of things. Fast food, football and hogging the world&#39;s oil come to mind.</p><p>But for whatever reason, we&#39;re not great at blending in when we go on vacation. Whether it&#39;s because of our sparkling, loud personalities or our penchant for using American dollars in places that don&#39;t accept them, we&#39;re kind of known as a worldwide menace.</p><p>A <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ot15ym/non_americans_of_reddit_what_is_the_weirdest/">recent Reddit thread</a> asked, &quot;Non Americans of Reddit, what is the weirdest thing you have seen an American tourist do that would be considered very disrespectful/inappropriate in your country?&quot; The answers prove we are kind of the worst.</p><h2>1. Pro tip: lots of people in the world speak English.</h2><blockquote> <p>While interrailing on France a couple of American dudes were very loudly talking s*** about other passengers (I got my fair share). Apparently they tought nobody could understand them.</p> <p>Shut them up by talking English to my friend. - theswamphag</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>2. Money&#39;s money, right? No.</h2><blockquote> <p>I was in Rome and a lady was confused why the confectionery stand man wouldn&#39;t take her dollars - _am-ilost</p> </blockquote><h2>3. Well, take the compliment!</h2><blockquote> <p>I once got told by an American tourist that I spoke English quite well.</p> <p>I&#39;m English and this was in England. - Are-Sole</p> </blockquote><h2>4. Maybe... water-skiing??</h2><blockquote> <p>There was a story about some americans coming to My country to go skiing - this is Denmark, we have a s***load of hills, but not a single mountain - add to that, that they came in the summer, no place in Denmark has year around snow - abkj2002</p> </blockquote><h2>5. If we can&#39;t climb it, we don&#39;t want it.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;Mommy&#39;s busy baby, why don&#39;t you go climb on the big rocks?&quot;<br /> That was at Stonehenge.<br /> I also saw a bunch of American college students try to climb the Great Pyramid at Giza until serious uniformed men with firearms stopped them. - UncleHeavy</p> </blockquote><h2>6. Poor planning really.</h2><blockquote> <p>The best one I&#39;ve heard was the American tourist complaining that they built Edinburgh castle so far from the train station. - Are-Sole</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>7. What a crappy person.</h2><blockquote> <p>The guy got pretty angry that my English sucked when asking me for directions, I mean yeah It can be frustrating but Im taking the time to help you wtf dude.</p> <p>He said I lived in Canada so I was supposed to speak it flawlessly like dude I spoke French my entire life but I&rsquo;m doing my best over here to communicate sorry for the accent. - Nexso1964</p> </blockquote><h2>8. Wait &mdash; everyone doesn&#39;t wear kilts?!</h2><blockquote> <p>&ldquo;Why are you all not in Kilts? Oh I&rsquo;m Scottish my great great great great grandfather was from Scotland and his dad was a clan chieftain.&rdquo;</p> <p>99% of us Scots don&rsquo;t care, some will humour, others will outright call out on that bulls***. - Mizfit1991</p> </blockquote><h2>9. Truly bizarre.</h2><blockquote> <p>An American tourist orders a turkey dinner at a restaurant, and then flags down the server to let her know that the kitchen forgot the cranberry sauce. The server comes back with it in a small dish. After she finished her meal, someone at the table pointed out that she&rsquo;d forgotten to use the cranberry sauce that she asked for. She says: &ldquo;Oh, I don&rsquo;t like cranberry sauce&rdquo; So the person at the table follows up with &ldquo;Then why did you ask the server to bring you some?!&rdquo; Her answer: &ldquo;Because it comes with the meal.&rdquo; - Axiah</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>10. How embarrassing.</h2><blockquote> <p>While working at Maccas I overheard an American tourist tell his family that they were going to eat some good food, not foreign garbage while they were waiting in line to order 🤦&zwj;♀️ - GuessImDoingDiss</p> </blockquote><h2>11. That&#39;s rough.</h2><blockquote> <p>Not exactly disrespectful or inappropriate, but certainly weird.</p> <p>I meet an American tourist that seemed very confused so I walked up to her and asked her if I could help. She told me yes and asked me how to get to the famous alps and cuckoo clock workshops.</p> <p>&hellip;.. I had to explain to her that she was in Sweden, not Switzerland. - Red_Eight_Zero</p> </blockquote><h2>12. Oof.</h2><blockquote> <p>Iceland. We get a lot of tourism when there isn&#39;t a pandemic and about half are American. It&#39;s mostly just ignorance and the refusal to accept that things work differently here. Also, while most people here speak English to some degree there are a few tourists that are furious about it not being the default language in businesses that aren&#39;t even connected to tourism. God forbid we speak our own language at work.</p> <p>Oh and Northern Lights. There&#39;s a ton of people who seem to think we can just flick a switch and have the Northern Lights appear. - IcyVeinz</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>13. Yeah, you can&#39;t just talk slower and expect people to understand a language they don&#39;t know.</h2><blockquote> <p>I had dinner with an American in China. He asked for water in English, and the waiter didn&rsquo;t understand. He spoke up and repeated himself in a patronisingly slow voice, and again the waiter, not being able to speak English, didn&rsquo;t understand. I asked for the water in Chinese and the waiter left. The American then said &ldquo;it&rsquo;s so infuriating here sometimes&rdquo;.</p> <p>There are many things that can be annoying and inconvenient in China, but simply expecting people to understand your language is unreasonable as f***. - lullabyluddite</p> </blockquote><h2>14. This is the weirdest bullying.</h2><blockquote> <p>(Not tourism but in my work place in England) I used to work for a British heratige suit company and I would work night shift to take orders from America, Australia and Canada. I never had any problems with Australians or Canadians but at least once or twice minimum a night I would receive calls from American people making prank calls and making fun of me for being English. They would call me wanker and other British swear words and talk in silly voices asking if I were drinking tea (undoubtedly I was but thats not important...). Sometimes they would stay on the phone for ages asking me to say certain words and because of the standards of the company we had to oblige unless they were swears of course. - MauveFairy</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

14 people share the most entitled behavior they've seen from American tourists.

Americans are good at a lot of things. Fast food, football and hogging the world&#39;s oil come to mind.But for whatever reason, we&#39;re not great at blending in when we go on vacation. Whether it&#39;s because of our sparkling, loud personalities or our penchant for using American dollars in places that don&#39;t accept them, we&#39;re kind of known as a worldwide menace.A recent Reddit thread asked, &quot;Non Americans of Reddit, what is the weirdest thing you have seen an American tourist do that would be considered very disrespectful/inappropriate in your country?&quot; The answers prove we are kind of the worst.1. Pro tip: lots of people in the world speak English. While interrailing on France a couple of American dudes were very loudly talking s*** about other passengers (I got my fair share). Apparently they tought nobody could understand them. Shut them up by talking English to my friend. - theswamphag 2. Money&#39;s money, right? No. I was in Rome and a lady was confused why the confectionery stand man wouldn&#39;t take her dollars - _am-ilost 3. Well, take the compliment! I once got told by an American tourist that I spoke English quite well. I&#39;m English and this was in England. - Are-Sole 4. Maybe... water-skiing?? There was a story about some americans coming to My country to go skiing - this is Denmark, we have a s***load of hills, but not a single mountain - add to that, that they came in the summer, no place in Denmark has year around snow - abkj2002 5. If we can&#39;t climb it, we don&#39;t want it. &quot;Mommy&#39;s busy baby, why don&#39;t you go climb on the big rocks?&quot; That was at Stonehenge. I also saw a bunch of American college students try to climb the Great Pyramid at Giza until serious uniformed men with firearms stopped them. - UncleHeavy 6. Poor planning really. The best one I&#39;ve heard was the American tourist complaining that they built Edinburgh castle so far from the train station. - Are-Sole 7. What a crappy person. The guy got pretty angry that my English sucked when asking me for directions, I mean yeah It can be frustrating but Im taking the time to help you wtf dude. He said I lived in Canada so I was supposed to speak it flawlessly like dude I spoke French my entire life but I&rsquo;m doing my best over here to communicate sorry for the accent. - Nexso1964 8. Wait &mdash; everyone doesn&#39;t wear kilts?! &ldquo;Why are you all not in Kilts? Oh I&rsquo;m Scottish my great great great great grandfather was from Scotland and his dad was a clan chieftain.&rdquo; 99% of us Scots don&rsquo;t care, some will humour, others will outright call out on that bulls***. - Mizfit1991 9. Truly bizarre. An American tourist orders a turkey dinner at a restaurant, and then flags down the server to let her know that the kitchen forgot the cranberry sauce. The server comes back with it in a small dish. After she finished her meal, someone at the table pointed out that she&rsquo;d forgotten to use the cranberry sauce that she asked for. She says: &ldquo;Oh, I don&rsquo;t like cranberry sauce&rdquo; So the person at the table follows up with &ldquo;Then why did you ask the server to bring you some?!&rdquo; Her answer: &ldquo;Because it comes with the meal.&rdquo; - Axiah 10. How embarrassing. While working at Maccas I overheard an American tourist tell his family that they were going to eat some good food, not foreign garbage while they were waiting in line to order 🤦&zwj;♀️ - GuessImDoingDiss 11. That&#39;s rough. Not exactly disrespectful or inappropriate, but certainly weird. I meet an American tourist that seemed very confused so I walked up to her and asked her if I could help. She told me yes and asked me how to get to the famous alps and cuckoo clock workshops. &hellip;.. I had to explain to her that she was in Sweden, not Switzerland. - Red_Eight_Zero 12. Oof. Iceland. We get a lot of tourism when there isn&#39;t a pandemic and about half are American. It&#39;s mostly just ignorance and the refusal to accept that things work differently here. Also, while most people here speak English to some degree there are a few tourists that are furious about it not being the default language in businesses that aren&#39;t even connected to tourism. God forbid we speak our own language at work. Oh and Northern Lights. There&#39;s a ton of people who seem to think we can just flick a switch and have the Northern Lights appear. - IcyVeinz 13. Yeah, you can&#39;t just talk slower and expect people to understand a language they don&#39;t know. I had dinner with an American in China. He asked for water in English, and the waiter didn&rsquo;t understand. He spoke up and repeated himself in a patronisingly slow voice, and again the waiter, not being able to speak English, didn&rsquo;t understand. I asked for the water in Chinese and the waiter left. The American then said &ldquo;it&rsquo;s so infuriating here sometimes&rdquo;. There are many things that can be annoying and inconvenient in China, but simply expecting people to understand your language is unreasonable as f***. - lullabyluddite 14. This is the weirdest bullying. (Not tourism but in my work place in England) I used to work for a British heratige suit company and I would work night shift to take orders from America, Australia and Canada. I never had any problems with Australians or Canadians but at least once or twice minimum a night I would receive calls from American people making prank calls and making fun of me for being English. They would call me wanker and other British swear words and talk in silly voices asking if I were drinking tea (undoubtedly I was but thats not important...). Sometimes they would stay on the phone for ages asking me to say certain words and because of the standards of the company we had to oblige unless they were swears of course. - MauveFairy 

Americans are good at a lot of things. Fast food, football and hogging the world&#39;s oil come to mind.  But for whatever reason, we&#39;re not great at blending in when we go on vacation. Whether it&#39;s because of our sparkling, loud...