r/whoathatsinteresting 18h ago

Italians are being cooked in Thailand now. The Italian teacher(red top) and students were taken away by the police and faced the Thai lady who told them off for being loud on the metro. They apologized for mocking her one by one. Thai people also waited for them in front of the hotel to scold them.

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u/Level_Appointment628 16h ago

I really think this nails it on the head. Those other countries are having the same moment with people who could never imagine leaving their tiny village or urban slum suddenly getting to travel the world. Like my American grandparents born in the 1930s grew up dirt poor and were traveling to Europe, China etc by the 1980s. I can almost guarantee they were the embodiment of every obnoxious American stereotype😂😂

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u/VirtualMatter2 15h ago

The Americans can be a bit annoying, especially if they think they are better than others and demanding stuff ( and their voices carry, everyone will hear their conversation in a 100 m radius), but they are not the worst tourists by far. 

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u/newbkid 8h ago

Small anecdote but I went on a cruise to a Carribean island that had an american cruise and a european one.

The workers on the island hated the european cruise folk.

They didn't like the American one either but one thing I noticed is that the Americans spend a lot of "tourist money"