Do you ever despair at the apparent lack of regard for the "social contract" by so many?
Do you ever despair at the apparent lack of regard for the "social contract" by so many?
In this case, I'm referring to the notion that we all make minor sacrifices in our daily interactions in service of a "greater good" for everyone.
"Following the rules" would be a simplified version of what I'm talking about, I suppose. But also keeping an awareness/attitude about "How will my choices affect the people around me in this moment? "Common courtesy", "situational awareness", etc...
I don't know that it's a "new" phenomenon by any means, I just seem to have an increasing (subjective) awareness of it's decline of late.
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I'm visiting Niagara Falls, which is a tourist area obviously, and you can tell who the Americans are because they're happy to shove you out of the way to get a better look. Also, last night, an already loud motorcycle was driving down the road with its music blasting so loud, I thought I was in the Hard Rock Cafe down the street. Of course, American plate.
I'm despair at the lack of regard for the social contract for my own people in specific. I go out of my way to not annoy people.
In Iceland there are plenty of awful non-American tourists too. In Canada and Alaska I encountered bad Canadian tourists. It sounds like you just don't like Americans.
Yeah I travel a lot and I'm grateful to the British and Chinese tourists who seem to have overtaken americans in terms of shitty tourists. Most of the locals I meet say most of the Americans they meet are kind of annoying because we are loud and overly talkative and friendly, but in a puppy dog sort of way, not in a rude way.
I will definitely admit to speaking loudly (even other Americans say I'm loud) and being super talkative. I can see how being loud might be annoying, but it seems like the local population of Iceland has a pretty good solution for dealing with overly talkative Americans which is to just not engage by being polite and respectful but very curt.
Canadian here who travels a lot. Yeah brits and Chinese are by far the worst. Americans I meet tend to be very friendly, as well as generous
Iceland is my favorite country in the world and I feel guilty just for visiting because of how badly behaved tourists are
I try to be on my best behaviour there but you can just tell that there is a distaste for tourists and it's obvious why
I noticed the same thing. Leading up to this trip everything I read made me believe that the local population loved tourists but I don't think that's actually true.
Tourism is a huge part of their economy so on a macro level it's great for their economy but on an individual level it seems like many hate having such a huge number of tourists. I don't know if that's true for tourists from all countries though.