I once traveled with French people. As we were leaving the airport building up on arrival and met our local tour guide, one of them pulled out her cigarettes. All of the area had big signs declaring non smoking and pointing to the designated smoking area.
I asked her to go to the smoking area, since we should comply with local customs and laws as guests.
The reply was “oui, but i am French!”
We later had a whole drama with having to send her home earlier because of continuously offending local people.
French tourists also have a bad reputation in many countries because of behaviour like this.
I dont know. I never heard someone complain about Korean tourists for instance.
Other bad reputation tourists include Germans, Brits and Russians. But i guess that is mainly because of “drunk at the beach” tourism to Spain and Turkey.
I don’t know, it just feels like perpetuating national stereotypes. It doesn’t do any good.
Then again the whole thread is weird. It feeds my suspicion that there’s a lot of (relatively) old people on Lemmy. Everybody’s getting riled up because of some guy talking with his loudspeaker on. Wtf?
I once traveled with French people. As we were leaving the airport building up on arrival and met our local tour guide, one of them pulled out her cigarettes. All of the area had big signs declaring non smoking and pointing to the designated smoking area.
I asked her to go to the smoking area, since we should comply with local customs and laws as guests.
The reply was “oui, but i am French!”
We later had a whole drama with having to send her home earlier because of continuously offending local people.
French tourists also have a bad reputation in many countries because of behaviour like this.
That couldn’t end well….and it didn’t.
It’s not the French. All people are annoying. Obviously
I dont know. I never heard someone complain about Korean tourists for instance.
Other bad reputation tourists include Germans, Brits and Russians. But i guess that is mainly because of “drunk at the beach” tourism to Spain and Turkey.
I don’t know, it just feels like perpetuating national stereotypes. It doesn’t do any good.
Then again the whole thread is weird. It feeds my suspicion that there’s a lot of (relatively) old people on Lemmy. Everybody’s getting riled up because of some guy talking with his loudspeaker on. Wtf?