From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 09:26:52 -0400, Phil Payne
 wrote:

>> Oh, and I noticed this myself, too, in London last fall. A few times I
>> was
>> asked "are you American?", with the tone suggesting some
sort of verbal
>> bashing being on the way.
>
>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/16/wtour16.xml&s
Sheet=/news/2006/04/16/ixworld.html
>
> "The reputation of the "Ugly American" abroad is not,
however, just some
> cruel stereotype, but - according to the American government itself -
> worryingly accurate."
>
> Yeah.  There's a couple of hundred thousand "ugly Americans" in Iraq
> right
> now.  They could all do with reading the tips and taking them to heart.
>
>
I've met plenty of Ugly Frenchmen and Ugly Brits and Ugly Germans abroad as
well -- right down to the same mentality of the Ugly American where it is
assume that everyone speaks your language if you speak it LOUDLY enough.


--
Gary Wiltshire

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