Jesus christ, what the fuck is this question? This is essentially a thinnly-veiled “Which nationality are the worst people?”, thinnly-veiled racism.
Literally hald of them are like, “Chinese people baaad”, wtf. And also 1/3 of them are “Indians baaad”.
I’m Chinese American which is why that thread made me feel disgusted at reddit.
Like holy shit, I’m not overreacting right? I’m pretty sure c/[email protected] would never allow this troll question.
Technically, it’s being xenophobic, not racist
I feel like xenophobic would be hating on all (foreign?) tourists, while racist is picking one specific nationality like asked by the post.
Xenophobia is about “where” the person is from, even if they “don’t look like it”, and it can also happen within a country (Brazil’s southerners tend to be very xenophobic against people from northeast). Racism would be “every white person”, whether Italian, Bri’ish, Russian, etc.
It is most certainly the lizard people. They are the worst by far.
Damn zuckerberg smh my head
Always sunning on the best rocks and hissing at anyone who gets too close… So rude.
Yeah the worst is when they try to cram in the elevator and someone’s tail pops off. Glad it grows back buddy but my shoes can’t grow new canvas.
As someone who lived on the northern US border for a long time this is a very easy question for me to answer without being racist haha.
The myth of Canadian politeness really stops at the border.
Lmao I live on the Canadian side of the border and my first thought was Americans (doesnt matter the ethnicity).
Solidarity for hating on each other as tourists 🤝🏽
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Honestly its always been the British where I live. Gets drunk and tries to pick fights on the street.
Now. Most British tourists are great. Its just of all the tourists that cause problems, its usually the Brits.
Judge me if you wish. Thats just been my experince.
I’m surprised you get many of us over in Canada. Spain definitely has the right to complain, it’s very cheap and easy to get there so our drunken scumbags descend on the country every summer by the millions. I specifically don’t bother going to Spain to avoid them myself.
I used to live in Halifax. We get lots of cruises from Europe, usually loaded to the gills with Brits.
Is it all Brits or specifically the Irish
The Irish ain’t British you wanker.
Average American understanding of Europe.
The city of Amsterdam has paid for adds in England to discourage Brits from coming to Amsterdam
Source: https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/11/stay-away-campaign-fails-to-stop-british-tourists-to-amsterdam/
So yea it’s Brits where I’m from
Am from Finland. If I had to answer the thread, I would have been like “oh, American tourists are usually the weirdest, but you’ve just gotta be patient with them, usually the people from the anglosphere are fairly chill once shit dies down. And the people from other parts of the world may have some strange customs but you’ve just gotta be patient with them. That’s, like, the Key. Of all customer service.”
I live in a tourist town and can confirm, they all suck in their own ways. Also, sometimes non-tourists also suck. Also, most of the time people suck.
It’s hard being racist against a specific country when you’re the first tourism destination in the world, but British really do produce a special kind of tourists.
I literally read an article just yesterday about some drunken asshole who tried to open the hatch midflight, was manhandled by the personnel and some volunteers, and then taken off the flight in Toulouse, with his mates. They were going to Spain, who seem to be plagued with that specific breed of lads, but still.Also it’s difficult to distinguish genuine racism (“brown people poo in the streets!”) from xenophobia triggered by actual, repeated experience (try living in one of the most popular touristic small towns in France for a summer…)
It’s rage baiting engagement tactics
A tour bus full of people all from this one country is leaving a beautiful forested state park. They leave behind multiple still smoldering cigarette butts on the ground. Can you guess the country?
Italy?
Here in Taiwan, it’s is the Chinese. But I can’t blame them. It’s their culture.
It’s the norm to have your child defecate in a park in China. Or spend a solid 5 minutes extracting toilet paper from bathroom. Or if someone accidentally dropped change, to scramble and pick it up from the ground and say it’s now their money because it was on the ground.
These where the things I saw before the Chinese were banned here. The last one was me dropping the change.
That not really being something that’s a “Chinese” characteristic, its more like government’s famines decades earlier causing the people to become desparate and hoard ever resource they could find, and also for children, the one child policy got the kids so used to being the center of attention (like my older brother being jealous of me becaus he expected to be the only child), but redditors are implying that this is a “Chinese” thing, instead of empathizing with the horrible situation that China was in after both a victim of foreign colonialism and invasions in the 19th and 20th century and also government fucking up redevelopement of the country, instead of going for the “hmm yea unfortunate situation for mainland Chinese, the environment they grew up in sucks, can’t blame them, I hope they eventually become better” which would be a valid, non-racist view, but nope redditors instead just went for the “Chinese really bad” angle instead, like impluing this is someone a thing deeply encoded in genetics/culture (which it isn’t).
I know I probably can’t analyze the comments in an unbiased way, but that’s what I feel like this is implying from tone of those comments. Perhaps I’ve just faced with too much racism in school and I’m just using pattern recognition by now. Because when I was in school, kids would say to me “Do Chinese people eat Cats and Dogs?” like not even in a way that recognize all the famines, but in the way that implies as if people are somehow “evil” and just somehow loves eating domesticated animals; yes I recognize there are some people do bad thing with animals, but that’s far from a majority, and definitely much, much less frequent in modern day where famines are no longer a thing (and thus would not need to consune domesticated animals for food), and I, right now, have a cat and that’s definitely not food to me, my cats is my friend. But my peers in school would love to paint is as if everyone in China is “eating Cats and Dogs”, which isn’t true. So I feel like some of the reddit comments describing Chinese people are essentially being used this way to invoke racist views in the readers
And also, 2020, covid, trump fucking said “China virus” with the full intent of it being used in a racist way. And then some redditors said the term “China virus” as used by trump was “not racist” so I kinda just lost faith in reddit and I feel like a lot of the users have subconcious racist views
So yea, I probably am not the most unbiased when it comes to assessing whether or nor a comment is racist, since I’ve experience so much racist things that my brain have gotten a bit pessemistic about thing. I hope that’s not the intent of these reddit comments, but its really giving me bad vibes tbh.
So here’s the thing. We can empathize with what the Chinese people have gone through over the last ~100 years, but we can also say, “you know, Chinese tourists can be entitled as shit and rude sometimes” and not have to feel guilty about it. Also, Chinese isn’t a race - not even a single ethnicity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_China
In the US it’s the Chinese tourists who are the most disrespectful
Yeah, there’s a reason I won’t be visiting Yellowstone again.
Here it’s the British
I feel like the Brits would say the same, but as a German who had the chance to observe other Germans on vacation, I want to throw in us as well
Fucking blue skinned motherfuckers!
If only they were green…
This is a matter of personal circumstances. Just because you’re a good tourist in one place doesn’t you’re always a good tourist. Or just because you see someone as a good/bad tourist doesn’t mean they are.
Perceptions and expectations change from person to person and situation to situation.
