Americans overseas who embarrass all Americans

I may know more about cuba than you do, positives and negatives.

Out of fairness to Americans, I was just about to declare that people from my own country can be an embarrassment, too.
When I used to travel a lot more, I used to avoid Kuta (Bali) for that very reason. It was (probably still is) full of Australians behaving badly. Horrible

You are far more familiar with Koreans than am I, but because they were embarrassed about Cho, doesn't mean Americans need to be embarassed about the idiot in your clip.

Hasty generalization, whether common or not, is unfortunate, and we should try to avoid it whenever we can. We also need not allow it to cause us to be embarrassed or to apologize.

I once went on a day trip to Boulogne with some work colleagues. Unfortunately we went on the same day as a load of Sun readers who had saved up tokens for a free crossing. It was awful, being in the company of a load of drunken francophobic yobs.

I tried to be as polite as possible. I want people to think well of the British. I thought you would want people to think well of Americans. I was embarrassed by the booze cruisers, I'm surprised you're not embarrassed by the arsehole in the video.

Americans aren't even embarrassed when their troops shoot innocent civilians, when their fliers bomb millions into oblivion, when their proxies rape, torture and murder innocent men, women and children.

Who would you say is susceptible to group think, Finn?

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Never mind me doing right things.

Then stop yakking about it all the time.

The facts, Osso, the voluminous facts placed squarely in front of a person's face should be all that is needed to, at the least, wake people from their stupor, from their ignorance [in the non pejorative sense].

There is some berating, I'll agree. There is much in the way of factual material that so clearly points to an unremitting dedication on the part of the US to abuse the innocents of the world.

There is thread after thread of people bent on making demands for justice in every cause under the Sun except when it comes to these most egregious examples of injustice.

Reality check. Many people do not "think well of the British." That might be because they have a colonial history. Or, they have acted superior where they went. Or, like so many other people, they act clannish too. Regardless, drinking might be the least of it.

Watching an American lout in a video or listening to tales about annoying American tourists just doesn't trigger a genetic response of embarrassment in me.

Reality check. Many people do not "think well of the British." That might be because they have a colonial history. Or, they have acted superior where they went. Or, like so many other people, they act clannish too. Regardless, drinking might be the least of it.

To be honest, I'm not really bothered with your world view.
I have never found being English to be a disadvantage wherever I have travelled, and in some counties (esp Holland Mexico and Crete) I have found it to be an advantage. Your jaded, cliche-ridden view of the UK is evidenced in your rants about the riots, and I am in no doubt that you are similarly misinformed about the rest of the world, save for the small part of NYC that you inhabit.

That might be because they have a colonial history. Or, they have acted superior where they went. Or, like so many other people, they act clannish too.

I'm sure that there are many Americans who shudder at the me me me that is OmSigDave.

You must have a grand time sitting around dreaming up stories of baby Dave, young Dave, teenage Dave, ... , senile old Dave.

When's the autobio coming out?