Name: Anonymous 2008-01-10 16:26
Tourism is the act in which a rich, overweight, white, English speaking monolingual with a cell phone in one hand and a hamburger in the other, who has no regard for other cultures visits another country and desecrates their traditions and holy places just so they can have pictures of their fat self standing next to some famous world monument.
These fat asses usually carry around a Berlitz Words and Phrases pocket book for whatever language is spoken in the country they are visiting and mispronounce all the words and have absolutely no manners. They will sometimes even claim to know a country's language and history better then an actual native.
This is bad for a country's nationalism. The only reason some countries allow this is because the US Armed Forces are stationed in their country, they're in the EU, or they're poor and need whatever money they can get.
These fat asses usually carry around a Berlitz Words and Phrases pocket book for whatever language is spoken in the country they are visiting and mispronounce all the words and have absolutely no manners. They will sometimes even claim to know a country's language and history better then an actual native.
This is bad for a country's nationalism. The only reason some countries allow this is because the US Armed Forces are stationed in their country, they're in the EU, or they're poor and need whatever money they can get.