re: #283 wheat-dogg
They aren’t anecdotes. They are news stories, and the incidents have gotten so common that the government has published “how to be a polite tourist” pamphlets for tourists and the airlines now have a “blacklist” of unruly passengers who are barred from flying. The latest incident was in Singapore’s Changi Airport, where a Chinese tour group was met by members of the Chinese embassy and Singaporean foreign ministry, who gave them them brochures on how to behave while in Singapore.
There used to be a lot of lore teaching American ex-pats in Italy how to pass for Canadian.