11 Rudest Countries in the World, According to Tourists

I read the article and I'm surprised to see so many Scandinavian countries on the list. I've been to Denmark and Norway and had the opposite experience. I find the spirit of the Spanish people delightful but I know places like Barcelona resent tourists these days because they have become overrun with tourism.
 

seadoug said:
We had a large international contingency aboard our ships. Most were from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, South America, Mexico and East Asia. Quite a few were from Australia because we did more exotic itineraries and they didn't want to fly across the world for anything less than 21 days. I don't remember ever hearing about any French.
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I meet tourists and chat with them on express lines of Walmart or Publix super markets and I do start chatting so if they are from Latin America I assume " native " Miamians so would not suspect tourists .

I always use same line " Excuse me I could not help over hearing , actually I was listening in are you from ---- ?

We laugh and chat .

The ONLY time out of countless chats which shut down but started great was a German couple about my age we were chatting and he told me he retired from German Air Force , I told him I had been in Americas Army and it was like he then was looking at Satan so I never made that mistake again but it never came up again.
 
Not that I've got anything against the French, but they did invade us and take control of the land and government, or at least the French named Norman did! But I'm not surprised the French came out top, or at least when the article seems to be focused on the Parisians. The polite Japanese visit Paris a lot, or used to -- so so sure about these days. But anyway, I became aware of a phrase used by the Japanese that meant something like, "Paris Syndrome".

Ok, just found this -- maybe it just affects the Japanese?:
"Paris Syndrome (Pari shōkōgun) refers to a kind of cultural where the Japanese find the reality of Paris doesn't live up to their romanticised expectations. They arrive expecting elegance, charm, politeness, and cinematic beauty — but instead they might encounter brusque service, crowded streets, litter, and a generally indifferent or hurried urban attitude, especially in places like the Metro or tourist-heavy areas.

The syndrome can lead to symptoms like anxiety, delusional thinking, dizziness, and even depression. In severe cases, the Japanese embassy in Paris has reportedly had to assist distressed tourists — arranging hospitalizations or even early flights home."

Then we have Londoners -- oh, someone give me strength! The article posted by the OP, in regard to the UK, seems to centre around London. I met an American girl in London -- we became engaged. Not on the same day, I hasten to add -- I don't work that fast! But anyway, at the time she said to me, aren't they polite in London? I thought to myself, you are kidding me. Personally, I think most Londoners at some of the most impolite people in the UK. I made my point clearer to her when I took this girl to the Midlands, where I come from, then further north.

But anyway, here is a news report about Londoners.



 

Magna-Carta said:
Not that I've got anything against the French, but they did invade us and take control of the land and government, or at least the French named Norman did! But I'm not surprised the French came out top, or at least when the article seems to be focused on the Parisians. The polite Japanese visit Paris a lot, or used to -- so so sure about these days. But anyway, I became aware of a phrase used by the Japanese that meant something like, "Paris Syndrome".

Ok, just found this -- maybe it just affects the Japanese?:
"Paris Syndrome (Pari shōkōgun) refers to a kind of cultural where the Japanese find the reality of Paris doesn't live up to their romanticised expectations. They arrive expecting elegance, charm, politeness, and cinematic beauty — but instead they might encounter brusque service, crowded streets, litter, and a generally indifferent or hurried urban attitude, especially in places like the Metro or tourist-heavy areas.

The syndrome can lead to symptoms like anxiety, delusional thinking, dizziness, and even depression. In severe cases, the Japanese embassy in Paris has reportedly had to assist distressed tourists — arranging hospitalizations or even early flights home."

Then we have Londoners -- oh, someone give me strength! The article posted by the OP, in regard to the UK, seems to centre around London. I met an American girl in London -- we became engaged. Not on the same day, I hasten to add -- I don't work that fast! But anyway, at the time she said to me, aren't they polite in London? I thought to myself, you are kidding me. Personally, I think most Londoners at some of the most impolite people in the UK. I made my point clearer to her when I took this girl to the Midlands, where I come from, then further north.

But anyway, here is a news report about Londoners.



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lol videos were great but perhaps since older '' Gentleman '' my experience has been lots of laughs with '' Londoners '' .
 
Magna-Carta said:
Not that I've got anything against the French, but they did invade us and take control of the land and government, or at least the French named Norman did! But I'm not surprised the French came out top, or at least when the article seems to be focused on the Parisians. The polite Japanese visit Paris a lot, or used to -- so so sure about these days. But anyway, I became aware of a phrase used by the Japanese that meant something like, "Paris Syndrome".

Ok, just found this -- maybe it just affects the Japanese?:
"Paris Syndrome (Pari shōkōgun) refers to a kind of cultural where the Japanese find the reality of Paris doesn't live up to their romanticised expectations. They arrive expecting elegance, charm, politeness, and cinematic beauty — but instead they might encounter brusque service, crowded streets, litter, and a generally indifferent or hurried urban attitude, especially in places like the Metro or tourist-heavy areas.

The syndrome can lead to symptoms like anxiety, delusional thinking, dizziness, and even depression. In severe cases, the Japanese embassy in Paris has reportedly had to assist distressed tourists — arranging hospitalizations or even early flights home."

Then we have Londoners -- oh, someone give me strength! The article posted by the OP, in regard to the UK, seems to centre around London. I met an American girl in London -- we became engaged. Not on the same day, I hasten to add -- I don't work that fast! But anyway, at the time she said to me, aren't they polite in London? I thought to myself, you are kidding me. Personally, I think most Londoners at some of the most impolite people in the UK. I made my point clearer to her when I took this girl to the Midlands, where I come from, then further north.

But anyway, here is a news report about Londoners.



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That was hilarious! I can say the same thing about Miami, having lived there for 18 years. People look right through you as if they can't be bothered. We had a security guard in our office building who was from the Midwest and used to talk to employees as they entered the building. They all said he was "weird"!
 
I dated a Russian woman for awhile. Over dramatic, complete opposite of me. One of her daughters was loud like her and the other was very elegant and soft spoken.

I also worked with a couple Iranians and it bothered me for awhile that they would get so loud and argue in their native tongue. One of them told me that they were not arguing, it was just how they talked.

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While in Paris several years ago my friend and I were walking down a sidewalk and a rag lady spit at us and on the same trip while we were in a park a group of small children tried to grab our purses....so I can understand France being high of the list.
 
seadoug said:
That was hilarious! I can say the same thing about Miami, having lived there for 18 years. People look right through you as if they can't be bothered. We had a security guard in our office building who was from the Midwest and used to talk to employees as they entered the building. They all said he was "weird"!
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I can say the same thing about Miami, having lived there for 18 years. People look right through you as if they can't be bothered ''
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Lol yes as they live grossly outside of their means trying to impress each other .

My neighbors my entire 4 block radius are all lovely people but it took them about a year and a half to even acknowledge my existence and I used to say hi to everyone and they would look away .

Then I said to myself well now I'm going to tear them a new one and they had like a get together July 4 hotdogs and I did a comedy which left mouths agape , I went after Hispanics as that is the majority here , it was brutal .

The tamest thing I said was I have noticed most Hispanic men in Miami are Gay , they initially were not but became so and it makes sense because the drama , hysteria , gossip and never ending yip yap from Hispanic women will do that .

Actually I had to tame the above down a bit to post it here , I said it in Spanish which carried more voltage to it plus most here are Hispanic .

Couple months later I was like a Celeb here and now roughly 5 years later as have lived here 7 years simply best neighbors going , just lovely people and again the above was my tamest line .
 
seadoug said:
That was hilarious! I can say the same thing about Miami, having lived there for 18 years. People look right through you as if they can't be bothered. We had a security guard in our office building who was from the Midwest and used to talk to employees as they entered the building. They all said he was "weird"!
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I've been to Miami twice. Eveyone there seems fine with me, as long as I was giving them a tip. And only then did their face light up -- almost as though they had just put on a different personality.

I can remember parking at Biscayne Boulevard, getting out of the car, and being hit by 107 °Fahrenheit. A couldn't do much other than walking relly slowly.

One of my strongest memories there wasn't with the people, but with trying to get out of the place in a Mustang GT I rented from Hertz. I was just following a sat-nav I brought along with me, which seemed to have me enter a 5 lane motorway (or something), 5 or 6 lanes each side, and within a hundred yards wanted me to move over, crossing several lanes of heavy traffic, and exit on the opposite side. It all seemed like a very strange road layout..

I couldn't get over in time due to the heavy traffic, so the sat-nav kept taking me off at the next convenient exit so i could come around and have another go. This happend several times, to the point where I thought, what the hell am i doing wrong! It was like a scene from National Lampoon European Vacation, only the other way around. I thought I was going to be like this for hours until the traffic died down. I'm not entirely sure where I was, I might have been a couple of miles outside of Miami.

I thought there must be a better non-direct route out from where I was that only the locals know about. From memory, I thing I was trying to head north, ultamatlt to the Kennedy Space Centre. Now there is a place I would like to visit again.

 
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Lawrence00 said:
I dated a Russian woman for awhile. Over dramatic, complete opposite of me. One of her daughters was loud like her and the other was very elegant and soft spoken.

I also worked with a couple Iranians and it bothered me for awhile that they would get so loud and argue in their native tongue. One of them told me that they were not arguing, it was just how they talked.

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Yes, but the Greek people are some of the most welcoming I've ever seen. We've been to Greece so many times I can't count them and the people there have been wonderful. But yes, they are loud.

Italians are the same. I still remember calling a taxi in Rome to go to the airport. The taxi driver had his door open and another car whizzed by. You would have thought he shot him by the reaction. The people in so many European countries just have a zest for life and it is reflected in the volume of their conversations.
 
seadoug said:
Yes, but the Greek people are some of the most welcoming I've ever seen. We've been to Greece so many times I can't count them and the people there have been wonderful. But yes, they are loud.

Italians are the same. I still remember calling a taxi in Rome to go to the airport. The taxi driver had his door open and another car whizzed by. You would have thought he shot him by the reaction. The people in so many European countries just have a zest for life and it is reflected in the volume of their conversations.
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Love the Greek culture . As a kid in Albany went to few GOYA meeting with a neighbor , its a Greek organization and though they knew I was not Greek they were as nice as could be , decades later went to NY , Astoria as one sister moved there before moving to NYC and Astoria was then mostly Greek just lovely people .
 
seadoug said:
Yes, but the Greek people are some of the most welcoming I've ever seen. We've been to Greece so many times I can't count them and the people there have been wonderful. But yes, they are loud.

Italians are the same. I still remember calling a taxi in Rome to go to the airport. The taxi driver had his door open and another car whizzed by. You would have thought he shot him by the reaction. The people in so many European countries just have a zest for life and it is reflected in the volume of their conversations.
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Italians in Rome are a completely different kettle of fish to Italians in the rest of the country ...just like the British in London are very different to the rest of the country... just like the Spanish in Madrid & Barcelona very different to the rest of Spain

The Greek in Athens also very different for example from those on Greek Islands..

The people of Italy are far nicer than those in Rome .. those of the UK nicer than the majority of Londoners.. and so on...
 
seadoug said:
I read the article and I'm surprised to see so many Scandinavian countries on the list. I've been to Denmark and Norway and had the opposite experience. I find the spirit of the Spanish people delightful but I know places like Barcelona resent tourists these days because they have become overrun with tourism.
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TBH...the Barcelonians need to do something about the crime against tourists ... rather than turning tourists away... Pickpocketing and mugging in Barecelona is off the scale
 
Jackie23 said:
While in Paris several years ago my friend and I were walking down a sidewalk and a rag lady spit at us and on the same trip while we were in a park a group of small children tried to grab our purses....so I can understand France being high of the lis
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If you say it happened, I believe you. Shortly before DW and I went to France, we were hearing that there had been an effort in France to make hospitality persons aware of their reputation among English-speakers. Possibly this was why we did not have bad experiences.

But also... We had pre-booked for an affordable older Paris hotel recommended in one of Rick Steves' books. We didn't know the city, so when we set out the next morning, we wanted to go to the Eiffel Tower, and asked a 30-something Parisian man on the sidewalk where it was. He just referred to it by its French name, helpfully pointing out the way, without sneering or laughing... we were about two blocks away, but hadn't had the proper visual vantage point to see it.😂

Honestly, the only mildly uncomfortable exchange was with a ticket agent in a southern France railway station, who became a little frustrated with my inability to meet in the middle with his spoken English and my French. Even he tried to control his pique.
 
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Jackie23 said:
While in Paris several years ago my friend and I were walking down a sidewalk and a rag lady spit at us and on the same trip while we were in a park a group of small children tried to grab our purses....so I can understand France being high of the list.
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France as everybody probably knows are our next door neighbours... they're just a train trip away.

Until the invasion of illegal and legal Eastern Europeans, the french were our most arrested pickpockets on our tube trains ( subway) ..

They were/ and still are groups of young girls mainly.. who come to the uk for the day or the weekend with backpacks looking like young tourists and spend their whole time here riding the tube.. pickpocketing..
 
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hollydolly said:
Italians in Rome are a completely different kettle of fish to Italians in the rest of the country ...just like the British in London are very different to the rest of the country... just like the Spanish in Madrid & Barcelona very different to the rest of Spain

The Greek in Athens also very different for example from those on Greek Islands..

The people of Italy are far nicer than those in Rome .. those of the UK nicer than the majority of Londoners.. and so on...
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I have never been to Italy though one of my 3 sisters lives there married to retired Italian police but having a Sicilian father I find Italians bit tribe like as far as from one's family hails from .

All these Italian tribes was what I got in Albany from retired low level mobsters .

Did I mention that our friend Gary Oldman was in this movie ?

lol

 
JBR said:
If you say it happened, I believe you. Shortly before DW and I went to France, we were hearing that there had been an effort in France to make hospitality persons aware of their reputation among English-speakers. Possibly this was why we did not have bad experiences.

But also... We had pre-booked for an affordable older Paris hotel recommended in one of Rick Steves' books. We didn't know the city, so when we set out the next morning, we wanted to go to the Eiffel Tower, and asked a 30-something Parisian man on the sidewalk where it was. He just referred to it by its French name, helpfully pointing out the way, without sneering or laughing... we were about two blocks away, but hadn't had the proper visual vantage point to see it.😂

Honestly, the only mildly uncomfortable exchange was with a ticket agent in a southern France railway station, who became a little frustrated with my inability to meet in the middle with his spoken English with my French. Even he tried to control his pique.
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JBR...our trip was back in the 80's, the thing with the kids, we were sitting on a bench and they came at us from all directions, about 8 of them all talking at once and reaching for our purses...anyway they left us after we very loudly told them to get lost...hopefully they have made changes in the city since, but with that experience and us not speaking the language, it was not a good trip.
 
NotCompSavvy said:
I have never been to Italy though one of my 3 sisters lives there married to retired Italian police but having a Sicilian father I find Italians bit tribe like as far as from one's family hails from .

All these Italian tribes was what I got in Albany from retired low level mobsters .

Did I mention that our friend Gary Oldman was in this movie ?

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Hollywood horse sh*t! While some Moors were Black Africans, the majority—especially early on—were Berber and Arab Muslims from North Africa.
 
Jules said:
It absolutely is. NYC, Miami, the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, LA, etc.

Based on the German/Swiss love of renting RVs and travelling open Canadian roads, I’m sure wide-open states like Montana are popular too. They want to experience the Rockies and see the cowboys.
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I agree..America is the 3rd most visited country in the world for Tourists. Certainly NYC.. and Florida.. are numero Uno destinations for Tourists in the US

The most visted is France, followed by Spain, the USA is 3rd.... 4th Italy....7th on the list UK...

World Tourism rankings - Wikipedia
 
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NYC is one of the kindest places I know. Laugh all you want, but it's true. It's reputation is not deserved. Personally, I haven't been to other cities since I'm old, but...........people literally knock themselves out trying to help me before I even need to ask, and I don't ask.......someone is always there in a flash, opening doors, asking to help with whatever I need. I have always been kind to tourists, and that is all I have seen here. Yes, we are always in a rush to get somewhere, but stop when needed. I am proud of NYC, although not a fan of our MTA transit system.
 

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