I've done quite a bit of traveling, and, it seems like the wealthy Americans tend to be the obnoxious ones. Just plain folks dont get to go overseas because their family budgets dont allow it. However, we dont have a corner on the arshole market, in Jamaica, after a tourist trap activity, we were headed back to the hotel, when a group of English loons started raising hell, insulting the natives, calling them "spooks", and insisting that the driver stop so they could get more beer. There were 6 of them, and one of me, so, discretion being the better part of valor, I kept quiet. But, it has rankled me ever since.

Then again, in Barbados, I stopped in for a pint at a hotel, and struck up a chat with a Canadian. After a bit, I asked why he and so many other Canadians wear those little Canadian flag pins. He turned bright red and started to stammer. Finally, he told me that it was because they didn't want to be taken for Americans! I asked if he had a spare one, he did, and then he bought me a drink. We spent a very pleasant afternoon being ambassadors at large for our countries. I still have that pin.