I swear, if you chuckleheads try and turn this post into another long flame war I'll just delete the whole shi ...bang. It's just anecdotal (look it up).
Disclaimer concluded, continuing...
"From Reuters, via the New Zealand Herald: Contrary to the notion that American tourists are obnoxious, a survey of 15,000 European hoteliers found that Americans ranked second, behind the Japanese, as the world's politest and most preferable guests. This may have to do, of course, with our great fondness for tipping. Britons, meanwhile, were rated the fifth worst tourists, due to 'rude behavior, noise and a miserly attitude to tipping'." (via the
Freakonomics blog)
