Fark.com linked the following article from Airman magazine.
Boiling it down, it listed 10 things that Americans do when travelling that can be considered offensive to citizens of other countries:
1. Public displays of affection
2. The OK hand gesture
3. Single gift giving
4. Improper eye contact
5. Using the left hand for eating, handshaking, etc.
6. The thumbs-up gesture
7. Sticking chopsticks in the bowl
8. Not respecting the elderly
9. Showing the soles of the shoe\Putting feet up
10. Blowing nose in public
What Americans consider to be rude behavior:
1. Flying airplanes into our buildings
2. Sneaking across our border and collecting welfare
3. Starting wars with your neighbors, then asking us to bail your ass out
4. Aiming nukes at us - correction - even pretending to aim nukes at us
5. Dumping your products on our markets then closing your markets to our products
6. Impressing our sailors on the high seas then burning our capital
7. Committing genocide
8. Growing opium and coca then blaming us when your country is undermined by armed gangs
9. Sending your people to our shores on rickety boats or across the desert and then blaming us when they die
10. Electing Hugo Chavez
Here's a few I'd like to add:
11. Joining the United Nations (for which 25% of the budget comes from the USA alone), then blaming the Americans for everything that's wrong with your country
12. Getting a degree on scholarship from an American university, then going home and becoming a terrorist or political activist holding a "Death to America" sign on TV
13. Eating McDonalds food and swilling Starbucks coffee while cursing America's "oppressive culture"
14. Criticizing human rights in the USA while your country allows dismemberments and maiming of anyone any unelected street preacher doesn't like, and considers women to be "property"
15. Criticizing US politics while your country is led by a guy who ousted your last government through a military takeover.
16. Criticizing the US for not signing the Kyoto Accord, when your country hasn't come close to living up to the emissions cuts you agreed to when you signed it.
3 comments:
soon public display of affection might be ban in malaysia if some overzealous taliban like local councillors have their way. we are fighting this like crazy. the last thing we need is for some pretentious holier than thou characters to tell us whether we can hold hands in public.
Good luck, Sharon. That's rotten.
we are hoping that that day will never come. no one should appoint themselves as moral police.
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