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03-07-2012, 05:03   #136
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Right I guess you've never heard of new York city or south beach Miami or the hamptoms or Hollywood and vine or Hawaii or Alaska we have all that in one country name me a country who has all that oh and btw go look up the top 20 colleges in the world and tell me how many are American

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03-07-2012, 05:09   #137
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Well I live in southern California specifically long beach CA so I see tons of tourists and come into contact with tons more foreigners because I work at one of the most prestigious universitys in the world.and the ones I like the most to talk to are the Russians I've traveled the world during my military days i.e. Kuwait , Iraq ,Somalia,Japan,Spain ,England , Egypt.you get my point anyways the Russians or at least countries of the old USSR there just passionate about there country as well as living in the US they know the true danger of where all this European liberalism takes us
What a well written anti-liberalism argument. Well done.
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My friend Chandra in Kolkata loves to tell about an incident involving American tourists in his city. One day he was out and about and saw a group of American tourists on a walking tour with an Indian guide. It was a part of the city where semi-dried cow dung had been fashioned into round cakes, which looked rather like natural cow pats, and stuck to gable ends of buildings and above eye level on high walls to complete the drying process into domestic fuel.

One American lady noticed them and asked the guide: "What are they?"

He replied: "That's cow dung, madam."

She turned to her friend in astonishment and asked: "Gee, how did they shit up there?"
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What a well written anti-liberalism argument. Well done.
Was that what it is? I was reading that 5 times at least to try and make sense of it ...
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Considering the time of year it is (Spanish language student season), I have to say that this particular sub-section of a nationality are my least favourite, by a rather vast margin.
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It's a greater cost for Americans to venture to Ireland (or any country outside North America or those in the Caribbean). After you factor the paltry amount of vacation time allowed, the extortionate cost of airfare and the time required for actual travel (~ 8 hours to fly from the eastern US to Dublin), one would want to make the most of the experience after arriving here.
I don't know what plane you take, but it certainly does not take 8 hours from the Eastern coast of the US to Dublin.
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I'll never forget touring around Tel Aviv with an American chick who looked up at me from her guidebook when we were in Rabin Square and declared;
"isn't it SO ironic??"
"what?"
"that Rabin got assassinated in his own square"

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american tourists are usually well behaved on 'vacation' and respectful to the hosts.

europeans generally are not.

perhaps this has something to do with american's percieving they have a bad reputationa and thus behaving carefully, while europeans generally scoff and sneer at everyone else and are less respectfull.

imo within the eu, the worst tourits are english, german and spanish. But then again I live somewhere were it is mostly young people from those countries who visit.
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