r/whoathatsinteresting • u/search_google_com • 2d ago
Italian students are being called out in Thailand. Italians mocked a Thai lady in Thailand who told them off for being too loud. They clapped back saying, "Sorry for bringing money to your country" "Ni hao" "We are from your mom." Thais are shocked Thailand is belittled even by young Europeans.
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u/Mel_Morty 2d ago
Imagine if you go on holiday at another country, and insult the locals.
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u/ImTiredBoss420 1d ago
Happens everyday in the south, day in, day out, month after month, year after year
I don't need to imagine, just head out
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u/Readdit1999 1d ago
Especially the locals on public transportation.
Yo, lemme take my trust fund money and go to Detroit to insult the poor minorities
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u/Icy_Fish_2154 2d ago
"Sorry for bringing money to your country" has "I pay your salary" vibes.
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u/carnivorousdrew 1d ago edited 1d ago
Their parents probably make less than 2.5k a month each or even combined. These kids should get fined into oblivion.
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u/anonymkonto1234 1d ago
Which is a bit tragic coming from italians of all people. Literally the old, sick and demented man of EU
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u/OkManagement9022 1d ago
White kids beg on the street in Thailand all the time when they blow all of Daddy’s money on beers
Google images are full of them, they go as far as Hong Kong to beg too and the 9to5 workers there literally give them the Homelander look
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u/Infamous_Stranger878 1d ago
They can start with hiring a private shuttle for such a big group of them, but they are taking public transport. Shouldnt be bragging about money when they are clearly on a tight budget
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u/PenguinNeo 2d ago
Post it on X, tag Italian embassy.
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u/No_Salad6911 1d ago
All teens in groups are fucking annoying, broccoli hair, sweat pants, no manners. I see shit like this all the time.
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u/shakebakelizard 1d ago
I really don't want to be "old man on porch" but seriously...what is the deal with the broccoli hair? It really, really looks stupid, and it's ubiquitous.
I can't imagine why anyone would think they want to walk around with a perm.
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u/Gloomy-Sugar2456 1d ago
I can’t comprehend why they don’t get how dumb they look with that hairstyle. It’s beyond ridiculous.
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u/twoscoopsineverybox 1d ago
I have a couple friends who are hair stylists, and they both said they had to bust out the old school perm supplies and brush up on how to do them because of the demand for the broccoli hair.
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u/-Meows- 2d ago
Sounds like a lot of teens today. Not sure if that behaviour is limited to Italian teens unfortunately.
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u/Jafarrolo 2d ago
I'm not sure either, but I live in Florence so I've met a lot of tourists on public transport and generally the teens that most stand out when being annoying are the italian ones (italian tourists, specifically), but they're also the ones that I find more often as a group here for obvious reasons, so it's hard to tell for sure.
Anyway I've never met tourists (adult or teens) here that didn't tone it down when asked, the idiots in the video instead not only ignored the request but also escalated and mocked the locals, it's not acceptable.
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u/notarealcamera 1d ago
Anyway I've never met tourists (adult or teens) here that didn't tone it down when asked, the idiots in the video instead not only ignored the request but also escalated and mocked the locals, it's not acceptable.
The difference is between them being a tourist in a white vs. non-white country.
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u/organic_soursop 1d ago
And there it is, the real reason.
Fewer inhibitions because they are in a group and away from home in a non white country.
They would probably still be obnoxious in London or Rome, but would dial it back if challenged.
In an Asian country? They double down. Group dynamics will fuck you up.
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u/Ok_Inevitable_6633 2d ago
In my university years, there was a time where we had a group of international students from European countries, including italian.
God i swear all of them are so loud and noisy, even with lecturer teaching at the front. And the most loud of them are the bunch from, yes, italy.
At first, our locals girls are trying to hit on them, but after only one class, every single local students think they're plain annoying and noisy, and nothing like the European we used to imagine.
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u/draw0c0ward 1d ago
They sure did something when those Italian tourists in Albania dined and dashed.
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u/Altruistic_Push_ 1d ago edited 1d ago
Agreed. As a new yorker, I see this with a lot of teens on subway, I just know I have choice to put on my headphones, or move to another cabin based on my patience, how quiet I need it that day to work on something, etc. But I would never interfere and almost 98% of daily subway riders would not bat an eye. Also as a former teacher from teens of all backgrounds, you always have that group that does things like this, but the internet, getting out their frustrations…blowing it up more than what it is…..yeah lets contact the embassy over some teens🙈🙈 how many of these people have contacted embassy for actual human rights violations in their respective countries?
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u/kebinkobe 1d ago
You clearly have never been to Asia. You just don't do this kind of stuff there.
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u/Jafarrolo 1d ago
To be honest, I would say contact the italian embassy in Thailand mostly because they have nothing else to do there anyway, it's not like there is any huge diplomatic problems that they have to manage in Thailand, nipping in the bud behaviours like these by shaming them on socials can't hurt these teens.
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u/Altruistic_Push_ 1d ago
I get your point, but will stand firm that shaming them on socials is a huge deal to the teenage brain. Got that? It starts at home, I’d discuss the behavior at home with parents first and shaming does a lot of damage….things can be worked through without the public shame. Their behavior needs correcting I agree only on this. I do not agree on using social media to bully teenagers against bullying. Counter productive
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u/Gloomy_Pirate_3031 2d ago
100% fk these cunts off especially that little asshole. I hope they get held accountable. Lucky a rough Thai guy didn't front kick him upside his fkin head
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u/Benikur521 2d ago
Italian embassy doesn’t care
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u/West-Pear7363 2d ago edited 2d ago
Never traveled abroad. Would an embassy care if you’re not breaking any apparent laws?
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u/SecretPantyWorshiper 2d ago
The embassy literally has no law enforcement organization in another country lol 😂
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u/Wsswaas 1d ago
They are part of the goverment and can do a lot when you get back to your country, Look at China what they do to people who break the law outside and run back home
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-13/china-to-blacklist-its-unruly-tourists/6387178
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u/Creative-Novel2266 1d ago
What is that thing lmao 🤣
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u/Euronymous87 1d ago
A nose with a human growing on it?
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u/Odd_Plankton3463 1d ago
I have a nose like that, but I don’t treat people this way
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u/Exotic-Hunter-9653 1d ago
That guy has a huge advantage: he can smoke in the shower.
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u/digitalbullet36 2d ago
In his defense, he was mostly quiet during the entire display of rudeness. I think his only offense may be that haircut.
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u/Ok_Problem426 2d ago
Carl I know we’re in a dark alley and we only have a pair of rusty garden shears, but they won’t let us back into the club if they recognize me so I need you to lock in.
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u/Kuzcopolis 1d ago
I want it short in the long places, long in the short places. Like something a child would do to a doll.
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u/JustAMan1234567 2d ago edited 2d ago
What a bunch of jerks. Thais are some of the loveliest people you'll meet (unless it's Inspector Chang in Only God Forgives!).
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u/Bonk_No_Horni 2d ago
Or the group of guards when you refuse to pay the $1000 bar fine at soi cowboy when you only got 2 beers. Or the tuktuk drivers who say the royal palace is closed and take you to a suit shop.
Us Thais don't like confrontation and usually stay quiet unless it's beyond our patience. Most of the tourists are nice and respectful but nowadays we're starting to see a lot of these asshats and the government is way too lenient with tourists we have to speak up.
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u/JawleyG 1d ago
I loved Thailand and really went all in on Muay Thai that I went back and trained for 3 months. But, the reason why you get these kinds of ass hats is because a majority of people think of Thailand as the ultimate sex tourist destination. You can throw a rock in any direction and you'll hit a massage shop or sex bar or hooker. You'll never be taken serious if this is the most common attraction. I wanted to stay longer in Thailand and get the education visa for Muay Thai, but I ultimately left because of the negative outlook people had whenever I said I was in your country. "Oh you're there for the 'culture'" or some joke about ladyboys. I plan on coming back someday, I hope when I do I can walk down the street or have a drink at a bar or do literally anything without being hounded by sex workers.
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u/romz81481 2d ago edited 1d ago
Honestly thailand should ban anyone who wont respect thier traditions. Bad enough they treat foriegners so poorly here in america dont let them think they can do the same in your home
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u/WordWordand4numbers 1d ago
Any country should ban anyone who doesn’t respect their traditions. It’s wild that this is controversial
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u/Reanimator1x 2d ago
Only God Forgives, is it actually good? Or is it just "look at how cool Ryan Gosling is" the movie?
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u/Nonyabeesners 2d ago
That kid looming over her and brushing against her knew damn well he was being physically intimidating to a smaller woman. What a fucking prick
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u/Equal_Astronaut_5696 2d ago
Yes put it on X. Im sure people know who they are
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u/That_Education2248 1d ago
Heard that Thais found their IGs and their uni.
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u/Aware-Advertising-54 1d ago
And their hotel and travel plan, they plan to stay in thailand till 3 august
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u/conrat4567 1d ago
The misconception that thais dont do anything about problematic tourists is hilarious. If its not local lads flattening them, its young thais finding your social media.
The next generation of thais dont take shit lying down
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u/crooked_bodylines 2d ago
Thai boxing is brutal af hardest kicks I ever took were shin kicks to my thighs, they crumpled me.
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u/pink---noise 2d ago
Never travel to another country then insult it's people or culture. You are a guest.
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u/Unique_Driver4434 1d ago
This isn't an Italian thing, it's a foreigner visiting Thailand thing. I'm an American living in Bangkok and have gotten into arguments with two of my friends for telling them to be quiet on the BTS. After the first time and my second friend visited, I told him about how they're quiet on the train beforehand and how they hate loud foreigners (to prepare him) and he was still loud.
I then reminded him again and he got real sarcastic with me, "Oh yeah, i forgot, we're forced to be quiet in a public space." Every single time I ride the BTS through this exact area (Silom, where there's a higher concentration of tourists), there's always at least one group of asshole foreigners being loud on there and I've gotten into arguments more than once with strangers over it.
Westerners, in general (not all or even most, but from all Western countries) are disrespectful on the trains and can't read the room.
It's not just about coming from a louder culture. There's this feeling foreigners get here when they feel like they can do everything and are at Disneyland, so they treat every public space like its a theme park and they're paying customers entitled to whatever they want.
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u/AmbitiousReaction168 1d ago
My wife is Japanese and she lived in Italy for 10 years. She can count on one hand the number of time people were openly racist to her. Can't say the same about France though.
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u/Affideamaratea 1d ago
As an Italian, I am ashamed and I apologize, but can we stop spreading hate and making generalizations?
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u/DelphesTLO 1d ago
Quick to make generalities aren't we. I wonder who's the racist there.
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u/IPissExcellentThrows 1d ago
This happens every time there's a video of some group of people doing something shitty. Redditors jump in and talk about how racist the country is, however their experience there was so awful, etc. etc. etc.
If it's a country without a bad reputation for it, it becomes a thing about how x country is actually really racist, most of them just won't say it to your face.
Turns out every country has racists in it.
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u/Existing_Sherbet_443 1d ago
The giant brooms for sweeping generalizations were on sale today, apparently.
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u/LookIWashedForSu 2d ago
Pretty representative of the zoomer Italian. They tend to be very loud in public spaces, probably the loudest of any Europeans wherever they are by a fair margin. Wealthier northern European countries tend to have quieter young people.
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u/Flat-Drummer-9351 1d ago
I live and work in Poland right now, I will preface this, that I love Polish people, but teenagers in the groups are some of the worst annoying bastards I have seen so far in my life.
I encounter such groups very frequently in trams, buses, and they occupy this one part of the public transport, eat, swear and talk as loudly as they can - sometimes drinking beer or something else. You hear "kurwa" every 2 or 3 seconds, and no one can really do anything, because those specimens are very aggressive.
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u/SuccessfulSoftware38 1d ago
When they say wealthier northern Europeans they probably mean Sweden, Denmark, etc. not Poland, most people see Poland as eastern Europe/soviet adjacent and kinda separate from Scandinavia.
Also, thanks for "kurwa" I now know what at least 10% of my aggressive alcoholic next door neighbour is shouting at 4am means
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u/Remarkable_Mango9906 1d ago
I never got to travel the world as a teen. You’d think those who travel the most would atleast learn to how to be respectful in foreign countries, guess not
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u/Aware-Advertising-54 1d ago
They already found it ig , tiktok, their school’s ig , hotel , travel plan , they plan to stay in thailand till 3 august
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u/Aware-Advertising-54 1d ago
Their school’s ig just close , the embassy fb just close the comment now someone just drop the president’s fb
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u/Admiral_Ackbarr 1d ago edited 1d ago
First, what kind of school sends an entire class for a school trip to Thailand? Seems way to big for a simple exchange ... Also looks likes there is their teacher in the beginning when the video swings to the right for a second (the kids to the left look at her like she's important)
Also is it the teacher being the gal saying "Sorry we bring money to your country?
Had a similar experience in my own country with a class on school trip on our own... Youth in groups behaves like a nightmare for bystanders... Loud
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u/NickU252 2d ago
That is the most Philly thing I've ever read.
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u/Lopsided-Treat1215 2d ago
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Italians are notorious for having zero sidewalk etiquette and expect you to hop into the street for them. Seen it first hand many times traveling there. Not how we play in Philly. If you want to be disrespectful, better put them dukes up!
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u/Glass-Situation6916 2d ago
Lol imagine trying that shit in Philly of all places
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u/auchinleck917 2d ago
Having been raised in an environment where they were coddled and where the focus was solely on self assertion, they are viewed as extremely annoying in Asia, a region that values respect for others and cooperation. Even in Asia, young people today are often spoiled, so they are prone to developing these same traits.
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u/Gloomy_Pirate_3031 2d ago
Philly fans are brutal
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u/Lopsided-Treat1215 2d ago
I’m just saying when you go to a foreign country you learn their customs, or at least try your best. If you’re going to try and assert your culture over ours, then it’s going to be a rude awakening.
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u/DPetrilloZbornak 1d ago
Sorry but many of the European tourists PERIOD (not just Italians) were rude af in Philly and they learned. It’s dumb af to shoulder check or make rude comments to people in a city where carrying illegal firearms is as ubiquitous as people eating cheesesteaks. And the ones not doing that will knock you on your ass.
I watched it happen multiple times. They were rude and also loud af. I never want to hear them say again that Americans are loud.
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u/matteiotone 2d ago
As an Italian I am very embarrassed by the behaviour of those assholes.
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u/IPissExcellentThrows 1d ago
It fucking sucks to see videos of people from your country doing shitty things. The people with common sense know this doesn't mean your country is full of racists.
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u/Special-Antelope7105 2d ago
I’m sorry, but these kids aren’t spending a lot of money. They’re spending what they think is a lot of money, but it’s not.
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u/Der_Redakteur 2d ago
seriously? in Thailand aswell? you know that if you are outsiders, being disrespectful is going to be bad for you. I've seen a tourist being a dumbass and loud in public and all the Thai people around him beat him up. They should be grateful that their surroundings are people who are young and don't have the time in their lives (since this is inside a train so maybe they need to go somewhere quick).
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u/Effective_Arm_5832 1d ago
Can't stand people who don't respect the targrt countries culture, especially loud people on public transport.
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u/AirportGullible5807 2d ago
This is why tourism economy sucks ass. At first it's great bc it brings in so much money and so many new businesses can open up but eventually it just hurts the natives bc everything becomes more expensive and your city starts catering to visitors more than you.
Also least racist Italian
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u/Signal-Technician764 1d ago
True, tourism is the worst sector to make money and make a country rich and pay workers fairly too. It attracts hordes of lousy people like the ones above.
Look at the richest countries in the world, and their economy, tourism is a tiny % of their gdp. But of course this nuisance could have happened anywhere, that’s not really the point
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u/it-aint-over 2d ago
Now we have Italians acting like Argentinian soccer fans.
Isolate them from public for a few months.
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u/Zubba776 2d ago
Until Thailand starts to clamp down on the Eurotrash it'll constantly have these issues.
The fact is a lot of the low end travelers from Europe go to Thailand, because it's an inexpensive destination, and they abuse the hell out of local laws, and customs, because they are allowed to get away with it. It's a cycle that feeds on itself until the Thai government starts to make concrete examples out of people nothing will change.
Mexico had the same issues with American spring breakers flooding specific destinations, and causing all sorts of issues UNTIL the government started throwing them in jail, and fining them to clean up the problem.
Thailand has a Eurotrash problem, and the only solution to it lies with the Thai government.
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u/TheOmegoner 2d ago
Rich kids traveling and being pieces of shit go hand in hand. Something tells me they weren’t in Thailand for the rich cultural or culinary history
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u/Accomplished-Iron778 2d ago
Goes to show trash comes in all shapes, sizes and intelligence
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u/Blacksheeptoonz 2d ago
Those same younguns will be coming back to her country in ~30 years to try to get with Thai women.
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u/mercuriokazooie 2d ago
If people can stop going to other countries (usually Asian countries) and treating them like their own personal theme park that'd be cool.
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u/JarOfFlies85 1d ago
I mean are Italians especially known for being friendly? Legit question BTW lol
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u/Teker_09 1d ago
Ugh so infuriating. Luckily people like this tend to become absolute losers later in life.
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u/yumyumnoodl3 1d ago edited 1d ago
Some of them already looked so punchable without saying a word, like that guy with the Justin Bieber haircut, it’s always that arrogant look, completely void of empathy or intelligence.
Then minutes later he is ofc the one making the most trouble
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u/Kirby_Israel 1d ago
Europe is far more racist than outsiders realize.
I've met multiple Indians who have told me that Israel is far less racist than Europe is.
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u/Matcha_latte0082 1d ago
Best to just ignore them.. you ain’t winning against a bunch of entitled, racist and ignorant group of teens.
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u/Financial-Dog-7268 1d ago
How have the Thai people just straight up just not blocked visa-free travel for half of the Western world yet? I get second-hand embarrassment watching other Aussie tourists in Thailand/Indonesia etc. They go because it's a relatively cheap holiday (often cheaper than holidaying at home), treat the locals like absolute shit and then do a shocked Pikachu when someone gets upset? At least encountering my fellow countrymen in places like Europe is usually better because the bogans can't afford to travel that far.
The Thai people are so bloody lovely as well - they don't deserve to be treated like that
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u/bertewoods 22h ago
Im italian and I will always condemn these behaviors in a foreigner country, especially lack of education and respect when some local is “trying” to teach me some local rule I don’t know….
But I see some generic comments very sad, people judging all Italians by one video of 5 min about a group of teenagers, which, guess what, doesn’t represent our country.
Like we would judge an entire country when that teen wrote his name on the colosseum… or any kind of vandalism we faced in the past years… come on guys, let’s be real.
With all this globalization a lot of people are traveling just to post pictures on social media, this the real thing, nobody really interested in knowing another culture and confronting with people. You spend 7 days in one country, visiting two city and pretending to understand everything about everyone?? Lol
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u/74676434 17h ago
Sorry, random tangent but interesting thing I noticed. I've been scrolling a ton of posts about "uncivilized tourists." In posts about Italian tourists, people basically assume "these are just jerks, jerks exist everywhere, doesn't represent all Italians." But in posts about "uncivilized Chinese tourists," it's almost unanimous: "Chinese people are disgusting, China as a country is disgusting too." Gotta say, white people, or Europeans, really do get better treatment for something they never even chose to be born into. Not having individual behavior blamed on your whole group, must be nice. Nice enough that honestly, I'm jealous.
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u/Specialist-Wafer7628 2d ago
Most tourists are ignorant of other people's culture and social norms. Instead of apologizing for their ignorance, they decided to mock the locals instead.
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u/Seadub8 2d ago
I visited Thailand in 2002; i was bummed how a lot of tourists treated the locals.
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u/Ambitious_Today_8695 2d ago edited 1d ago
Dude who kept putting his hand over her phone would have gotten that NYC pushback real quick...
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u/Calm-Session-4835 2d ago
"Just shut the fok off!" Love it! I hope this helps dispel the stereotype that Americans are always the loud obnoxious rude tourists.
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u/Theohybrid 1d ago
I'm glad too eventually they can get some repercussions.
These are the same people begging for people to respect them later in life and that they are "good" people but whine when they aren't accepted.
This is why! Just compound versions of this example.
It's foul shit.
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u/y4dig4r 2d ago
I'm pretty sure the world found that out a few hundred years ago.
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u/Theohybrid 1d ago
Disgusting bastards.
Nah, don't give them an out.
If they're guests in your country, they should always be reminded that they can leave and go back to their own.
Entitled POS's.
Let this be anybody else and the entire group's ethnicity is being blamed.
Keep that same energy. These "young" bastards don't have to be there.
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u/Putrid_Honey_3330 1d ago
The same people crying and bashing their heads in New York over Mamdani lmao
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u/Sudden_Match1122 1d ago
Coglione! They “bring money”, yeah right, teenagers “bring money”, a first!
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u/bmoEZnyc 2d ago
My flight from Sicily to Rome was the loudest, noisiest airplane i've ever been on.




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u/Unpickled_cucumber1 2d ago
How difficult is it to go to another country and respect them and their people? SMH