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Pushy French are world's worst tourists: study - Yahoo! Canada News

Pushy French are world's worst tourists: study - Yahoo! Canada News
Pushy French are world's worst tourists: study - Yahoo! Canada News
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090710...
Carried out last month by TNS Infratest for the Expedia online travel agency, the study asked 40,000 hotels worldwide to rank tourists from 27 countries based on nine criteria, from their politeness to their willingness to tip.

Could we dispel some stereotypes?  I recently heard that when you travel in a group with the people from your country to another country, you're likely to be portray the origin of your country stereotypes.

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Why is American food so popular in Japan? - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine

Why is American food so popular in Japan? - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine
Why is American food so popular in Japan? - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine
http://www.slate.com/id/2221017/
McDonald's in TokyoThe image of Japan as being inhospitable to imports is old, enduring, and not entirely unjustified. The government is offering immigrants from South America—many themselves descendants of Japanese emigrants—$3,000 to return home (the better to free up jobs for native-born Japanese). The vista that meets visitors at Narita Airport is hardly more welcoming: masked staffers, health disclosure forms, and a sign warning that people who are coming in from countries such as Bolivia and Brazil must go in a special line. (They're looking for either soccer players or swine flu.) On the 80-minute ride from Narita Airport to Tokyo, I tried in vain to spot an imported car on the road.
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