die Amis…ganz pauschal

ahh lächerlich, die Amis, überheblich bis zum geht nicht mehr…
hallo wacht mal auf ihr Lieben und verpasst den Anschluss nicht!

witzig find ich das. Stammt aus einem Artikel der Reisetips für Amerikaner auf Europareise bieten möchte sehr lustig
ist recht lang aber irgendwie sehr sehr beispielhaft

Accept that today’s Europe is changing. Among the palaces, quaint folk dancers, and museums, you’ll find a living civilization grasping for the future while we romantic tourists grope for its past. This presents us with a sometimes painful dose of truth.

Today’s Europe is a complex, mixed bag of tricks. It can rudely slap you in the face if you aren’t prepared to accept it with open eyes and an open mind. Europe is getting crowded, tense, seedy, polluted, industrialized, hamburgerized, and far from the everything-in-its-place, fairy-tale land it may have once been.

If you’re not mentally braced for some shocks, local trends can tinge your travels. Hans Christian Andersen’s statue has four-letter words scrawled across its base. Amsterdam’s sex shops and McDonald’s share the same streetlamp. In Paris, armies of Sudanese salesmen bait tourists with ivory bracelets and crocodile purses. Many a Mediterranean hotel keeper would consider himself a disgrace to his sex if he didn’t follow a single woman to her room. Drunk punks do their best to repulse you as you climb to St. Patrick’s grave in Ireland, and Greek ferryboats dump mountains of trash into their dying Aegean Sea. A 12-year-old boy in Denmark smokes a cigarette like he was born with it in his mouth, and in a Munich beer hall, an old drunk spits Sieg heils all over you. The Barcelona shoeshine man will triple-charge you, and people everywhere eat strange and wondrous things. They eat next to nothing for breakfast, mud for coffee, mussels in Brussels, and snails in Paris, and dinner’s at 10 p.m. in Spain. Beer is room-temperature here and flat there, coffee isn’t served with dinner, and ice cubes are only a dream. Roman cars stay in their lanes like rocks in an avalanche, and beer maids with huge pretzels pull mustard packets from their cleavage.

Contemporary Europe is alive and groping. Today’s problems will fill tomorrow’s museums. Feel privileged to walk the vibrant streets of Europe as a sponge — not as a judge. Be open-minded. Absorb, accept, and learn.