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This article was taken from FORBES Magazine!!...read on….

Do you agree?? MY COMMENTS IS AT THE END OF THIS ARTICLE….

http://travel.yahoo.com/ideas/the-world-s-rudest-nations-for-travelers.html

Congratulations, my fellow Americans! We’re not the rudest nation on the planet. We’re not even in the top five. USA! USA!

The travel search site Skyscanner.com surveyed its users about where the locals never smile and people are particularly unfriendly, and the nation with the most votes for rudest locals was…

Wait for it…

France (félicitations, mes amis!), followed by Russia. The survey received over 1,200 responses, 65 percent from the UK and Ireland, plus elsewhere in Europe, North America and Australia.

The World's Rudest Nations for Travelers

1. France
2. Russian
3. British
4. German
5. Other

Rounding out the top five rudest countries were the U.K., Germany and “Other” (those Others are the worst, don’t you think?). The U.S. placed 7th, behind China.

Some of the perceived rudeness may be attributable to cultural differences rather than anything intentional. For example, says Tatiana Danilova, Skyscanner’s Russian Market Manager, “the Russian language is not as polite as English, so when Russians translate directly from Russian to English, it can sound rude to an English speaker even if they don’t mean it to.”

“We were surprised to see Russians come in second place,” says Skyscanner’s Travel Editor, Sam Baldwin. He attributes this in part to the “familiarity breeds contempt” phenomenon. Although Russia doesn’t compare with the Mediterranean as a tourist destination, as visa regulations have relaxed, Russian holidaymakers are increasingly flocking to the Mediterranean and coming into contact with people from other countries.

The same principle may apply to the French: “As our closest neighbors, there has long been a familiar rivalry between the U.K. and France,” Baldwin says, and the preponderance of responses from the British Isles may have contributed to this result. Still, Baldwin says, “Even the French acknowledge that the way they are perceived is not entirely without basis.” (In France’s defense, I’ve always found Parisians to be just as rude to each other as they are to foreigners. Outside of Paris – and even within the city – people can be as gracious as anywhere.)

The British, for their part, voted themselves “world’s worst tourists” in a previous Skyscanner survey.

The countries rated as having the least rude locals were Brazil, the Caribbean and the Philippines.

Skyscanner claims to be Europe’s leading travel search site, operating in over 25 languages with more than 25 million visits and over 11 million unique visitors per month. It has offices in Edinburgh, Scotland and Singapore.

Here’s the complete list of responses:

Nationality       Percentage of votes

French                   19.29
Russian                  16.56
British                    10.43
German                 9.93
Other                    6.37
Chinese                4.30
American               3.39
Spanish                 3.15
Italian       2.24
Polish                    2.24
Turkish                  2.15
Indian                  1.90
Swiss                    1.90
Greek                    1.74
Croatian                1.57
Austrian                 1.41
Cypriot                1.24
Egyptian              1.24
Korean                 1.24
Norwegian           0.99
Australian              0.91
Dutch                   0.83
Irish                       0.83
Swedish               0.83
Japanese             0.66
Danish                   0.50
Canadian               0.41
New Zealander     0.41
Indonesian           0.41
Portuguese           0.33
Thai                      0.25
Filipino                  0.17
Caribbean              0.08
Brazilian                0.08

Comment from WanLanun of Travel Slippers:

Do you agree?? What baloney!!!

Just don’t believe everything you read…as I said before…bad media reporting is as bad as media terrorism!!

Survey was conducted by The travel search site Skyscanner.com surveyed its users about where the locals never smile and people are particularly unfriendly, and the nation with the most votes for rudest locals was… Have you heard of this Skyscanner.com??? Not me…

I believe only those with bad experience and have the time to complain are getting their frustrations highlighted here….may not be true at all..unfortunately…

Even Forbes is doing this sort of cheap journalism…

I’ve highlighted the countries from Asia in red… It says CHINESE are the 6^th rudest???? CHINESE??? From which country? Such a loose cannon….Can this be Hong Kong? Singapore? Malaysia? Same goes to Indian…and what is OTHER???

My opinion is :When someone from a host nation is rude, it is usually when the guest is ignorant of cultures and taboo, rude themselves, expect that their money is King….. People of the world are in majority very pleasant…

Where and when do tourist get the rude treatment? This is mostly relevant in Asia…just as example..

Wearing a thin blouse/T-shirt/ singlet without a bra in a Muslim country is rude…. So is wearing shorts that’s just too short
Swimming in a bikini/topless on a public beach is rude in most public beaches of Asia (Public beaches used by locals)
No behaving sensibly aka slightly tipsy, loud, drinking alchohol in public areas
Do not respect culture and taboo…aka shoes off indoors, cover your head in holy places of worship, touching someone’s head
Instead of speaking slowly in their own mother tongue, they also speak LOUD and slowly…this is rude and condescending.

This is really rude..."If common sense is so common, why are there millions of idiots in this world??"

The funny thing is that this survey result shows that the Europeans are saying they themselves are rude to fellow Europeans !! Well, that may be very true….when I was lost in Paris and wanted to ask for some directions, I asked in Malay and Japanese….asking in English will only get you a cold shoulder treatment!! Glad to be an Asian!!

By the way...I have never been rude to anyone...ever.....I just wasn't taught to politely pretend to be nice to people I can't stand...that's all...

So....wanna be treated badly at one of the most romantic and beautiful city on earth?? Let's Jom!! Paris...