Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? (2025) • Hacker News Board

Re: Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? (2025)

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Post by jimbokun » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 2:02 PM UTC

daveshistory wrote: post #73

jimbokun wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems to me most Europeans are sincerely torn between the flood of dollars Americans bring into their economies and the staggering crowds making it difficult to enjoy their own cities and vacation spots. Which is the feeling this article is trying to capture.

Yeah, but that's always been true. The other poster seemed to suggest something had changed more recently.

From what I’ve been reading the number of foreign tourists coming to Europe has risen rapidly in recent years, putting strain on hotspots and even places that were not popular tourist destinations in the past. I’ve read similar things about Japan.

I’m not as clear on the cause. Whether people are richer and can afford to travel more? Or travel costs have gone down?

Re: Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? (2025)

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Post by gib444 » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 2:59 PM UTC

fleshdaddy wrote: post #43

gib444 wrote: post #13

> When Americans analyze a small shop in a foreign country, time stops counting itself on clocks and pondering its own dull finiteness. Now it can pleasurably yawn into the holy hollowness of the 30-plus questions the tourists are asking. Now, everyone around the American family is swamped in the buttery goo of the present, stretched. The other people in the gelateria can’t name the feeling that wraps itself around t…

So how do you feel about the ending thesis that now you are also this American family?

Total non sequitir but: fine - thanks for asking daddy!

Re: Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? (2025)

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Post by dukisamardzic » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 3:44 PM UTC

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Re: Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? (2025)

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Post by carlosjobim » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 5:51 PM UTC

gib444 wrote: post #80

carlosjobim wrote: post #79

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Ask anybody who works in the tourism sector if they would prefer American (USA) tourists or some of the nationalities you mentioned. Their answer will be the Americans. Being polite means that you do your best, and as a tourist - a visitor - it is quite hard to know every quirk and hang-up that some locals might have. Once again: why would a visitor care about being "accepted"? They are visiting, not settling down. T…

> Ask anybody who works in the tourism sector if they would prefer American (USA) tourists or some of the nationalities you mentioned. Their answer will be the Americans. Because of their money. If USA folk were poor, their opinion would be very different

Not at all. Everybody pays the same price anyway. Americans are genuinely one of the better groups of tourists you can receive.

Re: Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? (2025)

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Post by blargey » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 10:40 PM UTC

boodleboodle wrote: post #17

I kinda disagree with the general sentiment of the article. IMO the author mistakes a low context social style for imperial tastelessness. I, a Korean, lived in the US for a decade so I do have experience with this "imperialism" the author tries to illustrate. However, the American behavior the author is describing is more attributed to how American social norms don't force anyone to "read the room" and "know your pl…

American "tolerance" has its merits, but a guest does not "tolerate" or "accept" their hosts.

Being oblivious to the cultural norms and tastes of your environs is, quite literally, being taste-less in that place/context.

Re: Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? (2025)

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Post by gib444 » Sun, Jun 07, 2026, 2:33 PM UTC

carlosjobim wrote: post #84

gib444 wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Ask anybody who works in the tourism sector if they would prefer American (USA) tourists or some of the nationalities you mentioned. Their answer will be the Americans. Because of their money. If USA folk were poor, their opinion would be very different

Not at all. Everybody pays the same price anyway. Americans are genuinely one of the better groups of tourists you can receive.

Everyone knows US people tip heavily, and aren't as price conscious. This has revealed your ignorance unfortunately