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Stumbled upon this from another community, do you agree? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Went to Turkey once and people seemed genuinely impressed when we attempted to speak Turkish. They also seemed impressed we were Americans. Almost all the other English-speaking tourists we met were older Brits, many of which acted pretty haughty. I guess they're less used to Americans visiting. Turns out on the West Coast at least a large portion of Turks speak English

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

There's a huge contingent of Brits who go to a place that's sunny, reasonably close by, and relatively cheap and just stay on a gated resort for the entire week. I've had lengthy conversations about holidays with people before where it took a good while to discover that they saw literally none of the country they visited beyond the resort and the route between the resort and the airport

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

There's a portion of the population doing the same in any country