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Anonymous wrote:I bet the young tourist from South Africa was white.

Yes, he was. And obviously that didn’t escape me but I didn’t comment on it to him.

What does him being white have to do with anything? Would it have been okay if he was black?

"in countries like his there are so many desperate people that it’s impossible to help them all"

Why are there so many desperate people in his country??

Anonymous wrote:I just returned from several weeks in a poor country that attracts lots of North American (USA and Canada) and European ex pats for the low cost of living. I both discovered and was told point blank by the locals (I speak the language) that ex pats are terrible tippers and the tourists not much better. I mean, people are almost literally starving and living on nothing and these people can’t bring themselves to throw a server some extra change? It’s pretty disgusting.

I ended up at a bar one night having a conversation with a young tourist from South Africa. The guy basically said that my way of thinking is typically American because in countries like his there are so many desperate people that it’s impossible to help them all. Um, no, I’m not talking about “helping them all,” I’m talking about leaving someone who actually does something for you a decent tip.

I hate people who move abroad because they couldn’t make enough money or are too weird to live in their own country and then treat the locals like dirt.

Anonymous wrote:You must not travel much, OP. Americans are well known to be the best tippers. The Dutch, Russians, and most Asians are the worst tippers. The Brits are grudging 10% culture.