Why some Western people behave like this?

Question

I live in Prague and I have seen a plenty of my people living here or just visiting this country and behaving like some arrogant jerks: jesting at people on the streets, destroying the hotel rooms, throwing the street sculptures from the Charles Bridge to the river, paying the Czech prostitutes to harass them…

And this is not only about hooligans. I have met a plenty of "polite" Western businessmen who think that with their money, they have a right to change the face of this city, to take off the ornaments and sculptures form the historically important facades…


What are we trying to demonstrate: our power, democracy, civility, money and all the things we are so proud with, or we are just showing our real face here, far from our laws and institutions?

Why do we think we should not feel any gratitude for the country we came in, for the people looking and tolerating us, for the people whose history and culture will always be older and richer then ours? Why do we think we don't need to know anything about the Eastern Europeans?

Kiki, I am talking about OUR, American gratitude, what is missing here. We are so persuaded that we are helping but we are forgetting the other side of the medal – that we are GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY to invest in those countries and make our own turnover under the conditions we can't imagine in USA.

Answer 1

How crude those people sound! I'm an American who does realize the truth that some people (in the states) can be amazingly arrogant and rude. I have been brought up to respect other peoples' life styles and ideas. America struggles with being open minded, and that will prevail until we all get out of the house and learn about LIFE. I'm sorry you have encountered the ridiculous behavior of some American citizens. If ever I visited your country, I would be quite open minded and kind...after all, it's a new place with new ideas, history, people, etc. It's exciting to me, not a reason to be rude and arrogant!! Please just ignore the idiots you've met and/or seen. How annoyed you must feel. I understand your concern and hope that you meet some of our better behaved people. They are out there.

Answer 2

Did you think before you wrote this?

There are good and bad people in every society. For some reason your area must be attracting a disproportionate number of idiots for a reason.

I just learned today when I asked a question about lazy eastern europeans that it was really my fault! It turns out that I was contacted by an agency in Bratislava that places indigent workers in US jobs. I had wrongly cast all Slovakians as lazy but in reality when some Czech person emailed me they informed me that the particular agency I was using was the problem and if I switched to another I would get a different slice of Slovakian workers that were top notch.

Since there is good and bad in every society you must figure out what is wrong with your city to attract such awful people. No one should ever deface anything that isn't theirs, especially as a welcomed visitor.

Maybe you are just getting the ones looking for hookers and they are a low-life scum. Try getting rid of prostitutes (and I would guess you have a bad drug problem like my city, Detroit) and then you won't attract the kind of people you describe.

Answer 3

Those remarks do not apply to me at all! I have invested in an "Eastern" European country to show respect and bring some western pleasure to these people. I don't think they realize the enormous sacrifices I have made for them but I do feel their gratitude. One argument...the history and culture is not older & richer than America's. I think a people who would allow a government to change their culture should feel some shame. Americans will always stand proud regarding freedom to be.

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Answer 4

Perhaps they just want a totally free holiday where they don't need to put themselves under any rule, including politeness.

Personally, I only met so far very kind Westerners (I'm Hungarian), especially the English were great dudes.

Answer 5

Its everywhere.....!!!!!!!!!!!!

I live in India. I travel a lot abroad. I have seen people who are a dirt in my own country yet they behave as the most civilzed people one can find on the earth when they visit aboad, especially in Japan. And I know the reality...and I laugh at them for their double personalities.

Actually we human beings are so mean and we try to adjust according to situation. When a powerful person finds himself in company of people comparatively lower to him...he switches to superiority mode and when he finds himself in the company of superior persons than him...he switches to the inferiority mode...and even fleds from the place like a coward. Sigmund Freud has described three kinds of personalities in his papers...ID, Superior & Inferior so its basically the communication between different personalities and the powerful tries to take overthe inferiors.

Further the world is a mix of different paradigms without which it would be very difficult to survive...otherwise a 'lower' category will never bother to supersede a 'superior' than him. There will be unbalance in the world and the societies.

That's it....so ignore these 'people'...

uuuffff.........I don't know what I am talking....God forgive me!

Answer 6

Abhi, Europeans actually are much better than us, especially the Swedes. Trust me, there is a reason why many non-American people believe that Jerry Springer is real reality TV.

Answer 7

Just like Europeans behave in the Asian and African countries

Answer 8

As a westerner my I please apologize for the jerks you have had the misfortune to meet. May I assure you we are not all like these people