Look far be it from me to say people from the UK havent behaved well or whatever. But can you not pretend that its some how an explanation ‘oh they are British’. I am a cop in Scotland, I work in an area where I regularly encounter American tourists and Armed forces personnel on shore leave etc, Ive travelled the USA extensively and indeed the rest of the world, rude people are rude people, there are cultural things which i’ve seen in America which are normative to American people but rude or annoying to others (for example the way people behave in concerts/shows/cinemas etc talking loudly through performances, skipping lines in disney parks and things around general mannerisms in driving like not moving out of fast lanes or moving over when others are merging into a freeway) and there will be things that are stereotypical behaviours for people of all other countries. I have seen people from America behave appallingly on disney cruises, indeed an Irish waitress on the Wonder when i travelled told me she had never encountered anything like it, I actually pulled an older guy up for the way he was speaking to a waitress in Cabanas, but that is not indicative of American people as a whole, my experiences of American people are largely very positive, in particular I have met some of the warmest nicest people in Nashville, San Diego, Alaska and Florida that ive ever met and indeed some of the kindest things ive ever seen have happened in America also. Looking at things objectively when you put people in a small confined space then norms and expectations of all those different backgrounds and cultures appear odd to some and not everyone will have the same experiences. For people to hit out with phrases like ‘chavs’ (which means council housed and violent, the closest American term would be ‘trailer trash’) is strange as it would be highly unlikely someone from this social group would be able to pay for a
disney cruise, its actually just a bit sneering.