Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa, soc.culture.europe, rec.travel.europe, rec.travel.air, misc.kids
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 04:13:49 +0100
Subject: Americans putting their feet up everywhere

During our recent trip to America we noticed this horrible phenomenon. Americans love to put their feet up in public. They do it on aeroplanes, trains, buses, cinemas, theatres, tables, chairs, restaurants, offices, everywhere! Wherever we went we noticed this. We did quite a bit of flying inside the US and it was most disturbing the way they put their feet up on the walls inside the aeroplane, especially at the front. Often with their shoes on. The stewardesses did not say anything to them. On the way back home we flew Lufthansa and they did not tolerate this. The American couple in front of us first thing they did was put their feet on the wall in front of them and the stewardess quickly asked them to take them down. The American couple were not pleased that their boorish behaviour was not tolerated. Maybe it's a cultural difference, in Europe we are taught that you do not put your feet up in public. We are taught to respect others. Are Americans not taught the same?