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Today is the 4th day of the 48th week, the 29th day of the 11th month, the 333rd day of 2017, and:
- Customer is Wrong Day
- Electronic Greeting Card Day
- International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People – declared by the UN back in 1977; in 2012 Palestine was given a non-voter observer status with a vote of 138 in favor to 9 against [including the US] with 41 abstentions
- National Chocolates Day
- National Lemon Creme Day
- National Package Protection Day
- National Square Dance Day
- Throw out Your Leftovers Day
- Women Wednesday
A lot happened on this day in History – but none of it of particular interest to me. To be fair, I feel the same way about current events for the most part -- other than the fact that NASA Voyager is 19 hrs 34 mins 28 secs of light-travel time from Earth today – powerful, rich, famous men are being called out for treating womenfolk like commodities; Trump et al is sounding foolish; Congress is getting ready to make the rich richer; and so on and so forth.
Quote of the day:
“Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.”
~ Wayne W. Dyer, American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker
Today I read and shared an article about two young men from San Diego traveling in Thailand who felt the need to take pictures of their bare buttocks in Bangkok's famous Wat Arun temple and post them online as part of their ongoing series of “Traveling Butts”. Now the reputation of Americans abroad has been rather dicey for years and Americans have been aware of that ever since The Ugly American was published back in 1958 highlighting the arrogance and incompetence of diplomats. Sadly it has come to mean the crass behavior, poor dress and linguistic ineptitude of the American tourist. Now I haven’t traveled overseas, so most of the tourists I have encountered are visiting here [especially at the House of the Mouse], and I can tell you that some of those from abroad are downright nasty to interact with – they don’t believe in standing in line for one thing and they are pushy as well as rude – and yet no one pontificates about “ugly Italians” or “ugly Japanese” now do they? It is only the US where the assumption is that unmannerly behavior is our default rather than wayward behavior of an individual. But we cannot do anything about that – our reputation is not within the sphere of our control. It is, however, within the sphere of our influence – and acting like a rectal cavity in someone else’s sacred place is definitely NOT the way to win friends and influence enemies.
These two young fools may end up paying dearly for their little lark and I’m not sure they shouldn’t. However, the State Department and the wheels of diplomacy will probably rescue them from the consequences of their heedless act; the reinforcement of the stereotype of the American tourist cannot be mended. Thanks a lot guys – you just made it harder for every single one of your fellow country folk who want to travel abroad.
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