I haven't been to States, so I've met americans only in Finland or somewhere abroad. The ones I have really spoken to and get to know a bit better have been intresting & intelligent people but they have been in here for some computer or rpg related event or as exchange student or guest lecturers for my university.
The random american tourist groups have been hella annoying. When japanese tourists walk up to some monument, one of them takes a picture and the other stand in front of it with stupid grins on their faces and then they switch the one holding the camera untill everybody have gotten to take a pic with everybody else in it. Americans do the same. With video camera. I had wanted to go to impressionist painter Claude Monet's garden since I was like 5 and then there's a family consisting of 5 huge americans and their frail grandmother standing on the famous japanese bridge and filming it for several minutes. I get excited that they are leaving but nahh, they are just changing the camera man! The same happened in Versail & Mont St Michel & Notre Dame & some other places..
