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So far most Americans I've met have been either tourists or teachers at the University. I've been told teacher-student interaction is much less formal in Sweden than in the US (or most parts of the world actually), and my first American teacher didn't like that, he was very haughty and cold and wanted as little interaction with students as possible, so until I had other American lecturers I pretty much thought all American academians were like that. But at the English Institution mostly everyone are very friendly and maybe even more open to the students than Swedish teachers. They manage to combine informality and friendliness with a high professional level, and that's very admirable to me. For Swedes, you must be a bit cold to be seen as professional and serious.
The random tourists, they are no worse or better than the Germans or Japanese in my opinion - except I understand what they say! (I know a bit of German as well, but I have to make an effort to understand it.) I don't think they actually talk much more than anyone else, but there's something about a lot of American accents that sounds, well, a lot. It can't be ignored. And maybe it's a bit louder, a bit sharper than German or Japanese or Swedish. I've noticed their tendency to film stuff, I've seen American tourists film utterly unimportant Stockholm houses for minutes, and then move on to film the house next to it. What does the average human want with hours of shaky handycam footage of random 19th century facades? I don't get it.
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