The Sun Also Rises: Americans

"It was crowded with Americans and we had to stand up and wait for a place. Some one had put it in the American Women's Club list as a quaint restaurant on the Paris quais, as yet untouched by Americans, so we had to wait forty five minutes for a table." -pg. 82

This was so typical of American back then. Even now, when we travel, we all go to the same places so that you are never truly emersed in another country's culture. Everywhere Americans go, we can find someone from Iowa or Ohio just one table or seat over. We are all attracted to the most popular places, and so we migrate there in herds. It must be very annoying to find that your favorite restaurant has been over run by tourists. Americans, being the hypocrites that we are, find this to be anooying but we still do it. It is ironic that even back then other country's saw us as a nuisance. My guess is that in another hundred years, they will still feel the same way.