Have you been there?
Do you know anyone who has?
yeah
and everyone who visits ends up loving their favorite bickering tribes and parroting the tales of how bad the other tribes are. They get sucked into the squabbles and intercine bickering, little realizing that superficially these tribes are different, but overall the tribes are all the same.
maybe its the water or the sand or the sun - who knows and why should any American give a rats ass, is beyond me.