[tom h]

Clearly you were off the beaten path.

In the tourist towns there are either obsessively polite (because they want your money) or obnoxiously critical (because they think they’re superior).

[skeeter]

Alot of the anti-Americanism is illogical & knee-jerk (just like here).

According to the ones I've met, once I was able to cut through the automatic bias they were as warm a people as I've met anywhere else.