They do go on cruise ships, so they’ve overcome that atavistic memory.
I am trying to think of some things that Americans of northern European ancestry got hard-wired to avoid over the generations.
Well the amenities on board are certainly a lot better than Dutch sailing slavers of the 1700s.
N. Euro- atavistics:
Rats— as in... the Plague. And, monarchies.
Grizzly Bears and other people.