Self-loathing and the American tourist in Europe - by Steven Winn
It can drive you completely nuts. Shouldering past you at some museum or church in some city somewhere in Europe this summer, an American tourist will aim his video camera at some treasure or ancient trinket and start rolling. He -- yes, it's usually a he -- will then pan slowly across every object and label in the display case, freezing the crowd away from his sight lines as if they were unpaid extras on the set of some historical epic. Then this self-appointed Spielberg will stride on to the next case and repeat the process.
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