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	Failure Magazine-Archives-Arts & Entertainment-The Ugly American
		Today, the term "ugly American" is used to describe Americans traveling or working abroad who are loud, arrogant and ignorant of the language and customs of the country they are visiting.
		He is the physically ugly engineer Homer Atkins, brought to the fictional country of Sarkhan in southeast Asia to advise the American aid people on the placement of dams and roads.
		Ugly is synonymous with bad, so for us the ugly American is the bad guy.
	www.failuremag.com /arch_arts_uglyamerican_pollyanna_uncletom.html (1313 words)

	Ugly American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ugly American is a term used to refer to perceptions worldwide of arrogant, demeaning, unthoughtful behavior of Americans abroad.
		The Ugly American in the novel is one of the only good characters contained therein.
		The best-selling, factually-based, fictional account of blundering, corrupt, incompetent behavior of Americans on ventures in Southeast Asia led to a move by President Dwight Eisenhower to study and reform American aid programs in the region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ugly_American (313 words)

	The Ugly American Comes Home to Roost : SF Bay Area Indymedia
		Their economic disadvantage took away from them any opportunity they may have had to be "Ugly Americans." At the other end of the cultural scale, there have always been some Americans that do not share in the arrogance of their compatriots, decry foreign intervention and have respect for other cultures.
		The war is not exactly a war of mutual consent for the "Ugly Americans" are on the warpath and the real Americans are trying to defend their own culture and its values.
		Now that the "Ugly American" has come home to roost, the disparity is now erased and the "Ugly Americans" have brought with them their anti-American culture and beliefs.
	www.indybay.org /news/2004/08/1693369.php (1024 words)

	The ugly American - Salon
		Perhaps the American president wished to consolidate his support among that considerable segment of our citizenry that instinctively dislikes foreigners -- and whose understanding of manliness makes the primitives studied by anthropologists, or the large apes studied by the primatologists, seem very civilized.
		It is now American policy that it is legitimate to abduct or murder foreigners in other countries, with or without the approval of their governments.
		When other nations refer to their own standards of justice, the recent American response has been to accuse them of egoism, short-sightedness, or "anti-Americanism." The arbitrary denial of visas to academic visitors, business representatives and students is a symptom of the same pathology.
	dir.salon.com /story/opinion/feature/2004/11/23/chile/index.html (905 words)

	Rick Steves' Europe: Ugly American
		Europe sees two kinds of travelers: Those who view Europe through air-conditioned bus windows, socializing with their noisy American friends, and those who are taking a vacation from America, immersing themselves in different cultures, experiencing different people and lifestyles, and broadening their perspectives.
		Ugly Americanism is a disease, but fortunately there is a cure: A change in attitude.
		Remember, hostels are the American target, while mountain huts and "nature's friends huts" across Europe are filled mostly with local hikers.
	www.ricksteves.com /about/pressroom/uglyamericans.htm (1696 words)

	The Incompetent American (or, the "Ugly American" on Steroids) : SF Bay Area Indymedia
		American foreign policy at this early stage of the 21st Century does not seem much different from that of a half a century ago.
		Our politicians have always made it clear, to Americans and to the rest of the world, that when it comes to foreign affairs, Americans, whether Democrats or Republicans, stand united; notwithstanding the fact that over one-third of the population is not affiliated to either party.
		To ask American politicians to review the United States' place in the world, and draft a policy of principles to be followed, is antithetical to what we have come to expect from them.
	www.indybay.org /news/2005/09/1768305.php (2248 words)

	Rick Steves' Europe Archives: Ugly American Sightings
		I hate it when Americans in Europe want to talk to every other American they came across about idiotic things "back in the States." I didn't go to Europe to listen to someone gab on and on about the Pittsburgh Steelers or the problem Buffy is having with her cheerleading chores in Iowa.
		For every Ugly American or other traveller, there have to be two people, travelers or natives, who go out of their way to make someone's day a little better.
		However, an American couple ignored the signs outside suggesting that the material may be too intense for children under 12 and brought their four-year-old daughter and their eight-year-old son along on the English language tour.
	www.ricksteves.com /graffiti/archives/ugly.html (17048 words)

	Franciscan University of Steubenville - The Ugly American in Europe
		The Ugly American operates on the assumption that American culture is superior to all other cultures in the world, and that the other cultures should all just be Americanized.
		The Ugly American is an enthusiastic proponent of the culture of complaint, and does not hesitate to cause trouble and start fights, or to engage in belligerent and confrontational behavior.
		The Ugly American is neither embarrassed nor apologetic about any of this, but on the contrary, militantly insists on his right to behave like and Ugly American.
	www.franciscan.edu /home2/Content/main.aspx?id=1419 (319 words)

	ugly - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		In New England ugly as applied to animals, especially large farm animals such as cows and horses, means "balky, hard to manage." In the South, on the other hand, ugly with the specific sense of "rude" is used of persons: Don't be ugly, son.
		Ugly duckling (1877) is from the story by Hans Christian Andersen, first translated from Danish to English 1846.
		Ugly American "U.S. citizen who behaves offensively abroad" is first recorded 1958 as a book title.
	dictionary.reference.com /browse/ugly (546 words)

	Cambodia Book Reviews: The Ugly American
		The American officials are overwhelmingly arrogant, rude, and incompetent.
		The "ugly American" is Homer Atkins, a smart, hard-working engineer with no patience for diplomats and other fools.
		To this day, more than forty years after its publication, the phrase "ugly American" is invoked to embody America's incompetent, heavy-handed foreign policy.
	www.mekong.net /cambodia/ugly_am.htm (528 words)

	L. PAUL BREMER:--- THE ULTIMATE UGLY AMERICAN
		An Ugly American is a pejorative term for Americans traveling or living abroad who remain ignorant of local culture and judge everything by American standards.
		factual epilogue" of the Ugly American book, has the authors again drive home their point: that the US was being consistently outmaneuvered by communists throughout the third world.
		Ugly Americans need to reform their own practices and follow the lead of Smedley Butler.
	www.etherzone.com /2004/sart040604.shtml (1080 words)

	In The Rotunda » Blog Archive » The Ugly American (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		If there was one thing I leared from the Ugly American, it was the need for Americans to strive to see other cultures and lifestyles through the eyes of those who lived in them, not through our own cultural conditioning, biases, opinions and expectations.
		It was the ugly American who made no effort to understand other cultures or to speak other languages.
		No wonder American newsmen became hostages in Iran, Marines were murdered in their sleep in Lebanon, and our diplomats and able seamen mercilessly killed.
	aaus.net /Blogs/Rotunda/?p=51 (1165 words)

	France:The Ugly American,How to avoid fitting the stereotype,The English are quite proper and drink tea.. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		France:The Ugly American,How to avoid fitting the stereotype,The English are quite proper and drink tea..
		An Ugly American is the person who travels abroad and doesn't even attempt to be culturally appropriate.
		American dress is generally much more casually than the French counterpart.
	www.justlanded.com /english/france/tools/articles/an_american_expat_in_france/how_to_avoid_fitting_the_stereotype (607 words)

	How the Ugly American Ate the Ugly Duckling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the same year an American merchant ship, the General Sherman, was burned to the ground and its entire crew killed.
		American troops were portrayed as showing careless disregard for locals.
		The Ugly American had devoured the beautiful swan of Korea’s private academic institutes.
	www.ajarn.com /Contris/kenmaymarch2005.htm (3205 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Ugly American at Epinions.com
		The Ugly American is a smart breath of fresh air which may have a more powerful message today than it did back then.
		The Ugly American is a recent find at the video store which has instantly become yet another Brando favorite.
		Once the American ambassador outright states that 'a road has got to be put here to ensure communism is defeated', all those whom oppose the decision revolt.
	www.epinions.com /content_107522723460 (702 words)

	TheStar.com - The ugly anti-American (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In 2001, 3.4 million Americans visited this city and 3.2 million came in 2002, spending a total of $2.4 billion, according to Tourism Toronto.
		Seven of the 30 I approached acted snotty, and several other Americans found in the city during this time said they too were the targets of mean-spirited locals.
		And, as he points out, the feeling is ingrained in the national psyche, even if what makes an American ugly to some Canadians changes through time (from isolationist in the early days of World War II to world's cop today).
	www.thestar.com /NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1119649812853&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home&DPL=IvsNDS/7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes (1028 words)

	PopPolitics.com - Commentary on Popular and Political Cultures
		The American tourist by then had become a fixture in Europe and the subject of a number of jokes, and had elicited extensive comment by irritated Europeans.
		The Ugly American was a caricature built on the reality of a boisterous, loud, uncultured, unsophisticated, arrogant, insensitive clod -- one who was prone to throwing around too much money, dressing absurdly, and acting oblivious to the subtleties of high culture.
		It’s not that the Ugly American has totally vanished -- there are still plenty of them wandering the world -- but in recent years they have been challenged by the Germans, English, Russians and a host of others.
	www.poppolitics.com /articles/2001-05-08-american.shtml (1472 words)

	Comments on 9143 \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Ugly American is becoming harder to distinguish among its European counterparts.
		American tourists in touristy places can be as much a pain in the arse as 'x' tourist from 'y' country in 'z' famous place.
		Any American attempting to blend in with the Europeans should note that not only is the fork held in the left hand, but it is held upside-down from the American perspective.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/9143 (15516 words)

	The Ugly Americans
		The term "ugly American" was coined in the 1950s and was meant to convey the stereotypical attitude of Americans abroad following our victory in World War II.
		The protagonist of William Lederer’s 1958 novel, The Ugly American, was actually a sympathetic character, a do-gooder of the 1950s’ Saigon, South Vietnam, who inadvertently did more harm than good.
		The Ugly American is also at work in our trade dispute with Japan, another national disgrace driven by partisan politics and a Clinton Administration in short pants.
	www.polyconomics.com /searchbase/s5u9a3.html (1228 words)

	Amazon.com: The Ugly American: Books: William J. Lederer,Eugene Burdick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The attack on American policy in Asia this book makes is clothed in sharp characterizations, frequently humorous incident, and perceptive descriptions of the countries and people where the action occurs.
		The Ugly American is an impressive literary, historical and social achievement turned out by two very well-rounded men who happen to be very gifted writers.
		Regardless of your feelings about the war, the Ugly American is enlightening and should remind us how important it is to understand others when we occupy their nation.
	www.amazon.com /Ugly-American-William-J-Lederer/dp/0393318672 (1902 words)

	The Independent Traveler Travel Resources: Embrace the American, Leave the Ugly at Home
		The kid who moved to an American town from Europe got into fights, but also often got the girl (can I still say that these days?) because he was just different enough to be interesting.
		Had they not been noticed for Americans, they might have been bystanders in the market; instead, they were full participants, even the stars of the show.
		Remember: Ugly is as ugly does; but a true American is a true person of the world.
	www.independenttraveler.com /resources/article.cfm?AID=308&category=13 (1719 words)

	Townhall.com :: Columns :: The ugly American by Armstrong Williams - Sep 4, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		My lunch companions list countless other examples of American arrogance, including the expectation that the dollar should be accepted throughout the continent and the propensity for some young American travelers to vandalize property.
		One of the embassy officials recalls a recent incident in which two young Americans were imprisoned for tearing the seats out of their rented Jeep, then discarding the seats on the side of a road.
		Of course, we're all familiar with the term "ugly American." The characterization has earned us a special brand of resentment around the world.
	www.townhall.com /columnists/Armstrongwilliams/aw20020904.shtml (688 words)

	The Incompetent American (or, the "Ugly American" on Steroids) : Miami IMC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Only some parasitic American companies operating overseas, and the local power elite, took advantage of these tragicomic situations which did nothing for the people, but helped create a distorted image of what America stood for.
		This transformation from "ugly" to "incompetent" is now starting to give the American citizenry food for thought.
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	miami.indymedia.org /news/2005/09/2396.php (2237 words)

	Beautifying the Ugly American
		In Beautifying the Ugly American, Dr. Post arms you with the "know how" to quickly sketch the basic features of another culture.
		The book is a useful supplement to international business courses, ethnic and racial diversity studies, and all other social and behavioral science courses having a cross-cultural component.
		Beautifying the Ugly American is necessary reading for travelers, diplomats, and business personnel...
	www.booklocker.com /books/972.html (397 words)

	The Dubya Report - Ugly American
		Intended to show that Bush could hold his own and even assert American leadership, the European trip instead raised more doubts about his effectiveness on the international stage, and his foreign policy (such as it is).
		Putin, on the other hand, waited for Bush to return home, and then made strong policy statements which were not particularly accommodating to the American point of view.
		The American stereotype is of a Europe that is economically sclerotic, psychologically neurotic and addicted to spirit-sapping welfare schemes and a freedom-infringing state.
	www.thedubyareport.com /ugly.html (1370 words)

	Ugly American, The Milli Gazette, Vol.5 No.10, MG104 (16-31 May 04)
		The habitual criminals who have done it for decades in dozens of Asian, African and South American countries and allowed their protegé Israel to do it with impunity in occupied Palestine, are claiming today that it is against American values, whatever that may mean.
		The lives, honour and dignity of the victims have no meaning to the self-seeking American leaders who apply two sets of laws: a civilised one for internal use and a jungle law for foreign consumption.
		American presidents starting from Reagan to Clinton to Bush have been lobbing bombs into other countries on slightest pretexts, sometimes for domestic or even personal reasons as Clinton did during his Monica scandal.
	www.milligazette.com /Archives/2004/16-31May04-Print-Edition/1605200402.htm (828 words)

	Truthdig - Reports - Ugly Americans in Iraq
		For the 3 thousand Americans who lost their lives in 9/11, George Bush and his evil junta have killed an equal number of Americans, and caused at least 30,000 others to be crippled for life.
		Nir Rosen’s reports on the American callous and criminal occupying force are highly disturbing, even though they are still limited and only partial versions of the total ugly and disturbing picture about this criminal war and its subsequent occupation results.
		I, as an American citizen and tax-payer, feel that I carry some innocent blood on my hands for not being able to stop this savagery, which was done partly in my name and with my tax dollars; and yet I have failed to do anything concrete about it, besides just writing.
	www.truthdig.com /report/item/20060627_ugly_americans_iraq (9714 words)

	The Ugly Europeans. - By Chris Suellentrop - Slate Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		But the Ugly Europeans accelerated their anti-Muslim rhetoric in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, and they found a newly receptive audience.
		Ugly Europeans are adamantly opposed to multicultural, multiethnic societies, and they employ a neat rhetorical trick: framing their racist anti-Muslim sentiment as a defense of the multicultural value of diversity—a way to protect their own national culture, which they see as threatened.
		Except for Native Americans, every citizen of this country is either an immigrant or a descendant of one.
	slate.msn.com /?id=2064776 (1528 words)

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