The Stigma of Being Perceived as a Tourist: Exploring Cultural Assumptions and Identity

If you’re from the US, and you are someone who has
or will visit other countries just for funsies,
I have a question for you.
What is the issue with being perceived as a tourist?
Like, what’s wrong with not blending in with the locals?
What is wrong with that?
I will come across videos of people who are like,
I was born in the US, and now I live in Italy,
and if you’re here to visit,
here is the telltale signs that you are a tourist.
We can tell that you’re not from here.
And, like,
my question is, what is.
What is wrong with that? What’s wrong with, um,
being a visitor?
What’s wrong with it being known that you’re a visitor
other than, like, obvious,
like, safety reasons?
Because I know that people with bad intentions will prey on tourists.
So that’s, like,
aside from that one reason,
are there other reasons why it is not good to be perceived as
not a local? Like, what’s.
What’s that about? Why is there always, like,
a tone to it? Like, oh,
you’re visiting from the U S.
And we can tell? Oh,
we can tell? You can tell?
Okay,
I’m sorry. I, like,
I just watch those videos,
and I’m like, okay,
you can tell that someone from another country
is an outsider to the country they’re visiting.
I’m. I’m sorry about that.
Like, what?
I don’t know. I don’t get it.