It’s obvious where Ricky Gervais gets his props.
When you hear the following lines, you’d think the unapologetic comedian is at it again.
In 1995 he asked a Scottish driving instructor in Oban: “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?”
And on another trip to Australia in 2002, he asked a group of Aborigines: “Do you still throw spears at each other?”
In 1993 to a British tourist in Hungary, he said: “You can’t have been here that long… you haven’t got a pot belly.”
In 1986 when asked about Beijing during a tour of China, he said: “Ghastly.”
People think the Prince’s comments are offensive; I think they are rather funny. Rolf Potts, a respected travel writer, in the article “The Worst Tourists in the World” which coincidentally the English, explains that this is the ‘cultural residue of Victorian-era self-superiority (vivid examples of which can be found in most any 19th century British travel guidebook, one of which described Valencian Spaniards as “perfidious, vindictive, sullen, mistrustful, fickle, treacherous, smooth, empty of all good, snarling and biting like hyenas, and smiling as they murder.”)’
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