Tourists - how to guess their nationality - Germany

So, Americans get all the jokes about white tennis shoes, but how can you tell where other tourists are from? Here are a few ideas:

British: mismatched clothes and bad teeth
Dutch: (women) bleach blond hair and bad sunburns
Russian: scantily clad young women with older looking men
Italian: (older men) always wear suits and hats on the plane
Brazilians: (women) outfit came straight from a 14-year old's closet, (men) tight pants

Please, add your thoughts.

Edie

it is hard to define exactly what characteristics tourists of a particular nationality have but it certainly is possible to pick them out of a crowd.

You look at certain people and you know exactly what nationality they are before they open their mouths.

of course the Canadians are the really friendly ones with the maple leaf patches. They are of course carrying their hockey sticks, unless they left it in their igloo.

In SA, most of the tourists were German and we could spot them with their socks and sandals!

Tennis shoes?Perhaps better would be incredibly loud and fatties.

I thougth it was:

Italian: are travelling with the entire extended family, moving in a massive mob, and talking louder than the Americans (usually complaining about how the Americans are dressed).

you can spot the french from the blue and white hooped sweater, the beret, the baguete in the hand, and the string of onions around the neck.

I was talking with a kid who sells souvenirs/water/food etc. outside of St. Catherines Monastery in Sinai, Eqypt. The kid spoke broken english and seemed much older than the 10 years old I assumed he was. We were just talking aboot tourists, his way of life as a bedouin etc. As the tourists walked by, he would say 'Hello...how are you? Isn't it hot today!! Blah..blah..' in the tourists native language...without speaking with them, just by looking how they dressed he could tell where they were from. He was right every time. It was cool...

funny, I can tell a North American from a European by their lipstick, European women tend to wear coral or orange colours- (that do not suit most), as North American women tend to wear pink shades, goes also for the blush. Then there are the hair cuts- older women with grey hair from NA tend to have short hair, but all curled, where as I see more EU women with either bob style cuts or really dykie cuts. (no insult ment to lesbian women out there, I just find it much harder to pick out the lesbians in Europe, as more women have 'lesbian' hair).

The Mexicans call Canadian Snowbird in Texas, Q-tips- for the white reebok walkers, and the white hair!

Funny, I'd say that it's harder to pick out the lesbians in NA, since they look like any other woman. My best friend in the world is a lesbian, and she's hot! No stereotypes fulfilled there...

That's just plain rude, if she's hot at least she'd have the decency to be bi!

For people visiting Munich, it's easy. It's in the clothes.

Italian don't look like they are vacation, they look like they are headed to the theatre. But not a major performance, just a regular weekly show. Very nice sunglasses and shoes.

North Americans wear comfortable walking shoes if they are over 40 and sandals if they are under 30. Wear shorts in town, something most Germans do not. Young Americans are often spotted wearing sweatshirts with their college emblazoned on the front. Canadians will tend to have Roots wear (a clothing company, not the user) and flags.

As not many Brits come to Munich as a regular tourist destination, they are usually spotted in groups wearing team (rugby, football) colours in town for a game. Easily confused with Eastern Germans in town for the same.

Even if the Japanese didn't have different facial features, you would be able to spot them by all the hats. The women especially wear big sun bonnets to protect them.

Rule 1: If a person/tourist is wearing an Invicta colorful/ugly backpack...That person is guaranteed to be Italian. It's a dead easy giveaway.

@Showem,
What about the 30-40 year old Americans?? Go Barefoot?

Timmeh, no, they could go either way.

Oh, and Australians and New Zealands are easily spotted by location, not clothes.

Hofbraühaus tent, end of September.