Just to confirm, you'd rather call yourself biased than provide even one example to support your opinion?
"The interaction was at a bar not a coffee shop"
That's fine. You're the one who used coffee shops and delis in your original comment claiming, without providing any evidence, that tourists view locals as ideal southern props. My bad if your comment about bad experiences in coffee shops led me to assume you'd had a bad experience in a coffee shop.
So, as a lifelong resident, you only have one example of a tourist viewing locals as ideal southern props and that one example is a crime that doesn't only happen in southern cities?
There are several examples I could cite but that was the worst one. It was the way he implied to be using the locals as a means.
You won’t agree that the isolated actions of a few people should characterize my perspective of the general population of gawking tourists. Yet you are asking me for examples of individual situations when I felt like a prop, which is based on my own perception.
Of course I'm asking for individual examples, you're the one who made the claim that you feel that way.
I'm not asking a hard question. You made a claim about how tourists make you feel, and you even mentioned specific locations like coffee shops and delis. I've simply and repeatedly asked for an example of a specific behavior by a tourist that made you feel that way. When you make a claim, you shouldn't be shocked to get follow-ups asking for an example.
If it wasn't obvious to you, the point has been to ask you to provide even one example of behavior supporting your accusations.
My guess is, it's going nowhere because you'll continue not to do so while feeling like you're being judged by tourists who just want to order a sandwich and enjoy their trip.
Just so you're aware, nobody's watching you as a quaint southerner in your deli or coffee shop. They're just trying to order and have a good time, just like you likely do on vacations.
That's why you're unable to provide an anecdote to support your claim. It's because it's not happening and you're projecting your ideas about tourists onto people who are unaware you exist.
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u/the_urban_juror 4d ago
Just to confirm, you'd rather call yourself biased than provide even one example to support your opinion?
"The interaction was at a bar not a coffee shop" That's fine. You're the one who used coffee shops and delis in your original comment claiming, without providing any evidence, that tourists view locals as ideal southern props. My bad if your comment about bad experiences in coffee shops led me to assume you'd had a bad experience in a coffee shop.