30 sats \ 1 reply \ @d1 22 Jun freebie
Not really sure of Americans being a special league of its own.
As far as I was aware, there was a huge uptick in mainland Chinese tourists in Europe during the last twenty five years. Maybe there's been a shift in recent years but statistically,I would not have imagined that US citizens in Europe would be so pronounced.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 22 Jun freebie
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44 sats \ 1 reply \ @Jon_Hodl 22 Jun
The article is paywall'd but Americans going on holiday in Europe is nothing new.
What would be a game changer is if they were all spending bitcoin and thus spreading immense amounts of real wealth across the continent.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 22 Jun
I also didn't read the article, but I think people are talking about Europe becoming almost entirely a tourism economy, as the continent deindustrializes.
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26 sats \ 2 replies \ @riberet19 22 Jun
This is just what I was talking about with a friend some time ago, Europe is becoming the Boutique continent of tourists, especially Americans, who come to see museums, monuments, to eat, and enjoy a decadent Western culture.
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58 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 22 Jun
It came up in the discussion under one of @TomK's posts, recently.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @riberet19 22 Jun
That's it, that's what's happening unfortunately...
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Satosora 22 Jun
Hasnt this always been the case?
I know many americans go to europe to take vacations.
Especially france and greece.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @zuspotirko OP 22 Jun
I certainly remember going to Italy every summer in the 2000s without hearing english on every corner or people asking for ice in their white wine.
It's not necessarily a bad thing. New York was becoming a place for tweens larping living in NYC for two weeks as well. That's just part of this modern world now, why should it be a bad thing? Except for the ice in white wine thing, that's a tragedy.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @riberet19 22 Jun
I think that before it was more prevalent it was other Europeans who traveled through Europe.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK 22 Jun
We are going down this path, indeed...
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5 sats \ 1 reply \ @carlosfandango 22 Jun
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @zuspotirko OP 22 Jun
If I was chinese, I'd try to invest my money outside of the authoritarian regime that pretends to be socialist as well. Property rights in China are only as safe as the grace of Xi goes. In the west you have at least the baseline confidence of due process.
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