Just a comment about balance really. There have been a number of threads about 'foreign countries' , 'nude beaches', 'shooting guns', 'being robbed in a foreign country' all referring to the United States as the norm and making it sound like the membership of this forum is entirely North American and making it look like the rest of the world is a strange place where these things do or don't happen depending on their palatability.

This is a forum for frequent flyers who live all over the world and presumeably see many other cultures on a regular basis. Some people find the United States an unusual place.

What is so strange about the rest of the world that these questions need to be asked?

Is this just a United States forum?