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== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[Truth in Television|Tourists.]] Their "I ♥ NY" T-shirts give them away ''every'' time.
** Especially in [[Tokyo]].
** Lampshaded in ''[[CSI: NY]]''. When they find a victim wearing such a shirt, they immediately assume it's a tourist. They are right (although he was actually wearing it because he spilt coffee down his shirt and was there to {{spoiler|rescue his daughter from a brothel}} rather than sightseeing). In a subversion, Danny mentions he wanted one as a kid (when he got one, it got him beaten up at school).
** If they ''don't'' wear "I ♥ NY" T-shirts, the accent will reveal the truth.
*** And even if you don't hear them speak, you'll know them anyway, because they'll be the ones constantly staring up at the "really tall buildings". Most residents and even frequent visitors have long since ceased to be impressed.
** The ''New York Times Magazine'' once ran a list of tips for passing as a New Yorker. One of them advised, "Profess no knowledge of where the Statue of Liberty is."
** In [[San Francisco]] the tourists wear "San Francisco" sweatshirts not because they're trying to pass as locals but because they learned (typically at Fisherman's Wharf) that the wind off the ocean is no warm breeze, even in midsummer.
** The quickest way to tell who is a tourist in [[Seattle]] is to look for the people with umbrellas. Most rain in Seattle is so light and so constant that locals don't even bother, apart from a hood or hat.
*** Most of the rainy Pacific Northwest has this; the natives either have raincoats which they never take off, or no raincoat at all, depending on the day's weather.
*** Another way to tell if someone is a tourist in Seattle is to ask them if they've been to the Space Needle. Most of us haven't.
** The shirts that sport the motto "Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go to [[Montreal]]" are only seen in two places: worn by tourists visiting Montreal and in the front window of the stores who sell them to said tourists.
*** Another tip for spotting a tourist in Montreal: during the winter, they are the ones who show horror at snowstorms that pile up anything ''less'' than a full foot of snow on the ground. True Montrealers have a word for a 12 inch snowfall: ''[[But for Me It Was Tuesday|Tuesday.]]''
* [http://failblog.org/2009/07/22/telemarketing-fail/ This] picture. Definitely, absolutely not a telemarketer.
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** Instead Canadians wear [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|American flags]] [[Wearing a Flag on Your Head|on their head]]. [[Memetic Mutation|IN AMERICA!]]
** The old joke (told even in Canada) goes like this:
{{quote|How can you tell there's an American in Europe? He goes around insisting he's Canadian. How do you know there's a Canadian in Europe? He goes around insisting he's not American.
* Lots of "Japanese" restaurants ''outside of Japan'' (well, at least in Europe) are teppan-yaki and involve ridiculous kimonos and food-dropping games with a chef playing with food while cooking it. The kind of restaurant you can't find anywhere in Japan.
** Teppan-yaki restaurants did originate in Japan. They're just [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|far more popular in the west]] than they are in their home country.
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