cabanafrau
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There is a huge economy in Ireland built around American tourists, so the Irish people smile, take the money while making fun of the Americans in private. We even have our own theme park in Dublin, called Temple Bar, where we corral all the tourists, and get them to spend huge amounts of money in the pubs. Its well known that the pubs inflate the prices for the tourists.
I think the brush used to tar Americans as Ugly Americans might be put to good elsewhere.
Commenting as someone who's American and ethnically Irish -- along with plenty of other ethnicities that make up my Heinz 57.