Ya know, when I was there, this was my biggest complaint about going to the main churches around the center of the cities I visited. My other complaint was the level of disrespect I viewed from other tourists, especially while in St Peter’s Basilica. While there, it was posted and stated several times before entering that everyone was to remain quiet. It hit the point, while I was there, when the Swiss Guards ended up getting on the intercom and actually raising their voices for silence. I was ready to start beating the German students there (yes, it’s actually quite easy to determine who all is being the loudest by which language they’re speaking) for being disrespectful. The worst part, I’m an American pagan, you know, those rude, anti-christian people who have so much backlash for the religion. And there’s a reason why I found no spirit in those places, the spirit was too quiet to be heard over that ruckus. Gods, to have sat for hours in St. Paul’s, that would have been wonderful (it’s not a tourist spot, even though it’s on a tour – meaning one group of people every 2-3 hours and a huge gate to keep everyone else out).
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oh definitely. I was in Italy a few years ago with a school group, and the other groups there were taking flash photography, videotaping, horsing around….none of the people from my school wanted to wear any of the bags that said we were part of an educational tour because the other groups on the same sort of tours were a total disgrace.
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No joke, I mean come on, they say don’t use flash photog and loud voices almost every 5-10 minutes in every language possible. How do you miss hearing it? I heard it every time and I’m the deaf one! Seriously, I’ve always considered americans to be the worst in cultural awareness and respect, but now that I’ve had the chance to sample other cultures, it’s humans, specifically those from my generation that were the worst. The elder people I came into contact with, talk about respectable, they gave you reason to respect them when they entered anyone’s presence. Ugh, I pity the direction we’re going. History, that’s still visable today, is so fucked.
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