"Bert Robbins" wrote in message
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Why don't you paint a picture for us of an "Ugly American."

We, "Ugly Americans", will then respond with a poratriat of an Ugly
Canadian
and an Ugly European.

There was a book all about "The Ugly American". Below is a short
description of the book which coined the phrase.


The Ugly American
The multi-million-copy bestseller that coined the phrase for tragic American
blunders abroad.

First published in 1958, The Ugly American became a runaway national
bestseller for its slashing exposé of American arrogance, incompetence, and
corruption in Southeast Asia. Based on fact, the book's eye-opening stories
and sketches drew a devastating picture of how the United States was losing
the struggle with Communism in Asia.