This article is from 2016, so it's a little old. One thing I found interesting was that while the author makes a superficial comparison to the "Ugly American"

This article is from 2016, so it's a little old. One thing I found interesting was that while the author makes a superficial comparison to the "Ugly American" phenomenon, he doesn't actually draw a comparison to the similarities in economic rise. Both phenomena occurred during/after times of economic booms that created a much larger middle class with a disposable income that could leave a culture bubble and see other places, whether it's people from the country going to the city ("hicks" and gawpers etc.) or people leaving their country to go elsewhere. That kind of naive cultural conflict will definitely lead to these kinds of actions. I find this kind of comparison much more thoughtful and to me, compelling than any kind of "that's their [crappy] culture" discrimination. It also makes me wonder if we might see a rise of "Ugly Indians" or "Ugly Nigerians" as the middle class with a disposable income in those countries rises.