Urbanites learn presentation rules through negative caricature stereotypes

Evidence

Certain widely understood caricatures can also be helpful in teaching the individual what to avoid. Thus, the imagery of the American tourist in a European city, with his checkered shirt, baseball cap, four cameras, and three guide books is an object lesson in how not to come on as a world-weary traveler. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 621

Categorization

• CANDY: The four-cameras-three-guidebooks tourist as a ‘how not to’ object lesson is a light, vivid image worth sharing.