So.. I call my lawyer

Not really, in the country you get alot of the public aid type people with the same bullshit sense of entitlement.

It's pervasive, and I feel that advertisement plays a large role in this.

Intriguing. Go on...

Well, it's rather simple, but I doubt it's the sole contributor.

If you think about the constant barrage of advertisement that we're subjected to, talking about how shopping at X makes us smart shoppers, using Y beauty product will make us beautiful, and so on, the public is essentially being brainwashed into thinking they're superior to others or beginning to look down on others. That naturally leads to an engorged sense of self-importance and self-entitlement.

It's pervasive, and I feel that advertisement plays a large role in this.

Agreed, completely.

I think people in the country are far worse than in NYC.

I have this personal loose-theory I discuss now and then with people who live around here. I termed it "Fake Class." The people around here are just half-assed about everything, but extremely, overly and undeservedly proud of their provincial and unimpressive actions. In conjunction with the bar being set extremely low, they are snooty and pompous without justification (not that being a prick is ever justified.)

Example of "Fake Class:" Easter Bunny coming to the town in a helicopter, and using it after-the-fact as a way to advertise the town. (We had the fucking easter bunny come by goddamn helicopter!) *sigh*

I think people in the country are far worse than in NYC.

Indeed, as country folk tend to be xenophobic.

I also have the special privledge to live in a sport tourist town, and work in a sport tourist hotel. 80% of the guests are suburban morons. The males are of two archetypes: tall and wide shouldered beer-bellied ex-jocks who believe they can get everything they want just by raising their voice, and quiet yet hyper and jumpy nerdy guys who probably do weird things to the bedding.

The females are just one kind: cookie cutter suburban wives who all look, talk, and walk exactly the same way. This is an annoying sneerish kind of way, as if everyone else is below them. I think having an original thought would probably cause them a mental breakdown.

Their kids are the resulting mixture of self-entitlement attitude and "my dad can beat up your dad" based needless arrogance. The kids are all also exactly the same. Many of them are A.D.D. and can't sit down quietly for a goddamn minute.

As one drunk tourist at the restaurant explained it, "this place is great! You just drop the kids off for the week, ditch the wife, go drinking and pick up chicks at the bar!"

Sounds like a slice of heaven. = /

Some of the guests are genuinely nice and I love helping them out, but they are almost exclusively there for some other reason than the typical sports fans. [Weddings, opera, etc]

It's gotten to the point where my friends and I can point out tourists by the state they originated from. Solely on appearance or by driving habits (when license plate is obscured.)