The Scots stand out.

[fluter]

How would you react to an "ugly American" version of this material?

Perhaps in this literate and collegial community, we could learn and remember one thing: the "ugly American" was the hero (in a pretty depressing narrative).

And now you know what frosts my gourd: Americans' using "ugly American" as a pejorative---even though I know (usually) precisely what they mean by it.

After the book had gained wide readership, the term "Ugly American" came to be used to refer to the "loud and ostentatious" type of visitor in another country, rather than the "plain looking folks, who are not afraid to 'get their hands dirty' like Homer Atkins" to whom the book itself referred.