  Two birds bought for $30,000 Who says the French are arrogant? The Americans that's who. The Americans are never arrogant themselves of course, they just like to think the French are... There's the story of urlLink this guy who flipped off Brazil, twice, and was fined almost $30,000 for it. See...it seems that the US brought in photographing and fingerprinting rules and technology called US VISIT around Christmas of 2003.
Foreign nationals from a long list of countries that the Americans have deemed hostile, are now required to submit to even greater public scrutiny in the name of national security...or homeland defence...or whatever they're calling it these days. Countries who thought they had a good relationship with the US, like Brazil for instance, found themselves on the "list" and had their nationals stopped and documented at the border.
Brazil got so pissed off that they responded by requiring all Americans to be fingerprinted and photographed upon entering Brazil. No one seems to doubt that this is more of a "show them what it's like" action, then an actual "national security" action. After being "shown what it was like" for so many foreign nationals to enter the US, this guy flipped Brazillian authorities off. 
