USC,

If you didnt intend to single out American tourists, then why did you title this thread," Why do Jamaicans think Americans always need something?". To every single person reading this for the first time, it does imply that you intended to be talking about Americans. If you didnt mean that, then maybe you shouldnt have posted it that way in the first place.

If you were staying at a place that allowed you to be roused from a sleep on the beach, why not complain to the place you were staying? How is this "Jamaicans" fault (your generic use of "Jamaicans") when your hotel/resort was allowing it? Why not criticize the place you stayed as opposed to blanket statements that include all Jamaicans? How is that in anyway respectful?

As for the "silly fist bump" - cultures and countries often do things differently. What about that "silly double kiss" thing that many of those Euro countries do? Or that "germ spreading, silly handshake" thing that Americans do....

Hopefully food for thought....