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It's not distance it's behaviour.
You can be from the other side of the planet and as long as your respectful doesn't really matter. But there is certain types of people, typically those who come in large coaches with lots of other people, that can tend to be rather obnoxious and shove their way to the front, so they can take the same picture that everyone takes in front of whatever local monument you wish to substitute.
Often they seem to be Chinese.
Weirdly, chinese tourists in China are completely different from chinese tourists outside of China, and the effect increases the further you go.
I suspect the ones with money to travel further and to wealthier countries are the kids of new money petty bourgeois who are used to not giving a shit about social consequences.