“A tourist is an ugly human being”, when Jamaica Kincaid said these words it kind of hit me. This is true of tourists because of the idea of a “tourist” in a whole. A tourist is a privileged human being trying to get away from their luxurious life and travel to the depths to see beautiful nature scenes out of a magazine, without considering what they are doing. Yes, they want to get away from their daily lives to escape, but the natives don’t understand, they don’t have the privilege to escape from their lives. Now, I can completely agree with these accusations she is making, but is it really the tourists fault? We all want to travel, and to see the world. We have one life to live and we can’t always be focused on every aspect of what we do. Yes, it is insensitive to the eyes of the natives to see a tourist, seeing only the greater parts of their land, while they are struggling to even survive. I do agree that a traveler is a better person in every single aspect while in comparison with a tourist, however some humans don’t have the time or even the resources to just pick up and move their entire lives and disperse themselves entirely in a new surrounding and new culture. However, a good medium for this issue is that we should be more considerate with tourism, we should be more accepting, and implement techniques and more information on how the tourists can show that they are willing to learn the ways of the natives.
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