Privileged snowflakes begging for travel funds in SEA
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2017 1:11 pm
This really pisses me off. How did you guess ?
It's not "even" begging for money to get home because you blew it all on things you couldn't afford, or you got conned or robbed. No, it's an entitlement to travel on other peoples' dime. You might say that people are not obliged to give their hard-earned cash to young westerners so they can know the joys of Party International and you would be right. Pisses me off anyway, because it's a slap in the face for those who beg to eat and to survive. Work for travel is ok, I've done it, but that not what this is about.
ASIA 04/10/2017
'Beg-packers': White tourists who beg in southeast Asia
Locals have been shocked to see white tourists begging in the streets of Malaysia, Hong Kong, Thailand and Singapore to raise money for their travels. While some just see it as bizarre, others are outraged by it, calling it an "orientalist fantasy".
“Beg-packers” is the word sometimes used to describe young Western tourists who play music or sell knick-knacks in the streets of southeast Asia to pay for their trips or to purchase their ticket back home.
Backpackers are often viewed as the antithesis of organised trips and mass tourism. But even the romantic image of adventurers on the hunt for new horizons has transformed in recent years. Now, many see backpackers as Westerners who want to travel on the cheap — to the point of exploiting the locals...
http://observers.france24.com/en/201704 ... heast-asia
It's not "even" begging for money to get home because you blew it all on things you couldn't afford, or you got conned or robbed. No, it's an entitlement to travel on other peoples' dime. You might say that people are not obliged to give their hard-earned cash to young westerners so they can know the joys of Party International and you would be right. Pisses me off anyway, because it's a slap in the face for those who beg to eat and to survive. Work for travel is ok, I've done it, but that not what this is about.
ASIA 04/10/2017
'Beg-packers': White tourists who beg in southeast Asia
Locals have been shocked to see white tourists begging in the streets of Malaysia, Hong Kong, Thailand and Singapore to raise money for their travels. While some just see it as bizarre, others are outraged by it, calling it an "orientalist fantasy".
“Beg-packers” is the word sometimes used to describe young Western tourists who play music or sell knick-knacks in the streets of southeast Asia to pay for their trips or to purchase their ticket back home.
Backpackers are often viewed as the antithesis of organised trips and mass tourism. But even the romantic image of adventurers on the hunt for new horizons has transformed in recent years. Now, many see backpackers as Westerners who want to travel on the cheap — to the point of exploiting the locals...
http://observers.france24.com/en/201704 ... heast-asia
