Colonial Tourism

The colonial tourism is based mainly on how white, rich citizens from colonial nations use the other countries as their enterntainment. The author of 'The people are so beautiful!' That's enough of the colonial tourism who is SE Smith, expresses how these travelers go to different parts around the world to see natives and people from different cultures and use them as their playthings in different ways that may include violating some of their rights.

First, the author writes about how a comment like: "the people are so beautiful!" changes a lot a person who it is been refered to. The main travelers are rich white men who want to see nations from different customs because they think they are the center of the world and that they have the right of using others for amusing themselves. They use this comment without thinking that they create clichés that don’t even exist; these stereotypes are created by the visitors when they describe them as beautiful and loving when the whole country isn’t like that. She also tries to make vacacionists travel to other places with the purpose of learning their history and traditions instead of only see them as they want and making prejudices of them.

Second, the author writes about how excursionists violate some of the natives' right of privacy by taking pictures of them without their permission and for turning their ways of living into an entertainment for others. The invasive and sometimes illegal photography is done when the individual appearing on the photos doesn’t know that the person who took the picture did it. An example of this, is when the tourist is taking images of someone, maybe a in-habitant who is doing a ritual or has a very rare clothing and he or she doesn’t see that a photo has been taken or maybe he asks the visitor to pay for it while he refuses to do it. In some cases the tourism companies had made the tourist think it is normal to take images of people as they were objects without knowing the damage they are doing. The author proposes to stop having these attitudes when photographing habitants by paying them for the picture.

The colonial tourism is related to the British Imperialism in the ways in which the British people who colonized USA and Canada showed themselves as gods to the natives the same as the rich white men are acting and thinking about themselves.

The colonial tourism and the individuals that are involved need to lower their ego and selfishness because they are affecting the people of many other countries in many ways because they reflect and show themselves as the center of everything as how i said before changing the communities with small actions as tourists. With the next comment of the author i complement my idea: "When you are a white, socially powerful person travelling overseas and you're describing the people you meet in simplistic terms, you elide the reality of their lives and turn them into Disney sideshow attractions there for your entertainment, rather than human beings going about their daily lives."(paragraph 2)

References:

'The people are so beautiful!' That's enough of the colonial tourism. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/08/people-beautiful-colonial-tourism-travel