tourism
In this TEDx talk I adress how anthropology (or social anthropology) can teach us how to travel and through this understand other cultures. This is in comparison to the standard ways of traveling, specifically mass tourism.
Misrepresentation of cultures, romanticizing old cultural traits, and presenting them as reality, and how this lead to stereotyping both at the level of cultural wholes and at the level of individuals.
International tourism has a an increasing downside to it, namely its impact on local cultures and environments. The case of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California is presented. I travelled there before the toursts arrived
Why do we travel for recreation? Do we travel _to_ something? Or do we travel to get _away_ from something? We all want to be travelers, but we are in reality tourists.
A bamboo grove in Kathmandu, Napal, and bamboo's ecology and use in culture, inspired me to formulate some thoughts about how to understand cultures, the relations between cultures, and the various ways of traveling within cultures and explore them, as well as between them.
