It's like the backpackers in China who would get all angry when they saw me, as if they were saying, "How dare you come in and ruin my exotic China experience by being another white person!"
It's the mentality that people in other cultures aren't people, they're commodities that are more valuable the less contact they've had with others.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
branchandroot
no subject
Date: 2009-05-19 06:31 pm (UTC)It's the mentality that people in other cultures aren't people, they're commodities that are more valuable the less contact they've had with others.