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Should tourism be disallowed for everyone except activists? How would local communities respond to outsiders coming in trying to solve local problems without the necessary cultural context?

> It’s super hard when the locals are drowned out by hordes of self-interested tourists who have no interest in gender equality, wage suppression, insane zero-consequence sexual harassment + power abuse, and a lot of other issues.

In what way does a tourist spending a week in an area drown out those issues?




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