CANNIBAL TOURS

I was really uncomfortable watching the movie, especially after what local people told me that I saw myself as a tourist and empathized. Tourists treat local people as if they were animals, taking pictures of them, touching them. Tourists bargain when buying handmade carvings made by local people. However, tourists buy these products in large shopping malls for thousands of dollars under the name of ‘art’. That’s one of the things that bothered me the most. While tourists buy handmade products for decor, the only thing local people can make money with is these products. Tourists seem to be taking pictures of animals they’ve never seen at the zoo. They don’t seem to know they’re human. I was particularly impressed with the way local people looked at the film. It’s obvious they’re uncomfortable with the people who come, but they have to. In order to make money, they have to pay the money that tourists will give so they can send their children to school, so they can get a favor. Tourists are exploiting those people. Maybe they’re selling the magnificent carved works they buy from them at high prices. It’s clear that they’re filming, writing about them, making products and selling them like postcards. Tourists look wilder than local people, from my point of view. Brutal and callous.  I’m very impressed in one scene. A young man takes a picture of him on the scene where he gives a full interview, the interviewer tells the young man, and he doesn’t say anything. After taking a tourist photo, he gives the young man $2 and leaves without saying anything. It’s a very unscrupulous move. I wish we didn’t marginalize people and we could not classify them.

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