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“Transnational travel makes culture a commodity.\u00a0 When the ethic of consumption is extended to new people and places, everything comes with a price.\u00a0 Visit to the palace \u2013 $12; mountain trek \u2013 $35; traditional dance performance \u2013 $8; sense of self-worth \u2013 priceless.\u00a0 Today\u2019s holiday brochures boast bargains like an Argos catalogue; instead of homeware and cheap electronics, we find tigers, temples and tribal villages.\u00a0 All are commodities, just the same.<\/p>\n
We buy these things for the same reason we buy any other nonessential product: to look better, feel better or else appear better.\u00a0 We are, in effect, cultural cannibals, consuming culture so as to assimilate some aspect of it.\u00a0 Thus, New York confers cosmopolitanism, India spirituality, the Caribbean coolness and so on.\u00a0 And then there are optional extras, side dishes if you like.\u00a0 A five-star hotel suggests status, a wine tour imparts taste, the prefix \u2018eco-\u2019 implies ethical acumen.\u00a0 In the realm of the tourist-cannibal, you are what you eat.<\/p>\n
And thus, we travel to consume; it\u2019s all that we know how to do.”<\/p>\n
Read the full article: Bon Anomie \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Travel as Consumption<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today\u2019s holiday brochures boast bargains like an Argos catalogue; instead of homeware and cheap electronics, we find tigers, temples and tribal villages. All are commodities, just the same<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268,16,535],"tags":[261],"yoast_head":"\n
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