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There's a power imbalance there. You're on holiday, exercising your economic power and generally having a good time. How would you feel if hoards of Chinese pe
by mdpye 7y ago
There's a power imbalance there. You're on holiday, exercising your economic power and generally having a good time.
How would you feel if hoards of Chinese people came over to photograph you in your native environment, say, stuck in traffic on your commute, or late to drop your kids off at school, or while they're standing in your front garden while you're up a ladder trying to clear the guttering?
Perhaps you'd tire of that more quickly?
- thaumasiotes 7y agoWhy? What happens if I show up in a Chinese photo album? I think the problem in this subthread started when jwmoz decided the "equivalent" of tourists coming to your fields, trampling your crops, and cutting and taking bunches of produce for themselves was tourists coming to a Starbucks and taking pictures.
- mdpye 7y agoIt's the taking of the photos which is an intrusion, not the photos themselves.
- thaumasiotes 7y agoNo, it's the trampling of the crops that's an intrusion.
- ahartmetz 7y agoThere is also an old-fashioned way to put it without reaching into the social justice toolbox: people doing something pleasant gawking at people doing something unpleasant. Imagine a tourist having a minor traffic accident or dropping their backpack into the mud, and locals standing around it taking pictures. It is less about a global power imbalance and more about a situational one.
- mdpye 7y agoThat is what I meant (situational). The people you're you're meeting on holiday may well take nice holidays too, but they are not right at that moment :)