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[b]Modern day tourism is awful.  You just have mass hordes flocking to a place for selfie photos because they saw nice pictures online.  They often partake very little in the local culture, learn absolutely zero at museums because all they're doing the whole time is taking selfies, and world sites are treated like playgrounds for millions. [/b]
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So when others go, they are philistines, but when YOU go, with your camera-less learned academic endeavors and erudite strolling encyclopedia you are a vast improvement to the cityscape?

Got it.[/quote]

I mean these days yes, 85% of tourism is garbage vanity traveling.  People travel all over simply to get likes and selfies at spots and just leave.  We were in the British Museum of Natural History the other day and literally 99% of the people there were just there for taking selfies with ridiculous poses.  It got sooooo annoying trying to read the information on the exhibits because you were always pressured to move because you might be in someone line of sight for a selfie.  Hardly anyone was there to actually read and learn about anything in the displays.  They were all too busy clogging up the stairs trying to take selfies in the main hall which is photogenic.

And actually yes, I have zero social media accounts and never post traveling photos of anything.  I don’t have an insane urge to feel like I need to show off my travels for vanity purposes so that I can get virtual thumbs up.

[b]Modern day tourism is too cheap and allows anyone with a job at Walmart to travel[/b].  TikTok has warped everyone’s brain to flock to sites all over the planet for selfies and then to move on like locusts to the next site.  It was not like this 25 years ago.  [/quote]
There it is! It only took 10 pages for someone to finally say it. Too many poors are now traveling and this PP doesn’t want her little Larlo/Larlita to possibly get their poor germs.[/quote]

You must be the idiot at concerts who pays $300 to watch it through their phone because they’re filming the whole time.

Omg, what if my friends don’t know I went to go see Morgan Waller play!!??  Or what if they don’t know I’m in Europe right now!? I better film this and post clips to insta! Gotta make sure *everyone* knows where I went.  Don’t you wish that you were me at this concert? Don’t you wish you were me at the foot of Mount Fuji? Don’t you wish you were me right now eating this amazing British cream tea at this 400 year old inn?   You want to be me!  Now give me likes!

You are the modern day tourist, admit it. Just awful. [/quote]

Wut.[/quote]

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