CULTURAL TOURSIM
I think my response from last week would fit better this Mosquera reading now, so I’m just gonna share a small video and some of the writing I’ve been doing for Profesor Bazuco’s latest book “Profesor Bazuco’s Ultimate Guide to Culture”:
COLOMBIA: THE ONLY RISK IS WANTING TO STAY
The idea of the world as a touristic escapade has been around for long, so long it has shaped it into a giant theme park. “countries”, the touristic name for economic regions, now more than ever are going through a process of rebranding: building a new, modernized image that plays well with the international market but that also preserves their “traditional values”, since those are the features that are to sell as “unique”; this naturally creates conflict. In a globalized world, the retarded idea of having “national programmes” clashes directly with the global agenda and with a new generation of “citizens of the world”. Nonetheless, governments around the globe keep pushing this semi-nazi rhetoric under the premise of tradition and patriotism.
By embracing tourism as their only reliable industry, third world countries are limited to satisfy the aesthetic tastes of First World and replicate the image of leisure of the North. This, of course, serves as a reinstalment of subordinance and domination in a more picturesque and exotic scene.