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Originally Posted by wghosh
tourism is great for developing countries but lets not forget it works in negative ways too. more money for developers and tour companies, less for local people, lots of brits going over thinking there pounds is currency for treating the local people like second class citizens as if they owned the place.then and disrespecting the people and values. this subject is about sexual harrassment , look at all the sexual harrassment that happens in our own back yard. i personally think that if you are going to another country you go there to experience local life and people and that means you respect their culture, you respect their beliefs and you act accordingly.
theres always benidorm for those who don't give a damn .
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Agreed 100%....and I can't agree with what Aegean says at all. I live in Bahrain and it's the same here - Europeans, Americans etc assuming that because they live here, buy property here and spend money here, in return, they should be able to live exactly as they do at 'home'
and expect the locals to accept it without a fuss. There's an outcry in Britain when muslim women want to wear a scarf, then you come to a muslim country and feel it your 'right' to wear what you like - no matter who it may offend. So migrants to Britain should conform to British ways and when we Brits go abroad they should also conform to our ways
!!! Doesn't make sense to me. (Needless to say, I don't condone sexual harrassment in any way, shape or form).