does the global trend toward travel cause conflict and change within cultures?

i don’t know how to answer this question and its for school, a really important essay. please help!

Absolutely !

When populations are isolated, it’s OK if your language / religion equates ‘stranger’ or ‘non-believer’ with ‘enemy’ because you don’t often see strangers or people with different beliefs.

Before mass-market tourism, visiting individuals tended to be from the ‘moneyed’ class and contact was limited (and large tips overcame any misunderstandings).

With the advent of mass tourism, large numbers of visitors arrived bringing their own values and beliefs that often conflicted with the locals.

Worse, many locals started to question the restrictions (customs / beliefs, even laws) imposed on their own way of life and aspire / agitate for charges …

In addition to bringing the locals new ideas (eg. ‘equality’, ‘freedom of choice’ (see, for example, Indian Caste System & arranged marriages) the locals are often exposed to the behavior that would not be tolerated in the visitors own country (see, for example, ‘larger louts’).

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One Response to does the global trend toward travel cause conflict and change within cultures?

  1. Steve B says:

    Absolutely !

    When populations are isolated, it’s OK if your language / religion equates ‘stranger’ or ‘non-believer’ with ‘enemy’ because you don’t often see strangers or people with different beliefs.

    Before mass-market tourism, visiting individuals tended to be from the ‘moneyed’ class and contact was limited (and large tips overcame any misunderstandings).

    With the advent of mass tourism, large numbers of visitors arrived bringing their own values and beliefs that often conflicted with the locals.

    Worse, many locals started to question the restrictions (customs / beliefs, even laws) imposed on their own way of life and aspire / agitate for charges …

    In addition to bringing the locals new ideas (eg. ‘equality’, ‘freedom of choice’ (see, for example, Indian Caste System & arranged marriages) the locals are often exposed to the behavior that would not be tolerated in the visitors own country (see, for example, ‘larger louts’).
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