A lot of people depart for many travels in distant lands, they gain an experience that they will bring for the rest of the lives, The Humid heat of the Sahara desert with the magestic piramids in the horizon, or the freezing cold in the highest place on Earth. What does the country gain, it gains pollution, rubbish, and an army of strangers who photograph every five seconds. The governament gains money, but the people who live in the Amazonian forest, or the Saharian nomads, Or the sherpas in Nepal, they gain little money, and what can you do with fifty euros in the middle of the desert, or in a village lost in the mountains, so they gain nothing.
The trash is conquering the world, we get continously surrounded by it. An example of this is the recent crisis in Naples, when the crash had 6the best on humanity and filled an entire city. The same problem happens in many countries of the third world. The tourists arrive, and with their mouths full of crumbs, they say "This place is absolutely wonderful", and while they say this huge crumbes fall from their mouths and kill thousands of small insects that have lived there for thousand of years. Maybe in their tiny world there is a hero that is about to save an ant hive which is getting attacked by another hive, and then a giant foot arrives jumping on the hive. This destruction can be seen also in the human world, the food containers that fall in the tourist sites are rarely biodegradable, and so they ruin the country, only because a family wants to see the piramids.
Tourism has also some good aspects, most for the tourists. It gives money to the citizens, that can civilize those people, and so changetheir culture. It gives money to farmers who have seen nothing in their lives but cows. With fifty euros they can by a book when they can't even read, or they can by a cellphone when they have no signal, reffered to the sherpas. They have lived without money for centuries, and they could live without it forever.
Tourism can be terrible, but that doesn't mean I don't like it.
1 comment:
Organization 3 Some great thoughts at the start on what may be gained - money & trash, it seems. But paper loses drive and talks about the use of money to a person in Nepal and makes soem dramatic assumptions about other cultures' education.
Voice 4 The writer's personality show through in this paper right after the mention of Naples. The analogy of crumbs to non-biodegradable trash is pure Z.
Grade 7/10
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