Nepal: You Need To Go Here. Now.
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5.13.13
So I'm in Nepal (I'm writing this brief intro after being here for a bit), which I've heard - and just verified - is one of the most beautiful places on Earth. I just happened by a coffee shop, which is where, if you need to, you'll find a gaggle of white folk in any foreign country. This got me thinking: You know what I’ve noticed (some) white people are real good at doing? Looking bored in gorgeous places, being self-proclaimed experts on another country’s culture after being there for 48 hours, not making eye contact with other white people in foreign countries, having absolutely no idea where they’re going and trying to mask that by walking three times the speed of a normal person, wearing 473 bracelets they’ve picked up on their travels, and one-upping you with tales of how they’ve already been to every country you’re going to visit, ever. Here’s a sample conversation with a “backpacker” in, say, a coffee shop. You walk up to them as they’re drinking a coffee, updating their Facebook status*:
*Disclaimer – Not all backpackers are pretentious and patronizing. This is an amalgam of several conversations I’ve had with folks in a couple countries so far, and isn’t representative of the whole by any means. Most have been completely great. Them that are condescending just really, really, reallllly bother me.
*Disclaimer – Not all backpackers are pretentious and patronizing. This is an amalgam of several conversations I’ve had with folks in a couple countries so far, and isn’t representative of the whole by any means. Most have been completely great. Them that are condescending just really, really, reallllly bother me.
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