Working People, Tourists
I prefer seeing the working people in a country – taxidrivers, fishermen, traders, salesclerks, waiters/waitresses, farmers – to seeing the tourists from other countries touring the country. Workers work hard desperately/gratefully/eagerly/fatalistically/
religiously, and from what I’ve seen, work smart and creatively given the scant resources they have to work with – whether those resources are provided by nature, weather, random leftovers of the system (if there is one). Tourists appear to be torn by expectations and counter-expectations, generosity and touring on-the-cheap, niceties to the servers if the service meets expectations, giving them a piece of their tourist’s mind when expectations are not met.
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