#tourist

TO BE A TOURIST is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity. You're expected to be stupid. The entire mechanism of the host country is geared to travelers acting stupidly. You walked around dazed, squinting into fold-out maps. You don't know how to talk to people, how to get anywhere, what the money means, what time it is, what to eat or how to eat it. Being stupid is the pattern, the level and the norm. You can exist on this level for weeks and months without reprimand or dire consequence. Together with thousands, you are granted immunities and broad freedoms. You are an army of fools, wearing bright polyesters, riding camels, taking pictures of each other, haggard, dysentric, thirsty. There is nothing to think about but the next shapeless event. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#tourists #freedom

We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist. ↗

— Marc Almond

#apart #being #cliches #go #images

Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all. ↗

— Mario Batali

#best #city #food #italy #least

After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist. ↗

— Edgar Bergen

#half #hollywood #i #life #made

It's tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have to compete with so many other entertainments, so they have to bring a star in which puts people there out of work. ↗

— Delta Burke

#broadway #compete #entertainments #everything #geared

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#anywhere #because #costco #culture #felt

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#ambassador #because #china #come #i

I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection. ↗

— John Galliano

#become #book #bring #collection #cultures

The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#big #elephants #even #hotels #killed

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence. ↗

— Max Lerner

#centuries #condense #excellence #greatness #hear