Comments on: Traveling cliches of white people

By: Lagarto Grande

Lagarto Grande — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 12:38:31 +0000

Blanco gente. Persona blanco. The glassy eyed, entitled, yet well meaning stumbler. Wow, gee whiz is THIS place ever DIF rent ! Travelers who make little cultural mistakes get a pass…they will learn, when they pay attention. Tourists who practice that vapid and odious form of cultural imperialism will be herded like sheep back onto their tourist cruise barge to head to the next stop on their path to enlightenment. Never to arrive. Ojo vidrioso turista amerikano. Solo vete. No SIGANME LOS BUENOS !

By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 11:31:11 +0000

I am very pale in skin colour, but when I travel and see some of the cliches in this blog I still think ‘WTF??’

As well as the Northface clothing, what about the camera gear some of them have. It is as if the internet is not already awash with photos so you have to carry all this camera gear to show everybody what other countries look like.
And, what about the number of unskilled climbers who attempt Everest even when so many of them die trying every year. What is wrong with learning to climb properly and then attempting to climb Everest or other mountains?

By: Zara

Zara — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 07:18:36 +0000

A very deep Vietnamese experience… hahahaaa!! :P

By: Clifford

Clifford — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 03:40:18 +0000

Holy shit, it’s 2017 and Im still laughing like hell! xD
I’ve once met a white guy who said he has experience Vietnamese cultural enrichment when all he did was haggled a bowl of Pho successfully for 1 dollar.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 05:19:11 +0000

Hahaha! This is so true! I’m in Guatemala right now doing almost all of these things. Except North Face, coffee on the go, and Volun-tourism. Not to say I haven’t done those, though. Currently doing the whitiest thing of all and teaching English! LOL!

By: Zara

Zara — Fri, 27 May 2016 14:01:02 +0000

If nothing else, your relationship appears to have been rather entertaining!!
But, good for you, that you moved on! ;)

By: Nickname

Nickname — Thu, 26 May 2016 12:54:11 +0000

Oh my Lord this is so true and sooo sooo funny, I actually dated a Peace Corps volunteer who got placed in South Africa (Botswana to be exact, I live in JHB south Africa) there is a particular air about PCV’s at 1st it seemed all so endearing and pretty enlightening but the more we engaged the more I realised the bullshit… She would always say things like “In My Village.” Where I would almost always want to scream “It ain’t your village. You don’t own it!” there was always a comparison between her experience living in squalor and my city life then back to her American life compared to my African life. She was worse off than me in “her village” which made her a better person but she was also better than me because she had Netflix and all the 1st World luxuries that I never had here in Africa. The need and desire to be accepted by black people and to show off her “blackness” was always something that made me laugh being black myself it was even more entertaining how she would compete or strut her dancing abilities against mine. She actually after her PC experience she travelled through Europe for month and a half living in hostels and so forth meeting interesting people. yip she was the creme dela creme of travelling white people cliche’s. So glad I broke out of that Shawshank hahahaha

By: Zara

Zara — Wed, 18 May 2016 15:46:15 +0000

True that! :P

By: Eleven Palms

Eleven Palms — Sun, 15 May 2016 07:00:43 +0000

White people always they will say “nice article, fortunately i dont behave like them” :))

By: Gilles Barbier

Gilles Barbier — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 18:55:44 +0000

Had a few good laugh reading this article, and many points are absolutely true.
Especially the part on volunteering is something that I observed a lot during trips in Africa & South America. There is even a new word for that: voluntourism. And young people ready to spend fortunes to do things that bring nothing but a good ego. It has turned into a major industry.
For the restaurant part, I would extend it to hostels: so many people stay in their hostels and do not venture out, and move from one “backpacker ghetto” to the next one… having the impression they discover new places and are real adventurers (it’s cool feeling like Indiana Jones)
Ok, North Face… I have a few items from them, so on that one I won’t comment. But it’s good quality, yes ;-)))
Chers, Gilles

By: Rachel of hippie in heels

Rachel of hippie in heels — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 18:44:05 +0000

Very entertaining read and I laughed along, agreeing with what was said. Iknkw it’s kind of satire but I think it might be a American or westernized thing rather than white. Fun post though.

By: Sally

Sally — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 07:51:18 +0000

Haha I love this. I hope I do not fall into any of these! The yoga/finding themselves people drive me insane!

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By: Yara Coelho

Yara Coelho — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 19:57:46 +0000

Hahahahaha this is hilarious! I don’t fit any of these white people’s stereotypes. I think I’m not that white after all.

As far as people paying to volunteer… that has been a topic of many discussions I had with several “white” travelers throughout the years, but they all thought that paying to work was great. Sometimes I question myself how many of these volunteers actually use their brain and notice the mafia they’re creating.

By: Zara

Zara — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 06:47:35 +0000

You white people are funny… laughing at this post!
Oh wait… I’m white too! :O

I’m glad you all have a sense of humor!! ;)