Colonizing Through a Tourist’s Camera Lens In the twenty-first century Global North’s societal norms, the postcolonial way of thinking is implemented in the every day life and culture of the people. The ‘others,’ or the Global South’s population of the world is perceived as nothing more than uneducated indigenous (to our world) people. The Global North’s population are brain washed, made to perceive these indigenous beasts are exotic, out of this world people. They then travel out to these sought out places to experience this so called exotic culture. Yet, the government oppresses its people to fit the role of the ‘exotic native’ in which the travel brochures and travel ads perceive them as. Due to that tourists do not fully receive the real cultural experience since the perspective people have on the country or culture only …show more content…
Tourism is made to seem as a good revenue for an exotic (third world) countries’ economy. However, this so called revenue comes at the price of not the government, but the countries natives. For example, in “A Small Place,” Jamaica Kincaid emphasizes on what post colonialism has brought on to the natives of Antigua: no government provided resources and an economy based on tourism. The Antigua natives were deprived of education because their egocentric government believed more in self gain, rather than country wide needed resources. Natives are exploited and used as attention grabbers for monetary governmental gain. Therefore, the postcolonial way of thinking has brought upon a major ideology in which not just tourist but the world has certain perspectives on these so called third world natives; so much that these natives are then oppressed by