Responsible Tourist

Traveling is an important thing in our lives because it can benefit you in many ways. People learn new things like culture and tradition if they travel. Learning new cultures and tradition can help us be more formative and responsible in a way. If we know different cultures a tradition we wouldn’t be rude when they are present in our lives. Because of human nature, people question other’s morals and ways of thinking because it’s different from one selves. And if we know ahead of time, we wouldn’t be question people’s identity and it wouldn’t be rude. Being a responsible tourist means that you are visiting somewhere and making a positive impact on the environment there. This is the best way to travel somewhere-being a responsible tourist. Being this means that we, the tourist, need to respect cultures and the diversity around us. Every country have different ways of thinking and we the tourist need to respect their own decision of having that kind of thinking. To be the opposite of responsible tourist is like missionaries. Missionaries,but not all, tries to be the savior of indigenous groups of people. They are forcing people to act certain ways and let them forget their past identity to be the “right thing”. In my opinion, I think that this is very wrong because each culture and tradition should be treated with respect and no culture is more advanced or right. So others shouldn’t becoming to preach about their own culture and influence people with different ways of thinking. This cause some countries to lose their way of thinking and developed the “right way”. This is ultimately cause these kind of groups of people to suffer. Just like the Eskimos, western style of eating caused them to developed health issues because it’s very different and westerners come in and exploit their lands for their own goods. And now, Eskimos are having a rough time to follow the modernized world and being unemployed in the new world.

In my 17 years on Earth, I never thought that I was an irresponsible tourist. All of the countries I visited was always in Asia and those countries are somewhat similar to Thailand. I felt that I treated people with all my respect and mostly follow their way of thinking.