Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism

Re:Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism by StavrosK on Thursday September 12, 2019 @02:11PM (#20954500)

This is a useless comment because it takes a wealth issue and tries to turn it into a racial issue. There are poor white people who couldn't go and rich black people who could go, so it's not even apt to say.

Not everything needs to be a matter of race, especially outside the US.

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Re:Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism by Nasrudith on Thursday September 12, 2019 @03:23PM (#20955342)

I don't think it is wrong though.

I have seen plenty of "too many tourists" complaints that were blatant xenophobia like complaining about hearing too many foreign languages or "feeling like a foreigner in their own country".

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Re:Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism by StavrosK on Thursday September 12, 2019 @11:27PM (#20958926)

Is that not fair? People don't want tourists in their city, they want other people who are a part of the community.

I guess it depends on how it was said, but this isn't a "white people" issue, mainly because this isn't white-people-specific. I'm sure Nairobi would feel the same way about being overrun by tourists.

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Re:Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism by Grue3 on Friday September 13, 2019 @06:35AM (#20960809)

Except it's obviously not a wealth issue. Even poor Norwegian people can visit Norway, because they're already there. They probably don't mind poor Swedes much either. Tourist hatred is almost always rooted in xenophobia.

>especially outside the US

Funny of you to assume US is somehow more racist than the rest of the world.

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