PieFed.caKyoto struggling with tourists defacing beloved bamboo forest
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I'm currently in Japan and visited Kyoto and the bamboo grove a few days ago. Tourists here are such shitheads. Because the Japanese yen is so low, traveling to Japan suddenly became very accessible and brought in all kinds of shitheads that have no idea what courtesy or basic human decency is.
Tourists not knowing courtesy or basic human decency isnāt restricted to any economic class. Japanese tourist hotspots have suffered from this since forever.
Iām in Japan right now and the country is being overrun (Iām part of the problem). When I lived here a decade back every place was so much calmer.
And I do see a lot of shitty behavior, but I canāt say if itās more.
I mean that makes sense; realistically a weaker yen will lead to more tourists going to Japan. What Iām saying is that Japanās problem is more tourists, not worse tourists, which is what the parent comment implies.
No thatās not what I was implying, but I see how it can be interpreted that way.
What I meant was that more people will mean more assholes in general.
EDIT: I misread your comment. Thatās actually what I meant lol. A weaker Yen means more people and therefore proportionally more shitty behavior.
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Tourist hotspots have suffered from this since forever.
Tourism is a cancer and generates nothing but misery for the people living in beautiful places. Oh and I guess it increases tax money for the government officials to live their pockets with.
Get the fuck out.
My usual walk takes me through a portion of a popular hiking trail that crosses the entire country.
That short time I am on the trail before dipping down to my usual small path is nothing but poop bags tied to branches.
It also generates money (through tourism-related jobs) for people living in those places. I get our frustration, and governments should absolutely be doing a lot more about overtourism, but plenty of ordinary people benefit from tourism.
If your area can only survive due to cancerous tourism, then itās time to move. Tourism not only makes life shit for the residents because of tourists, it also increases living costs for the people. Any income you get from it is immediately lost on everything else.
What is this classist bullshit? You think there arenāt rich assholes too?
Of course! Probably more, even.
What Iām saying is, the more people you have, the more assholes you get. itās proportional.
no, but more tourists means more dumbasses
Thatās what I meant. I guess my comment can be misinterpreted.
for the record, I understood what you meant