Tourists - Young people, Families with disposable Income, Businessmen, RV'ers, game show winners
Vagabonds - Hurricane Katrina survivors, Homeless, Illegal immigrants,
I do believe that both Tourists and Vagabonds can exist in both first and third world. This is because it does not require that you be wealthy or of high status to travel, in third would countries you can still travel to other locations without the need for money, by your own will or want to experience these places it is dependent on the persons want to see the world. Vagabonds are present in America as well, people who were displaced from their homes by hurricane Katrina, and people who live in debt or on a fixed budget would find it hard to travel at all. O'Brien talks about this clearly stating "For the vast majority of people in the world, however, mobility is greatly limited and, when movement does become a necessity, it is usually due to terrible economic, natural or political circumstances that have generated refugee crises around the world." (O'Brien 338)
You probably should have started off a little different with the whole definitions thing. wasnt much of an introduction to your topic. I do agree with them both exsisting within first and third world countries. Yoy gave a clear explanation by comparing and contrasting the two. You also chose a good quote from the book.
ReplyDeleteI chose the same quote from the book so I like that. But you did a good job on explaining why you think they both exsist in first and third world countries. I agree with the quote used, because for a majority of people in the world mobility doesn't come often. I believe people stay where they are unless something bad happens which forces you to make things have to change. It's a hard time now, but unless you are wealthy it would be kind of hard to travel when you live paycheck to paycheck. Which many americans do live that way.
ReplyDeleteI disagree with your statement that you don't need money to travel. If you are going to another continent you need money to do so. In my eyes tourists usually are wealthy, they have the money to throw around and travel with good for them. You don't see many people from third world countries getting on planes and traveling the world. It's just traveling is expensive therefore the first world people have the money to travel so it's more common in the first world that people are involved in tourism.
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