Sunday 21 December 2008

That's an adventure

They're going to Burma, wearing brand new adventure shoes sewn by kids somewhere. You point out that nearly all tourism grants legitimacy to the regime, brings in hard currency, and that the locals a re so scared of the secret police that they'll never have an authentic rapport to you. Now you've broken the pleasantness. But nevermind. Soon they'll be going back to Paris and their two weekas in climatised coaches funded by, and funding the dictature will have turned them into Burma experts. The population really wants contacts with the West, they tell you...

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