Interview with a Tourist
A person who visits an area that he or she has never been to before or does not live in this place permanently is considered a tourist. Many people are considered tourists because they decide to visit places which they have either heard stories of may be visiting since they have read interesting things about the place and want to enjoy it as well. The tourist in this essay is originally from India, and has relatives living in California, U.S.A. Her sister is a neighbor to the interviewer and it was an honor for her to accept to do the interview and therefore it was important to be sensitive and also ensure the tourist is comfortable throughout the process. The opportunity this tourist has bestowed upon me to interview
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It is among the largest countries in the Asian continent. She came to visit her family whom she said she had not seen for about three years. She has a job back in India and has been saving money to enable her to travel to the U.S. She states that India is a very big country and that she resides in Madras a city in the Tamil Nadu State. The dominant language in India is English and Hindi but she also states that she can also speak Tamil. There are also other languages such as Telugu and Malayalam which are also spoken by people in her state but are not considered as dominant languages.
Some common gestures that most people from India most common do is the rocking of the head from side to side. Most often when people are having a conversation you will notice this which most times is an indication of saying yes of being in agreement what the other person is stating. Varsha indicates also that there is more use of gestures where the use of hands, head, and hips is common especially when dances or folk songs are being performed. Tourist offered to give the interviewer a movie from her home country which had much dancing and thereby having a better perspective of what she was
Hand movement is one of the most important part of body language since you can move your hand freely, it’s like an ocean without end, but the meaning of some movement could be different from culture to other that’s why we have to be careful when we use our hand in front of foreign people, for instance spreading your hands meaning that you are ...
In “A Small Place” by Jamaica Kincaid written in 1983, she intensely expresses her belief and annoyance about the tourist at the first sentence of the quotation: "That the native does not like the tourist is not hard to explain”. "The native" here implies herself and she explains that tourism is all about people finding a way to leave from their routine life and enjoying themselves, yet every tourist is a native of somewhere. People who live in their native place seem to be boring for them but for tourists that place are very attractive. In my experience as a native of my hometown and as a tourist, I disagree with Kincaid's argument. She is very subjective and biased since she does not reveal the tourists side of the story. She pulls people
Vargas-Sánchez, A., Porras-Bueno, N., Plaza-Mejía, M. 2011. Explaining Residents’ Attitudes to Tourism: Is a Universal Model Possible?, Annals of Tourism Research, Vol 38, Issue 2, pp. 460-80.
Dean MacCannell explores the concept of “authenticity,” a quality of genuineness that many people spend time searching for. Throughout the chapter “Staged Authenticity” of The Tourist, there are points that explore this common desire for wholesome experience in new places. In the societal structure of today, however, it is becoming more and more difficult to find authenticity, as we get further and further “mystified” looking for a true and sincere reality. MacCannell makes statements regarding how difficult it is to find realness in the modern world, but never makes a claim that clearly defines authenticity. Instead, MacCannell’s use of paradoxical phrases, visual examples that are relevant to readers, and self-contradiction around the ideas of mystification and reality strengthen his point that there is no concrete definition of authenticity.
The subject of this paper is Liz, a 52-year old, 1.5 generation female immigrant from Hong Kong. What this means is that she immigrated to the United States when she was a child, around 7-years old (Feliciano Lec. 1/4/2016). As a child of a family that consists of five siblings and two parents that did not speak any English prior to immigrating, the focus of this paper will be on the legal processes that the family went through to become legal immigrants and the various factors that aided in her path towards assimilation.
The host culture may perceive the tourist with stereotypes and negative perceptions that is engrained in their own culture concerning the tourist culture. The host country may interact with tourist with a preconception concerning the tourist’s values, behavior, and attitudes. This may result in the host culture being communicating negatively based on the assumption that the tourist already has negative attitudes toward the host country.
I do agree with Efron, that a person’s culture and background has an effect on their gestures. I also agree that if a person relocates and moves, given time, their gestures will slightly change also. A person’s environment has a great influence on how they communicate and gesture nonverbally.
For this part of the oral history project, I continued to interview my grandmother, Rachel. We had our interview in the living room of my apartment and this time the interview was more casual and relaxed than the first interview. The atmosphere was happy as Rachel had been preparing for our interview throughout the whole week before. I was equally looking forward to continuing our conversation about her life. Leading into this interview I was feeling hesitant as I knew more about this period of my grandmother’s life. I knew she went through some rough times in her life and I was wondering how far she would be willing to discuss those feelings. My grandmother was very open and honest about her personal experiences during her young
There are a lot of form of nonverbal communication and its varies by culture. A gesture or signal in Asean it could be differ in Europe. An american like to point something by using index finger whereas a Japanese is more like to point something with a hand, and we should appreciate this difference and respect other culture.(28) Apart from that, different in culture also can be seen during express the emotion. Some of the culture are more restrained and some are more vulnerable in display their emotion in public.(23) Another nonverbal behaviour that have different in culture is eye contact. In some country like America, prolonged gaze may showing a sign of interest in someone’s word but in certain
Karr, Laura Jean. "Body Language Mixups: How Common Hand Gestures Such as Thumbs-Up and Handshakes Vary Across Cultures.", Bright Hub., 2011. http://www.brighthub.com/education
This gathered data came from a research interview conducted by the researcher to an expert. The expert who has been interviewed was Ms. Joreen Rocamora a Domestic Tourism teacher.
...tention to how people react to one another’s comments, guessing the relationship between the people and guessing how each feels about what is being said. This can inform individuals to better understand the use of body language when conversing with other people. It is also important to take into account individual differences. Different cultures use different non-verbal gestures. Frequently, when observing these gestures alone the observer can get the wrong impression, for instance, the listener can subconsciously cross their arms. This does not mean that they are bored or annoyed with the speaker; it can be a gesture that they are comfortable with. Viewing gestures as a whole will prevent these misunderstandings. Non-verbal gestures are not only physical, for example; the tone of voice addressing a child will be different from the way it is addressed to an adult.
Film induced tourism has grown in every aspect around the globe whether its because of the curiosity of the people to indulge in this kind of tourism or just being a part of the artificial world. Then it comes to define film tourism many authors have different views, according to Hudson and Ritch (2006a), it is describe as people visiting places which are directly influenced by films to see the landscapes, building, places as it was shown on TV, advertisement or in cinema screen. In addition to the meaning above for film induced tourism, Riley & Van Doren, (1992) further added that people visiting these places may be overwhelm with the romantic gaze of the place, and feel emotionally attached to it and also with the focal points of the film such as actors and their attributes, where they used to live, themes, social patterns and so on. However this essay will also discuss the originality of film tourism and its implications towards the destination and how it effects the local culture and community.
Tourism is an important and intricate element to society. It affects economical, social, cultural and environmental elements. Tourism can be argued to have a negative impact on the environment and decrease our already depleting resources, but tourism can also be argued to be a major contributor to strengthening economies, spread cultural traditions and improve people’s lives. Tourism
Based on McIntosh and friends (1995) tourism is a phenomenon and relationship that exists due to interaction between tourist, businessman, government and community as the host in process attract tourist and foreign tourism. Indirectly, this definition clarified tourism is visit or travel to another place within yesterday, aimed amused, rested, traded and so on. In fact, there are four key that related in