Colonialism and modernity have generated and conformed our world’s present-day identity. Modernity is the gradual move from traditional and religious values and beliefs established in colonialism, to a more dynamic and impressionable society.The West, through modernity, has instilled its contemporary beliefs on the rest of the world. The West’s superior mentality and belief that it belongs on top, has left the rest of the world in conflict. They either adopt the West’s beliefs or stay divorced from the rest of society. Colonialism shaped the original ideas of tourism, while modernity has made them more contemporary. Through tourism, the differences as well as similarities in regards to colonialism and modernity can be seen in relation to progress,
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They rely on the income from tourists to keep their economy stable and to employ their natives. Though the tourists supply the country with monetary goods, many sacrifices must be made to ensure their country continues to attract tourists. For example, the “growth of tourism has discouraged the development of agriculture (Palmer, 795).” This means they are giving efforts to tourism, but not giving food back to the community. They are sacrificing their needs to ensure the needs of tourists are met. As many of these tourists are white, this goes back to colonialism and how the white Europeans were seen as the more powerful race. Clearly modernity has not improved equality, it just created another way of demeaning ‘different’ …show more content…
These white families came from affluent countries and affluent backgrounds where money was not a concern. These families were waited on by the hosting countries nationals. As these native workers essentially did everything for the tourists, the tourists were see as the more powerful race. In colonialism, slavery existed, in modernity the only difference is these nationals are called ‘maids’ or ‘bell hops’. The tourists from the North still paid their salary, and in returned they were waited on. How is that different then forms of slavery that was present years ago? This goes back to in history when white males were seen as the most powerful race. This idea of being cared for by the coloured people of the Bahamas remakes that point. “If there be various species of mankind, there must be a natural aristocracy among them, a dominant white species as opposed to the lower races who by their origin are destined to serve the nobility of mankind, and may be tamed, trained, and used like domestic animals (Loomba, 117).” So these people that are serving us our food, beverages, cleaning out rooms, and making our beds are doing what slaves did in the beginning of time, care for the wealthy class. Instead of calling the workers at the hotel ‘slaves’ we call them ‘maids’ as this is the more appropriate
They rely on the income from tourists to keep their economy stable and to employ their natives. Though the tourists supply the country with monetary goods, many sacrifices must be made to ensure their country continues to attract tourists. For example, the “growth of tourism has discouraged the development of agriculture (Palmer, 795).” This means they are giving efforts to tourism, but not giving food back to the community. They are sacrificing their needs to ensure the needs of tourists are met. As many of these tourists are white, this goes back to colonialism and how the white Europeans were seen as the more powerful race. Clearly modernity has not improved equality, it just created another way of demeaning ‘different’ …show more content…
These white families came from affluent countries and affluent backgrounds where money was not a concern. These families were waited on by the hosting countries nationals. As these native workers essentially did everything for the tourists, the tourists were see as the more powerful race. In colonialism, slavery existed, in modernity the only difference is these nationals are called ‘maids’ or ‘bell hops’. The tourists from the North still paid their salary, and in returned they were waited on. How is that different then forms of slavery that was present years ago? This goes back to in history when white males were seen as the most powerful race. This idea of being cared for by the coloured people of the Bahamas remakes that point. “If there be various species of mankind, there must be a natural aristocracy among them, a dominant white species as opposed to the lower races who by their origin are destined to serve the nobility of mankind, and may be tamed, trained, and used like domestic animals (Loomba, 117).” So these people that are serving us our food, beverages, cleaning out rooms, and making our beds are doing what slaves did in the beginning of time, care for the wealthy class. Instead of calling the workers at the hotel ‘slaves’ we call them ‘maids’ as this is the more appropriate