#or expecting French or Swiss waiters to be rude and thinking they’re too scary to order from 🙄🙄 | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

radlymona · 4 months ago

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Something I hate is that when I see people from school who go on summer m euro trips, they’ll post pictures of locals on balconies as if it’s meant to be a cool artsy but comes off looking they’re borderline zoo animals from the photographer’s perspective

#idk maybe I’m looking into things too much #but after last year and touring Europe with a bunch of Anglo Aussies #seeing the extreme levels of racism was eye opening #like Aussies have a tendency to view any non Anglo country #as either extremely exoticised #of an impoverished backwards hellhole #like I was giving tips about travelling in Greece #and this actual 22 year old woman was surprised that an island in the middle of the Aegean Sea would maybe not have the same levels #of infrastructure that urbanised area in Australia would #or expecting French or Swiss waiters to be rude and thinking they’re too scary to order from 🙄🙄

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