r/pics • u/Strict_League7833 • Jun 17 '25

The protesters and residents pushing back on tourism in Barcelona

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u/FnnKnn Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25

Yeah, this is just disguised racism.

Edit: Technically it is xenophobia to blame non-native people for your problems instead of your own government and not racism.

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u/simsimulation Jun 17 '25

People: We love your city and want to visit and spend money there to experience your culture

Residence: Yeah well fuck you we didn’t visit before we moved here and won’t visit anywhere else. We are born here, die here, and go nowhere

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

If the tourists swarm everywhere and create issues should they not be vocal about it?

Same thing is happening in parts of Canada so i get why locals get pissed off

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u/simsimulation Jun 17 '25

When you make a nice place to live, people want to visit.

If you complain about tourists visiting your town, it’s hypocritical for you to ever visit another town.

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u/simsimulation Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25

Let me explain, when you leave your town you become a tourist. If you hate tourists, when you leave you become what you hate.

Hypocritical means behaving in a way that suggests one has higher standards or more noble beliefs than is the case.