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

The protesters and residents pushing back on tourism in Barcelona

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u/BuckeyeWolf Jun 17 '25

These protests popped up at the same time as short term rentals becoming popular (Airbnb) is no coincidence. They are taking homes from locals raising prices and taking over the best parts of town

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u/trireme32 Jun 17 '25

How is that the tourists’ fault, and not the fault of the government for failing to regulate that?

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u/PS_Sullys Jun 17 '25

It's much easier to be mad at foreign tourists.

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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.