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1. zorked+(OP)[view] [source] 2016-05-02 06:07:25
It's a bit like tourism. You travel to see the places which get destroyed by you being there...
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2. person+W1[view] [source] 2016-05-02 06:52:16
>>zorked+(OP)
And if we take the tourism bit a bit further, the tourist's search for the authentic ends up with companies ready and willing to offer a back door into local culture, creating an impression of authenticity for a tourist audience (often called "staged authenticity" in tourism studies).

This could be compared a bit to gentrification, in which I am reminded of Gertrude Stein's phrase "there is no there there" as well as, albiet more distantly, Marc Auge's concept of nonplaces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Stein#.22There_is_no_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_place

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