Native Culture Exploitation In Tourism

Check out this text from a European theme park exploiting the indigenous peoples of "Lappland" for eager tourists.

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We have TV ads in Australia encouraging tourists to travel to the "Red Centre" and see the traditional Aboriginal dances "with bare-breasted women!" True. I'm not joking. But Aussie tour operators aren't the only ones to exploit indigneous cultures on this planet.

Check out this Northern European theme park blurb exploiting the native Sami culture.

"The winter night journey begins with the sound of the forest silence -to the snowy fairy-tale land.

Torches and candles illuminate the trail, Be prepared for surprises when your charismatic guide -the Lappish man with his reindeer lead you up to the open air theatre.

The Lappish man will enchant you with the traditional lyric poems and the Magic Snow Ball experience will begin to roll.

The program offers the wery best of Lapland: Visual fantasia, a rhytmic , musical performance during witch elves dance the tango, snowdance, snowmen and Rudolf the rednosed Reindeer have a joyful time the mystical sound of the saw quitens the listeners and everyone joins in the singing of the Snow Queen."

For the truth about the plight of the Sami indigenous peoples today, check out my article Sami Aboriginal Rights