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[amandamarie105]

The Tourist Trap

The earth-tone adobe buildings in the plaza challenge the need for new. Sellers /on blankets like generations before selling their ancestry in turquoise and silver to white tourists who want to enjoy the beauty.

Without ever interacting with the colonial creating presently persisting poverty and inequality. Without understanding that our lifestyles continue to kill the land we stole from them.

We fill better about ourselves as we “help” when really we’ve maintained the status quo amongst the earth tone buildings that remember the world before Manifest Destiny invaded.

2/9/18