The tourists apparently started haggling after being charged 1.50 dollars for a cup of tea :michael-laugh:
(NSFW in case some folks find mild violence upsetting)
Nepal was never actually colonised (although a token amount of land was ceded to us) they actually gave us such a thrashing we were thoroughly impressed, so as soon as we signed a treaty (mainly to save face) part of our agreement was to actually have Nepali soldiers fight for us as they were so deadly and efficient, that’s why to this day you have Gurkhas in the British army and they’re still known as one of the toughest elite units in the world.
Famously during the Falklands war an Argentinian garrison surrendered after hearing that Gurkhas were on their way lol or an after action report from Burma during world war two where they slaughtered an entire Japanese patrol with nothing but kukhris without a single casualty.
EDIT: Gurkha who fought off 30 Taliban and after running out of ammunition began battering them with the machine gun tripod
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1369743/Gurkha-fought-Taliban-awarded-Gallantry-Cross.html
“We never colonized them, we just tried to kill them for their land, then got some of their land and turned them into a fighting force for out military, totally not colonization”
Anglo moment.
Imagine traveling from your imperialist safe haven and trying to bargain some local down from a dollar and fifty cents after they put your ugly ass up in their home.
my favorite thing is that Canadian guy who went to an ayahuasca retreat and killed the elder who ran the ceremony (an 89 year old woman, lol) and then his family/govt got mad when the locals rightfully lynched and killed him in retaliation
Anglos legit think they’re gods
Anglos behave badly and condescend wherever they go. They think the world belongs to them and is made for their convenience, and throw hissy fits if they actually face consequences for their shit.
It fucking floors me every time I read stuff on travel that’s usually written by westerners (not necessarily anglos, though I am unfortunately one) on some poorer places, and people write about how to avoid scams and avoid overpaying, but then you run the conversion to the local currency and it’s like a fucking dollar at the most. Absolutely no skin off the traveler’s back, but can mean a good day’s wages for whoever’s involved. Fucking wild.
Here’s the Nepalese woman’s side of the story
It was during monsoon season . A white women came to my tea shop with her son. I offered them tea in my cup. She said, “I prefer to drink in my own cup.” Which was three fold bigger than our normal size. Everything was good before she asked the price of tea. She said, 150 rupees was way too much for a cup of tea and insisted to decrease price but I tried to explain my hardship. She wasn’t listening to me at all. She threw money in-front of me using harsh words. Also, she took pictures of my tea shop and threatened to post it on medias and report local police.
I told not to do so saying this will not help my business in anyways and asked her to delete that photo. But, in return, she took her knife and pointed towards me. She was a devil, she was constantly irritating and triggering my anger and I couldn’t stop myself. [Pasang Gurung, Manang]
British women used her biased GoPro footage to ruin the hospitality image of Nepalese people, now it’s our turn to let the world know what really happened before that video was taken.
150 Nepalese Rupees is about $1.25 USD. For a huge cup of tea: served inside someone’s home and halfway up a mountain where supplies need to be moved via human power or pack animals through harsh roads to even get there. And the british tourist still had the gall to complain and threaten to ruin the owners livelihood over a drink that costs less than a third of what it would go for at a London Starbucks. Then she takes out a fucking knife.
There’s an unbelievable culture of chauvinism and entitlement among Anglos in Asia where they’ll demand everybody bend over backwards to accommodate them and expect to receive the the exact same favours as locals, despite the fact that they refuse to learn the local language and have many times more money sitting around in their bank account than the average family there will earn in a year.
Somehow I have the suspicion that this Br*tish woman doesn’t react by pulling a knife, posting manipulated videos online and threatening to report people to the police if they charge a price she finds too high back home in white Terf Island.
i’m crying holy shit :data-laughing:
“You people are donkey!”
:anglo-burn: -sphere destroyed.
Holy fuck put this in my fucking veins :faded:
These people should be milking the everloving fuck out of western tourists, they’re the entire reason that their local economies have become completely reliant on tourism. Anyone who visits global south tourism areas and isn’t overwhelmingly happy to pay above the literal cents these people are almost always asking for, or even the overcharged prices, needs the wall
:stalin-gun-1::stalin-gun-2:
Literally how fucking undignifying must it be to watch most of your community’s local, culturally-important and historic professions disappear and be financially strong-armed into providing Service With A Smile to rich white people who treat you like a curiosity as though they’re at a fucking zoo or adventure park
Edit: The documentary Sherpa is about a bunch of Sherpas working on Everest coming together, after a few of them die from being forced through unsafe working conditions, to say a resounding Fuck You to the rich white owners of the tourism companies and to cancel the rest of the 2015 climbing season. It’s heartbreaking but I couldn’t recommend it highly enough. The praxis payoff and sheer magnitude of rich tourist cope at the end is just :chefs-kiss:
