Tourists: Elderly, high-class, white collar, likely to travel to monuments and worldwide attractions.
Vagabonds: Lower-class, unlikely to travel far for vacation.
I am split on the world divided. I think there are some first world people who will travel outside their social norms, and also the same for third world. People in the first world may travel to a third world to help, volunteer, and donate time and money to help the unfortunate. There are plenty of people in non third world countries that will act and live as if they do not belong to that stereotype. O'Brien points out the diffusion in North America and many other countries throughout the world and continues on by saying, "...if every place looks like "home," the thrill of encountering "exotic peoples and places begins to lose its apeals"(O'Brien 339). I completely agree with this, I feel as if the world to conform and many places started to change to conform, no longer would there be cultural diversity.
I like the way that you have said there isn't necessarily just black and white there's a grey area. There are people who fall into both categories and i think that's very important. Some people may just go on one spontaneous vacation accross the globe one time in their life. This isn't the "norm" but people do this. I totally agree with your statement about conformity. There wouldn't be any diversity then. Everyone would be doing the same thing all over the world, we would live in a very boring world.
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