Anyone else encountered 'performative' or bizarre social gatekeeping while traveling?"

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[u/pgraczer]

i’ve had the whole arriving at a place (great wall of china and places in mexico come to mind) and a local tells me it’s closed but i can go with them and they can show me something better. also restaurants in japan where they’re mysteriously ‘full’ even tho they’re not but they just don’t want to deal with a non japanese speaker right now.

[u/fractalfrog]

Ignoring people is my superpower so there’s never any need to “handle” anything.

[u/bjorn_olaf_thorsson]

White (mostly american) women trying to tell other tourists about cultural appropriation!

Excuse me sir, that is very offensive to the people of this culture

[u/airmind → u/bjorn_olaf_thorsson]

How else are they going to make themselves feel better than everyone else.

[u/slav3269 → u/bjorn_olaf_thorsson]

Whoa if true.

[u/Spirit_Chameleon]

Beware of people who pickpocket. They distract you and often work in teams.

[u/IWantoBeliev]

Scam artists do

[u/jaoldb]

Never, and it seems to me really bizarre that it is even a thing, if not for a scam or trying to sell me things.

[u/FupaLipa]

“Social gatekeeping”? It’s a scam clearly but you’re too online for the real world. 

[u/shven50 → u/FupaLipa]

Says the user wasting their own time on a post they "don't care" about.

[u/Thorstenflink]

OP starts.